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Proud to see many of the societies I am a member of as signatories! #StandUpForScience

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The Trump administration has begun firing employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science.

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The FDA just cancelled a meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu shots. "It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

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House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people. Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.

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Stand Up For Science protest happening on Friday, March 7. Happening in many cities across the U.S. Details: standupforscience2025.org

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US Rep Seth Magaziner speaks to a crowd of 2000 people outside RI State House. “I will fight with every tool at my disposal against what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing.”

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Please!! Help us get the word out!!! Very little media coverage weekday or weekend! We have some reporters come by but this is our second protest in a week! #IndivisibleRI rally was today at RI State House! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social

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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... What is going on at NIH and CDC is horrific. Young scientists summarily fired during the PhDs and Postdocs. Whole sections bullied into resigning. All pandemic and surveillance programme shut in the middle of a cattle flu outbreak that is infecting more people.

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My latest for @thenation.com.

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REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 20 days ago • 605 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

submitted 20 days ago • 186 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 22 days ago • 259 comments

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Important fresh journalism here detailing how the US Forest Service is using false 'restoration' and 'resiliency' arguments in conjunction w/ administrative loopholes as a way to ramp up logging of mature & old-growth #forests on public lands. 1/2 🌏 columbiainsight.org/exclusive-th...

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DC peeps, time to show up to protect EPA — Clean Air Act❗️Clean Water Act❗️Superfund Act*❗️Toxic Substances Control Act❗️ If you want these glorious acts of Congress implemented, we must protect EPA. Thank you Senator Markey for leading the charge 💚 www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

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Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

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#BlackHistoryMonth Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders. Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture. Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26

submitted 29 days ago • 218 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

submitted 30 days ago • 46 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 30 days ago • 1327 comments

NEW: Scientists angered their scientific society is scrubbing websites in "anticipatory obedience" of Trump orders. "For an organization that has championed diversity to make a complete 180, it's dizzying," @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social told me. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/t...

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oceandecade.org/events/caree...? 🦑🌎🧪

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I love that today's google doodle celebrates the amazing, important kelp forests fringing the southern coast of Australia 🦑 These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish #Greatsouthernreef doodles.google/doodle/celeb...

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It's graduate school application season, so here's your reminder that nobody should pay for a graduate degree in #ecoevo ! Here's a list of fully funded ecology, evolution, & organismal biology Masters' programs (please share!)! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Family fun

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Please share this Summer 2025 PAID INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY w/ undergraduate students! Bee-HERO gives students the chance to study bee parasites/viruses at the Centre for Honey Bee Research in Uppsala, Sweden. See 🧵 and Bee-HERO website for details - www.sacredheart.edu/academics/co... 🧪🐝

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Happy dog day to the best big sister, our Lilly bird #aussie

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🌎💧🧪Are you a PI in Ecology/Evolution/Marine science and are recruiting grad students for Fall 2025? Help spread the word and enter the details about your positions in this Google Form. The results are being shared around with potential students docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Excited to be facilitating a Learning Community on Alternative Grading for the RIOS Institute alongside @melanielenahan.bsky.social, starting in a few weeks! Sign up at the link

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New by me: No, a shark did not (and cannot) get a stingray pregnant, despite what you read in news stories this week. But what really happened is really neat! www.southernfriedscience.com/no-a-shark-d... 🧪 🦑

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It's REU season! Applications are popping up across the network. You can see them all at lternet.edu/education-an... Please share widely, and let us know if you don't see your site's program!

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Well, I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this, but it is important, so I'm going to keep pushing. Contrary to this @insidehighered piece, the report mentioned does not prove grade inflation is happening at Yale. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... 1/x

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Do you teach evolution or think about inclusive pedagogy? Contribute your resources & teaching materials for inclusive undergraduate evolution education by filling out a short Google form: forms.gle/Sjn9V3oezas9... (More info here: www.amnat.org/announcement...)

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