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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Alright people you have TWO days to order a Shrimp Shirt in any size. We're sending the order to the screen printer Friday, then I'll ship them in mid-to-late June. These shirts are COOL! They fund science education through art! They help you talk about shrimp!!!! Get one at SquidFacts.net

a cream colored t-shirt with a bunch of shrimp all over it. It's titled "Shrimp City (& friends)" with himbo shrimp, yeti shrimp, mantis shrimp, pistol shrimp, and a hermit crab living in a skull

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

A handsome blonde man in Jeffrey Dahmer glasses and absolutely covered in tattoos looks moody with a black T-shirt on, it says plant native plants with a stained glass window with a woman inside surrounded by plants

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

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The Ratchet

In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We're hiring! Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, MA - open teaching faculty position in Biostatistics. Seeking candidates with expertise in teaching in #R & experimental design 🧪 #PopGen #ConsGen northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Introductory Biostatistics

About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts invites applications from qualified candidates for a...

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Anya Brown @dranyabrown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#BlackInMicro's Research Symposium is coming this Wedensday. Swipe left to see who's presenting. Come hear from 25 Early Career researchers from around the globe 🌎 Pre-register to attend: tinyurl.com/BIMW25 Donate to Early Career scientists: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (all links in bio)

Black in Micro Week 2025 Early Career Research Symposium held on October 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 12 PM EST. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus.

Early Career Research Symposium featuring Aureliana Filomena Chambal Chilengue, Hassan Abbas, Nazik Elmekki, Immaculata Chika Ede, Audrey Randall, and Justin Durunyamunwu. Topics include tuberculosis transmission analysis using reference-free clustering, gut microbiota comparisons in ulcerative colitis, fitness determinants of Phocaeicola vulgatus, wound biofilm modeling, the role of Parabacteroides distasonis in type I diabetes, and microvascular modeling in dengue virus research.

Early Career Research Symposium showcasing presenters howcasing presenters Nadia Holness, Deus Kamya, Trinity Moore, Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye, Drea Darby, and Teni Shosanya. Topics include the role of Staphylococcus aureus in skin inflammation, the impact of Candida albicans on oral epithelial cells, the role of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron in gut inflammation, the effect of Enterococcus faecalis on colorectal cancer, the influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae on lung immunity, and the use of Escherichia coli in synthetic biology applications.

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The existence of autistic people is not something that needs to be "cured".

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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details

Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

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opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 25/06/2025

Watch: NSF staff protest the takeover of their building today by Gov. Youngkin and Trump's HUD, chanting "NSF! NSF!"

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Compilation of massive 'NO KINGS!' protests today ✊ #NoKings

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 13/06/2025

A grand total of 160 people have been arrested for protesting in LA in almost an entire week! That requires 4,700 armed troops? Only when you're Chicken Little trying to manufacture a crisis.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11/06/2025

The same president who wants to cut $800B from Medicaid and strip health care from 16 million Americans to fund tax cuts for billionaires...is spending $134M to send troops to CA and $45M on his birthday parade in DC. Burning taxpayer dollars to play king. Un-American.

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Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon predicts

The estimate came during a budget hearing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the president is enforcing “law and order.”

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I've got some expanded thoughts on yesterday's State of the Science event.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2025

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Corporate pride is being held in the closet this year 🙃

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Cutting almost a billion in funding to STEM Education is a bad bad thing. This country already struggles with math and science literacy. Our society is built around science, technology, engineering, and math. This is how we compete as a country moving forward. Keep funding STEM education!

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/05/2025

1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid! A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors." Subscribe to support my journalism.

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House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults

The provision was stricken late at night to appeal to hardline conservatives.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”

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NSF employees brace for major restructuring

Although paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

NSF is one of the most efficient parts of our government! Any cutting is obviously designed to dismantle the organization. This is obvious but still bears emphasis that they aren’t doing this to save money but solely to destroy the most effective parts of our federal government.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So here comes the 'using the military on citizens' part. Really speed running the whole dictator playbook.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/04/2025

It was entirely clear this is what they were doing. They say it's about immigrants but nothing would stop them from using this on citizens. It's a clear violation of the privacy act. They're combining databases from DHS, HHS, SSA, and IRS to surveil everyone. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We the people are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover. On April 5, 5.2 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy! Save the date for our next national day of action on April 19th. #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #HandsOff

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 01/04/2025

This might seem trivial. It isn’t. @amberruffin.bsky.social is a talented, industrious, creative, hilarious, and technically excellent comedic writer and performer. WHCA caving to fear of this admin’s rampaging viewpoint discrimination by disinviting her is cowardly. youtu.be/rUlTIeKeTVA?...

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Amber Ruffin Defends Both Sides After Her Cancelled White House Correspondents' Gig

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

13 hours in, Cory Booker is still talking. Still making a scene to bring attention to the danger we find ourselves in.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025

This keeps getting worse and worse.

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Two thoughts on this Trans Day of Visibility: 1. Trans people are just ordinary people. We have jobs & families. We are trying to pursue happiness like everyone else. 2. Almost everything you "know" about trans people has filtered thru an insanely well-funded scapegoating media machine*.

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Will H. Ryan @willhryan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

An eternity in hell would not be long enough for the arrogant shits that are doing this stuff.

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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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