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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 10 days ago • 11 comments

Just reading a paper and looked up one of its citations. Found out the cited paper was published in the ANNALS OF EUGENICS. According to WOS, it has 7,488 citations. The paper: Fisher's description of LDA. There's value in citing the original method, but surely there's a better option here?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot imagine living in Oklahoma without the NWS. Weather forecasts save lives.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This week is #InvasiveSpeciesWeek! It’s a little late in the week but I will be running a sale on my invasive species sticker until next Thursday! #InvasiveSpecies #Conservation #Ecology 👩🏻‍🔬🌿🌎

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Accommodations designed for people with #disabilities often benefit everyone. Examples include captioning, visual instructions, and remote work options, according to a professor of disability studies: buff.ly/4h1lVl5 Lauren Shallish, Rutgers - Newark #ADA #DEI #workplace #universaldesign

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

submitted 36 days ago • 49 comments

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

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

My editorial on the indirect cuts. This is an opportunity for campuses to come together to make the case for higher education. Leaders need to step up and ask for support and lead. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 44 days ago • 22 comments

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!

submitted 45 days ago • 108 comments

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

Shame!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

In light of everything, maybe you need a puppy? (my sister just got a new dog!) Also: call your reps!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science (Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

submitted 55 days ago • 34 comments

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

It is unethical to report misinformation from Trump without providing fact checking. Does Los Angeles "have a valve, think of a sink but multiply it by many thousands of times the size of it, it's massive"? NO. See below for CORRECT information. (1/2) abc7.com/post/preside...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 59 days ago • 829 comments

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. Play tuba in a major symphony orchestra 2. Music performance 3. Biology 4. Research harmful algal blooms

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'" Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too. I feel sick. www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments

Posted this on the other site eight years ago: "I donated to @ppfa.bsky.social , @nrdc.org, and @aclu.org this morning. It's going to be a long four years. Let's do this." Doing it again now. Also, here are some cats:

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Today seemed like a good day to order cookies from a scout on this list. www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I'm teaching a class on Water and Ecological Sustainability this semester, and I can't tell you how psyched I am to incorporate this! Beautiful maps and accessible language. #DataViz #rstats #USGS

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This!!!! The USGS just released the first National Water Availability Assessment report: pubs.usgs.gov/publication/.... Going to highlight some of my favorite figures after skimming the report and the corresponding #USGSvizlab sites water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water... for the first time in this thread.

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Today's finding: #cats are necessary for successful #microbiome analyses. 🐈 🧫

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Some friends (Daphnia, calanoid copepod) captured from Lake Thunderbird this morning. A bit chilly, but a beautiful day to be outside. #zooplankton #lakes #invertebrates

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

One of the reasons I think it’s so important to not blame individuals for living in the so-called wrong place is that there are people living in the “wrong places” for climate change who have very little ability to change what is happening over the next decades, and our responsibility is to help.

submitted 72 days ago • 23 comments

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

submitted 72 days ago • 124 comments

For people with backyard chickens: how are you handling #H5N1 (bird flu)? We usually let ours free range when we’re home. We also have a relatively large enclosed run. Would it be better to keep them “cooped up”? I’m in Oklahoma, if that matters. #BackyardChickens #Chickens #H5N1 #BirdFlu

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Libraries! They’re super cool!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!

submitted 80 days ago • 110 comments

The beauty of working from home! (also: for those worrying, I'm working today because I'm taking all of next week off) #plants #homeoffice

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is why I think memorization is a stupid approach in undergrad classes. I'm a 'grown up' and I search for the same basic line of R script nearly every day. #R #statistics

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

This is a super awesome opportunity! I've done it a few times and it's really fun. (+ a good opportunity to practice your science communication skills!) It's also a very small time commitment, if that sways you.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I learned about Jimmy Carter's fight against guinea worms in my undergrad parasitology class, and it made a huge impression on me. One of the few parasites we covered where huge strides had been made towards eradication.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

'Biweekly' is confusing. Does that mean every other week or two times per week? Use 'fortnightly' or 'twice a week' for clarity.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Saturday #caturday

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #FluorescentFriday! Autofluorescence of cells embedded within a #Microcystis aggregate. Taken by Tingting Gu at the Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory at OU.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments