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Jennifer Middleton

@hicestory.bsky.social
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Geochemist & ocean enthusiast. She/her. 🌈🌊

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WBUR @wbur.org · 16/05/2025
The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
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Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research
The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...
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Jennifer Middleton @hicestory.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Apropros of nothing, here is an example of something beautiful & inspiring funded by NSF. Footage like this is what drew me to science in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...
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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/03/2025
This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks
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NSF state cards - Google Drive
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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Hannah Sargeant @drhannahsarge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
For the NASA folks that can't, we will.
A pin with rainbow colors and the NASA swoosh that mimics the one that usually sits behind the NASA logo. There is no NASA text on the pin as it is an un-sanvtioned pin.
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Helen Grimsley @helengrimsley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Some light relief in this chaos. Our piggies demands are only more treats. @hicestory.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Beginning to doubt that wokeness is the biggest threat to higher education
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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This seems truly unprecedented. In my team alone: 10 grad students, multiple undergrads, two ECR researchers, each at risk of job loss & worse ramifications. I hope I am wrong but the trend of government decisions are not suggesting that I am. 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...?
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All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics
The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
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Jennifer Middleton @hicestory.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
2025 is off to a rough start. Before things get worse, please enjoy this photo of our guinea pig in a bee costume. 📷 @helengrimsley.bsky.social
Close up photo of a fluffy guinea pig in a black and white bumble bee costume eating a piece of carrot.
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Jennifer Middleton @hicestory.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hello world! I hear it's better here...
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