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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a banger. #scisky Recommended for historical context of university oversight/interference; well-written and valuable IMO.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Question: if given the choice, would you like to become fossilized eventually?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey did you do it yet? If you did, tell me. If you didn't, do it, then tell me 😘

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sending fan mail via social media: I loved this review by @msobol.bsky.social and @carolinamicro.bsky.social "Tracing ancient life through the genomic record" It's so good. For example, how to account for things like HGT in prok evolution, esp over geologic time scales? doi.org/10.1093/jamb...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is there a fund that matches ppl who could foster a cat, but can't afford vet bills, with those who can afford vet bills, but can't have a cat? 🧡🐈

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking for recommendations: what if there were an audio version of something like the Small Things Considered blog? Do you have fave YT / podcast / science audio files for microbiology / microbial ecology? #mevoSky #microSky #scienceSky 🦠 📻 I want to learn science screen-free. <3

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

All right it’s time for the annual “please tell us about one (or a few if you are ambitious) paper from 2025 that really impressed you and why we should all read it“! Go! If you tell us how it changed your view of the world and what makes it so powerful and consequential It would be excellent.

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

#freeamericawalkout This Tuesday, January 20th, 2pm local time --walk out of school / work to protest and boycott www.freeameri.ca/faq --convene to protest outside your state/city's govt bldgs, and/or make calls: 5calls.org Send a strong signal of allyship for this fall's elections 💪

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FAQ — FREE AMERICA WALKOUT

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#mevosky #microsky is there a resource that provides mock library samples, to include as positive controls in sequencing projects? I'm aware of NITE in Japan that provides purified genomic template of individual microbial isolates. Any others, pref in the US?

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

EnergyStar has been a massive benefit to the country and to everyone who wants useful information for buying an appliance

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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Heartbreaking truth: At just 1.5°C of #warming (where we already are), 70–90% of #CoralReefs could vanish. At 2.0°C, almost all (>99%) are gone. We’re watching a living wonder cross a #TippingPoint. #MarineEcology 🧪🌍🌐🌊🔥

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Fengbin (Jerry) Wang @jerryknowsnothing.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

First time posting on Bluesky! 🥳 We discovered a new pilus family in cyanobacteria. The pilin has a novel protein fold that forms a super-tight double-layer tube. Similar gene clusters exist in a few cyanobacterial orders. A great collaboration with John and others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A family of tubular pili from harmful algal bloom forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa - Nature Communications

Ricca et al discover a new family of tubular pili in Microcystis aeruginosa, a harmful algal bloom-forming cyanobacterium. These pili are crucial for buoyancy by forming cell micro-colonies, which inc...

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Any #ArchaeaSky #mevoSky folks know of a publication describing 16S amplicon Illumina sequence of a mock library including archaea? I have this v helpful paper by Schirmer et al, but it's V4 only; hoping for V3-V4 or similar, to test species level taxonomic resolution. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku1341

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#Pinks #ProudBlue To those going to #NoKings protest on Saturday, please be safe.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Ellie Wiesel

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

44 experts from 15 countries issued a stark warning about the dangers of crossing an ocean circulation tipping point. I had the honor to present it to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson yesterday. #AMOC Full letter with signatories: en.vedur.is/media/ads_in...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/07/2025

Wondering why #altgovs are changing their banners to show support for EPA? EPA civil servants drafted a public Declaration of Dissent to their Administrator, Lee Zeldin, imploring he recommits to protecting Americans people and environment. Read here: www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

Green banner saying, "we stand with EPA workers"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Yesterday, I DM'd people an embarrassing secret about myself if they called Congress about RFK. (It quickly got overwhelming.) Today, I ask you to do the same, but I'm going to make this way wilder: for every 25 call screenshots, I'll post one embarrassing fact on main 5calls.org/issue/center...

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Stop the Anti-Vaccine Takeover of the CDC ⭑ 5 Calls

The Trump administration is continuing to undermine public health and scientific integrity by firing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Monday is Labor Day -- ask your friends what events are happening in support of #Democracy 💪🇺🇸 #unions #labormovement #workingclass

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This looks like a super useful framework. 👀

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STAT @statnews.com · 18/08/2025

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

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Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you need another reason to check:

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Important to keep in mind that these are *voluntary* resignations made by people who have been fighting tooth and nail to protect public health from HHS leadership & have ultimately found that impossible. Not a purge – the last choice left to dedicated, incredibly capable public servants.

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Yesterday, SCOTUS sided with Trump to re-terminate hundreds of NIH grants. SCOTUS chose partisan politics over rule of law. It's clear they will roll over for Trump every time. It is up to Congress to protect democracy. Tell them to write protections against terminations into the 2026 budget.

Photo of the supreme court and the text: The current administration illegally terminated thousands of NIH projects. A Reagan appointed judge reversed the terminations, calling them “breathtakingly arbitrary and capricious.”

Yet in a 5-4 shadow docket decision, the Supreme Court sided with Trump and ruled to re-terminate these projects

A scientist at a microscope with the text: This is impactful research & re-terminations will harm all of us.

Careers may be lost. Cures may be lost. Knowledge
will be lost.

Lives will
be lost.

A quote from Ketanji Brown Jackson saying: This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.

Image of the US Capitol with the text: It is up to
Congress
to protect
democracy.

Tell them to
write protections
against terminations
into the 2026 budget.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

16% loss at NIH 22% loss at NIDA; 22% loss at NIMH, 18% NIA, 17% NIAID. 17% loss at NIAAA, finally answering the question about unusually huge losses of POs causing their funding slowness in the negative.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

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Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future

From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/08/2025

Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati... What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

The vicious cycle for transit agencies. Source: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/surmounting-fiscal-cliff

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"In the past, I was content to leave the broader political debate and activism to others... The luxury of disengagement is no longer an option." -- Terrence Tao newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Another way y'all can really help us right now is with a donation. We're a nonprofit newsroom and our stories are free for anyone to read (no paywalls), so your support helps a lot. We appreciate whatever y'all can give. Here's the link: givebutter.com/mfpdonate

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Give Now to Grow MFP Journalism in 2025!

Help us grow our newsroom in Mississippi and our systemic reporting to make a difference for our home state and beyond.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

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NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12)

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Another great South Park episode, this one about ChatGPT, which absolutely captures the voice of the thing and why it’s dangerous AND appealing

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I never met him except through his writing and feel this loss.

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Rhys Allen @rhysallensysbio.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Soil nerds and aspirants, check out these cool links from Professor Moorberg, KSU Manhattan. 🌱👀

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Join one of the best science journalism outfits out there!

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