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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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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨ATTN: Paleoceanographers + Paleoclimatologists🚨 There's a new (sub)venue for your short-format papers @agu.org's #PaleoceanographyAndPaleoclimatology! 🌊 Take a look at what type of articles we are looking for:

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I got my award letter from NSF yesterday. 14 months post submission. I’m so excited and grateful. And new instruments are on their way!

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@tampabaytimes.bsky.social did an amazing job capturing life at @cmarinescience.bsky.social post fire. And, they made my mom’s day ❤️ Support local journalism!

Newspaper story about laboratory fire at University of South Florida, including a photo of a professor

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Fire update: thanks to heroic efforts by contractors & USF CMS ops staff, my group got most of our samples. Yesterday books emerged. Waiting for space allocations for prep labs & offices. Instruments & buildings will take longer; advocating for mobile labs in short to mid term. Funding still needed.

Amelia, Brad, Pat, and Trevor’s samples (and Hollander’s)

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17/05/2026

The White House has cut or frozen billions in scientific research funds that had been approved by Congress. It’s an assault on the rule of law and on the security, health, and prosperity of all Americans. bit.ly/42ytB9B

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The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding

Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Greetings from Hawkins Marine lab here in the upside down. Yesterday we stood at the gate and and recieved samples from the relatively protected walkin cooler. The building is red tagged; unclear how much can be recovered. So many awesome people are working really hard to help us. I’m very greatful.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.

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Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta

On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

So this happened today. My office, lab, husbands office, lab… students offices… not great. Tough times ahead

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Well the day had arrived. It’s the first time since 2002 that I have not had governmental (UK or US) funding for my research program… Anyone else here with me? Any ideas about what to do next?

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Nature @nature.com · 26/04/2026

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 26/04/2026

If I were a fired NSB member, I would be exploring opportunities to litigate actions taken by NSF that legally require board input

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My Gen X self had to be notified of successful launch and splashdown. Still traumatized by the live action I experienced in 5th grade. Yay Artimis II!

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#nokings in St Pete FL with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social and @drtrevorwilliams.bsky.social. Summary: more people, more men 40-60, not enough 18-30 year olds. More honking and fewer fingers. Florida is shifting (I think).

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/03/2026

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

Image with text to email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This person should be fired from their job, because they clearly don’t value teaching or learning. Gross. My students bring me the greatest joy and are the reason I do what I do.

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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As a kid, my great aunt Mary woods hole (family nickname) gave me a book each Thanksgiving. The books were always about adventures (swallows and amazons was a fave) and she would write that I could do anything and be anything I wanted to be. ADHD and oceanography must be genetic.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Controversial opinion. Let Gen X have some leadership responsibility. Watching this same dynamic in all facets of my life at the moment, with all the same issues

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Uhhh… well maybe we can all be raptured and escape this hellhole timeline.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Meanwhile, many of us have to think about how we wind down our lab operations in the next month, while proposals languish in purgatory. For what?

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Meanwhile, polar scientists are running out of money, have proposals sitting in NSF purgatory for over a year and crickets… I’m about ready to throw in the towel on my science career.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I’ve never considered the Reveille a warship, but here we are. Glad we spent all that money on a pier to fit the Palmer…

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My super amazing students (minus two who had a meeting) and lab tech. I’m so grateful to all of them for all of their hard work and dedication to science. Also, they are so much fun!

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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Techno-optimism around AI reveals the contempt these CEOs and tech bros have for the work most of us do. They think writing, thinking and art can all be automated by AI because *they* can’t do any of those things.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We seem to be at this level of dumb…

Map incorrectly identifying Antarctica as Greenland

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 24/01/2026

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️

White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Dear academic journals, I don’t want your AI research tools and summaries. I want easy access … looking at you GeoscienceWorld…

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

NSF, NOAA, and USAID cost too much but we have the money to run Venezuela… ok…. Make it make sense.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

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