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Rachel Bell Burten, Ph.D @rachel-b-burten.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm excited to share that the newest issue of Science for the People Magazine, "The Political Economy of Science," is available to read online! I enjoyed editing this Issue, and I recommend checking out Science for the People if you haven't yet! magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/political-ec...

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The Political Economy of Science • SftP Magazine

Vol 27, No 2: The Political Economy of Science.

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Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2025

The sports thing is the only anti-trans thing that polls well, so they're going to force through every heinous rollback of our rights under the sports banner. All because people refused to believe the science.

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Rachel Bell Burten, Ph.D @rachel-b-burten.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Over the moon to find this little friend in my garden today. The beauty of growing native plants and never using pesticides! #monarch #nativegarden

A large monarch caterpillar happily eating milkweed leaves in Rachel’s garden

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

IOB "Sexual dichromatism is prevalent throughout the animal tree of life and can play an important role in visual signaling and mate choice in many species..." doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Fig. 1. (A) Map of Bioko Island with Pico Biao indicated by the orange arrow. The black arrow indicates Lago Loretto, the only other locality at which Hyperolius tuberculatus are f or mally documented on Bioko Island. Inset shows the approximate distribution of H. tuberculatus in Central Africa and the location of Bioko Island is indicated by the orange arrow. (B) Representative photos of the Phase J and Phase F color morphs at Pico Biao. Photos of the habitat along the rim of Pico Biao (C) and at the water level within the crater (D). Photo credits: A. Lopez and C. Irian.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/08/2025

I watched people who are good at STEM, incredibly smart, get into heavy indoctrination as part of their professional paths. You can't tell an engineer nothing since they're trained to see themselves as having superior minds. And a lot of STEM fell victim to the AI scam as part of their tech culture.

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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It’s only early August but the fall migration of birds is already under way! Here’s what I’ve been seeing lately and how you can watch this incredible spectacle 🧪🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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Fall Migration Is Here! Tips to See It

Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Odds of winning #NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite

Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/07/2025

This is criminal negligence to place their patients at immediate risk of harm despite no actual change in the law. They're not even attempting to refer out and ensure continuity of care with other providers. This is sheer medical malpractice.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/07/2025

UPMC is forcing their trans patients under 19 to taper off their medication while simultaneously telling their emergency staff to expect more suicide attempts, mental health crises, and psychotic episodes as a result of being forcefully pulled off their medication. open.spotify.com/episode/3HJN...

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The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

It Could Happen Here · Episode

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dating cave paintings A scientific adventure, full of surprises, setbacks, and detective work. The methods are as fascinating as the art itself, combining chemistry, geology, physics, and even a bit of luck. How Do Scientists Date Ancient Cave Paintings? 🏺🧪 discoverwildscience.com/how-do-scien...

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Example of Chauvet Cave’s art (image credits: wikimedia)

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

** Join us! ** In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses: 💻 #R course for marine scientists ❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry 🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026 📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden 🔗 umfcourses.github.io ▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025! 🦑🧪🌍

Image of the Northern Lights near Umeå, Sweden. Glowing green night sky with a small cottage and snow covered forest trees in the foreground. Photo credit: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Y’all should be following @esqueer.net, who predicted this would happen 😔

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 24/07/2025

Ok, wow. This is ... 😱🤯 300,000 y/o wooden tools reported from southwest China. *Wooden* tools. Three hundred thousand years old wooden tools. 🏺

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy. - Work requirements - How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits) - The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

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Valentin Graf @valgra.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Our latest nutcracker paper is out! In a collaborative effort between @sgn.one and @vogelwarte.bsky.social we show how bird age can affect seed dispersal 🐥🌱 #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org Avian seed dispersal function is age dependent doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @matthiastschumi.bsky.social

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The enshittification of science and #NIH contd. The spirit of innovation is extinguished when you choose political ideology over expertise. 🧪🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Being friendly pays off Female social integration and offspring survival in wild eastern chimpanzees Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Effect was not mediated by kin presence, remained strong for females without close kin

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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 15/07/2025

Phrases I will have to change in my NSF grant because of banned words: *Traumatic* brain injury Brain *orientation* in skull Avian *diversity* Blood brain *barrier* Alabama *Black* Belt *Female* bird *Accessible* labels (colorblind) Groups analyzed per *sex* Spatial *bias* Local *climate* data 🧪

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court

ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Jonathan is out!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/07/2025

The Trump admin’s FY 2026 budget would gut $2.2 b from NOAA research—eliminating labs that study weather, oceans, and climate. Will result in delayed storm warnings, weaker disaster prep, lost lives. Helps us #StandUpForScience and #NOAA by joining a Local here: zurl.co/YJJUy zurl.co/f7eFX

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White House details proposed NOAA research, science cuts

The dissolution of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research accounts for a large chunk of the $2.2 billion in suggested cuts, but all of NOAA's line

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Maps of continents breaking apart does not match the order in which flightless birds speciate, which indicates they flew over water rather than walk across a mega continent.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Don’t let elected officials lie to you and say this was a freak accident that wasn’t preventable. County officials knew automatic river gauges and sirens could protect people. They asked the state for them at least three times. The state refused to fund it: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

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Inside Kerr County’s quest for a new flood warning system on the Guadalupe River

Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the river, dating back to 2016.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist! 🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd ⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding 📨 apps due 7/18 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303... #botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs

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a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it

Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan

With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties

The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“Just leave the country” is not a solution to fascism. A large number of people can’t even leave their city or state They’re trapped in legislative poverty. They’re disabled. They have families they can’t uproot or leave behind The reasons are endless, but make no mistake, leaving is a privilege

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Cat B @frijolesluvr.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Everyone on Bluesky should read this. Most of the Palestinian accounts you see here aren’t sharing scam fundraisers. If you find their accounts uncomfortable or overstepping then please just block or ignore but reporting them means they could lose access to the one thing keeping them alive.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is a really important article I hope everyone on Bluesky reads. Yes, there’s a risk of scamming. But blocking/reporting because you assuming every Palestinian account must be a scam is actively contributing to starving people trying to survive a genocide, and further dehumanizing people—

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The NYT has spent a lot more time and energy covering Mamdani’s choice on a college admission form 15 years ago than on Trump saying he didn’t know “Shylock” was an antisemitic term until he was told yesterday. Interesting what is considered helpful context for readers and what is not newsworthy.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force. Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 03/07/2025

"When you have a 'feeling' that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you...and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism." – @attackerman.bsky.social

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My Fellow New York Jews and I Know Zohran Mamdani Does Not Threaten Us

It's time we all speak out against Jewish self-victimization and not fall into the trap of Islamophobic tropes.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I’d just like to point out that in saying “may her memory be a blessing” instead of “rest in peace” Mamdani is showing more attention and care to how Jews mourn their dead than most people.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views. Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.

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Etobias-musiced @etobias-musiced.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

With academia.edu applying AI to our work & being less than communicative, know how to opt out - check this video w info on AI Academia is applying to our work & related thoughts on AI, sharing research, & this platform youtu.be/zSbUA48YS_A?... #AcademicSky #EduSky #Research #AI

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Academia.edu & AI: What Researchers Need to Know NOW (& how to opt out)

YouTube video by Evan Tobias: Music Learning & Teaching

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"This should be obvious, but let’s be clear: Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Justice has the authority to hire or fire university presidents. But if you claim a power and everyone acts like you really have power, you totally have that power."

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

War crimes should be prosecuted

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