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Lauren Kuehne

@omfishient.bsky.social
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DEI, forever. Also bio/acoustics, freshwaters, invasive critters, technology + society, WA State stuff. Omfishient Consulting, mother, writer. "The revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat"--Gil Scott-Heron

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Volume matters. As @cdelawalla.bsky.social and I wrote, number of comments and outreach from constituents is absolutely important in maintaining Congressional and political attention. This would not be possible without YOUR efforts. Our action center is still live: fight2win.standupforscience.net
politico.com
Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap
It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026
New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."
publicnotice.co
The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.
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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
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Dr. Meghan Halabisky @halabisky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Everything you’ve wanted to know about carbon and floodplain restoration, in one place! Excited to present the state-of-the-science on wetland carbon mapping w/ @troutunlimited.bsky.social on June 25th. Virtual talk open to all! Link to attend: tinyurl.com/4bu49cjc
(Left) Image from Stewart et al. (2024) of estimated soil organic carbon - or 'cryptic carbon' - based on the upland-to-wetland gradient, in the Hoh River watershed, western Washington, USA. (top right) TealWaters team visiting a Puget Sound wetland; (bottom right) aerial image of the Hoh River floodplain
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Subtle
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/05/2026
the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up 👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI
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Edward Chen @edwrdchen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The largest forest research organization in the world, the US Forest Service's R&D branch, may lose up to 74% of its sites under a planned reorganization. Researchers on the ground and former officials shared many thoughts with Nature's News team: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
World’s largest forest research agency faces severe cutback by Trump administration
The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread fear and uncertainty.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NPR story about multi-year funding, few NOFOs, and delays with me, Elizabeth Ginexi, and @docsirianni.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...
npr.org
The Trump administration is finding new ways to withhold federal funding for science
Billions in funding were cut under President Trump were restored in 2026. Now, watchdogs say the administration is finding other ways to withhold money – and scientists are feeling the consequences.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
say it with me fellas 🗣️ the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din 🗣️
I concentrate upon details of the Burgess Shale because I don't believe
that important concepts should be discussed tendentiously in the abstract
(much as I have disobeyed the rule in this opening chapter!). People, as
curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled.
God dwells among the details, not in the realm of pure generality. We
must tackle and grasp the larger, encompassing themes of our universe, but we make our best approach through small curiosities that rivet our attention-all those pretty pebbles on the shoreline of knowledge. For the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din.
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Every year, I mentor students who spend weeks submitting to Hertz (unless I can dissuade them). And every year, these shameful stats 😡 1) rich-get-richer while 2) disingenuously stealing the time of thousands of students, who believe it's about merit of their work @bakerdphd.bsky.social
Wordcloud of the institutional affiliation of 2026 Hertz Fellows. 2026 Funding rate is 0.01% (19/1450 applicants)
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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This week I got to witness a demo of acoustic fire suppression in Concord, CA. Experts I spoke with still have a lot of questions. Read my latest for @arstechnica.com : arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
arstechnica.com
Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/04/2026
Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against the Trump’s cuts to medical and scientific research
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She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she’s leading a US movement to save science
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Over 28,000 young people signed on for a Seattle Public Library card, which enables access to e-books even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by Brooklyn Public Library to expand service in communities impacted by censorship.
seattletimes.com
28K youths got a Seattle library card in campaign against book bans
The program allows youths to receive a free library card to access e-books, even if they don't live in Seattle.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2
wapo.st
Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
democrats-science.house.gov
Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:
nature.com
Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change
The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy #EarthDay 2026! Bioluminescence at Rialto Beach, Olympic Natl Park, Washington 📸Mathew Nichols
Bioluminescence in the water
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This morning, my tween snuck on my computer and...left me these gifs, to greet the day. I figured I'd do what I could to pass it on! #parentingjoy #puppyGIFs #notpolitics #haihooman
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Page from Charles Darwin's notebooks - Tree of Life A sketch of an evolutionary tree describing the relationships among groups of organisms
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#FridayFundingFrustration #STEM Anyone have takes - worth even applying to #NSF these days? I've got: ✔️mature idea/fit ✔️partners ✔️open solicitation But am I just wasting a month, to write/submit? @colincarlson.bsky.social @hormiga.bsky.social @noamross.net @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
These are the rantings of a bloodthirsty lunatic. It is sick beyond measure to threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. This is not what the American people want. It is well past time for the Republican Congress to join Democrats and put an end to this war.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. strikes Iran’s Kharg Island as Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Here is my Claude Skill for bringing some evidence guardrails to doing a health question/evidence review. It has many opinionated design decisions, and I have written a pretty lengthy README to share the thinking behind it: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...
github.com
GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions
A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Atlantic muscles in on @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New research! Noise-induced annoyance & sleep disturbance from aircraft training at Naval Air Station Whidbey Is. @uwenvironment.bsky.social @omfishient.bsky.social @sounddefenseall.bsky.social @quietcommunities.bsky.social doi.org/10.1121/10.0... Paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
doi.org
Noise-induced annoyance and sleep disturbance from military aircraft training
While much is known about the public health impacts of civil aviation noise, only limited research has investigated the consequences of military aviation noise,
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. 

For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: 

• by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, 
• outside of classroom settings 
• aimed at the public 

If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
nytimes.com
Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/03/2026
"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...
mcsweeneys.net
A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks
Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Happening today at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵
penguinrandomhouse.com
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 05/03/2026
Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
bellingcat.com
Bellingcat’s New Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data
Turnstone can visualise historical trends in flight data or filter them by geography, aircraft type and other parameters.
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Next week, capstone students in the ENVS class I'm teaching will present "Environmental Impacts of Large Data Centers" Most data centers don't get an EIA, so we have to DIY it - come hear their research on 3 proposed centers! @carlbergstrom.com @wolvendamien.bsky.social @meadekrosby.bsky.social
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.
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Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov · 23/02/2026
“Trump and his allies’ [voting] rhetoric is the type of “red-alarm fire that people need to take very seriously,” said Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, who leads the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s election protection working group.” Read more at www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
politico.com
Dem AGs plot to thwart Trump election interference
They’re running war-games as they brace for what Trump could do.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20/02/2026
Finally, SCOTUS reaffirms what we've known all along, Trump's tariffs are an unconstitutional tax on the American people. Over the last year, working people paid an average of $1,000 more because of these tariffs. And Trump has no plan to put that money back in your wallet.
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Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president
The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.
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Sam Goldstein @samschuelstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thinking through what my #NoKings protest sign will look like for 3/28 and it might be this Thomas Paine quote. Because my sons will be better than the men who came before them. #No👑
A quote from Thomas Paine: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"signs that NSF may be retreating from its initial position that the rejected proposals “will not be considered further.” One student who received an RWR email tells Science that NSF rejected their first appeal but their second resulted in being told that the proposal “is being actively reviewed.”
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
About NSF GRFP's being rejected without peer review: [from submitted info to Grant Witness] "12 RWRs as involving ecology, six in cell biology, five in psychology, four in neuroscience, and 14 in other subfields of biology" www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
NSF’s flagship fellowship program is rejecting applicants without peer review
Students seeking graduate research scholarships speculate that biology is being disfavored
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