🫰snaps🫰for @snapcoalition.bsky.social, the first group of grad students to join us on the plenary stage in almost 180 years!

Do you like swag and care about #EarlyCareerResearchers in #scipol and #scicomm? Of course you do. Drop by Booth 605 at #AAASmtg today to speak with SNAPpers about what we do and how you can help! And come see our plenary panel today @ 1 p.m.! #AAAS2026

Of course also huge thanks to @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @bdavisbio.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social & all others who helped!

ASAPers @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @braineelainee.bsky.social are attending @aaas.org conference in Phoenix Feb. 12-14! If you're going, don't miss @snapcoalition.bsky.social events, including the reception (forms.gle/T4Ue52eVXhG2...) #AAAS2026

@bdavisbio.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @gator-pase.bsky.social @scipolucla.bsky.social @pspdg.bsky.social

No kings in Ithaca! @isakoditomassi.bsky.social

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Georgia is accepting applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fungal Biology/Mycology. Anticipated start date of May 2026. Open until filled, so apply now! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Impactful matriculation speech for new #gradstudents by @yale.edu Grad School Dean Lynn Cooley on how crucial #SciComm is, with shout-outs to @snapcoalition.bsky.social & wonderful SNAP co-founder Alex Rich. ~23 minutes in: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGv...

Two years down, three to go! Thanks to a fantastic committee and my even better friends (although two cakes was very unnecessary)

UChicago representation! I always loved working with the organismal bio people at the Field Museum. Good luck and may the tiktaalik spirit guide you @neilshubin.bsky.social

Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! There is still time to participate. Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! Are you living in or are from #Arkansas? Write to your local paper to share your science: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

Meeting such amazing mycologists at this conference is really making me feel good about the future again <3

Hi, friends! I know @alexlando.bsky.social, @epiplantpath.bsky.social and I will be at #MSAfungi2025. Who else is coming to #Madison next week?! @msafungi.bsky.social @msastudents.bsky.social

Excellent opinion piece written to your hometown community, Alex! "And what will we lose if we allow that science to be quietly dismantled?" #McClintockLetters

Even the most politically conservative newspapers will still publish an article on funding science if you make it relevant to their readers! Check out my Letter to the Editor (pg 14) as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! view.flipdocs.com?ID=10009972_...

What a week!!! First @nytimes.com, and now we are so honored to have the McClintock Letters initiative featured in @science.org ! Let’s keep the ball rolling on public-facing sci comm :) www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy 123rd Birthday, Dr. Barbara McClintock! Thank you to the #scientists participating in the nationwide #SciComm initiative, #McClintockLettters, that is in her honor. We are speaking to our local hometown communities about the value of federally funded research, and the impactful work we do.

Hbd to the legend, Barbara McClintock 🎂🎉 Working on the McClintock Letters initiative with @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social + others has been beyond inspiring. Thank you to all 580+ scientists who participated!!!

How amazing are @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social in the Times?? Happy birthday to Barbara McClintock and what an honor to work on this project in her name! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

Sign on to the open letter by us over at @snapcoalition.bsky.social! An amazing collaboration of researchers pushing the fight for science with brave new ideas and impeccable communication skills!

Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free! 🍄🍄🍄 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Early career scientists, please sign our open letter to call for the preservation of the future of American Science. It only takes a moment to sign to #DefendResearch docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The McClintock Letters made it to NBC News! Take a look at ours and the other initiatives we’ve been working with over at @cornellasap.bsky.social to humanize scientists and make our voices heard. Be a part of the movement! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you missed the brave and articulate Jenna Norton - one of the hero researchers at #NIH who signed the Bethesda Declaration - on #NPR yesterday, check her extraordinary interview here. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH #StopTrump #KillTheBill

Now or never! If you’re writing a McClintock letter or even if you’re not, please consider signing this open letter!

You can really tell how animated I get when talking about #scicomm

Look at how far this initiative is going! Join us in taking our science home to the people it impacts most! #McClintockLetters

Attend our McClintock Letters Initiative science communication workshop, to get yourself started on writing your op-ed piece! Wednesday, May 21 @ 12:20p ET Sign up here for Zoom link: cglink.me/2ee/r2286347

This is what we fight for. How beautiful is a life as a scientist <3 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!) In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

I had the pleasure of knowing the first author on this paper, Dr. O’Connor, at the Field Museum a few years back, and she is the coolest science person to ever do scicomm. So glad to see this work finally coming out!

Starting local is a fantastic idea! Thats why we’re focusing on the #McClintockLetters. The best way to share science to local communitites is to do it ourselves, so sign up to write one!!! tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersd

Here’s a shocker: it’s not going well these days.

Researchers have found a new ally in the fight against a serious liver disease: a symbiotic gut-dwelling fungus that produces a molecule shown to be capable of reversing disease progression in mice. scim.ag/42ZzVrC

Interest is spreading! Sign up to write your letter!!

And the brilliant Dr. Lovett strikes again! A wonderfully written side effect of having some extra time on his hands these days.

We have to move the needle on public perception of the value of science. Scientists, tell your story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

“Science policy is not just about managing budgets - it is about shaping the future”. Never did I think a Forbes article would explain the dismantling of the NSF so clearly and expansively (beyond economics). The loss is profound, and for some of us, Earth-shattering. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...

If you followed me because you're jazzed about the McClintock Letters, and you didn't sign up to write one yet, why not?! Share with people who do not otherwise interact with science why your research is important & why it's worth protecting! We must work to repair trust and address misinformation.

Science is under attack! Here are a few ways you can share your story - post it on social media, call your representative's office, engage local media outlets #resist #SaveNSF

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

For those who don’t know about @howwetalkabtsci.bsky.social yet, please give it a read! @isabellaclsci.bsky.social and @jessicaoros.bsky.social have poured so much work into these publications and deserve all the readership they can get.

I’m loving #WithoutNSF - it embodies the ethos of the McClintock Letters, an initiative to take this discussion to the public, far beyond social media echo chambers. We are on track to reach over a million people. Sign up to share your story!!! Share this!! blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

My advisor is amazing! Thanks @lovettbr.bsky.social for yet another reminder of why this is all so important and what we can do about it. If only they could include the purple hair in cartoon form.

Are you just as pissed off, disappointed, and worried for the future of science as I am after the recent NSF news? Well then let’s do something about it.

We are at a pivot point where we must decide if we prefer a society that conducts science (in the public interest) or doesn’t. I hope people appreciate this choice is here and that we are on the latter path without serious, immediate intervention.

We had such great sessions! These fellows are and will be the future of science policy in New York, and I’m grateful they traveled all this way to share their time and knowledge with us.

Went to a science journalism talk from @danfagin.bsky.social, who shared this mind-blowing idea: people are not irrational for ignoring scientific evidence, they're being TOO rational. They recognize that the social cost of going against their "tribe" is just not worth what they gain from the truth.

Yes! And as researchers, we can have direct communication with the broader public to clarify how the research ecosystem works. The #McClintockLetters is one way to contribute to that! Scientists are writing pieces for their hometown papers, published ~June 16th, to help build this awareness.