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Lilian Szych @lilianszych.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thrilled to share that the Szych research group kicks off this June, thanks to a Liebig fellowship from @chemieverband.bsky.social 🥳 Huge thanks to all my mentors! 😊 You are a motivated master's student and interested in a fully funded PhD position in inorganic chemistry? Reach out! 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions 1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders 2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight 3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Shout out to the tenured and emeritus faculty who are speaking up on here, at rallies, in calls and emails to legislators, in board meetings, in meetings with funders, so that us non-tenured folks don't risk our careers to speak out against *waves hands wildly* all of this

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 13/04/2025

On #NationalScrabbleDay, this periodic table shows what every element's name would score during a game. Can you spot the highest scoring elements and the only element that scores the same as its atomic number? www.compoundchem.com/2019/07/07/p... #ChemSky 🧪

Periodic table showing the scores for different element names in a game of Scrabble. Zirconium, rutherfordium and praseodymium score highest, and aluminium is the only element to score the same as its atomic number (13, in UK Scrabble)

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Bill Wuest @wmwuest.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

NSF GRFP Awards by the Year: 2021 - 2074 2022 - 2193 2023 - 2555 2024 - 2036 2025 - 1000 Again, these funding cuts will have drastic longterm effects on the scientific future of the US....... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

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Dr. Danielle Maxwell @daniellemaxwell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today I had the honor of moderating the National Center for Institutional Diversity Anti-Racism Graduate Research Showcase at University of Michigan. UM may have eliminated DEI, but that will not stop these students from advancing equity-centered research. Congratulations to all of the grantees!

A photo of all of the 2024 NCID anti-racism graduate research grant recipients

A photo of me speaking behind a podium. I am wearing an orange floral blouse and there are gold chairs to my left for the grantee Q&A panel.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

After 24 hours on his feet, Cory Booker is defending the scientific research establishment of this country - calling out an experience like the one that drives me and SO MANY of my fellow scientists to do the work we do - that maybe we can do for others what we couldn't for our own loved ones.

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Matthew Prorok @mattprorok.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Long before the 21-hour mark, Strom Thurmond was reading the phone book, and Ted Cruz was reading Green Eggs and Ham. Cory Booker is talking about the economy right now. He's going to obstruct an entire day of Senate business with an actual policy speech.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 01/04/2025

If you do not have a passport, and your ID does not match your birth certificate, you cannot prove your citizenship, according to the SAVE Act. You will not be able to vote. The SAVE Act will disenfranchise tens of millions of women in America. It’s blatant voter suppression.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

One feature of "fearless speech" is critiquing those in power and/or yourself. We all have to meet this moment.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you had a U-RISE or MARC grant cancelled this week (I'm hearing the MARC programs, which are similar but at research intensive unis, were also cancelled), please be sure to update the information here: forms.gle/81iLikdBtmCP... 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It's official. The subject link is "Evolving our approach to DEI" but the instructions say "All units will evaluate their web presence to reflect the status of current programmatic directions and for compliance with federal executive orders and guidance." So disappointed in my university right now.

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University of Michigan, a longtime champion of progressive values, to close its DEI office

University President Santa Ono informed staffers in an email, saying Michigan remains committed to diversity among its students, faculty and staff.

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Dr. Rosie Perez (she/her) @rosiejp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t ease my anger, frustration, & disappointment as an alum & faculty member. Please miss me with any more talk of being the “leaders & best” moving forward. I’ve always been critical of this concept, but it rings especially hollow now. #AcademicSky

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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Why is @acs.org putting www.crowdconnected.com tracking devices in our lanyards? #ACSFall2015

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The SAVE plan helped millions of people stay above water while repaying their student loan debt. Now that Trump has shut it down, borrowers are reporting as much as a 10x monthly payment increase. How is this supposed to lower people’s cost of living?

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is your periodic reminder: NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) *still* remains paused in new awards. Here's an updated graph. But also see below thread about why the nation needs these #STEMed investments, including for sustaining the *future* of scientific research.

3 EDU awards since Jan 20 in FY25, whereas 82 in FY24.

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My personal take is that I really feel for these students. They went from COVID to this mess. Like many of the folks we spoke to, I'm also very worried about who'll end up leaving science as opportunities continue to disappear.

"I didn’t get a prom; I didn’t get my high school graduation; my freshman year of college was fully online. . . . It feels really cruel that these next 4 years, we’re kind of going through a situation that’s limiting us." Anonymous student, applicant who was accepted to a PhD program and then moved to a waitlist

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

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Dr. Danielle Maxwell @daniellemaxwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Because the timeline needs more dog photos 💚🌈 #DogsOfBluesky

A photo of a freshly groomed pug/bichon mix. She is wearing St. Patrick’s Day themed bows and a scarf in front of a St. Patrick’s Day themed backdrop.

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I need the Onion to stop posting real news

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs: Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.

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God @thegodshow.com · 11/03/2025

Donold is now classifying protests at Tesla dealerships as ‘domestic terrorism.’ Protest at a Tesla dealership and you get arrested as a terrorist. But attack the Capitol and you get a pardon.

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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Add R25s to that list. Our NIH funding got straight up cancelled today for the two R25s that my team runs at Columbia for post-bacs and high-school students. I fear for our young scholars, who love learning about the brain and now are losing opportunities to be tomorrow's neuroscientists. 🧪

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

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Christoph Jacob @christophjacob.eu · 11/03/2025

The ACS Inclusivity Style Guide used to include sections on “Gender and Sexuality” and on “Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality”. Both are now gone. www.acs.org/about/inclus...

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Inclusivity Style Guide - American Chemical Society

The ACS Inclusivity Style Guide aims to help American Chemical Society staff and members communicate in ways that recognize and respect diversity in all its forms.

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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcss.info · 10/03/2025

An important piece but infuriating piece, with quotes from @stemxicaned.bsky.social @chemjobber.bsky.social @dereklowe.bsky.social @matthartings.bsky.social. To my fellow white folks: we need to speak out against bastardizations of civil rights like this lawsuit. And to @acs.org: hold your ground!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 10/03/2025

The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.

Altmetric Explorer view - Twitter/X vs Bluesky in bar graphs.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

As with so many things - if white ppl had listened to and (this is the crucial part) believed BIPOC experiences of oppression, none of the current state of affairs would be a surprise. More importantly, had white ppl refused to enact or enable that oppression we'd all be safer.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/03/2025

Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack. “Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone” Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X @altnps.bsky.social

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This exactly what Hitler and the Nazis thought. Didn’t work out too well for them. Empathy is literally what makes us human.

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MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

He stood alone with courage in the face of tyranny.

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Dr. Danielle Maxwell @daniellemaxwell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

There was a great turnout this afternoon at the Lansing, MI #standupforscience2025 rally. America leads when science thrives! 🧪 #sciencenotsilence @miomj.bsky.social

A group of University of Detroit Mercy professors holding signs supporting DEI and scientific funding in front of the Michigan state capitol building.

A crowd of people outside of the state capitol building in Lansing, MI. Many people are holding signs supporting scientific funding.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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