Reading in journal club Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rooted In Dialogue Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you! 📆Monday, Aug 11 🕐10:30–11:30 AM 📍Hilton Key 7 More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Hope to see many of you here at ESA next week!!

In our review of CMNs, water stood out as a resource that might be transferred between plants via fungal connections. This new study provides further support (and in DSEs!). Nice expt by Bea Bock et al 👍 Great to see new research. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Thanks Katie for the feature (!!!) in this recent article highlighting the awesome grassroots efforts of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ❣️❣️❣️

Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone! tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...

On its face, this “Gold Standard Science” EO seems innocuous. But beyond the serious concerns in 🧵 below, its “enforcement” provisions stood out. A senior political appointee (DOGE?) will evaluate alleged violations, including referring those to Human Resources. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“One point seems to be lost: The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs… We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!” goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...

From “A fascination with fungi…” to teaching “climate resilience to students and to help[ing] them see themselves as part of the climate solution.” 🧡 Public funding of science is transformative.

Two Sonoma County 🍇 scientists studying fungi and the ocean warn: 90% of people rely on science—weather, food safety, jobs—but only 10% are worried about funding cuts. That gap threatens the future. 🧪🏠

“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...

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...

Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0 #ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF #SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF

🧪 Y'all, drop Amy—the last NSF historian—a follow, take her up on her generous offer and request!! 👏👏 "Like scientists, historians are empiricists." Offer: Reach out at [email protected] Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!

🧪 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...

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Anyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2. Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Grateful for another WOC in the academy conference. Exactly what I needed to feel today❣️ @nu-wocia.bsky.social

🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives: Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%. That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office. Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.

Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

🌿 Stretching your research dollars? You’re not alone! Join us for the #Botany360 free virtual event, Botany on a Budget — a casual discussion with BSA members who have experience making research happen with limited resources. Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2–3 p.m. EST Register here: tinyurl.com/bot360

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

Further grant terminations from NSF. I don't yet have a list of what has been cut. It's been hard to concentrate today when every email ping could a notice from NSF that another of our grants is being terminated.

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

Triple fuck: 1. White House proposed to cut NSF’s budget by 55%. 2. White House told NSF to fire half of staff. 3. “NSF announced it was terminating what could be more than $1 billion in grants already awarded” If true for #3, that’s at least three times what was terminated last Friday. FUCK

This Kentucky mountaintop was earmarked to become a federal prison—until these Indigenous women bought the land. Now, rather than a labor camp, they're raising a herd of sacred bison, instead. more in @atmosmag.bsky.social by @yessfun.com 🧪

Spoke to a formerly NSF-funded researcher and a former NSF program officer about the changes to the NSF re: disinformation. They were clear: studying disinformation doesn't cause censorship, but censoring research causes censorship.

This funding is my sole source of income (as per my agreement with NSF, you are not allowed to take on other work). Additionally, because I am paid directly by the NSF, my university does not consider me to be an employee so I don’t have the same protections as other employed postdocs.

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

🚨If you are an NSF-funded researcher with a terminated grant and want to talk to the media…🚨 Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or [email protected] or via signal hcarnell.58

In 2017, Senator Rubio blasted Rex Tillerson for not presenting the State Department human rights reports with a press conference. What Secretary Rubio is doing is far worse, systematically editing out descriptions of human rights abuses and corruption. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

NSF will no longer fund research on misinformation and is stopping grants, arguing that it could infringe on free speech “in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate”. Chilling to see even if it’s not a surprise. 🧪 www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Interested in what we can learn from microbes in coastal restoration efforts? Submit an abstract to our session for @cerfscience.bsky.social in Nov: "Microscopic to Mighty: Harnessing Microbial Ecology for Restoration Success", co-led by the fabulous @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social! #CERF2025

Urban biodiversity is challenged by competition for space, human pressures and the declining engagement of urban residents with nature. Developing cities as shared environments for humans and nature can contribute to biodiversity conservation and solve social challenges. 📑 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Ready for our community call this Thursday? It's about getting the right folks into the LTER, and keeping them here. Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟 March 26, 9am PT—register below! lternet.edu/events/recru...

📰Published📰 #Plant-#microbe interactions drive the rhizosphere microbial assembly & nitrogen cycling in a subtropical #forest 🌎🧪 fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/p...

Soil biome variation of #Lupinus nipomensis in wet-cool vs. dry-warm microhabitats & greenhouse New #AJB research by Peter Nguyen, @justinluong.com, Van Wishingrad, Lisa Stratton, Michael Loik & Rachel Meyer doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #lupine #Fabaceae #ecology

✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jackie Robinson has been restored!!! 😊💙 Huge win for our democracy!!! 💙 Keep up the noise!!! 🤗💙 #Thisiswhywefight #Bluecrew #Resistance #Resist www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/u-s...

I've asked Major League Baseball's Vice President of Communications if Major League Baseball has any comment on the DoD erasing Jackie Robinson's page from the site and changing the URL to "DEI Sports." I'll update this story if and when the league weighs in. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...