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Grace Wilkinson

@goodgracious23.bsky.social
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Limnologist | Ecosystem Ecologist | UW–Madison | attempting carcinisation 🦀

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Steve Carpenter @steve-carpenter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Restoration of shallow-lake ecosystem by carp removal: benefits are stable for 17 years so far, and counting. ECOSYSTEMS doi.org/10.1007/s100... @hildug.bsky.social @goodgracious23.bsky.social @monicagturner.bsky.social
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Long-Term Stability of Macrophyte Dominance Triggered by Common Carp Removal from a Temperate Shallow Lake - Ecosystems
Many ecosystems can abruptly shift between states, and shallow lakes are a classic example. Biomanipulation via the removal of benthivores can shift a shallow lake from a turbid to a clear-water macro...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read. And that's saying a lot. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Interested in managing graduate ecology programs and supporting excellent students? Come join us in the Dept. of Integrative Biology at @uwmadscience.bsky.social Apply by August 10. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/graduat...
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Graduate Program Manager - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Don't Hesitate (poem by Mary Oliver)
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate
Give in to it
There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be
We are not wise, and not very often kind
And much can never be redeemed
Still, life has some possibility left in it
Perhaps this is the way of fighting back, that sometimes, something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. 
It could be anything but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins
Anyway, that's often the case
Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of it's plenty
Joy is not made to be a crumb.
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
US based scientists are not ok.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
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Research.gov - Homepage
Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon...
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Writing about this right now, just need to scream. "Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans" www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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Updates on NSF Priorities
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.
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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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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin
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Judge says UW-Madison international student with terminated visa can't be deported for now
A federal judge barred the government from taking any action against a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering student from India.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/04/2025
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years. You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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Duncan da Husky @duncandahusky.wolfhusky.org · 09/03/2025
Sidenote, because I love this story: #igivearod was started by #uglydogs, fans of musher @blairbraverman.bsky.social. She was racing across the Alaska interior and had no idea people were raising money while anxiously following her progress. When word filtered back to her it was pretty damn great.
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Braverman said she had no idea about the Ugly Dogs’ fundraising efforts until she reached Anvik on March 10, about 512 miles into the race. A volunteer told her the Ugly Dogs had raised roughly $40,000 for Alaska schools by that point.

“My jaw just dropped,” Braverman said in an interview Tuesday. “I had just done this incredibly hard run and I was about to keep going and I just happy cried all the way to the next checkpoint.”

At that next checkpoint, in Grayling, Dunton was waiting. The teacher said she ran over to Braverman and hugged her.

“I said, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,’” Dunton said.

About the Igivearod, she said: "It’s pretty darn wonderful.”

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    A few hundred miles into the race, teachers started hugging me in villages. “We haven’t been able to buy new glue sticks in six months, but now my classroom will have a garden and a project to get girls into engineering!” one woman told me. I happy cried all the way up the Yukon. https://t.co/q3jggsswpF
    — Blair Braverman (@BlairBraverman) March 17, 2019
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My understanding of the Democratic Party
A still from the TV show the good place captioned "The Titanic is sinking, and they're writing a strongly worded letter to the iceberg"
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Two of my grad students have recently received reviews on papers submitted to society journals. In both instances the reviews are exceptional-fair, critical, and with the intent to help us improve the paper. I'm thankful for the editors and reviewers that make our society journals excellent
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Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Congratulations to Mike ! A true leader.
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Ankur Desai @profdesai.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Good to scream a little about all going on in our country, even in subzero F wind chills here in snow-covered Madison WI. Maybe a few in the halls of power will hear and act on how cruel, unAmerican, and doing nothing about “efficiency” this is all about. #FiftyFiftyOne
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Kaia @kbhenrickson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit civil rights activist, today and her powerful words: "Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve."
Black and white photo of Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights leader, with dark hair wearing a flowered shirt.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
All day I’ve been thinking I needed to say two things more clearly: 1) we cannot just #scicomm our way out of this (borrowing @jbyoder.org’s pithy phrasing) It’s gone too far, public opinion is less consequential than we hope, and our focus is better spent on immediate, concrete community care
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is what care and leadership looks like in practice. I have other friends who stock food pantries for their departments. We need a lot more people in academia to get a lot better at mutual aid & organizing really fast. My big ask: follow the lead of those with experience doing this
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"[Nonviolent resistance] does not mean meek submission to the will of the evildoer, but it means the pitting of one's whole soul against the will of the tyrant." Gandhi
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Caring about or working in science right now is all about answering questions: can we keep going? How do we keep going? Sometimes our answers need to take the form of speeches. Instead of certainty and details, we are being asked for direction. For comfort. For courage. For hope.
(on left of image) WHAT TO SAY WHEN... everything is on fire. (on right of image, a poem by Nikita Gil. "Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things / and trying to make life worth living, / and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, / but I believe in that."
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My editorial on the indirect cuts. This is an opportunity for campuses to come together to make the case for higher education. Leaders need to step up and ask for support and lead. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A direct hit
Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...
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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 06/02/2025
ASLO comments on the recent executive orders in the United States. Read our full statement here: www.aslo.org/aslo-comment...
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ASLO Comments on Recent Executive Orders in the United States - ASLO
As an international professional society for the aquatic sciences, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) is deeply concerned by recent executive orders issued by the ne...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This list is very similar to the appendix of this report from Sen. Ted Cruz titled "How the Biden-Harris NSF politicized science" released last October. www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/01/2025
Deleted, reposting to clarify: the NSF statement does not define "DEIA", I haven't used that term in the proposal for my current NSF project. I could guess what it means, but that's not my job. I would need to know what specific activities I'm not allowed to do before I change any plans.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reminder that it’s the same program officers, same reviewers, same values, norms, and priorities. We still are our community no matter what they tell us who to exclude. We can still prioritize diversity, inclusion, equity, and access.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just got confirmation from NSF that all review panel meetings scheduled for this week are canceled and will be rescheduled. Story coming.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Went ice skating for the first time in 10+ years on beautiful Lake Mendota. Only fell once!
A women on skates on a frozen lake
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/01/2025
i am not sure there is a framework yet for saying: yes, i saw that too. the news will deny it and the fascists will deny it but we know what we saw. we know what it meant. so sometimes people fall back on the language of shock and outrage.
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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Climate change is horrible for many life and livelihood threatening reasons. But today's uniquely crappy reason for me is that there are mosquitoes in my house in December. In Wisconsin.
Mosquito on beige wall
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Elvira de Eyto @edeeyto.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New paper with our GLEON collegues, @gleonetwork.bsky.social led by @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social Controls on Lake Pelagic Primary Productivity: Formalizing the Nutrient‐Color Paradigm 😀💚💦🌍
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