This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read. And that's saying a lot. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Interested in managing graduate ecology programs and supporting excellent students? Come join us in the Dept. of Integrative Biology at @uwmadscience.bsky.social Apply by August 10. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/graduat...

Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.

Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!

US based scientists are not ok.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Writing about this right now, just need to scream. "Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans" www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.

Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.

🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin

Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.

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.

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...

Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years. You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

Sidenote, because I love this story: #igivearod was started by #uglydogs, fans of musher @blairbraverman.bsky.social. She was racing across the Alaska interior and had no idea people were raising money while anxiously following her progress. When word filtered back to her it was pretty damn great.

My understanding of the Democratic Party

Two of my grad students have recently received reviews on papers submitted to society journals. In both instances the reviews are exceptional-fair, critical, and with the intent to help us improve the paper. I'm thankful for the editors and reviewers that make our society journals excellent

Congratulations to Mike ! A true leader.

Good to scream a little about all going on in our country, even in subzero F wind chills here in snow-covered Madison WI. Maybe a few in the halls of power will hear and act on how cruel, unAmerican, and doing nothing about “efficiency” this is all about. #FiftyFiftyOne

Honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit civil rights activist, today and her powerful words: "Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve."

All day I’ve been thinking I needed to say two things more clearly: 1) we cannot just #scicomm our way out of this (borrowing @jbyoder.org’s pithy phrasing) It’s gone too far, public opinion is less consequential than we hope, and our focus is better spent on immediate, concrete community care

This is what care and leadership looks like in practice. I have other friends who stock food pantries for their departments. We need a lot more people in academia to get a lot better at mutual aid & organizing really fast. My big ask: follow the lead of those with experience doing this

"[Nonviolent resistance] does not mean meek submission to the will of the evildoer, but it means the pitting of one's whole soul against the will of the tyrant." Gandhi

Caring about or working in science right now is all about answering questions: can we keep going? How do we keep going? Sometimes our answers need to take the form of speeches. Instead of certainty and details, we are being asked for direction. For comfort. For courage. For hope.

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

My editorial on the indirect cuts. This is an opportunity for campuses to come together to make the case for higher education. Leaders need to step up and ask for support and lead. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ASLO comments on the recent executive orders in the United States. Read our full statement here: www.aslo.org/aslo-comment...

I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

This list is very similar to the appendix of this report from Sen. Ted Cruz titled "How the Biden-Harris NSF politicized science" released last October. www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Deleted, reposting to clarify: the NSF statement does not define "DEIA", I haven't used that term in the proposal for my current NSF project. I could guess what it means, but that's not my job. I would need to know what specific activities I'm not allowed to do before I change any plans.

"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Reminder that it’s the same program officers, same reviewers, same values, norms, and priorities. We still are our community no matter what they tell us who to exclude. We can still prioritize diversity, inclusion, equity, and access.

Just got confirmation from NSF that all review panel meetings scheduled for this week are canceled and will be rescheduled. Story coming.

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

Went ice skating for the first time in 10+ years on beautiful Lake Mendota. Only fell once!

i am not sure there is a framework yet for saying: yes, i saw that too. the news will deny it and the fascists will deny it but we know what we saw. we know what it meant. so sometimes people fall back on the language of shock and outrage.

Climate change is horrible for many life and livelihood threatening reasons. But today's uniquely crappy reason for me is that there are mosquitoes in my house in December. In Wisconsin.

New paper with our GLEON collegues, @gleonetwork.bsky.social led by @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social Controls on Lake Pelagic Primary Productivity: Formalizing the Nutrient‐Color Paradigm 😀💚💦🌍

LTER sites, including us, make our data publicly available and LOVE IT when other researchers use the data! PLEASE CITE THE DATA! That's how we can track use and demonstrate to our funders that the dollars are well spent (allowing us to collect more data for you to use!) #openscience #lter