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Barbara Thiers @barbarathiers.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Biodiversity Collections Task Force is a nascent effort to help collections through anticipated difficult times in the near future. We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025. Let us know which topics would be most useful to you: lnkd.in/gQmyMKmN

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/03/2025

To Canadians travelling to the U.S. for longer trips: Anyone visiting U.S. for periods > 30 days must now register with the U.S. government. “Failure to comply with the registration requirement could result in penalties, fines, and misdemeanor prosecution.” travel.gc.ca/destinations...

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Travel advice and advisories for United States (USA)

Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What an incredible, ingenious American scientist! I'm so glad I read this story for #BlackHistoryMonth

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

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Employment | New York Botanical Garden

Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...

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Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social

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‘Good boy!’ Truffle-sniffing dogs are helping uncover hidden underground ecosystems

Their keen noses are helping researchers document the diversity of fungi living underneath Pacific Northwest forests

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I have proudly been a scientist my whole life. We are now watching the deliberate destruction of American science at the hands of the corrupt regime. Data is disappearing, young scientists are not getting paid, free speech is crushed. We can fix this, but we don't have much time to undo the harm. 🧪🌏

A diverse group of five scientists in a lab in Borneo, Indonesia. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Barbara Thiers @barbarathiers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hugs to friends and colleagues who care for federal collections, preserved and living. Not just their own livelihoods, they have the worry that our cultural and scientific heritage could be lost or imperiled, upending of previous generations images.app.goo.gl bs56VbRrVG2EGn3C9

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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One of the stories I will tell: I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years. They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean. They cannot survive for 90 days without care. A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days. It means 10 years.

a clear container containing seawater and marine plankton

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

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Barbara Thiers @barbarathiers.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The weather outside in the Denver metro area is truly frightful, so it’s a good day to embark on a Ikea assembly project— desk and drawers for my home biology lab

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