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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“requires proofreading by a native English speaker" should be one of the things a reviewer *never* writes in a review. Never.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Third: "scientists would present the case for research agendas to a jury of randomly selected citizens" OK. Good luck with that.

A better place to start is Kilgore’s vision: making science answerable to the public through stronger congressional oversight, regional equity in funding, and public ownership of patents. But given the outsize influence of interest groups, including scientific lobbies, over the budget process today, even broad congressional guidance is not enough. We need new institutions that can direct research toward the needs and problems of the public and give ordinary people more say in the determination of scientific priorities. To this end, we could establish adversarial science courts, where scientists would present the case for research agendas to a jury of randomly selected citizens, who would then deliberate about the value of different scientific agendas and make broad recommendations for funding priorities. These could be modeled after successful participatory budgeting processes such as those in Portugal, Porto Alegre, Paris, and New York City.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Using spider silk and plant fibers, the common tailorbird can stitch leaves together to create a deep, cup-shaped nest that is lined with soft materials. Original post

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do you want to support the next generation of C. elegans researchers? We are looking for mentors with C. elegans experience, including postdocs, faculty, and scientists outside academia, to share their knowledge and career advice with early career researchers. Sign up to become a mentor!

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Mentor sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program - 2026

Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information...

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The best part is that umm, this was an open. That means it’s literally not a gendered competition and there’s no separation for men and women. She did this over something where she would very likely also go up against cis men.

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"If I see someone listed as a non-preferred reviewer I am definitely going to contact them." Don't do that. There are too many bad actors and authors shouldn't have to give details of threats/harassment/Title IX for you to find a different reviewer in the field.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4

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In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I know this isn't nearly everything, but I'm trying to keep my seminar class updated on what's happening. Is there anything else I should add/correct?

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/03/2025

The extent of sea ice around the world continues to remain the smallest in our satellite observation history for this time of year... More graphs at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line for between the months of January and April. The year 2023 is also highlighted in yellow, which was the current absolute record low previously. There is substantial interannual and daily variability.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate

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Anne Schechner @aeschech.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Do not miss this despite everything else happening

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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Cancellation megathread

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.

Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Holy smokes; this is a tough read, and AGU don’t come out of it well. @holdingupthesky.bsky.social fills in some of the details and makes a call-to-action, although I personally understand if folks decide to dedicate their efforts to other organisations…

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2025

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership. Today vs. January

Screencap of American Geophysical Union DEI webpage (URL at end) reading "Inclusion at AGU" on a banner with "AGU Ethics & Equity Center" link below it.

https://www.agu.org/learn-about-agu/about-agu/diversity-and-inclusion

Screencap Wayback Machine archive version of American Geophysical Union DEI webpage (URL at end) from January 04 2025, reading "Diversity & Inclusion at AGU" on a banner with "Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at AGU" section below it, with link to "Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan"

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Anne Schechner @aeschech.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Shooting the gap here but please Internet is there someone out there I can talk to about #Severance using Oseh Shalom this week

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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

⚒️🧪🍎👩🏿‍🔬In recognition of Black History Month, I'll be posting episodes of "Every Rock Has A Story" that feature Black scientists who share their own stories. First up, PhD candidate Imani Guest who talks about "fishing" for volcanic rock near Hawaii! Share it with your kids! youtu.be/4yqeE9FGJd4

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Every Rock Has A Story #58 - "Rock Fishing" w/ Imani Guest

YouTube video by Ethan Baxter's "Every Rock Has A Story"

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

False colour JWST NIRCam image of a nearby star forming region in front of a deep back ground of colorful galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

today i found a special book i thought i had lost - "jews make jokes," by l.n. stolovich, published in tartu in 1996, it is a collection of jewish jokes from russia that is the darkest shit you've ever heard

"evrei shutyat," by ln stolovich, a book in russian with a brown-gold cover and a smiley balding dude holding a cat

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

figures for my "introductory entomology for design majors" lecture, in which we learn that Bug is a Series of Tubes

sketchy grease pencil diagrams of a generalized insect, showing how the body is partitioned by both anatomy and function. In brief, bugs keep most of their sensory and feeding equipment on the head, their locomotor appendages on the thorax, and their digestive and reproductive organs in the abdomen DO NOT @ ME ABOUT NON-HEAD CHEMOSENSATION, YES MOTHS CAN TASTE WITH THEIR FEET AND DIGEST WITH THEIR VAGINA, EVERYONE KNOWS THIS

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

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Gerard Rocher-Ros @grocherros.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2025

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida

Incarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be.

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Christy Tucker @christytucker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

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Alt Text: What to Write

Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Americans would rather put "1k grams of fentanyl" in the newspaper than learn the metric system www.wane.com/news/crime/m...

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Man accused of selling informant more than 1K grams of fentanyl

If convicted, the suspect would face no less than 10 years in prison.

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Sensual Kazoo @sensualkazoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Oh my god it's literally a lens cap.

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Anne Schechner @aeschech.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

as a Big Nerd I have to tell you I went to Mendel’s abbey to look at his peas but the most notable part is actually the little hats he made for his microscopes

Brass microscope in mendel‘s bedroom with a silly little fur hat on it

Mendel’s other brass microscope with a silly little hat on it, this one has a tassel

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Ashlynn Boedecker @shlynnbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

💧If you use a MIMS with a furnace, and you’re sad you lost your oxygen data, you may be in luck! We found that even with a furnace scrubbing >99% of the O2 from a sample, it was still sensitive enough to measure O2!💧 In L&O Methods (and OA!): doi.org/10.1002/lom3...

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Evaluating O2 : Ar, N2 : Ar, and 29,30N2 using membrane inlet mass spectrometry configured to minimize oxygen interference

Membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) provides detailed measures of dissolved 28,29,30N2, O2, and argon (Ar) for estimating important gas fluxes and concentrations in aquatic ecosystems. Previous s....

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Anne Schechner @aeschech.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Shepping too much nachas for one skeet but, this is an incredible paper I was grateful to get to contribute to. Thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

It is really striking to me how some university leaders have managed to keep their cool and ended the Gaza encampments peacefully through dialogue and others have just needlessly escalated. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/29/c...

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BREAKING: Administrators, student demonstrators reach agreement to end encampment on Deering Meadow

Student demonstrators wrapped up negotiations with the University Monday after five days of demonstrations. The University will engage in a number of steps to support Palestinian students and protest ...

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Isabella A. Oleksy, Ph.D. @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

We're hiring! Work with @jbaron4.bsky.social @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social, and I to synthesize 40+ years of biogeochemical data from lakes across the southern Rocky Mtns. Pay range $65-75k, negotiable start date jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Postdoctoral Associate

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