Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators! Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested! Applications will be reviewed until filled.

What will happen to Antarctic research with the US pulling back? With all the rapid change it could have us heading backwards. So, someone needs to fill the void but we're seeing other Western nations busy with infrastructure not science. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky

LOVE this quote of the day in @floragraham.bsky.social's newsletter: "If you tell me I can’t do something because of a terrible and irrational reason that’s based in hate, racism and sexism, I'm going to say: 'Okay, watch me.'" -- @sofishtication.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🌊 🦑

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Historical satellite imagery provides crucial insights, not only for penguin colonies but also for establishing realistic baselines to support conservation efforts and effective management across broad spatial scales. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @drmichellelarue.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

What an excellent piece of work, congratulations @michaelplanknz.bsky.social! 🧪

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Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Encourage you to read the whole thread (better, the paper itself). This table of actions scientists can/should take under a government shifting into autocracy is a good representation of how I've felt my own work shift over the past six months.

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Make this go viral.

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.

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Check out our latest and greatest on Antarctic glacial melt and its impact on marine life, led by the awesome Jack Pan! Perfectly-timed publication, given that I'm currently in the Antarctic gathering more data on these things.....!! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Trump moves to slash NSF If the NSF budget were to be enacted as is, it “would spell the end of any pretence that the US leads the world in science and technology” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

for example, if you become a statistician you will be perpetually asking people “what is your research question” regardless of which area of stats you work in

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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.

The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

"Power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives… power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality”

"Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere, as organizers respond to researchers’ growing fears over the country’s immigration crackdown." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Nice commentary, Rose! 🌎🧪🦉🦑 insideclimatenews.org/news/2205202...

My old work office. About to vanish like the ecosystems and species it strives to protect from vanishing, around the U.S. and around the world. 💔🦎🦅🧪 www.hcn.org/articles/usg...

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New study led by J. Garnier: "Emperor penguins likely disperse when habitat becomes unsuitable. This dispersal potentially increases global population by up to 7%, compared to no-dispersal scenarios when 4.3°C and 2°C climate scenarios lead to significant population declines" doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

let's go back to publishing every weird little thing we see an organism do as a natural history note. i love a good kitchen sink paper that gets into the nitty gritty of a whole-ass system, but when you're trying to research something less well-known, you really need people writing "so one time..."

Almost forgot that this is the whole point. (It’s a tiktok thing) The US National Science Foundation funds nearly ALL ice core research done by US university researchers. These cores preserve layers of time & bubbles of old air dating back 10s, 100s now even 1,000,000s of years.

The state of NZ science and research. Grossly underfunded. Watchdog warns of ‘grave danger’ if science reform botched newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/e...

My graduate research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The research that sealed my tenure case was majority funded by NSF. Five of my graduate students have been funded by NSF. My current sabbatical is #NSFfunded. In short, #withoutNSF, I would not be the scientist I am today. #saveNSF

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

Infuriating.

People sometimes think of Antarctica as being barren and devoid of life, but the ocean surrounding the continent is incredibly rich with wildlife and biodiversity. Photos of new discoveries and insights from our wonderful Australian colleagues… 🧪🥼❄️🌊🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

"Imagine going to the doctor because you're sick. The doctor gives you medicine that not only makes you feel better—but also puts money in your pocket. That’s what solving climate change is like: you slow global warming and gain health benefits, create jobs, boost energy independence, etc."

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Before any more people reply to my post above, insisting that the brain drain can be a thing, look at this and have a good think about what it means. bsky.app/profile/davi...