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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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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another Nobel Prize for 7 transmembrane receptors!!
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This has to be a joke post, right?
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👏👏👏
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can NOT wait
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
Why is Title IX?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish
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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 · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I feel sorry for the poor plants we generate 😢
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonderful piece
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"livin' the dream" delivered with sardonic smile
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah no kidding 🥴
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
congratulations!!!
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
😂 thank you for this
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OMG
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @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 Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I think you *should* be precious about it! Being a scientist and running a research lab is special and I love how hard you are fighting for it. I miss it every day and often wonder if I did the right thing.
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm in this post and I don't like it 🙃 "acknowledging that my approach to research may not align with future funding" is something I had to do a few years ago and it sucked
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Will you see the Great Sand Dunes Nat'l Park? Not sure what flowers will be there this late, but it's a beautiful place.
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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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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
incredible to think about what certain non-governmental scientific foundations could have done if they'd chosen to
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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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