Reposted by Jenny BurrowDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute. 7241772102
Reposted by Jenny BurrowMatt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I think it's very important for researchers to write to their local newspapers, speak out to local TV/radio, and otherwise make their voices heard. With that in mind, here are some tips for folks who are interested in writing an op-ed piece. 🧵🧪 312862
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6253660911257
Reposted by Jenny BurrowThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked. Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.wapo.stAfter outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving careAfter a medically fragile child’s parole was abruptly revoked, her family was left undocumented and terrified. Two months later, DHS reversed course. 24898952061
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 30/05/2025I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either. 382751911
Reposted by Jenny BurrowOliver 💙 @oliverniko.bsky.social · 24/05/2025It's never too late to mask up with a respirator either. Your health is far more important than social pressure, especially as repeated COVID infections come with more health complications. If you can't afford them, check to see if a mask bloc is near you: maskbloc.orgmaskbloc.orgWorldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask BlocMaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe. 27748
Reposted by Jenny BurrowColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The National Academy of Sciences is a private, non-profit institution. No one made them host a speaker who said that DEI "degrade our scientific enterprise." Would be nice to see some Academy members speak out on this (or what's the point) www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...whitehouse.govRemarks by Director Kratsios at the National Academy of SciencesRemarks by Director Kratsios at the National Academy of Sciences REINVIGORATING AMERICA’S SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Washington, D.C. 2288107
Reposted by Jenny BurrowWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Ripped straight out of Project 2025. Because the Heritage Foundation isn’t about American values or whatever. It’s about shilling for industry and capital. 22298130
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪federalregister.govRescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species ActThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ... 19323264
Reposted by Jenny BurrowChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025This is a warcrime and should be reported as such by news organizations IN THE FUCKING HEADLINE 441573419
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/05/2025“We can’t live with Covid forever! We have to get back to normal” The obsession with “back to normal” is why we’re stuck living with COVID People refused to adapt. We’ve accepted repeat infections as inevitable Clean air, masks in healthcare & paid time off could have given us a safe “new normal” 271035246
Reposted by Jenny BurrowPride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Today marks the beginning of #LesbianVisibilityWeek. In STEM lesbians tends to face more harassment and more professional devaluation compared to straight and even gay male colleagues. Challenging this toxic culture is the collective responsibility of the community! 27416
Reposted by Jenny BurrowAnnie Leonard @annieleonard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Pleased that former PhD student Anna Tatarko's new paper is out! We explore how common agricultural chemicals impact 🌺 (+ 🐝 and 🦠) @funecology.bsky.social @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social Open access here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comImpacts of a fungicide and an insecticide on pollinator visitation and wildflower fitnessRead the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. 0144
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article 7816847422354
Reposted by Jenny BurrowOlivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying. It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive? 14506208
Reposted by Jenny BurrowEntomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Save the native pollinators 314754
Reposted by Jenny BurrowWHO @who.int · 14/03/2025If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date. 5630201062
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Not all resistance has to be boots on the ground. There are small ways we can all resist. Wear a mask Donate to mutual aid Support libraries, food banks & community fridges Fascism thrives when people are misinformed, scared & divided. Being informed, united & helping one another IS resistance 10545211
Reposted by Jenny BurrowHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.orgstandupforscience2025.orgSTAND UP FOR SCIENCEMarch 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone. 6404400112016
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Tonight in Art Therapy with the Plucky Shrimp, we are speaking on behalf of the ocean, and are VERY mad, not only at the evil guys in charge but also at every evil person who enables the evil guys in charge. Every last one. May they know no peace for the rest of their miserable lives. 537756
Reposted by Jenny BurrowOrpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 01/03/2025. You should DEFINITELY NOT go to this site & mess with this DOGE survey by the Heritage Foundation. Definitely do NOT put fake information where they ask for your personal details. That would fuck up all their shit, man. These people are doing SERIOUS WORK. secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...secured.heritage.orgThe Heritage DOGE Survey | The Heritage Foundation 39126491270
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSable Qualls @sableq640.bsky.social · 01/03/2025New Sword Necklaces from yours truly! numetalfairy.etsy.com #upcycled #upcycledjewelry #handmadejewelry #fairycore #disabledartist #disabledsmallbusiness #chronicallyill #spoonie #queerartist #lgbtqia+ 2131
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSable Qualls @sableq640.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Little moon elf 🌛🩷 #upcycled #upcycledjewelry #handmadejewelry #fairycore #disabledartist #disabledsmallbusiness #chronicallyill #spoonie #queerartist #lgbtqia+ 161
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Sad, unacceptable, and DANGEROUS. Massive cuts to NOAA, including the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) are devastating. Among the critical role it serves to the public (as @drkatfish.bsky.social mentions), GLERL was also the site of my Spotted Gar experiments for my PhD. 😢 625194
Reposted by Jenny BurrowBrooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Quote this with ways that instructors/PIs/other advisors can support neurodivergent students Here are mine (thread): Many neurodivergent students need to ask clarifying questions to help them perform a task. They are not doing this because they think you are stupid or don't know what you are doing. 44012
Reposted by Jenny BurrowMissouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 27/02/2025(🧵 1/4) This is Dr. Marie Clark Taylor. Dr. Taylor was the first Black woman to receive a PhD in botany in the United States and the first Black woman to receive a PhD in science from @Fordham.edu in New York. Almost 80 years ago, she collected these fungi specimens found in the Garden’s Herbarium. 16818
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Ontario’s measles outbreaks linked to declining vaccination rates & rising international travel. Folks, get your vaccines. Wear a well fitted respirator. Remember there are people who can’t be vaccinated, most of them babies & very young children plus severely compromised individuals. Do your partctvnews.caOntario reports 78 new measles cases, nearly doubling count in ongoing outbreakOntario is reporting 78 new measles cases over the last two weeks, nearly doubling the province’s total count since an outbreak started in the autumn. 725788
Reposted by Jenny BurrowJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something 451381736
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Whenever you hear of a new measles case, contact tracers invariably list the following as exposure sites: Airports/airplanes ERs and walk in clinics Shopping malls and pharmacies. Getting vaccinated is the best prevention for measles, but wearing a respirator in high risk places helps too! 517962
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan. 100157384160
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The Texas measles outbreak has spread to New Mexico. Reminder that the measles vaccine is incredibly effective IF you get it. Respirators work well too! There’s never been a better time to mask up. My guide to respirators, the fall of public health and how to protect yourself & your community:disabledginger.comWe’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a MaskMeasles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask! 6475192
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Tis the season to take a good look at the White-throated Sparrows in your yard and appreciate how cool their breeding system (four functional sexes instead of two) is: www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...scientificamerican.comThis Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex VariabilityWhite-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes 918766
Reposted by Jenny BurrowErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/02/2025“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased. 146103402213
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/02/2025This weekend's project is brought to you by... A Norovirus Quarantine! Leftover mural paint! aaannnddd Generalized Anxiety! Introducinggg.. The Little Free Science Library! It will be filled with science zines, made by me and the people who sent me their zines to print! And seeds in spring. 2994582
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025They say that all that’s needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. So today, do something. Help a stranger. Buy someone coffee or a meal. Donate to mutual aid. Elevate marginalized voices. Give to a community library or fridge. Learn something. Wear a mask. Practice community care. 217548
Reposted by Jenny BurrowMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth 142246976757
Reposted by Jenny BurrowIT'S PEEWEE @peeweesparty.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Swim into the sky, dive into the sun To show the world how you have won Oh Icarus, darling, I wish you well Heaven on high, fish out of hell Ode to the seadevil anglerfish that swam to the surface and died shortly after. #anglerfish #art #ocean #illustration #minimal #peeweespartyart 1269
Reposted by Jenny BurrowJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16/02/2025There's also the flavor of DEI panic about "gender ideology" capturing universities and thus filling the faculty with radical trans professors. Yeah, you guessed it, in the two semesters since I've started I've had multiple TGNC students tell me I'm the first trans prof they've ever had. 4444
Reposted by Jenny BurrowJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025If you stopped masking, the best time to start again is today. Protect yourself and the vulnerable people in your community. I want y'all to stick around. So be careful. 522890
Reposted by Jenny BurrowKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025A mask is one of the most effective tools of the resistance. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects from Covid, flu, H5N1, TB, measles & more. It sends a strong message to the government that your health is worth protecting & that you will not obey in advance. It makes activism accessible 3370106
Reposted by Jenny BurrowJames Gilbert @jdjgilbert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Excited to share our new preprint, in which we show that mimic hoverflies' flower colour preferences tend to follow those of their models. If the bees you are mimicking prefer visiting blue flowers, then so do you! Comments welcome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (LH image credit: Peter O'Connor) 15614
Reposted by Jenny BurrowSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/02/2025A lovely opportunity to tell someone to eat shit for removing the T from LGBT. Click the link, do a quick scroll (so quick), when asked 'Was this helpful?" click "no" then describe with whatever flourish brings you the most joy, what is wrong with the page (namely, dropping the T). 19229107
Reposted by Jenny BurrowMitch B. @forestermitch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It has begun. Under the guise of "efficiency" the institutions that serve so many people and so many interests are being dismantled and destroyed. Not by eliminating bloat, but by targeting the working man and woman at the bottom. www.politico.com/news/2025/02... 121
Reposted by Jenny BurrowJaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.” 2823041015
Reposted by Jenny BurrowNature @nature.com · 11/02/2025A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. go.nature.com/4hvSetogo.nature.com‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judgeThe ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency. 218731
Reposted by Jenny Burrowdown here, we all float, nickel. *you'll float, too.* @snickettes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please. 177107635635
Reposted by Jenny BurrowDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪 321132497
Reposted by Jenny Burrowfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month 20862498