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I'm not sure it's actually set in that the Trump administration has done an end run to effectively grind to a halt new scientific research. They're not pausing the money. They're pausing the meetings needed to sign off on the $ www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Ted, like Bill Stowe before him, was greatly supportive of water research at UI and CHEEC. On lead, drinking water access, PFAS, and nitrate, Ted and the Water Works were reliable partners always open new ideas. Best wishes on a well-deserved retirement! www.businessrecord.com/corrigan-to-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

These projects were easy “wins”because the powers that be could boast environmental improvements while ignoring the elephant in the room that is the root cause of our problems. Now, we don’t even get those in Iowa.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

“The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship declined to comment on the implications or safety concerns of pausing the reclamation projects.” www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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Iowa DNR removes page about Natural Resources and Recreation Trust Fund www.iowadnr.gov/about-dnr/gr...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I get recruited for just the best jobs that will really take advantage of my PhD. Then again, with the way things are going in higher ed….

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“increasingly looks as though [Trump] and his allies are targeting academia more broadly” @michellegoldberg.bsky.social Higher ed administrations need to recognize that these forces cannot be appeased. They’re at war with the value of truth itself, and their conspiracy theories say destroy you.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

When wanting to help folks get access to safe and reliable drinking water makes you “woke”. Thanks, Ted! www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“The order leaves out states that did not join the lawsuit, which will still face the funding cuts.” Way to go, Iowa. Let’s hobble UI even more relative to our peer institutions.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Loves UI football But, In favor of tanking UI Maybe NIH should just fund D1 football programs

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Many right wingers in the US would like to privatize municipal drinking water. Here’s what it looks like. uk.news.yahoo.com/thames-water...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This would throw entire regions into a recession, especially so if they apply to all federal grants. Prob cost UIowa more than $100M/yr The reason these overheads are needed is because the states no longer sustainably fund higher ed

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 20 days ago • 270 comments

These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

Good luck to all at R1s heavily reliant on NIH funding. It’s about to get really bumpy.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some other studies to keep in mind while reading: "Residential proximity to intensive animal agriculture was positively associated with risk of NHL and leukemia, even after consideration of occupational animal and pesticide exposures." journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Trump is causing panic and terrorizing people throughout the US scientific community. And it most affects the little people that can least afford it. People arent getting paid now. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type... 🧪🌎

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments

A geat read from @theswinerepublic.bsky.social on the role that the Iowa DNR & local Iowa officials have in putting Iowans at risk due to them not taking high nitrate concentrations in drinking water sources seriously. Dr. Jones doesn't pull any punches riverraccoon.substack.com/p/bridge-ove...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

This fkn guy

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

I mean, if Iowa was real America, we’d just take these 9 counties by force. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Curious that an article in today’s Gazette touts Batch and Build as an example of “radical collaboration”getting things done when they recently published a story showing many of the projects B&B supports don’t actually improve water quality and just waste taxpayer dollars 🤷‍♂️

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, the Gulf of Mecico and Iowa open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The country that kills it with farm pollution gets to name it

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Not you, too, World’s Largest Truck stop?!?! www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

My god: “If it was a pit bull or a Rottweiler, or name any of the other 15 dogs that are deemed semi aggressive, then we would know the answer right away," he said. "But being farm animals, it's just not something we've ever dealt with here." www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Ten years ago we launched this journal with a great team from RSC and a tremendous group of editors and board members. I’m proud the journal has not just lasted but strengthened and thrived under the great leadership of Paige Novak and Graham Gagnon. Congrats to all! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

www.thegazette.com/agriculture/... 1/This boondoggle was favored by Rs and Ds alike. Why do Ds go along with this BS?

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

What could possibly go wrong?

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

“In the past four years, the Iowa DNR has noted more than 50 violations of the conditions of Agri Star's wastewater permit…. The (DNR) has sought in recent years to get Agri Star into compliance, but has not fined the company.” Insanity…50 violations, no fines. www.thegazette.com/environment-...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

www.thegazette.com/agriculture/... “This is such a huge rip-off of public money,” retired University of Iowa researcher Chris Jones said. Jones, a critic of the Batch and Build program, called the findings “scandalous.”

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

It’s too expensive to put seat belts in cars and anyway getting thrown through the windshield can be in your best interest if the car blows up

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

www.thegazette.com/environment-... A more scandalous statement you won’t find: “More than 20 ag groups — including the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation — have urged EPA to keep drinking water nitrate limit unchanged because of how much it would cost to comply with a stricter maximum contaminant level.”

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Indeed. The next line is equally galling: “They further suggest there might be health benefits to higher nitrate intake, noting that research has shown cardiovascular improvements in people who consume foods that contain nitrate.”

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Glad to see this picked up by the Gazette. All Iowans should read this and ask their elected officials why we are spending tax payer dollars on approaches that aren’t designed to actually work. www.thegazette.com/agriculture/...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

“Nitrate in the water distributed by one of Cedar Rapids' two treatment plants peaked at nearly 9 parts per million — the highest in at least 15 years, according to city and state data.” www.thegazette.com/environment-...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

you can hear this this afternoon on All Things Considered, I believe. How is that an elected official like Iowa Sec of Agriculture can get by with 'no comment' regarding >$1M his agency just spent? Iowa might be the most corrupt state in the US right now. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

My working hypothesis on Vilsack’s continuing Operation Reputation Rescue: He’s being scapegoated in the administration for the election loss because food inflation esp meat

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Step 1 on WQ should be to make Rs defend the indefensible: no stream buffers, manure on snow, over application of nitrogen, no local control of CAFO zoning, fall tillage iowastartingline.com/2024/12/20/s...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

👀 👀 Good to see “water quality” as a headline issue. iowastartingline.com/2024/12/20/s...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments