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These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 39 days ago • 159 comments

How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

In LA today - love the La Brea Tar Pits shade:

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill” @maibached.bsky.social told me www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 67 days ago • 28 comments

Meta has just started activating its slop machine within Whatsapp across Europe Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force

submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

Today in 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear weapon test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mark-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge (inside the March 1 BRAVO crater, because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands).

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

27 of my articles...

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Republicans are helping Putin abduct and disappear Ukrainian children. They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have. They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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But how on earth can the US pay for the transition to a low-carbon society?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...

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🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

@theperegrinefund.bsky.social is hiring a Social Scientist. Come help us save raptors from extinction! peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...

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This "Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History" will cause countless deaths, and go down in history as infamy www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

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Great feature being announced! This may well soon make @bsky.app as useful a place for science communication as Twitter once was.

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Coverage in @highcountrynews.bsky.social of our recent paper where we document that Turkey Vultures in California remain exposed to anticoagulant #rodenticides, despite recent state-wide bans. bioone.org/journals/jou...

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The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

#Plastics matter in the #food system www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

submitted 99 days ago • 43 comments

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments

📢 Calling all #plastics scientists. #ecologists, #HumanHealth experts and #foodies! We are hosting our hybrid workshop on Plastic pollution on the 6th of March 2025. If you are interested to attend the workshop, kindly rsvp using the link: forms.gle/6tisLDBjvC9c...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

INC 5.2 is official! www.unep.org/inc-plastic-... With an extended period for negotiations @unep.org provide more time for reaching consensus. Will it be sufficient? It will be interesting to see what HAC brings to the table this time. #PlasticsTreaty #plasticpollution @scientistscoa.bsky.social

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.

submitted 104 days ago • 754 comments

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

submitted 105 days ago • 8 comments

Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

submitted 105 days ago • 12 comments

Upset about how the US government is targeting efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in science? Feeling like you're not sure how to help? If you have the ability to donate some money (anything helps) there is one option to support diverse ornithologists (bird scientists): 1/8

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Folks, if you want to help protect science funding in this country, today is a really good day to call your US House Representative. A budget bill, likely filled with massive cuts, is going to the floor for a vote as soon as today.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

You really can just email Elon Musk at [email protected]

submitted 113 days ago • 23 comments

Plastics production must be minimized to supply the materials essential to functioning of society and protection of human health while also ending #PlasticsPollution. This does not align with linear take-make-waste models, and industries with Conflicts of Interest #COI therefore block policy action.

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