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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington. This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.

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Allison Pfeiffer @ampfeiff.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

📣 WWU Geology is searching for an Assistant Prof in *Hydrogeology*! Application deadline Dec 15. Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community. App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu... Pic from my local field trip last week.

Students walking along a coarse grained beach. Sky is yellow and orange, reflected on the calm water.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

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Resumption of Operations at NSF

Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Dr. Tina Dura, part of the CRESCENT Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) working group, was featured recently in a PBS Terra video about the future Cascadia megathrust event. Learn more about what the event could mean for the PNW and how you can prepare here ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uV...

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Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake)

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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authodizer @doktrock.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Faculty Position at University of #Iowa 🧪⚒️ Solid Earth #geology, focused on #structural geology, tectonics, geochronology, thermochronology, critical minerals, or geodynamics. jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

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Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 17/06/2025

70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.

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Almost 10 Percent of Seattle Marched at No Kings Rally

Ever wonder what 10 percent of Seattle’s population looks like? If you came out to the No Kings rally on Saturday, you found out. An estimated 70,000 protesters gathered at Cal Anderson for a rally, w...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 13/06/2025

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/06/2025

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2025

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

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Cailey Condit @cailcon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

tl;dr: This federally funded science will help us understand deadly geologic hazards and we should fund basic research because it will save lives, money, and result in wonder!

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Cailey Condit @cailcon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I live in Seattle, WA. My city and the PNW is going to have a huge >8Mw earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Fault in the near future. I want to know all the hazards we will face when this earthquake comes, and learning more about these fault systems from the rock record is key!

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Cailey Condit @cailcon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We're here, three PIs, one postdoc, two graduate students, and one undergrad on a research grant funded by the NSF. We're working on basic science, and our data is key to understand how the earth works and has important implications for seismic hazards along subduction fault zones.

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Cailey Condit @cailcon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

With everything going on *gestures wildy*, I am feeling so to be on Ios Island in Greece with some incredible other geologists learning everything we can about subduction↘️💥🌋, underplating ↗️🍽️, deformation 〰️, fluids💦, and (perhaps?)...slow slip 🫴🦋.

Four geologists swim in the Aegean Sea past a highly deformed shear zone/island towards an outcrop only accessible by water.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So many of my colleagues are struggling with this same decision: stay or leave. I’m staying as long as it’s within my power to do so, but this is 🔥🔥🔥

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

Office of the Director (OD) $4
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) $5
Biological Sciences (BIO) $15
Engineering (ENG) $25
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) $34
Geosciences (GEO) $34
Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) $35
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) $41
STEM Education (EDU) $590

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Reminder: the budget where you see NIH & NSF getting cut by 40-50% has been PROPOSED by the President of the United States. The Senate and the House must approve this budget-- and they generally do NOT. See below. ✨Congress needs to hear from you.✨ CALL YOUR REPS & tell them to Save our Science!

A chart showing that in 2018, Trump requested the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Medical Sciences and other Offices at NIH be cut by huge percentages, and the way the Senate and the House voted to actually give every Institute a little MORE that year, instead.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/04/2025

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

NIH DOGE'd..... Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations 60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

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How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health

Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/04/2025

📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣 The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations

DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Science friends, I’ll be honest: We have no idea yet what any of this will mean. But I can tell you that I work alongside some of the best humans around and that we are fighters. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s Earth Day, and some of us have spent not just our careers but our whole lives loving + studying the Earth. It is not an easy time. But I hope you take a moment today to look at something beautiful, eat something delicious, squish someone you love, pet a dog, remember the nice parts. Yay Earth.

A nice part of Earth (in Canada). A flattish (glacially eroded) small island of granite sits on a still lake reflecting a blue sky dotted with clouds. Two people stand at either end, fishing.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🚨🚨 Breaking: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can” Well fuck, this would seem to accelerate DOGE control at NSF…

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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"university indirect cost rates are analogous to operating expenses divided by R&D expenditures. For 2023, these ratios were 60% for Merck, 138% for Pfizer, and 105% for Roche...cutting governmental indirect costs to 15% for medical research conducted in universities is clearly unfair."🧪⚕️

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Is flat 15% fair?

An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

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Christy Till @ctill.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@agu.org has a tool to find & contact your legislators about FY25 #science funding. It provides scripts, email text, phone numbers & sends emails. agu.quorum.us/campaign/FY2...

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Support Science Funding in this Pivotal Moment

Congress is setting its spending limits now--tell your legislators to support science in their appropriations bills.

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Heather Goss @heathermg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

At @eos.org we've launched a new blog with quick updates on the hurricane of federal actions pummeling science and science agencies and offering context for how it will affect all of us. Follow it here eos.org/r-and-d

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

NEW: NSF is REINSTATING the 84 probationary staff who were terminated last month, in response to Friday's Federal court order. The 84 "intermittent experts" are still fired.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 01/03/2025

Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Holy shit yes. READ THIS

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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 24/02/2025

The more time I spend in academia the more I eye roll when people suggest that Universities are left wing bastions 👀

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Cailey Condit @cailcon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

i did not know this podcast exists and now that I do I am so excited OMFG.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usual

The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Inside the lobby at NSF…

A table of books with a sign that says “each one of these books represents critical knowledge lost that would have driven US innovation and bolstered American security. 168 books and counting.

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