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"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Appreciate this Code Switch episode about public schools & the decision that Black (& Indigenous & etc) make: do I put my kid in a predominantly white school where they will get a better education but be the "only", or in a "bad" school with others who look like them? www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...

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Let’s stop pretending we desegregated schools : Code Switch

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, Black parents still face an impossible choice about where to send their kids. Gene talks with his twin sister about the different choices they’ve made ...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...

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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections

Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

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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Michael Meyer @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our @aslo.org #LOBulletin ms about our ASLO-SIL workshop is live! We talked about all the ways we harmonize in situ data, and what the emerging challenges for these efforts are. Looking forward to continuing these discussions in Puerto Rico in Feb 27! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Harmonizing Distributed Data in Aquatic Sciences: Key Takeaways from the 2026 <fc>ASLO</fc>‐<fc>SIL</fc> Workshop

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NYT Op-ed: "Each has its own voice. A peat swamp in Brunei, on the island of Borneo, hums with insects, birds and frogs, the sound crescendoing to a peak every few minutes like a wild orchestra." We should all listen to the boglands. From www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 01/10/2026

When wildfires burn in cities, metals in the smoke, ash, soil, and debris pose a health risk. People living in the footprint of the 2023 Maui fire had 40 times more antimony and 2.2 times more arsenic in their urine than reference levels. In PNAS: ow.ly/AML150ZTyNv

Devastation in Lahaina, Maui, after the August 2023 wildfires.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hope another lesson learned from the Cornell case is that college students can’t just “go to the police.” A lot of public and elite private universities have their own police departments with exclusive jurisdiction over their campus. So going to the police still means reporting to your school.

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...

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3 PhD positions in the fields of Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genomics, and Ecosystem Science

The Department of Fish Ecology & Evolution (FishEc) has vacancies for

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Erin Hotchkiss @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New co-authored paper led by Jasmine Krause @hydrojaz.bsky.social! "A systematic review of the methods & magnitudes of dissolved #oxygen exchanges in streams and rivers" www.frontiersin.org/journals/wat... @wardhydro.bsky.social #WaDESFA 💧🌎🧪👩‍🔬

Image showing the relative magnitudes and ranges of whole-stream O2 fluxes (gross primary production & ecosystem respiration), water column O2 production & respiration, benthic O2 production & respiration, hyporheic O2 respiration & sediment O2 demand, and air-water gas exchange velocities. Water column fluxes are typically lower than whole-stream, benthic, or hyporheic fluxes (but [not shown in graph] rarely measured in the same time and place).

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Annual re-creation of the 1912 Bucknell botany class photo at the “Gundy’s Farm” cliff site, where our students have been visiting the same Heuchera population for at least 120 years. #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell

comparison group photos from 1912 and 2026

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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 01/10/2026

📢 ASLO is hiring a new Executive Director! Help advance ASLO’s publications, conferences, partnerships, and professional development for a global community of scientists. Read more here: www.aslo.org/call-for-app...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1) yes to all of this and 2) when you take an orbital view of these cases, you can also compare what happens when the women involved DO do everything "right"

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A planktic melange from the Gulf of Maine featuring juicy diatom chains from 100m depth waters.

A microscope image of a bunch of diatoms from a plankton tow in the Gulf of Maine

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A fall Purkinje neuron on the back of a tortoise. #sciart

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking for life sciences 🧪 faculty/staff/trainers who want science communication to be more valued w/in academia We built an NSF-funded coaching program to help you w/ #SciComm in job & award apps, promotion materials, curriculum proposals, etc. We want to help you get more respect, credit, & pay

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 29/09/2026

Applications are now open for the UC President's Postdoc Fellowship Reach out if you want to submit an applicaiton focused on environmental/soil sciences, biogeochemistry, climate change, & related areas As a former fellow, this is a program I highly recommend 4 ECRs interested in academic careers

screenshot of the call for applications for the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're providing multiple $5k awards for invertebrate conservation research! 🦋 xerces.org/dewind - work with a clear connection to butterfly & moth conservation 🪲 xerces.org/bandrosky - work directly relevant to ANY invert in decline 🧑🏽‍🔬 Eligibility: Current grad or undergrad student 🗓 Deadline: Dec 1

“Applications are Open for Xerces’ 2027 Student Research Awards. Apply by December 1”. University of California Davis Students conduct plant pollinator interaction research on a native plant.

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JGR: Biogeosciences @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Automated Daily Measurements of Soil Pore Space CO2 and O2: Signals Revealing Soil Physical and Biogeochemical Processes agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Society for Freshwater Science @freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re thrilled to announce the Society for Freshwater Science 2027 Annual Meeting! 💡Navigating Braided Waters: Past, Present, Future 📍 Omaha, Nebraska 📆 May 23-27, 2027 Explore our meeting website for program details, travel, accommodations, field trips & more: 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org

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SFS 2027 Annual Meeting

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who, who could have foretold this?

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists have always been the MVPs. They have skill, tenacity, and, crucially, integrity.

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Virginia Tech has TWO Assistant/Associate Professor positions open in the Department of Biological Sciences targeting fungal and bacterial molecular biologists. Join some great fungal biologists @mycorican.bsky.social and Kirsten Nielsen! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dam removal has proven time after time that rivers—and the living creatures they suport—rebound rapidly when they’re allowed to flow free again. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...

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Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath River Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article)

The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A good look at the consequences of using AI to generate art, and insights as to how humans actually do it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Protists deserve the spotlight and so do scientists! This was such an honor but mostly, this project reminded me why I have the best job and friends/colleagues in the world! 🔬

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Erin Hotchkiss @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enjoyed getting lost in garden details for a bit this morning. Trying to take it all in as the mornings get cooler.... 🌱

Dark pink beautyberry clusters ripen along a branch with green leaves still attached

A bumblebee feeds upside down from one of the few small purple anise hyssop flowers that's still in bloom

Small drops of morning dew speckle a yellow-collared scape moth and a cluster of blue mistflowers (that the moth is sitting on)

Six dark blue, ripe berries hang among mostly empty stems on the underside of a Solomon's seal plant with large, green leaves

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“As of May 2026, the C.D.C. had 30 percent fewer employees than it did before the layoffs…Interviews with more than 30 current & former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs”

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Sept 25 (Year 2, Week 39) - Justice Dept drops 50+ longstanding school desegregation cases - no new NIH EO (but threat isn’t past) - $1B in new pocket rescission & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 39

Sept 19-25 – digging in

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Society for Freshwater Science @freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The SFS Urban Chapter invites paper submissions to two special collections inspired by the Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (SUSE) and SFS meetings held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in May 2025. (1/3)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026

The SCOTUS decision increases the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as noncitizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls.

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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship

While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

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