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Norman R Groves

@normangroves.bsky.social
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Teacher, Researcher, Overthinker. Plant Cell Biologist at Ohio State. Occasionally science talk, some baking, and entirely too much soccer. Views are my own. He/him/his.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/01/2026
Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
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A Guy With Cats @aguywithcats.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Columbus folks please share this out.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
As prophesized, CBJ headed to OT
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Today's Thanksgiving wins: ✅ Hasselbeck Cheesy Potato Gratin ✅ Peanut Butter Pie
Hasselbeck Cheesy Potato Gratin, fresh out of the ovenPeanut Butter Pie, post-bakeA slice of Peanut Butter Pie, with whipped topping and ice cream
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
thecrimson.com
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...
statnews.com
CDC Director Susan Monarez is ousted as senior leaders exit agency
Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been ousted after just a month on the job.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This a wonderful piece, and well worth your time "Careful or no you'll make mistakes either way, but, as a matter of process, you ought to frequently be looking like an idiot"
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Construction of I-70 and I-71 in downtown Columbus and surrounding neighborhoods ripped the hearts out of neighborhoods, taking and destroying privately owned property and replacing those communities with tax-sucking superhighways. Read the latest from Brian Williams. matternews.org/voices/on-de...
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On Development: Still waiting for a trolley – Matter News
Construction of I-70 and I-71 in downtown Columbus and surrounding neighborhoods ripped the hearts out of neighborhoods, taking and destroying privately owned property and replacing those communities ...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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Nordecke @nordecke.com · 14/05/2025
TIFO PAINTING IS DONE! HUGE thank you to our amazing volunteers who came out to make this happen. Tonight, we are back at 3201 Alberta Street to start sewing and grommeting for Saturday. No experience required! The biggest need is to help hold the Tifo. She is hefty! 👀 See you tonight at 6pm! 💛
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Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
La Brigada De Oro, a vibrant Nashville SC’s supporters' group, is canceling game-day festivities today amid a wave of increased ICE activity. "We're suffering. We're hurting a lot. We feel targeted."
sixonefivesoccer.com
Nashville’s Latin American supporters group halts game-day traditions amid ICE crackdown: "We feel targeted"
La Brigada De Oro, the heart of Nashville SC’s supporter culture, halts festivities as Latin American communities face heightened immigration enforcement and fear for their safety
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 08/05/2025
Logical next step after appointing a Chicago Pope:
Screenshot from Blues Brothers in which Jake Blues (John Belushi) is illuminated by holy light in a church when given the idea to get the band back together. It really is a great scene in a great movie.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Reminder that if you go to the audio settings on the Crew game, you can change the audio commentary from Taylor Twellman to Chris Doran. #crew96
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/04/2025
An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
financial advice in a weird time: -- develop a plan -- find friends who support you -- preferably 10 of them -- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand -- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos -- get your wife back -- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw simple
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Nordecke @nordecke.com · 02/04/2025
Sooo, update on Cleveland: No tifo, no banners, very little promotional support for the busses and Nordecke memberships, Messi and Away fans in the Nordecke section won’t be removed - just given yellow tshirts, and still waiting on deets for pregame tailgate. In two weeks.
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You have to enjoy the flowers when they are in bloom.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate!
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 24/02/2025
bosc pears, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1911
bosc pears, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1911
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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2025
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
washingtonpost.com
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
CNN has now confirmed this. www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...
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Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
First Bake of 2025 ✅
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In 2025, the Crew finally host a fierce Western Conference rival, one everyone has been crying out for: Our Natural Geographic Rivals, the San Jose Earthquakes, are coming to Columbus 4/26. #crew96
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm just so tired. #crew96
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"We've never seen this level of operational sophistication," a NYPD spokesperson says regarding the still-at-large United Healthcare Assassin. Notes that NYPD officers have "been driving around" and "gone to every Shake Shack in the city" and would "probably" do so again around lunchtime on Sunday.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you've ever won a cup, clap your hands 👏👏👏 That's so Metro.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Eduardo Bove has to be ok. This can't happen again to Fiorentina. My heart can't take it.
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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 26/11/2024
What else is going on…… Oh, I made party sandwiches by baking focaccia in a bundt pan.
Two large, bundt-shaped sandwiches on a cutting board, with cropped people behind it. One sandwich is veggie, with roasted eggplant and peppers, arugula, hazelnut hummus, basil, half of it with cheese; the other is an Italian sandwich with mortadella, soppressata, provolone, mozzarella, giardiniera, arugula.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Sporting KC's regular season game against Inter Miami has been moved to Arrowhead. I hope that all the Messi games aren't moved to NFL stadiums. There has been a big leap in stadium quality across the league, fantastic soccer specific venues that are better for the fan, MLS should showcase that.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Laurent Courtois to Montreal makes a ton of sense for all involved, if Joey Saputo wasn't the owner.
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
I'm not generally one to do a year-end post, but I've felt inspired seeing other folks' lists. This year, I've had two modest wins: 1) I've gotten much more comfortable trying new things as a home cook, and am much more confident in my abilities in the kitchen (1/?)
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Norman R Groves @normangroves.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I'm going to start being over here more than the Other Site, and even consider posting from time to time. But if past is prologue, I will think about posting something, and then just not.
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