iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/07/2026

A question: does anyone know about communities or groups for scientists who are committed to writing without the use of LLMs / genAI?

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 03/06/2026

Raise your voice against OMB's proposed rule, which threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded in the U.S. by prioritizing political agendas over scientific integrity. 📲Read statement & comment by 13 July. 🔗 spklr.io/63327EM0o7

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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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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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/04/2026

Glued to the Artemis 2 launch. Watch here NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The report highlights the grim state of freshwater ecosystems, degraded marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and the risk of extinction for many species. But it also emphasizes the potential for improvement through conservation, restoration, and renewed connections between people and nature.

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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I have so many thoughts that I'm trying not to share, but why can't we just say that an ICE agent shot a man? This is even without mentioning that he was already being held on the ground and being beaten by multiple ICE agents when he was shot. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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Scott F. Jones, PhD @ecophiliajones.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First day (of many) greenhouse experiment harvest. Time to harvest the ones that somehow survived this long...

Greenhouse view showing lots of blue 5 gallon buckets on tables, with plants growing inside. Plants look dead or green and alive depending on the bucket. A few undergraduate technicians are working near the tables

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.” Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...

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Steal this (updated) syllabus for Scientific Writing

I’ve just finished the 3rd go-around of my Scientific Writing course. When I first signed up to teach it, I was very scared, but now that I’ve been through it a few times, I’m quite pleased with h…

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Scott F. Jones, PhD @ecophiliajones.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

So proud of students in the WE ~ ECO lab, who presented their work last week at the ARISE symposium at UNF! Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025

While I have everyone's attention, the genocide happening in Palestine -- in Gaza AND the West Bank -- is a crime against humanity. Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

How disruptive are stateside/federal funding cuts/freezes, you ask? It's July 10th, and half my lab hasn't been paid and they're behind on rent and at risk of eviction. That's how disruptive. F this nonsense.

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a cartoon dog wearing a purple hat is sitting in front of a fire .

ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a purple hat is sitting in front of a fire .

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/07/2025

A thermometer doesn't give a different number if you're red, blue--or green. Nor does a hurricane knock on your door and ask who you voted for in the last election before it destroys your home. Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!

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Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change

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Chris Janousek @janousekwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...

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Support Sea Grant Funding – Sea Grant Association

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains. And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Commerce's budget justification for NOAA is up on its site now, if you want to infuriated www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

When I started grad school three decades ago, we thought climate change was a future problem. Now it’s clear that the future is here. Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.

A bar graph depicting temperature change globally from 1850 to 2024, relative to the average from 1961-2010. The graph shows fluctuations in temperature before the 1980s, with colors ranging from deep blue (cooler temperatures) to red (warmer temperatures), with a rapid increase in temperature in the last 40 years.

#ShowYourStripes

https://showyourstripes.info/

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 31/05/2025

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Scott F. Jones, PhD @ecophiliajones.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Quite dry in NE Florida lately, but the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is going off! Lovely to see these shrubs loaded with swallowtails and other butterflies while doing freshwater wetlands fieldwork on a salinity intrusion project at the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas NERR

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Photo of a flowering buttonbush shrub, with three spherical white inflorescences with large green leaves as the background

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Do this today, please!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/05/2025

The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education. As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society. In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:

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Silenced Science Stories

Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

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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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

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Scott F. Jones, PhD @ecophiliajones.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Fieldwork brings me joy and a mental break from <waves hands> Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!

Red mangrove in a salt marsh with two people in background

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

US based scientists are not ok.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/04/2025

"To envision the disastrous impact of this plan, one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without it." "Now is the time to reach out to your elected representatives." "Stand Up for NOAA Research" - @nwas.org and @ametsoc.org statement

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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

You recently obtained a Ph.D. or are currently a postdoc, do not live in Canada but are looking to move to Canada? You are interested in watershed-scale carbon storage and transport? There is an oportunity to apply for a 3-year PDF fellowship in my institution (Université de Montréal), get in touch!

Calm lake surrounded by hills. The sky is blue, with a few clouds, and is reflected on the lake surface. The soft light indicates that it is likely the end of a nice summer day. How much carbon is stored in such a landscape?

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Like obviously there's a wide range of how autism impacts folks but also I'm autistic and a whole-ass college professor with a PhD, wtaf is this human carbuncle talking about.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 02/04/2025

So it's autism awareness month. Personally, I hate that. We're aware of autism. Being aware doesn't change the stigma. It should be autism acceptance month instead. We're not a problem to be aware of, we're humans who need to be accepted. Especially now as the anti vaccine rhetoric escalates.

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

Digital drawing of The trans flag as painted stripes.

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Silvia Ramundo @sramundo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

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Senior Group Leader Position

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 26/03/2025

🔬Science must remain free from political interference. As Editors-in-Chief of AGU Publications, we reaffirm our commitment to rigorous, independent, and inclusive Earth and space science research. A diverse scientific community strengthens discovery and solutions for society.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.” New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes” Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes

Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view

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