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Phase Two. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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Different divisions were impacted differently across NSF. DEB lost 5 out of 12 permanent program directors yesterday, across all four clusters.The very best human beings. Grateful to have worked with them and become friends with them.

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"their value to the nation is no longer required” 🤬 www.wired.com/story/nation...

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People who left tenured positions recently to come to NSF now terminated...

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First pass.

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Primal scream

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A relevant fact

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An Oldie But Goodie

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Epic 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

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When Monk showed up on the scene in the 1940s, his wildly innovative style initially divided jazz listeners: Some couldn’t stand his playing, others declared him a “Genius of Modern Music”. Luckily, Alfred Lion of Blue Note was among the latter crowd. www.everythingjazz.com/story/thelon...

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

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Forkery being covered for the next hour on NPR. Including discussions with federal employees

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Never not relevant

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“Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.” new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Our assessment is not getting the attention it deserves! At a time when people are asking for transformative solutions, we can tell you how!

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This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

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The Oath of Office taken by me and my colleagues at the NSF - “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …”

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Yes, and might I add all the funding agency directors and senior managers who are running as fast as they can..

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FYI - this page will be updated regularly new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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January 29 is now PO / SRO appreciation day in my book.

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The playlist I'm making right now after this workday is EPIC. However, parental discretion is advised.

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I tried to write about what we’re going through. Hang in there, everyone. open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

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Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

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Interesting paper in @peerj.bsky.social on biodiversity blindspots using @gbif.org data doi.org/10.7717/peer... "...many of the areas that appear ‘unexplored’ may be in countries whose collections are not digitized ... they don’t have metadata such as GPS coordinates" HT @nerdychristie.bsky.social

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"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56

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r.e. Lynch, I'm with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "In the arts, the torture and death of a beautiful...or young woman...was forever...portrayed as erotic, exciting, satisfying...the desire was enshrined in the films of...Hitchcock, De Palma, David Lynch,...Tarantino." & repeated IRL. Enough.

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Well, events this week certainly provide us with more data for interrogating societal notions about merit and the meritocracy. I guess there's that.

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🌿 How does competition for funding shape research? An interesting new paper reveals the economic, ethical, and epistemic costs of competitive research funding. Addressing this has important implications for our ability to fund bold innovative conservation science. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The new @IPBES report has some jaw-dropping data everywhere, e.g: >The private sector spends $5.3 trillion/year directly damaging biodiversity >Government spend $1.7 trillion/year incentivizing destroying biodiversity We are a self-destructive species ipbes.canto.de/index_mobile...

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Job alert! Project Drawdown is hiring a new Director of Private Sector Partnerships to join our growing team! Please share with your networks. Thanks! drawdown.org/careers/dire...

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Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

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What does it mean to let go of productivity in a culture obsessed with it? In "Best of How To," co-hosts Becca Rashid and @ibogost.bsky.social explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it.

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Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! A great community, would be great to lead this ship!

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Apply to be Director of Biocollections at Arizona State University! We are recruiting senior faculty at the Associate or Full Professor levels to lead our excellent natural history collections and the NEON Biorepository biokic.asu.edu #evobio #phylogenetics #comparative #taxonomy #systematics

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