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Academic research essentially on hold in 70 health fields like "gene regulation in cancer" and "tumor evolution, heterogeneity, and metastasis."

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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

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New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

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I wouldn't be in science (or in policy) without the REU program - I would never have been able to do unpaid internships or anything like that.

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BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

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The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

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Missing Southern Illinois today, especially since this is prime fieldwork weather… no bugs and no plants to get in my way.

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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2025 EXEC Public Statement — American Society of Ichthyologists and Herptetologists. Another society steps up.

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ATTENTION FEDS In NM et al v Musk, the judge denied a TRO against DOGE firings due to lack of evidence of immediate and irreparable harm. Attorneys are asking us for evidence of harm to states (including individuals) due to firing/cancelled services. Message altcdc.99 on signal for submission email

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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How a fossil should look when you scan it…

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Despite what RFK Jr. might say, germ theory is settled science. Here's a great article about how Louis Pasteur proved it. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Sooo many baby Irvingtonian Mammut. This was not your typical "fissure". Piled high with mastodons... (Port Kennedy Cave, PA)

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Some happy news: I’ll be co-hosting an educational hike with the Allegheny Land Trust at Barking Slopes Conservation Area on May 3rd, where I’ll be chatting a bit more about this special property and the fossils you can find on it. Register here:

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Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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Scientific publishing is a victim of greed, fabrication and inflation (i.e. capitalism) like everything else in “modern” society blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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One of my favorite things is visiting a new (to me) collection. Today it was the Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-1, where I looked through Miocene cichlids for an ongoing project.

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Proud that my former grad student's funded NSF PRFB made Ted Cruz's list of Woke grants. Neuroscience/transcriptomics of behavioral plasticity, using #pupfish as a model. This includes outreach to students and local museums plus she is a woman, one of NSF's banned words 🙃 shorturl.at/ZYkMa

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struggling to kick whatever mysterious illness I have. cat is keeping me company.

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struggling to kick whatever mysterious illness I have. cat is keeping me company.

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Union Square rally.

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Sonoma State University in California is threatening to cut its Dept of Physics and Astronomy. This would be a huge loss for the students and community! This is a reminder that the sciences are not safe from political currents. 🧪🔭⚛️ Learn more here: www.savesonomaphysics.org

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Our new discovery, led by @shorouqalashqar.bsky.social , has unveiled a new 30-million-year-old species of apex predator, #Bastetodon, in Egypt’s Fayum Desert! Check out the study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. @matt-borths.bsky.social @erikseiffert.bsky.social #SallamLab #MUVP

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This weekend's project is brought to you by... A Norovirus Quarantine! Leftover mural paint! aaannnddd Generalized Anxiety! Introducinggg.. The Little Free Science Library! It will be filled with science zines, made by me and the people who sent me their zines to print! And seeds in spring.

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I have no shame about being on antidepressants, they make my life significantly more functional and I have no plan to go off them anytime soon. At some point, states and our representatives need to protect our rights, including access to modern medicine

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Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

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A particularly cruel aspect of the ongoing illegal mass firings is that admin's false claim that they are dismissals for cause. Most employers will ask if you've ever been fired and use that to screen out applications, reducing people's chances of finding non-gov work.

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Highland Park. Highland Park Bridge. Caller says that there is pothole so big on one of the ramps that there are six disabled cars on the side of the road.

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These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

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I’ve never had to stop scrolling on LinkedIn because it made me sad and angry before. But seeing so many bright young people who dedicated their lives to a career in federal service treated this way…it’s horrific.

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Saw this video and had to share. This was at the Bell Centre, never heard it so loud, this is Canadian unity 🇨🇦 #CanadianUnity

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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

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The logical extension of this is that HBCUs are illegal. Understand that they are going to try to unilaterally shut down Black colleges in the next couple weeks.

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