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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Time to post more lichens. 1. Ramalina dilacerata 2. Tuckermanopsis platyphylla 3. Vulpicida canadensis 4. Ramalina farinacea (I believe) All near Spring Lake Road, 100 Mile House, BC. 🌿
Pale lichen with lots of forking spindly lobes and alien-looking apothecia disks. Wrinkly leaflike lichen thallus with a few apothecia on a stick.Bright yellow crinkled lichen with scattered dark spots. On branch.Lichen with long, flat, stringy, bumpy lobes.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14/06/2025
I don't know if this needs to be said or not but "elected official assassinated in their home" is simply not a thing that happens in this country. 1825, 1889, 1893, 1973. Those are all the ones I can find, ever, before today.
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Unfriendly Black²feet Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī @pandabbadon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When Archduke Ferdinand got assassinated, nobody was like “oh shit, it’s WWI now” when the Germans first invaded Poland nobody was like “fuck, WWI sequel already?!” Shit just felt like chaos and the clarity of hindsight let us put more solid dates around the start of things… 1/2
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Back in the vert paleo archives today, and uncovered this little gem set to Battle Hymn of the Republic "Mine eyes have seen the splitting of the genus I adore, It's been slyly subdivided into families galore And with every publication comes another genus more! The names go rolling on!"
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/06/2025
1. Trans troops are now being separated from their jobs, and we have learned what discharge code they are being given: "JDK," a code that was used to remove communists and gay people, and can be seen as a "black mark" on their service. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Troops Given A Black Mark Discharge Code Under Military Ban
“This is the kind of code that they gave to homosexuals and communists in the '50s.”
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
After spending decades *accusing* Black women of having babies to get payments from the government, they want to encourage white women to have babies to get payments from the government.
New York Post headline says: Trump mulls $5K 'baby bonus' for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report
By Isabel Keane
Published April 22, 2025, 8:57 a.m. ET
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's site is down at the moment. Every time a gov site goes down now it's like 10 percent chance of planned maintenance, 80 percent chance they canceled the wrong contract or otherwise screwed something up, and 10 percent chance they killed it forever.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Hegseth’s disastrous run at the Pentagon is entirely predictable, the natural result of elevating a co-host of Fox & Friends’ weekend edition to sixth in the line of succession because the president liked his Fox News hits." sixth in the line of succession what the fuck
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
NSF says investigators can no longer propose to expand participation in STEM for women and underrepresented groups, and are terminating awards on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation. Make science all white and male again!
nsf.gov
Updates on NSF Priorities
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Deke Arndt @deke-arndt.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you're an NSF grantee who receives notice of cancellation per today's announcement, please get in touch here or via Signal mzahneis.09.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“The National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Not anymore. Today NSF announced such efforts “are no longer aligned with its priorities”
science.org
NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 Want to pursue a PhD in a science-friendly country? Univ. of Aukland is seeking a grad student to advance coastal seabed restoration. Tuition fees, research costs, & a tax-free annual stipend of NZ$34,569.  Contact & application details in 🧵 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌱🌊🎓 #GenerationRestoration
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/03/2025
we are living under fascism right now
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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A chocolate bunny in a box at the store. It looks out upon us with distress in its eyes.A closer view of bunny's face, showing the horrors he has seen
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It is #TaxonomistAppreciationDay today! A big day for Carl Linnaeus, who we happen to care about (just a little.) 100 years before Darwin's evolutionary theory was published, Linnaeus was classifying animals based on shared traits. He created #SystemaNaturae in 1735, and we still use it to this day!
Systema Naturae, a double page spread chart, tightly packed with names of animal species. It is split into Quadrapedia, Aves, Amphibia, Pieces, Insecta and Vermes.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Ridiculous, disgusting, and dangerous But it doesn't surprise me. Haircuts matter-- they're as anxiety-inducing to me as dentist visits are to family, because it's so hard to convince hair stylists that I should be allowed to have a gender nonconforming cut ("but it would be prettier if...")
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You're absolutely right, I will watch
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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
look at this guy Black-headed Gull, Kensington Gardens, London March 2025 🪶
A front-facing Black-headed Gull perched on a wooden post on the Long Water in Kensington Gardens. The birds white-ringed eyes give them a cartoonish appearance.
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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
floor plan of my new house
diagram of a bark beetle gallery
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Laura Naslund @laura-naslund.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Failed my goal to make it through the work week without crying for the 8th time
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/03/2025
NEW REPORT: Our latest analysis links nearly one-third of sea level rise today to emissions from 122 fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers—and shows these emissions have guaranteed additional sea level rise for years to come.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
freedom.press
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.
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Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth
The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.
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RevivalCare 🇨🇦 @revivalcare.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data" — Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg Source: t.co/4hMH5o9iGb
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech bsky.app/profile/need...
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is your annual reminder that you should visit your older relatives and help them clean out their pantries. Botulism express over here 😬
A puffed up can of expired fruit cocktail. This WILL kill you, and it will hurt the whole time.An unspeakable black growth emerging from an expired exploded can of mandarin oranges.Big pile of cans to be thrown out.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s.

The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession.

Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. 

Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.
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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The gremlins
Black bunny laying on a blanket Grey bunny sitting on a grey mat
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far once and they cut all their heads off and now, when those in power fuck workers over, the French stop working. Don’t forget your real power Americans. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is why so many Jews are skeptical of the national GOP claim of support — it rings hollow & opportunistic. Vance visits a Nazi concentration camp, lays a wreath at a statue stating “Never Again,” calls it an “unspeakable evil,” & then promptly meets with & promotes a German Nazi-aligned party.
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech (Gift Article)
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There’s a real chance that we staring down a new pandemic in the form of bird flu. It could never happen or happen in the coming months. And we are in the process of decimating our core national public health and infectious disease service.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In case you doubted how much of a dictatorship we're living under
WV Legislature proposing to rename Spruce Knob, the tallest mountain in WV, as Trump Mountain
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 14/02/2025
Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪
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2/14/2025: A message from the NAAE about the mass termination notices – National Association of Agriculture Employees | NAAE
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/02/2025
This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.
The White House: (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".
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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!
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