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Hannah Frank

@hannaherf.bsky.social
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#ActOnClimate. Sustainable agriculture. Mycorrhizae. Vineyard soils. PhD student Cornell horticulture. (she/her/they) 🏳️‍🌈

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
“I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all, the students in the room felt like our lives were threatened. We did not feel like we were going to make it out of that room alive,” Samuel Scarborough, senior adviser for the Black Student Movement, said.”
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Black student organizations targeted in racially motivated attack at campus watch party
The individual, detained by UNC Police, entered a Greenlaw Hall classroom Monday night with an aerosol can and lighter. He communicated racially charged threats and threw items at students before flee...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “We’re seeing the largest attack on Black political representation since the end of Reconstruction— this election is about which direction we head as a country: towards this New Confederacy… or a multiracial democracy.”
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
10/10 recommend working with @jpflores.rbind.io if you wanna make science better.
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the #platforms out there for #collabs and #teamwork? Well I have no solutions. But I do have curiosity! So I made a survey! #adhd (it’s anonymous) forms.gle/VSRog41aemrZ...
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Are you overwhelmed?
Do you have a communication/collaboration platform that works for you or are you just completely overwhelmed?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026
Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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No One Is Coming to Save Us
The realization can either break you or liberate you.
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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 15/01/2026
SPUN and NYU Law’s More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program have partnered on a new initiative to support SPUN’s Underground Explorers grantees in advocating for mycorrhizal fungal communities across Earth's ecosystems. 🔗 Find out more about the Underground Advocates Program: buff.ly/KhbJmvS
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Very serious question: could AI data centers become supercharged hog farms (or insert NIMBY project)? Have the majority of victories against them been by communities with the resources to fight and will that only drive these companies to build in places without as many resources to block them?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/03/2026
At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything
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At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything
Since the US has no federal mandate for hearing aid coverage, I found myself in a quandary – I couldn’t communicate with the hearing or the deaf
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!
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Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn
Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy @snapcoalition.org · 03/02/2026
Come see us at Booth 605 at @aaas.org Conference Feb. 12-14 in #Phoenix, AZ! #EarlyCareerResearchers @disha-patel3.bsky.social @dboufidis.bsky.social @jolybdenum.bsky.social @eselland.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social #AAASmtg #AAAS2026
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Of course also huge thanks to @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @bdavisbio.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social & all others who helped!
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Read what Emma said. I’m not even going to try and summarize my thoughts because she does it so well.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Another casualty of the war our govt is waging against itself. Already lost 117 filled positions + 57 open positions, then another 60 to be announced this week. Shaved ad'tl $ by cutting future "grad employees" ie slots for doctoral students to do research/teach www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
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University of Oregon announces 60 staff cuts, no layoffs for tenured faculty
The cuts did not eliminate any programs and delivered a softer blow than campus unions expected.
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time. Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help. blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Before Trump, the review process was based on merit & impact. Now, it’s like rolling the dice because a Doge person has the final say...There has never in the history of NSF been anything like this. It’s disgusting what we’re being instructed to do.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Interestingly the original 'tree huggers' weren't about intimacy with nature as such They were rural women defending the forests that supported their livelihoods from loggers, after gov sold their forests to cricket bat manufacturers and lured the men away to a meeting
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How a tree-hugging protest transformed Indian environmentalism
Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/06/2025
Whoopsie!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Why is the US aggressively defunding agricultural research that could address some of these challenges???
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/06/2025
Netanyahu was wrong in 2002. He Is wrong now.
In 2002, in testimony to Congress urging the United States to go to war in Iraq, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated: “There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking… nuclear weapons…. If you take out Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations.”  

Netanyahu was wrong. Very wrong. The war in Iraq resulted in 4,492 U.S. military deaths, over 32,000 wounded, and a cost of roughly three trillion dollars. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis also died as a result of that tragic war. Netanyahu was wrong regarding the war in Iraq. He is wrong now. We must not get involved in Netanyahu’s war against Iran.
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Emma Scales @emmascales.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What a week!!! First @nytimes.com, and now we are so honored to have the McClintock Letters initiative featured in @science.org ! Let’s keep the ball rolling on public-facing sci comm :) www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Except now we all know they know it’s wrong… @ufw.bsky.social
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Research! by ji @argmax.com · 16/06/2025
HT @cornellasap.bsky.social "Ms. Morrow...is one of hundreds of people who wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign...by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...
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To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Early career scientists! And graduate students, technicians, aspiring, etc. Want to be focusing on your work but distracted by the fact that your work is being defunded? Sign this letter! @silencedscience.bsky.social @science.org @scinews.bsky.social @nature.com docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@altnih4science.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#McClintockLetters wouldn't be possible without @snapcoalition.bsky.social members such as ASAP leadership @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "
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Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research
A Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I cannot claim I work in agricultural research to help farmers without also speaking out when farm workers are under attack. In case your humanity doesn’t convince you, shortage of labor is one of the biggest challenges for many growers. @altusda.altgov.info
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The wonders of fungal taxonomy never cease to amaze me. #mycology
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
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mjarnett.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle.... Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
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Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#DefendResearch
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This workshop was magical and it made me a little teary to see so many scientists come together to advocate for the future of research here in the US 🥹 if you haven't signed up to write a McClintock Letter yet, do itttt: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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McClintock Letter Sign-Up
Thank you for contributing a McClintock Letter to your hometown newspaper! Sign up now by answering the questions below, thus counting you as a participant. Please submit your letters for JUNE 16TH pu...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Heck yes! Let's do it @emmascales.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social @bdavisbio.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @eselland.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social
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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Share your science story!✍️ Join the McClintock Letters Initiative to write op-eds for your hometown newspaper, explaining the importance of your research and why science matters Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Tristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Mining, including the extraction of transition minerals, leads every sector in attacks on environmental & human rights defenders. 40% of those killed were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. grist.org/indigenous/i...
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Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals
The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
They’re trying to quietly eliminate Hatch Act funding for agricultural schools???? @altusda.altgov.info @aaas.org @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social
FY 2026 USDA proposed budget summary
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...
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Scientists protest White House plan to put political appointees in charge of grant-making
Trump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees.
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lucky we’ve got a good #scicomm community here addressing the challenges science is facing. Shout out to @comscicon.bsky.social @aaas.org @ravenscimaven.bsky.social and all the other sources of wisdom that have helped me develop my science storytelling!
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Science activism from scientists and state level actions to bolster science in the face of Trump administration attacks are taking off! daniels-newsletter-42563f.beehiiv.com/p/science-ac...
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Science Activism Surges!
An overview of some grass roots (by scientists) activism and proposed (California) legislation
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Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“No one was harmed by [her] participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric” (of transphobes)
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American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 16/05/2025
Federal R&D has shown to provide a return on investment that eventually leads to economic growth. Yet, the PBR proposes steep cuts. AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh told @NPR.org these proposals "will slash science at every university and laboratory in the U.S."
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Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
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