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Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help. 1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting: 60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!) 2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

My wish: That every scientist who is passionately advocating for science here will take their same message and also broadcast it in some other venue. We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced). Please consider it 🙏

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts. It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

good post www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 26 days ago • 1308 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

Did you know… Purple isn’t real. It’s a pigment of the imagination! www.snexplores.org/article/colo...

submitted 31 days ago • 47 comments

Now that 'all the scientists are on @bsky.app '... ...I strongly encourage folks to look at @ai2.bsky.social 's new ScholarQA tool. allenai.org/blog/ai2-sch...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions. They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

I agree with your boss @holdenthorp.bsky.social . One reason to withhold judgement (for a week or so at least) is that the pause in external communications only 'applies until Feb. 1'. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

A single act of bravery echoes, soothes, and inspires — and counters an artificial narrative of inevitability, conformity, and resignation to the new administration.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Yep... whether it reduces my environmental footprint or not... I reuse these as nearly indestructible water/milk glasses after (i) neglecting them (for far too long) on the counter, (ii) cleaning the sticky insides out by hand, and (iii) removing the label (effortlessly) via the dishwasher.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists! We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1. You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester. Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

submitted 60 days ago • 23 comments

#PubDrop! We've been experimenting with a more scientist-led approach to open publishing at @arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8 research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

'The Conversation' between Gail Collins and Bret Stephens fills the role that 'Shields & Brooks' once did... Both demonstrate that civil, insightful discussion can persist - must persist - between people with (sometimes wildly) different beliefs. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

SO(!) impressed - motivated - by teachers like Leora Cooper... ... and wish that there wasn't a compelling reason for her (or others) 'to give up a modest but steady paycheck and retirement plan and start a school of her own, on her own.' www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I don't buy much 'fancy new tech' and, when I do, I don't recommended it to folks that I don't know well... until now.... We started using a Mill Food Recycler - a ~$1000 splurge - ~1 week ago. It's worthwhile, especially if you can't easily divert food waste from the trash. www.mill.com

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This kaleidoscopic pattern was once the living glass skeleton of a single-celled alga called a diatom. The Amazon basin is fertilized by 27 million tons of dead diatoms that are blown across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert each year. 🤯

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Two pieces of good news yesterday: • One of the UCSF investigators I support scored in the 9th percentile on her grant application! • youngest kid's height & weight is in the >90th percentile! (Shouldn't one of those two cases be 'bad' news - i.e., shouldn't 'percentile' be unambiguous?)

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Australia just passed an under-16 social media accounts ban. Here in the US? We are stalled on a very basic bill asking not much at all of social media companies. Please call your representative through this easy tool and ask them to vote for KOSA. It takes 2 min 🙏 designitforus.org/emails-and-c...

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

I'm surprised by how few scientists and scientific writers/editors in the #PNW know about the fhl.uw.edu/whiteley-cen.... - i.e., a tranquil, beautiful spot to design, draft, and edit manuscripts, grant applications, articles, etc. @ellenkuwana.bsky.social @drkiki.bsky.social @tuthill.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments