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@emsaurios.bsky.social
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ciencia, geography, geoscience, soils, mentoring, equity, social justice, transforming higher ed, (she/her) #Biogeofeminist

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
wired.com
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Preordered!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
A note for the scientists especially: I drafted most of this book before I knew exactly how bad 2025 was going to be (and it's not done yet) but I knew that particle physics and cosmology already needed to make the case to the public. This book does that. 🧪 news.chanda.science/archive/the-...
news.chanda.science
The Edge of Space-Time: PREORDER + COVER REVEAL!
Coming 4/7/2026: The universe, reimagined!
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Here, Vought doesn’t dispute slow-walking release of NIH grants from congressionally appropriated funds so that they can be cancelled in a couple of months through pocket rescission, thereby bypassing congress to enact huge cuts to NIH research.
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Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It is all eugenics because he believes his family is superior and “deserved” that care. But see, when the state serves the public, it serves all, which means people he believes are inferior would benefit. We can’t have that in the racist-ableist belief system that constitutes eugenics.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“The inquiry found that Edinburgh University became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of white supremacism in the 18th and 19th centuries, and who played a pivotal role in the creation of discredited “racial pseudo-sciences” that placed Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy”
theguardian.com
Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds
Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We’re exactly 6 months out from the US launch of THE CROWN’S SILENCE with @marinerbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social —available for pre-order now. I know the world is a mess but at least we have books 📚, & this one is a decade in the making. More here: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Cover of THE CROWN’S SILENCE
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 23/07/2025
Regional experts believe eliminating the Roadless Rule could impact the carbon capturing ability, fire resistance and integrity of Midwest National Forests.
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Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests - Inside Climate News
Regional experts believe eliminating the 2001 rule could impact the carbon capturing ability, fire resistance and integrity of the region’s forests.
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/07/2025
More than 100 scientists who work in Antarctica or care about having a strong U.S. research presence there have signed a letter calling for the U.S. to keep the Palmer in operation. (4/n)
We write as deeply concerned members of the Antarctic research community after learning of the plan, by the National Science Foundation, to terminate the lease of the Research Vessel/ IceBreaker Nathaniel B.
Palmer in October of this year.

The United States Antarctic Program has had at least one dedicated research vessel operating in the Southern Ocean since 1968.
For those nearly six decades, the N.B.
Palmer and its predecessors have supported world-class science that helped grow the U.S.'s standing as a leader of international scientific research. At the same time, these vessels have provided critical logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic scientific bases. Even as automation and remote observations have increased our
observational capabilities in this harsh region of the world, there's no replacement for a dedicated research vessel that can access remote sea ice-covered regions of Antarctica and that allows sampling of theof the world, there's no replacement for a dedicated research vessel that can access remote sea ice-covered regions of Antarctica and that allows sampling of the full depth of the ocean and coastal regions on land.
The early loss of the N.B. Palmer is troubling, especially at a time when other nations, including China, Korea, Japan, Britain, and Australia, among others, are increasing their marine capability for Antarctic waters. This decision forecasts the decline of an exceptional history of U.S. scientific contributions. Maintaining a continued US ship-based presence also has strong, strategic and national security geopolitical implications. Antarctica remains a model for international cooperation and peace, with all activities, marine and terrestrial, south of 60°S governed by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. The treaty, signed by 58 nations, committed all parties to a civilian presence guiding scientific investigation of this remote
and fragile part of the world Today manyTreaty. The treaty, signed by 58 nations, committed all parties to a civilian presence guiding scientific investigation of this remote and fragile part of the world. Today, many nations operate research stations and vessels in the Antarctic. While Antarctica remains remote and a difficult place to access, the modern world allows easier access each year and the number of groups there grows each year, for research, for tourism, for exploitation of fishery stocks, and simply for exerting national presence.

We urge reconsideration of the decision to terminate the lease of the RVIB Nathaniel B.
Palmer, and the continued forward-looking development of the next generation of Antarctic research vessels that will continue US leadership, scientifically and
geopolitically, in the high southern latitudes.

Sincerely,
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A key tactic in an abusive relationship is for the abuser to take things away from you for no reason and then expect you to be grateful to them when they give you back what was always rightfully yours to begin with
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO30219, WDR-00053939 Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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AAU @aau.edu · 10/07/2025
A statement from AAU President Barbara R. Snyder regarding funding levels for NSF and NASA:
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
News from the NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar: If US scientists want to support NSF EAR, they should continue to submit proposals. The number of proposals is an important metric for quantifying need and therefore influencing the budget
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Over the weekend, I interviewed one of the NIH employees who signed this letter (someone other than those quoted in this AP story). We talked about what they're doing and the importance of standing up. It was a moving conversation about risk and responsibility. Stay tuned for my piece on NIH and LA.
apnews.com
NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It's incredible how we've just totally normalized "A bunch of random dudes are bypassing every federal law to plunder the government" & no one seems to care. Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷‍♂️
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is this for real
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Important for understanding US today: The Color of Law- Rothstein (2017) argues that for over a century after the abolition of slavery, federal, state and local government codified - then tolerated - racist segregation in housing, employment, education, income & wealth. www.epi.org/publication/...
Book cover image: The Color of Law book titles in capital bold black letters is superimposed on a background of a map of neighborhoods
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Rita Parai @ritaparai.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:
A screenshot from the proposed NSF budget request showing the number of people involved in NSF activities dropping from 330,100 in FY2024 to 90,000 in FY2026.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 30/05/2025
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!
dogetrack.info
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2025
Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.
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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Navigating ADHD as a scientist: Shared tips and strategies for task and time management, including by volcanologist Lis Gallant (@bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social), whose ADHD is a superpower in the (lava🌋) field. Reporting by @plantnerd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus
Researchers with ADHD discuss its peaks and valleys and how they structure their work lives to succeed.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/05/2025
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
forbes.com
Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Texas legislators just passed a bill that gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
texastribune.org
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill OK’d by House
Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/05/2025
Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
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Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
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Emma Pewsey @emmapewsey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A few countries have laws that allow menstruating employees to take time off to manage their symptoms. While there are potential pitfalls to be wary of, overall I think that menstrual leave should be more widely adopted ⬇️
chemistryworld.com
Time off for menstruation is a good idea. Period.
Menstrual leave can improve working conditions for all employees
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Julia Robinson @robinson-julia.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
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Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
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Neil Withers @neilwithers.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Period products are used by 1.8 billion people around the world every month, but what's in them? Researchers have found a range of concerning trace elements and compounds in them. And how can we make them more sustainable, without impacting those who use them? www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
chemistryworld.com
Managing the menopause
The end of ovulation will affect almost all women, but current treatments could be improved. Rachel Brazil reports on the efforts to find a better solution
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 21/05/2025
Read all the articles in our new special issue here: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/...
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Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in health and drugs, how treatments for menopause are slowly changing and what we're finding out about period products.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 21/05/2025
Before @robinson-julia.bsky.social started working on the cover feature for our new collection on Women's Health, she knew that there were significant gaps in women’s health research. But in her research, she learned 'that the gap is really a chasm.' #ScienceSky #MedSky
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Improving women’s health research will benefit everyone
Fixing the inequality is morally just, and economically sound
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Workplace support for menstruation and menopause www.chemistryworld.com/careers/work...
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Workplace support for menstruation and menopause
The chemical industry and universities are doing more to give chemists what they need to manage their menstrual health
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
12. Trump’s memecoin dinner now confirmed to include mostly non-Americans.Secy of State says it’s not his business what foreigners are on the guest list. His priority is student visa holders who write strong-eds. 13. Trump & Hegseth affirm plan to build anti-ballistic missile “Golden Dome” for $175b
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
10. House holds critical vote on spending bill (Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill) designed to cut SS and Medicaid, muscle educ institutions, cut taxes for the wealthy AT 1AM, so that most won’t see it. 11. Rep. Senators & Gov’s can’t get Trump to provide FEMA funding for folks devastated by tornadoes.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
8. ProPublica report reveals Trump Admin applying “massive pressure” on African nations to compel deals for Elon Musk. 9. DOJ opens investigation into Chicago Mayor’s office based on Mayor’s stated pride in racial diversity of workforce. Threatens investigation of pop stars support for VP Harris.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
…in which he appears not to know peace talks are happening. Shows obsequious support for Putin. 6. IRS Director nominee is confronted with evidence of agreement to provide favors to large donors. 7. DOJ opens investigation into Trump rival running for Mayor of NY, raising possible pressure campaign.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
…write op-Ed’s the Admin doesn’t like. Threatens “we’ll do even more” with cold glee. 4. HHS Secy admits withholding block funding for child care & development. Yells at sitting Senator in hearing. Tells another he didn’t know funding for ALS had been cut. 5. Trump stuns Europeans on phone call..
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
2. Charging sitting congressman woman w/felony assault for attempting to observe ICE facility 3. Secy of Homeland Security reveals she has no idea what habeas corpus is; think it’s another presidential deportation power. 4. The Secy of State stands by his decision to revoke visas for students who
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
'This hollowing out is not just about governance in the abstract, it has material consequences for which research questions get asked, which datasets get produced, which knowledge gets produced [...] It has consequences for the integrity of knowledge itself.' time.com/7285045/resi...
time.com
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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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
TRIO Alumni Protect TRIO Sign-On Letter fs3.formsite.com/coecoecoecoe...
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TRIO Alumni Protect TRIO Sign-On Letter
President Trump’s FY2026 budget proposes eliminating the Federal TRIO Programs, wrongly claiming they’re no longer necessary. TRIO alumni are urgently needed to help #ProtectTRIO by signing a letter t...
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”
cen.acs.org
NSF employees brace for major restructuring
Although paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 14/05/2025
#NIH is still termination grants, zeroing out budgets, and issuing stop-work orders. But they are hiding more and more of it from the public. More than ever we need people to report so researchers can advocate and organize. Please report at grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
👉 Self-reporting your terminated grants is becoming increasingly important — the 'mechanisms' for termination are getting more difficult to track as transparency plummets. Thanks to the folks that dutifully oversee this critical resource for the scientific community.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New Harvard grant terminations in the geosciences (plus others - geosciences are just my jam) are up at grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html. They include work on tracking mercury pollution in the Arctic; the longterm atmospheric impacts of 2022's Tongan eruption; and how earthquakes rupture the ground. ☠️
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Update on NSF grant terminations: NSF staff expect ~200 more terminations tomorrow. Harvard situation still unclear, but could be all 252 active grants. Currently 1464 on grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html, so total could soon be ~1900.
grant-watch.us
nsf-data – Grant Watch
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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.
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