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Confirmed with a source. Here's a screenshot of the email sent to staff today.

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 12 hours ago • 47 comments

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Announcing a Bluesky account for our UCB's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) - @berkeleygif.bsky.social ! Looking forward to continuing our geospatial conversations on this platform.

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#BannedBookSkyClub Don't forget! March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia Butler. I'll start posting talking points on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and post periodically throughout March. See replies for link to Banned Book Club feed. #BookSky

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

hello queer friends, i saw something this morning that—for once—gave me hope. iowa held a public hearing on a bill to remove gender identity from their civil rights act, and a disabled vet offered his service to the youth fighting to "eradicate nazis" 2nd half in reply, the end is wild! i love him

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

“I don’t want the stain of willful ignorance to tarnish America for generations. I want our country to act as leaders in solving a problem for which we bear primary historical responsibility.”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 10 days ago • 985 comments

Feds, we chose this path to serve a greater purpose. In these times of cruelty and fear, remember: our work still matters, even when the public forgets. Every life we impact is a strike back against false kings. Stand tall, stay strong, and hold the line. We are needed, now, more than ever.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

"I don't know what NSF is going to be now, but it's not more efficient. It's just a mess." My story on today's firings and their impact. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

www.wired.com/story/nation...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Morning spit take.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 13 days ago • 1929 comments

nearly 11% of the NSF workforce was fired today. this WILL slow scientific progress. this is hurting families. we need to educate folks about all the GOOD that the gov't can do! To help @500womensci.bsky.social has made social media cards for what #NSF funds in each state: bit.ly/NSF_bystate

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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 17 days ago • 1052 comments

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 263 days ago • 1243 comments

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

submitted 24 days ago • 47 comments

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

submitted 26 days ago • 153 comments

Dickheads of Gargantuan Ego (DOGE) have now gained access to the IT servers at the NOAA. They have taken down several department websites, including the website that stores global CO2 data from observations taken in Hawaii. That data is still accessible here. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

Cherry blossoming dates as an indicator of climate change:

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Mount Taranaki (now Taranaki Maunga) has been granted personhood in New Zealand, granting it legal protections and reinforcing its indigenous cultural identity. www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs to do this RIGHT NOW.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to find humor these days but I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about this 1995 sketch from the State www.reddit.com/r/beards/com...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

We are hiring a researcher in land model calibration at @ciceroclimate.bsky.social in Oslo, Norway - developing FATES-CLM for NorESM in #CMIP7 with @rosieafisher.bsky.social . Land surface modelers and UQ/ML people, we'd love to hear from you. www.finn.no/391168589

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Second pomodoro writing stint of the year and I spilled a latte on my keyboard. “Happy” 2025 everyone 🙃

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I am accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab at the University of California, Riverside. If you are interested in plant community ecology, ecosystem function/stability, global change, or restoration, please contact me. Fully funded position available. See my website for more details.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

hi, 14k cis people! up in this thread are the ~44 dem reps who spoke up for sarah mcbride/trans people’s basic right to use the correct bathroom. 44 is 169 short of what it should be. if you want dems to stand for trans folks, tell them it won’t cost them. call & say thanks if your rep’s here.🧵

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

Applications for the 2025 Spectral Ecology Summer School are open! www.specschool.org/participate....

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been working from my bed a lot more these past 8 days than I ever have before. I think you bed workers are really on to something. My office mate is super annoying if I stop petting her though.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Great opportunity! Multiple doctoral researcher positions in Moi Exposito-Alonso's lab ("Moilab") at UC Berkeley. Moi is a fantastic mentor, his group does cutting-edge work on evolutionary genomics and the lab is very well funded! #plantscience #plantscijobs drive.google.com/open?id=17bZ...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven't voted yet, more food for thought. Literally, everything is at stake. The Future of the Planet Hangs on This Vote www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/o...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments