Happy Juneteenth my friends

Some good news. Piping plovers are adorable

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

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

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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

You get a funding cut, and you get a funding cut… 😩

Man what the actual fuck *screams into the abyss*

Despite the terrible weather Chicago showed up for science yesterday. Thanks @durbin.senate.gov for speaking, along with all the amazing scientists across Chicago.

My (likely) final first author paper was published today. I miss research but 4 months out of the academic track, I don’t miss the lifestyle needed to sustain a career in it. Scientists work so hard to push human knowledge and the concerted attack on these efforts will harm us all.

Here are the three goals of the March 7th #standupforscience as information is altered & removed, funding changed in ways that penalize scientists, & needed expansion in participation replaced with opportunities for less.

So cool 🤩 fun fact: seeing the Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation is one of the reasons I pursued astronomy

Flower Pot - sprayed three glazes on thick hoping to get some depth and texture. lsps studio glazes; Empire Strikes Black / Metallic Green / pull tape / Speckled Ivory

Scream it from the rooftops. Just because someone’s not interested in science doesn’t mean it hasn’t made their life better. Let’s all be better science communicators

You love to see it Also, that acronym

The most important thing I’ve learned in my new, non academic role — if it’s not on your *outlook* calendar it doesn’t exist 😳

More of this.

Hear the President of the American Astronomical Society, Dara Norman, talk about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, participatory science, black hole-galaxy coevolution, and more on Monday (Feb. 3)! In person (Chicago) and online! Registration at: pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people. That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.

Dems keep asking for money, but only some seem to be actually fighting back.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

My new boss has done research on post Soviet countries as well as worked for years in Central Asia. I’m thankful for her perspective when I start to spiral. Breathe and reach out to your network

Rescinded due to criticism. Keep contacting your reps all, being annoying works

I appreciate when folks react to slack posts

Dust is neat

This is not a fucking joke. Contact your representatives now.

🚨If your senator is below, call them “No on RFK Jr” (202) 224-3121 • Booker (D-NJ) • Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Whitehouse (D-RI) • Murkowski (R-AK) • Ernst (R-IA) • McConnell (R-KY) • Cassidy (R-LA) • Collins (R-ME) • Tillis (R-NC) • Lankford (R-OK) • Cornyn (R-TX) • Curtis (R-UT) • Moore Capito (R-WV)

Good. Protect the children

Hell yes

The dilemma of wanting clean hair and the real feel being 15

Spent the weekend in Seattle with college friends. Haven’t laughed that hard in awhile.

Buckle up everybody

I'm leaving academia! On Friday I start as the Assistant Director of Education and Outreach at SkAI. Happy to be staying in Chicago for the foreseeable future and for new adventures.

This world makes me so sad

Wow I am tired. Don't know how my prof friends do *all* the things.

Was just told, "nobody goes into academia to get rich." Which sure, but why is wanting to own a place to live considered being rich? I ain't out here trying to rough it my whole life

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