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Liz Schultheis

@eschultheis.bsky.social
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Co-founder of Data Nuggets & Education & Outreach Coordinator for KBS LTER. Helps scientists share their stories and research with broad audiences to promote scientific and data literacy.

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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Education & Outreach Coordinator, Liz Schultheis, awarded Sound Science Fellowship from @ncse.bsky.social. Fellows will enhance K-12 education by identifying and resolving common misconceptions and conduct research to develop best practices for science education. ncse.ngo/ncse-welcome...
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NCSE welcomes second cohort of Sound Science Fellows | National Center for Science Education
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It is that time of year! Registration is open for Underground Innovations, hosted by MiAA and the @kbslter.bsky.social! This winter meeting for innovative farmers, agricultural and environmental professionals, and more! Join us in Frankenmuth from Feb 4-5, 2026! lter.kbs.msu.edu/2025/12/unde...
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8th Annual Underground Innovations to expand regenerative farmer networks in Michigan | KBS LTER
Hickory Corners, MI – Registration is now open for the 8th annual Underground Innovations winter meeting for innovative farmers, agricultural and environmental professionals, and others.
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Marika Jaeger will join us at the end of this week as this year's joint KBS LTER + LTAR Artist in Residence! Marika is a painter and scientist whose work highlights themes related to endangered species, climate change, and social-ecological systems.
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research lternet.edu/stories/list...
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Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research - LTER
The goal of the KBS LTER Listening Session was to understand where gaps between research and implementation occur and how they might work together to support farmers.
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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Day 2 of our Walder Foundation and NSF sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was also a big success! We had preservice, middle, and high school teachers from throughout Chicago and from several other states. Huge thank you to @eschultheis.bsky.social @kjelvikm.bsky.social and Sam.
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are excited to announce our second Artist in Residence, Dr. Blaire Morseau, visiting @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social in June. Blaire is a beadwork artist & Assistant Professor in Dept. of Religious Studies & affiliate faculty in American Indian & Religious Studies at @michiganstateu.bsky.social.
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We’re so excited to be in Chicago this week to present Data Nuggets to a group of preservice, middle, and high school teachers! Thanks to Mike @mikegrillo.bsky.social and Lara at @loyolachicago.bsky.social for being such amazing hosts!
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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Day 1 of our Walder Foundation sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was a big success! Scientists from Loyola, the Field Museum and Chicago State built new Data Nuggets on prairie restoration, Anolis lizards, plant microbiomes, and endangered mice..and we caught a Cubs game!
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Welcome to our first @kbslter.bsky.social Artist in Residence for summer 2025 - Mikayla Thompson! Mikayla is with us at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social this week. Mikayla explores grief, love, and joy through her poetry depicting relationships between herself, her loved ones, and the natural world.
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New DN! Caro analyzed data from a 30-year experiment to compare ag practices to see which ones increase soil carbon. Her work helps identify how to benefit both farmers and the planet. #EarthDay #edusky #DNOTW 🧪 @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social datanuggets.org/farms-in-the...
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Farms in the fight against climate change ‣ Data Nuggets
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 4 Grading Rubric Carbon, when it is f...
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Want to learn more about Digital Data Nuggets on @dataclassroom.bsky.social? Check out this past webinar where we introduce the two programs and our collaboration! about.dataclassroom.com/real-data-re...
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Past Workshop: Data Nuggets Workshop — DataClassroom
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Education & Outreach Coordinator for the @kbslter.bsky.social, @eschultheis.bsky.social, spoke on #prairiestrips at Cultivating Resilience with a panel of MiSTRIPS farmers and collaborator Kathryn Docherty. If you missed the event, recordings are now live! youtu.be/RNOFdr5uvi0?...
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MiSTRIPS - Michigan Prairie Strips, Research and Implementation - Cultivating Resilience 2025
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Liz Schultheis @eschultheis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Knew it was coming but it still makes me mad. On Friday DOGE terminated our NSF grant supporting @datanuggets.bsky.social and an amazing collaboration to help encourage more students to pursue STEM careers. That’s $1M that would have went towards jobs, educators, and teaching kids data literacy.
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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%." Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 27/04/2025
We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New study in JAMA. Modelling shows that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again in the USA. If rates continue to decline, ditto for rubella, poliomyelitis and diphtheria, leading to many preventable hospitalisations and deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US
This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
55% Fifty-five. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin
The director did not state a reason for the resignation.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Statement of NSF priorities April 18, 2025 

NSF priorities are grounded in the mission of the agency and modulated by statutory directives and administration priorities. NSF uses two statutory criteria to ensure that every award has the potential to advance new knowledge (Intellectual Merit) with maximum impact on the Nation and its people (Broader Impacts). NSF investments unleash groundbreaking discoveries, translational solutions and expand participation in STEM. These efforts strengthen our domestic workforce to fuel economic prosperity, national security, and global S&E competitiveness. The principles of merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence are the bedrock of the NSF mission. NSF continues to review all projects using Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria. NSF's broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere. These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities. NSF will continue to support research with the goal of understanding or addressing participation in STEM, in accordance with all applicable statutes and mandates, with the core goal of creating opportunities for all Americans. NSF will continue to support basic and use-inspired research in S&E fields that focus on protected characteristics when doing so is intrinsic to the research question and is aligned with Agency priorities.
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Liz Schultheis @eschultheis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
<Puts on @asn-amnat.bsky.social President's hat> It is my great pleasure to say that the American Society of Naturalists election results are in (and winners notified). Our future council will include: Jen Lau (President 2027) Martha Munoz (Vice President 2027) Stephen Proulx (Treasurer 2026-8)
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Congratulations to our 2025 Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis, for her collection of education resources called Data Nuggets, created together with Dr. Melissa Kjelvik! Learn more here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @datanuggets.bsky.social
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T. H. Huxley Award: Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis
Congratulations to this year’s T. H. Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis ! Dr. Schultheis is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Kellogg Biological Station…
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Opportunities to get involved with @datanuggets.bsky.social for both K-12 teachers and undergraduate instructors! #edusky 🧪 mailchi.mp/4de4911d7ee0...
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Data Nuggets Opportunities - April 2025
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me: What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature? Because that’s what this is.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Worshipping at the altar of bipartisanship—at a time when innocent people are being kidnapped and trafficked to foreign concentration camps, our government is trying to forcibly resegregate society, and our universities are being obliterated of free thought—is morally bankrupt.
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Becky, who studies bluefin killifish, noticed that males found in springs with clear water have red or yellow fins, while males in swamps have blue fins. In this activity, explore data she collected to test the mechanism behind this pattern. #edusky #DNOTW 🧪 datanuggets.org/why-so-blue-1/
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Why so blue? The determinants of color pattern in killifish, Part I ‣ Data Nuggets
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 4 Reading Activity Grading Rubric In ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/04/2025
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
almost 2% of the US population turned out to say HANDS OFF our science, our rights, our social security. Let's keep making #goodtrouble #resist #weeklywrapup 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...
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Good trouble in our weekly wrap up — 500 Women Scientists
Photo by Barbara Burgess on Unsplash Last week, US Senator Cory Booker held the Senate floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes, kicking off his marathon filibuster by saying that he has “ been hearing...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The NYT's Steven Lee Myers and Stuart Thompson describe the machinery of misinformation (or what I prefer to call the "bullshit machine") that Trump and allies exploit to gain, maintain, and justify their power. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...
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Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term
President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Undergrad biology instructors! Want to participate in a paid research study to test the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials? We are looking for you! #edusky 🧪 See more information and apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @cissyballen.bsky.social
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Recruitment instructors_IUSE2.docx
Which elements of scientist role model stories are effective in improving equity and success in undergraduate STEM education? Interested? Fill out this poll! We are searching for undergraduate bio...
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Alexandra Sasha Wright @sashajwright.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'd really like better coverage of protest numbers from yesterday. I'm seeing estimates of 1 to 5 million, but then news headlines that say "thousands protest across America." Please update with your city info if you have a published estimate: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Teaching chemistry and want to dive deeper into plastics? In “Working to reduce the plastics problem,” students learn about research where Nick and a team of undergrads tested biodegradable elastomers. #DNOTW #edusky 🧪 datanuggets.org/working-to-r...
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Working to reduce the plastics problem ‣ Data Nuggets
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Level 3 PowerPoint of images Grading Rubric Plastics are materials that can be shaped easily and are used for many functions. This has ma...
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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump administration pulls nearly $42 million in federal funding from Michigan schools. Michigan’s state school superintendent calls revoked commitment “unacceptable” michiganadvance.com/2025/04/01/t...
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Trump administration pulls nearly $42 million in federal funding from Michigan schools • Michigan Advance
On Friday, March 28, President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent letters to the head education official in each state saying that their schools no longer had one more year to spend...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
NEW: The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards
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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you are looking for ways to bring real research and data into your classroom, we have 140 free resources written by scientists who share their story and experiences in STEM! 🧪 Explore all of our activities here: datanuggets.org/view-in-sear... #edusky #scicomm #dataliteracy #k12
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...
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J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What farming practices build soil carbon? 25 years of data from the @kbslter.bsky.social finds that #covercrops and #notill increase carbon sequestration over time, while conventional agricultural practices do not. More here! lter.kbs.msu.edu/2025/02/long...
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Long-term study reveals best practices for building soil carbon in agricultural soils | KBS LTER
Investigators at the KBS LTER site find differences in soil carbon gain among cover cropped, no-till, and perennial cropping systems after 25-years. Cover cropping found to be a powerful tool for…
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Despite their host of benefits, there is worry that prairie plantings within agricultural landscapes may be exposing native pollinators to harmful insecticides. New research by @kbslter.bsky.social scientists addresses this concern! lter.kbs.msu.edu/2025/02/prai...
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Prairie strips: a refuge in an agricultural desert or an ecological trap for native pollinators? | KBS LTER
Graduate research from the LTER shows that prairie strips planted within agricultural monocrops are not an “ecological trap” for native pollinators – but they also don’t reduce insecticide runoff that...
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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ever want to know what the @kbslter.bsky.social looks like right now? Our Current Weather page can tell you just that! lter.kbs.msu.edu/current-weat...
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CURRENT WEATHER | KBS LTER
Five minute averages from the LTER weather station. Air Temperature: F Precipitation (today): in Precipitation (yesterday): in Precipitation (3 days): in Precipitation (7 days): in Wind Speed 3m (9…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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