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Liz Haswell

@ehaswell.bsky.social
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Writing & Editing @ www.thesustainableprofessor.com 🌱Co-host, The Taproot Podcast 🌱Former midwestern biology professor finding her way as a writer and bon vivant in the PNW 🌱Check out what I'm up to or contact me: elizabethhaswell.carrd.co

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 13h
Why is Title IX?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am pleased to receive the AAB President medal !! Thanks to the amazing people that nominated me and to @blackinplantsci.bsky.social for giving me a pathway to give back to the whole Plant Science community by contributing to the important call for diversity and inclusion #happy
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules: 1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.) 2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NSF employees speaking out: democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apparently the safest place to commit a crime against a woman is a college campus, like tax shelters but for sexual predators?
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A telling quote in this @npr.org analysis: "I think it was clear to just about every observer, left, right, and center, that the NIH of recent decades is a very unhealthy institution and has really desperately needed substantial reform." -Ian Banks, Foundation for American Innovation 🧵
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A beautiful, honest, devastating article. My daughter is the same age as Hannah-Jones’ daughter, and we’ve had related, though significantly smaller (and whiter), experiences with schools in St. Louis and in Portland. The tension between living your values and helping your kid get ahead is real.
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Many of you may have heard the terrible news of Dr. Meng Chen's sudden death. I just found this tribute from UC Riverside cnas.ucr.edu/news/2026/09... and a beautiful review article he contributed to @plantphys.bsky.social earlier this year, "25 years of photobodies" doi.org/10.1093/plph... 💔
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wearing black 🪦
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the record, "fewer larger grants" is the opposite of how to fund good research. Give a bunch of researchers financial stability and basic funding, without wasting their time on increasingly competitive applications and widening the have/have-not gap, and look how far we'll go.
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here is a pretty view
Rock band Sleater-Kinney in concert, three figures on stage with fog and yellow lights
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hug your local Director of Graduate Studies, they are already tired.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
haha what da fuck nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Statem...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The enshittification of the National Science Foundation will go down as one of the greatest moral injuries I've experienced in my career.
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If LLMs are so smart why do they keep falling in love with the dumbest men alive
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/09/2026
professors are workers
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Impressive spin. Duke decides to close its Herbarium and get rid of its collection, initially seeming to think they could SELL it. UNC bids to acquire it, and does a lot of ground work to make that possible. 1/n
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hood to Coast relay: 200 miles, 12 runners, 30 hours, never again
Six tired and dirty runners on the Oregon beach
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...
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Are your plants CAM suspicious?
Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
No one could honestly spend years of their life ensconced in academia and emerge with scathing critiques of Black people and ONLY Black people being unfairly advanced or promoted. To construct such a narrative requires extreme levels of intellectual dishonesty, internalized anti blackness or both.
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
IMHO, this is the only way forward. US scientists must break free of their attachment to individual achievement and personal accolades and start working collectively.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Scientist friends, please read the thread & share your thoughts (Doesn’t have to be public, you know how to reach me!) re:blast radius question, we have a survey out right now trying to get a handle on overall impacts, how close labs are to funding cliff & coping strategies
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ahhh, Oregon
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Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.
Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More than 65,000 people have been displaced by the Spokane Complex Fires — and hundreds have lost their homes. If you have even $5 to go towards short and long term assistance, here's a trusted community source: innovia.org
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Home - Innovia Foundation
Learn how you can bring your whole community together through the power of a shared meal. APPLY FOR A GRANT Find an event What is your America at 250? Join the mosaic, host a meal, share a story, and ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Collette is right on target: Fight back and we can win. Write your Senator now to make sure its included in the final bill
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An inevitable outcome of the "plant intelligence" discourse
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Periodic reminder to use the resources at @unbreaking.org where we are documenting the damage done by the current administration--to medical research funding 🧪 and in so many other areas. We'd love you to join us!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is crucially important.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026
We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Terrible news. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56
The popular singer-songwriter won, with Markéta Irglová, an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the film “Once.”
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/07/2026
Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses
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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.
We are very sorry to share the sad news that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year long battle with esophageal cancer.  Mike was a long-time faculty member in the Plant and Microbiology Department at University of California-Berkeley, a groundbreaking plant geneticist, and an inspiring teacher and mentor to over two dozen Ph.D. students, four dozen postdocs, and countless undergraduates. He was best known for pioneering work on maize anaerobic metabolism and gene regulation, transposon biology, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole-genome duplications in plants. Mike was hired by UC-Berkeley as an assistant professor straight out of graduate school in 1973, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to full professor in 1984. He was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies in 2017. Mike taught genetics, comparative genomics and scientific reasoning to our graduate students, and he also taught a popular genetics course for non-majors that had various titles over the years but was affectionately known as “Genetics for Poets.”  Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and many colleagues.
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's the SSE Presidential Plenary I gave last month I reframe how we define a "weed," share lab research linking herbivory and herbicide resistance across two weed species, and show how the chemical mix in ag fields differentially shapes resistance evolution.
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SSE Presidential Plenary: Lessons from Weeds: Persistence and Resistance in the Anthropocene
YouTube video by Evolution Meetings
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Public research institutions are as vital to the national research enterprise as their billion-dollar–endowed private counterparts...keeping national research efforts strong means supporting all R1 universities...When they falter, there is a ripple effect on everyday lives."
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you are interested in any kind of writing, I strongly recommend the Pt. Townsend Writers' Conference. Even if all you do is sit and look at the water, you'll be inspired (but you'll be at workshops and craft talks and readings, too).
Sunrise over the Puget Sound in peach and orangeThree smiling writer ladiesA tiny dorm room with a view of the sea
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why Christians should care about science denialism When misinformation fuels disease outbreaks and deepens inequality, science denialism becomes more than an intellectual debate. It becomes a social justice issue that Christians cannot ignore, writes Elizabeth Haswell. @ehaswell.bsky.social
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Why Christians should care about science denialism
When misinformation fuels disease outbreaks and deepens inequality, science denialism becomes something Christians need to notice.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The House Select Committee on China is holding a hearing on research security with DOE/NSF/NIH witnesses at 10 a.m. I'll try to follow along and liveblog it here.
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Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterprise
YouTube video by The Select Committee on China
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tell me again that science is not innovating? /s
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Great inspiration from @hormiga.bsky.social. I’m working on mine this weekend. . .
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Submit your OMB comment this weekend.
This one is important. It's due on Monday.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪
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Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87
The late biochemist from Southern Pines transformed agriculture by creating the first genetically modified plants.
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