Number of NSF awards in 2021-2025 far exceeds the awards for 2026.
Did you see this? Our funding of excellent research was one of the ways the US is (was?) great. These awards are very difficult to get even in the best of times.
Good gracious. This is way too much salt! Recommended salting is one crystal every 10 cm or so.
Salting at this rate hurts animals living in water the next time it rains and destroys your sidewalks.
#waterquality #protectourwater
As an ecotoxicologist, I have countless examples of how terrible copper mining is for wildlife and water - and the contamination lingers for decades. Please contact your senators.
Coming back from a wonderful week leading the Vanishing Vitamin working group back to reality feels very similar to this.
So many cool projects I can barely breathe. But when a colleague asks me if I want to join an interesting new study?
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!!
1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
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Sending support to the other US federal scientists out there. It is a tough week.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Loved working with both of you and proud of the study we built from almost nothing.
Couldn't be more pleased for this one to see the light of day. A US-Australia view of how fish assemblage composition has changed over ~40 years relative to climatic and hydrologic shifts in arid rivers. Spoiler alert: arid fishes may be in trouble onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🐟💧🌎
T-shirt that says girls just wanna have funding for scientific reaearch
I wore something similar to this shirt to pick up my kid from camp. Another parent, who looked as tired as I feel, said “guys want to have funding too.” Stay strong friends.
The EPA Defenders stood up for their agency's mission and despite retaliation and intimidation, Congress has taken notice.
*BIPARTISAN* Senate approps committee voted 26-2 (!!!) to maintain the EPA Office of Research and Development!
SCIENCE IS THE WEDGE ISSUE.
thehill.com/homenews/541...
Graphic with a megaphone and Statue of Liberty background. Text reads: “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget! WHAT’S HAPPENING: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies is marking up the FY26 budget – including funding for NSF. WHY IT MATTERS: America’s 75-year investment in science is at stake with a 23% cut to NSF. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Call Chairman Rogers and DEMAND NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the 2026 Budget! (202)-225-4601. Stand Up for Science logo at the bottom.”
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨
The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.
Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.
& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Computer died with my data from the last HPLC run on it. After two days of sweating, a senior chemist saved me with hard drive magic. Whew!
Maybe we should “forget” how to do benchwork? But I fear we’ve shown our hand already.
Things I’m relatively good at but don’t particularly enjoy:
1) organizing and leading meetings
2) bench chemistry
My week has entirely consisted of chemistry and leading meetings.
Do you have anything professionally you’re good at but don’t actually like?
There is a tonne of misinformation and disinformation about mrna vaccines now. The policy implications in US could have grave consequences given the potential for mrna vaccines especially in cancer care. I discuss this here #Immunosky 🧪
“We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.”
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science and R&D has traditionally received strong bipartisan support in the US Congress. But the White House is supposedly pushing cuts of 55% (NSF), 44%(NIH), 27% (NOAA), 50% (NASA), 100% (USGS ecosystems). Meanwhile China INCREASED their R&D spending by 8.3%
I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social
🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
On it.
Report your terminated NSF grant here:
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And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.
All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
“The Trump administration is asking us to reimagine America as a country that not only does not value public service but actually torments its public servants,” writes @elainegodfrey.bsky.social :
The research team working from a raft to extract a lake sediment core from a small lake in southeast Alaska.
A large marine bivalve shell is pulled from the mud inside one of the lake sediment cores.
Landscape photo of the area near a sample lake in southeast Alaska.
Pleased to announce my lab will soon be hiring a postdoc! Join an interdisciplinary group working on ecosystem change following the last glacial maximum in southeast Alaska. Substantial modeling skills are a big plus! Applications due April 20th. coreykrabbenhoft.com/join-us-2/
Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
