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Brian Lovett

@lovettbr.bsky.social
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Upstanding Scientist | Insect Pathologist | Entomologist | Mycologist | He/Him/His | Skies are my own

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The basic fact remains about the Trump Administration was asked by @annabower.bsky.social: who is in charge of DOGE? Since DOGE we have lived in unrelenting attack on the Congressional power of the purse. Ask: if Russ Vought is “pocketing” 810 million dollars of money, where is that money going?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WHO’S COMING???
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really good stamp from @bittelmethis.bsky.social
Possum playing possum stamp
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
2. Knowledge has cultural, social, civic, political, AND monetary value to society.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The reason @standupforscience.net wrote America’s Compact for Higher Education is higher ed has *dramatically failed* to coalesce around a set of shared values in light of Trump’s attacks. This Compact puts the bar on the floor and encourages ANYONE who agrees to join us! TLDR: 11 Affirmations 🧵
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/09/2026
Introducing, America's Compact for Higher Education!
The graphic reads: "America's Compact For Higher Education” is our unified response against Trump and his effort to bend the will of America’s higher ed leadership to his authoritarian control. Swipe to learn how you can join."
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Get in, Dorks! @standupforscience.net is here to unite the STEM arm of the pro democracy coalition!
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Pokémon Eeveelution Unite Squad
ALT: Pokémon Eeveelution Unite Squad
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Greed is a disease.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Checking the "No food poisoning" box on DoorDash but it raises my price by $2 so I frown and uncheck it
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a lovely backronym!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New sticker alert! Squidfacts.net
a heart shaped sticker with a lightning bug standing on a blade of grass, butt aglow, with purple flowers near their face. Words say Grow Native Plants
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/08/2026
“I’ve learned that the First Amendment obviously allows me to state things that are factually accurate. So I can say that allegations of Rep. Max Miller being violent towards women go back decades…” Queen shit
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Rep. Max Miller made me delete a tweet
Some thoughts...
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hearing that NSF is going to pilot moving awards from institutions to individuals. Hello compliance nightmare. Especially because a lot of federal requirements for these awards (research security) are tied to institutional requirements. Potentially devastating for scientific collections/archives.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There is a similar crushing feeling in science. 😔
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Double dose of products from the @standupforscience.net Foundation policy institute this morning. @irenesufs.bsky.social with her analysis of the contents of the National Science Foundation Guidance to align with OMB rulemaking.
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Here is What You Should Know About NSF’s New Guidance on Financial Assistance — Stand Up for Science Foundation
On June 24, 2026, less than one month after the Office of Management and Budget released its proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance on federal financial assistance—the National Science Foundation ...
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Mali 💤 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey guess what 😌
Photo of my fingers holding a sticker of a yellow and black road sign featuring a snail and the text "SNAILS CROSSING"
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hi, I am emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to address the nicotine stains on my anti-smoking report. It’s not what you think, I just like smoking and hypocrisy.
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hedy bach @hedybach.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
British Columbia probably has more lichens than Costa Rica or the Amazon. This is the Amazon of the lichen world — and we have a global responsibility for the conservation of this organismal group. wildsight.ca/2026/06/23/c...
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Conservation through the lens of lichens — an interview with lichenologist Toby Spribille
Toby Spribille was 18 years old when he first discovered a new-to-western-science species of lichen, and became hooked on lichenology. “I realized there was quite a bit of unrecognized species diver...
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sharks can have a little Zoloft, as a treat
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights.
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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.
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Personne dans ma bulle @pdansmabul.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Évangiles dorés d'Henri VIII",vers 980 La couleur pourpre des pages obtenue à l'aide d'un pigment végétal à base de lichen (l'orseille). Dans l'Antiquité & au M_A, l'utilisation du parchemin pourpre et de l'encre d'or était le symbole ultime du luxe, de l'autorité et du prestige impérial >ALT
Bien qu'il ait été produit en Allemagne, ce manuscrit doit son nom moderne au roi Henri VIII d'Angleterre, qui en est devenu le propriétaire quelque cinq siècles plus tard, au XVIe siècle
Aujourd'hui, il est précieusement conservé et exposé à la Morgan Library & Museum à New York
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Am I crazy to be writing an NSF proposal when they aren’t giving any grants right now? But I’m getting close to having to close down my lab, which is so sad I feel that I have to do something
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.
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BBC requests Trump’s diary and phone logs in editing scandal lawsuit
The US president is demanding $10bn in damages from the BBC
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
After reading @blekhernia.bsky.social's great blog post on lab AI usage policy (blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...), we made one in lab meeting. Feedback welcome! rilab.ucdavis.edu/ai_expectati...
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Ross-Ibarra Lab Policy on AI Usage
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I’m pleased to say (as its President Elect) that @resmedia.bsky.social board of trustees agreed on Friday that the Society will stop using X (FYI @sundersays.bsky.social )
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Plecos at your local pet store are voracious algae eaters and get to a shocking 2 feet long. Just saying. 😜
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Vote for @alexlando.bsky.social for VP of the @msafungi.bsky.social #Student and #Postdoc section! Renew your membership and vote right now! Voting ands today @ 4. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @msastudents.bsky.social
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MSA Student and Postdoc Section Executive Board Election Ballot 2026-2027
Hello Student and Postdoc members! It is the time of the year where we select the new MSA Student Student and Postdoc Section. With the following link you can learn about the nominees and the positi...
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hey @msastudents.bsky.social members! There’s still time to vote for Alex Lando for VP! Get your votes in and tell a friend, whoever you vote for (Alex). 🍄 msastudents.org/msa-sps-elec...
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MSA SPS Elections! – MSA Student and Postdoc Section
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Double bubble #cantharelluscibarius
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/06/2026
What? You heard SUFS made wheatpasting posters? We totally DO NOT have wheatpasting posters on our website for you to print at home and totally DISCOURAGE you from pasting them! DO NOT visit the link in our bio or this link to print them: zurl.co/QHtb4 Learn how to avoid wheatpasing below! 🧵
The graphic displays various Stand Up for Science posters that advocate for science and agaisnt the Trump admin's attacks on science and public health. The graphic also contains the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "WE DIDN'T MAKE WHEATPASTING POSTERS, Here's how to NOT use them" (an arrow points downwars to the thread below).
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
When I have checked for my work in, say, Anthropic, training data, it’s been work I published with Elsevier. I have always wondered if they just scraped lithub or similar, where these older articles would also be. 🤔
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀 #Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer NC, USA
A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on a leaf, viewed in profile.A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on a leaf, viewed from above.A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on white background, viewed from the side facing right.A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on white background, viewed from above next to a US dime.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pleased to share this article for @standupforscience.net with @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social discussing the eugenics foundation of the MAHA and MAGA movements. It’s an important thread to name and understand! 😳 substack.com/@sciencefigh...
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MAHA and MAGA as Eugenics Projects
Brynn Paulsen, PhD and Brian Lovett, PhD
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
DOGE Screwed Us on Screwworm Because USAID didn't fund abortion, as Republicans claim, but it did fund screwworm prevention programs (boldface mine):... mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/09/…
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DOGE Screwed Us on Screwworm
Because USAID didn't fund abortion, as Republicans claim, but it did fund screwworm prevention programs (boldface mine): The 5,300 grants and programs killed in the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency of International Development include U.S.-funded animal disease monitoring projects operated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. A list of terminated programs sent to Congress this week and obtained by Agri-Pulse includes $250 million that went to projects housed under the FAO’s Global Health Security Program.
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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The idea of having Jay Bhattacharya as the opening keynote was highly offensive to me and to many ADA members. He is directly complicit in the systematic dismantling of the biomedical research enterprise in this country." - Aaron Kelly www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...
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A Professor Was Ejected From a Conference for Criticizing the Trump Administration. He Says He Was ‘Shocked.’
Over the weekend, the American Diabetes Association made news for booting five researchers from its annual conference for handing out op-eds critical of the Trump administration’s approach to science....
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
WHAT'S BEEN DIGITIZED IS __ONLY__ A TINY FRAGMENT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE & HISTORY PRIMARILY WHAT'S __EASY__ TO RUN THROUGH MACHINES Internet = a sip of water Museums & archives = OCEANS, GALAXIES, UNIVERSES Signed, a former digitization professional
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hopping on a plane to DC tonight, because @standupforscience.net is fighting this new OMB rule proposal with everything we’ve got. My calendar is literally booked for 12 hours of meetings, on the Hill, in a row for three days. Wanna sponsor the trip? secure.qgiv.com/for/stop-vou...
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Stop Vought from Privatizing and Politicizing Science
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Circling back around to this post in light of what happened at the ADA Annual Meeting yesterday. The actions of Kahn, et al., had all the elements of Good Trouble. - The action, itself, was harmless but agitating - They used their position to legitimize the action - They recorded everything
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’ll admit, I thought sleeping on the job was just a saying.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.
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The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO <p class="docData;DOCY;v5;31090;BQiAAgAAEcIDAAAGxgMAAAMMbgAABR52AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.
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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy to share the lab’s latest preprint! Led by PhD student @isaiahwill.bsky.social, we hope that this thorough characterization of expression patterns for many #drosophila fat body driver lines will be a useful resource to the fruit fly community.
Panel from a composite figure showing 6 images of fat body patches taken using confocal fluorescence microscopy
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
La Pryor is near Uvalde, about 50 miles inside the border. Even if this sample turns out to be something else, it's highly likely that screwworm is back in the United States.
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Samples from Texas calves tested for possible screwworm, rattling markets
Samples of an unconfirmed infestation of the ‌flesh-eating screwworm parasite on a cattle ranch in La Pryor, Texas, have been sent to a federal government lab in Iowa to be tested, Texas Representativ...
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Mark Simmons @toysdream.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Big civic engagement day! I voted in our local primary elections, and watched a video webinar organized by @standupforscience.net about fighting back against the administration's full-scale attack on US scientific research.
Notes from Stand Up For Science's Emergency Science Meeting, June 2, 2026.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Finished up on @scrippsnews.bsky.social just a bit ago talking about the new OMB proposed Uniform Guidance! @standupforscience.net
Colette LIVE on TV in front of a blue news background.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Check out this article from my former postdoc Dr. Elizabeth Moore, @emooreentomology.bsky.social! We explore how the environment beetles seek-wood soaked in ethanol-may affect whether fungi can infect as biocontrol. 👀 It was so fun working with these little beetles! academic.oup.com/jee/advance-...
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Validate User
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Tomorrow, I’m going to get to work on the @standupforscience.net policy institute comment on the recent “Uniform Regulation.” I expect our comment will focus primarily on issues where the proposed reg conflicts with black letter law and scenarios where it endangers public safety. Collabs welcome.
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