There is so much we still don’t know about how prions are transported through the environment, but this knowledge is vital for containing fatal diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease. I can’t wait to see where we go from here in further uncovering environmental prion dynamics
I’m very excited to share our paper, Prion Partitioning and Persistence in Environmental Waters.
We demonstrate that infectious prions preferentially partition to fine sediments in surface waters, providing a framework to further study hydrological prion transport.
“You can't do science without money, and you can't do money if you fired all the people who do money.”
Thank you to my friend Sabrina for sharing her story
Figure of stacked histograms showing temperature anomalies by decade (1880s–2020s) relative to the 1951–1980 baseline. Three columns display data for global, land, and ocean temperatures. Blue tones depicting colder than base period temperatures dominate the earlier decades, shifting to red tones indicating warm temperatures in the recent decades, highlighting warming trends.
Global, land, and ocean temperature change distributions since the 1880s. A very clear warming signal in all of them.
Data: NASA GISS / GISTEMP (base period: 1951–1980).
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
Mostly preaching to the choir here, but a group of us moderators over on Reddit's AskScience put together kind of an explainer for the implications of some of the attacks on science funding and infrastructure in the US if it's useful for anyone else to share:
I just got a report that a terminated employee from another agency got their job back after replying to the termination email with their good perf appraisal.
If you are still connected, might as well try. It makes for good documentation if nothing else.
Let me know. So far only this one anecdote.
We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you.
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Has your science ever been twisted, misrepresented, or taken wildly out of context? My latest Eos article dives into how I navigated this whirlwind—and what it taught me. Check it out (published this morning)!
Hi. Here’s a public update I am very glad to share: “Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests” new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
Breaking news: The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
NPR cites an NSF statement now “NSF spokesperson said that all review panels will be rescheduled. ‘This will allow the agency to make the best use of everyone's time and resources as we continue to develop guidance to ensure compliance with the recent executive orders.’”
Crucial new CWD report from CIDRAP
"Concerns about a CWD prion spillover from cervids to other animal species and humans have only continued to grow in importance, and we're simply not prepared should a species jump occur": CIDRAP Director @mtosterholm
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Did NOT see this coming!!
Analysis of 2.9M rivers globally finds that, on avg 1984-2018, streamflow increased in headwaters & declined in downstream sections (1.7 times more upstream increases found than declines; ~4 times more downstream declines than increases).
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
