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Hydrologist working to build better models of the critical zone and beyond. 🌄🏜🚵‍♀️

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾 tucson.com/opinion/colu...
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Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future
The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.
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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
How much will your state lose with the new NIH indirect funding cap? (From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025
US military budget: $850 billion US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
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Andrew Bennett (he/him) @arbennett.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Important thread - if you want to calculate for your own institution I made a little webapp: arbennett.github.io/nih_overhead... Results for University of Arizona:
Screenshot of example of the NIH Overhead Rate Impact Calculator for University of Arizona.

Total NIH Funding: 218588000
Current Overhead Rate: 53.5%


Financial Impact Analysis
When current level of direct costs are maintained

Calculated as:

directCosts = totalFunding / (1+oldRate)

newTotalFunding = directCosts * (1+newRate)

loss = newTotalFunding - directCosts
New Total NIH Funding

$163,762,997
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$21,360,391
Total Loss

$54,825,003
When current overhead is reallocated to direct costs (unlikely)

Calculated as: loss = total * ((1 - 1/oldRate) - 1 - 1/newRate)

Or in simplified terms: loss = (total/newRate) - (total/oldRate)
Current Overhead Amount

$76,185,394
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$28,511,478
Total Loss

$47,673,916
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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 08/02/2025
The most recent executive order to gut existing and future NIH research will have a huge impact on universities, communities, and their local economies across the U.S. if it's allowed to move forward www.science.org/cont...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 06/02/2025
Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, unelected, drugged-up fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Not shutting up about how the impoundment/"funding freeze" constitutional crisis was a campaign promise that Trump made back in 2023 (if not earlier). This is not a surprise, why aren't Democrats prepared? www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...
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Agenda47: Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State | Donald J. Trump For President 2024
I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly ...
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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
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Oriana Chegwidden @scientistoriana.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
As my inaugural bluesky post, proud to share some work we put out today!
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Decades from now, the polite mainstream will claim the legacy of the protester who stands bravely against the jeering white boys - just like it currently claims the legacy of protesters who stood bravely decades ago. But let’s remember where the polite mainstream stands in the moment.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
would be nice if we took the risks of a culture of total elite impunity as seriously as we seem to take the risks of political backlash
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/03/2024
appropriate answer to this is "no"
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Paleoclimate graduate students! Applications are now OPEN for the summer 2024 paleoCAMP! Come be part of an amazing two week intensive paleoclimate summer school! paleoclimate.camp/apply (colleagues, please share and RT widely, here and on other platforms)
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Application — paleoCAMP
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
every single election the dems have lost in my lifetime has resulted in a huge, generational setback to human welfare and democracy in the united states.
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