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Dr. Aubree Jones

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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As a histologist, can’t believe what I just read when I just saw methylene blue is trending
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a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? ''
ALT: a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? ''
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Seeing @noaa.gov pushing propaganda valorizing deep sea mining makes me feel physically ill. Another one of our most essential scientific institutions decimated by fascism.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The administration's preliminary FY 2026 budget requests that federal involvement in many aspects of #GreatLakes science be eliminated entirely by next year, including completely ending funding for Sea Grant programs nationwide www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Trump budget document points to ending federal role in Great Lakes science by next year
Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.
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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · 25/04/2025
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XKCD comic about PhD timelines making a political statement about illegal student seizures and illegal imprisonment of foreign students.
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So glad I just did an interview about the importance of NSF. Should be published right about the time it’s shuttered for good.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Had a blast communing with longnose suckers this week in Wisconsin with @karenjmurchie.bsky.social, whose long-running study of these quietly charismatic fish has done much to reveal the extent and phenology of their spawning runs. A herd of aquatic bison fertilizing a liquid prairie.
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Here's my full statement on the Trump EO opening Pacific Islands Heritage to industrial fishing I'm going to try to record a quick video today explaining what science says about this crime
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The support is appreciated as the college threatens students who are in our classes to enroll in other courses or else they will jeopardize their financial aid & visa status. This message is sent while ICE is kidnapping students off the streets! Students are not bargaining chips!!
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make. Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/in...
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Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science
Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 09/03/2025
Are you or someone you know: A recently dismissed federal scientist? Doing science-related work affected by the mass firings and defunding of science? “You Can’t Fire Science” is a project to illustrate and share those stories: bit.ly/faces_of_sci... A good follow up to #StandUpForScience!
They can’t fire science! Tell your story: http://bit.ly/faces_of_science
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Teufelsberg - outside Berlin, Germany
Street art of a child slingshotting a rock over a wire fence with razor wire with the phrase “f**k your borders”
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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org
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Dr Sarah Skeels @sarahzoologist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Quick watercolour of a Platy for #SundayFishSketch 🎨🐟 I used to own Platies as a child, so this was a nostalgic one for me!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Science IRL decisions went out today! We were able to fund 13 of the 77 proposals that were submitted. They are communicating science in stage productions, boxes at bus stations, interactive frog statues, musical performances, farmers market tables, backs of cars, knitting clubs, and much more.
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The group that harassed these researchers is openly bragging about it on their website btw. They are so unafraid of any repercussions.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Minorities in Shark Sciences @misselasmo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ending the week with a little motivation from our office mural. 💙 We hope you all have a great weekend. 🦈
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Kelsi Rutledge, PhD @fishandfreckles.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is me ~6 months ago, excited for my first day of work as a Scientist for the US Navy. After getting my PhD at UCLA and a postdoc at Caltech, I made the big move across the country to help our fleet. Now I may be fired due to the indiscriminate firings of new, “probationary” federal workers.
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list. Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species. A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks: 🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.
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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
💡#JobOpportunity: Scientist, Fish Ecology 🏢 Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research 📍#Melbourne #Victoria #Australia 🗓️ 12 months, fixed term 💰$76,817 - $93,275 🚨Deadline to apply: 23 Feb 👀 buff.ly/3CSeBdl #sciencejobs #sciencecareers #biology #fish
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We are hearing today that NIH is restarting issuing grant awards — that is, for awards already approved by council, or renewals that normally happen as matter of course, money will start going out. Caution, though, before we interpret this as a win... 1/ 🧪
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.
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Thom Sanger @thomsanger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
SICB is back! Please follow the society's new BlueSky account: @sicb.bsky.social SICB recognizes that the scientific enterprise is only successful because of the people performing that science. Without those people, science and all of the political and economic strength that it provides, stops.
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allie igwe @anigwe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
You can read the blog I wrote for SICB about organizing with and for Black environmentalist here: integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/g...
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Further Together: Calling All Black Environmentalists – Guest blog by Dr. Allie Igwe
by Dr. Allie Igwe NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. Michelle Afkhami at the University of Miami ( Dr. Allie Igwe “Styrofoam, stick pins, and…mothballs,” my mom slowly read the list …
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Link to full text of the statement from SICB leadership here!
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am continually proud to be a member of SICB. Great science 🤝 great people
A portion of the Statement from the society for integrative and comparative biology reading: “The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science.”
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
All researchers will be impacted (we are literally required to address broadening participation/diversifying the STEM workforce in our grants) but these institutions will absolutely be affected the most. If you don’t think these impact you, I promise you your work is next. Fight back nowwwwww
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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
To write a winning NSF proposal, something that happens for one out of every five or six small grants in my field (or one out of every 20 for the NSF-wide mid-scale program I'm applying to next month), you •must* have a compelling and quantifiable plan to benefit society. 4/
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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@dangaristo.bsky.social it's critical that people understand what NSF is being ordered to do (and what, to the discredit of its leadership, it is agreeing to do). When you write an NSF proposal, there are two criteria you are judged against, Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. 1/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025
So basically they are reviewing every NSF grant because they all satisfy broader impacts
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
💡#PhD OPPORTUNITY: Taxonomy, systematics, and evolution of labrid fishes 🏢 University of Sydney & Australian Museum Research Institute 📍Sydney, NSW, Australia 🗓️ July 2025 or February 2026 👥 Prof Simon Ho & Dr Yi-Kai Tea #wrasse #australia #fish #biology #ichthyology
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Mel (FORTUNE'S WEAVE SPOILERS) @wildhornedhermit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Fuck yeah look at this thing
A green car with an illustration of a shark on its sides, captioned, "BreakTheStigma," "Together For Mental Health, Together For All," "'There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't' –John Green," "It's ok not to be ok," and "Your feelings are valid."
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Guess they forgot to include me in the Google Calendar invite 🦝 #Mondays But rly what are y’all doing up there?😂
Four raccoons in a tree
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 31/01/2025
Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One thing to remember in all of this is not only will it wipe out vast swathes of already-funded research, it also has the potential to lock trans researchers out of federal funding entirely. How can I apply for funds if I can't refer to myself in them?
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Can’t emphasize enough that the reason they want to stop funding DEI initiatives is because they WORK. If they weren’t effective, they wouldn’t be a target 🎯
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Have you always wanted to be a marine biologist? We are now offering fundraiser charter shark research expeditions! Join me for a day of shark research while supporting the lab's effort's to bring school groups out on future trips. Join as an individual, or charter the whole day for your group!
Flier for our fundraiser charter shark research expeditions!
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
Other privately funded sources for #phd students include: Soros (90k): pdsoros.org/why-become-a... AAUW (20k): www.aauw.org/resources/pr... NSBE: nsbe.org/scholarships/ Centers at private universities and think tanks also have smaller grants you can apply to bsky.app/profile/napa...
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Why Become a Fellow – Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Apply for a Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship and become one of the thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/01/2025
Don’t fall into the trap of normalizing any of this with this sort of language that we’ve seen from so many universities, falsely equating the current situation with other presidential transitions This is unprecedented, unconscionable, and deliberately disruptive. Have the backbone to say that.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/01/2025
This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I know it’s a delicate situation but I’m disappointed in NSF leadership for not doing more to protect a very vulnerable group of scientists here. The messaging & complicity so far is very frustrating.
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Dr. Aubree Jones @sensiblyaubree.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If anyone tries to tell me “it’ll all work out” or “calm down” for the immediate future
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
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