Mike Sieracki
@msier.bsky.social
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Biological oceanographer, bicyclist, father, leader
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Vaughn Cooper
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Prospective applicants are encouraged to check out the
@ebrc.org
whitepaper on this important need.
ebrc.org/publications...
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Engineering Biology Metrics and Technical Standards for the Global Bioeconomy | EBRC
https://ebrc.org/publications-metrics-and-standards/
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David Malakoff
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Despite Trump chaos, NSF avoided feared dip in research financing | Science | AAAS
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Despite Trump chaos, NSF avoided feared dip in research financing
Number of new grants fell by 20%, but got larger, as funder braced for potential budget cut
https://www.science.org/content/article/despite-trump-chaos-nsf-avoided-feared-dip-research-financing
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Dr. Lucky Tran
3 days ago
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Gregg Gonsalves
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A Compact for Control: No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social
@uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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A Compact for Control (opinion)
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/10/07/compact-control-opinion
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BGC_Argo
about 2 months ago
🌊 Job Opportunity with BGC-Argo! 🌊 We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats. 📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo:
[email protected]
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and this
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How We Can Eliminate the Need for Mined Minerals by 2050 - RMI
Battery circularity strengthens the EV battery supply chain, improves its efficiency, bolsters the economy, and increases energy independence.
https://rmi.org/how-we-can-eliminate-the-need-for-mined-minerals-by-2050/
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The Rocky Mountain Institute has done good work on the circular economy for battery materials. Like:
rmi.org/insight/the-...
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The Battery Mineral Loop - RMI
A comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.
https://rmi.org/insight/the-battery-mineral-loop/
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Josie Glausiusz
about 2 months ago
A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
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Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity" - Oceanographic
An historic treaty to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas, the High Seas Treaty, will come into force in 120 days.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/historic-high-seas-treaty-is-a-turning-point-for-humanity/?ref=inkcapjournal.co.uk
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Aaron Sojourner
2 months ago
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Not sure that free speech and gun rights are compatible. Will we need to choose?
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Dave Levitan
2 months ago
Latest test to our good luck this year on its way
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Nicole Poulton
2 months ago
Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.
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How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”
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Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/america-short-term-thinking.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Yay NSF!
democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Lofgren, AFGE Leaders Hold Press Conference Releasing NSF Employees' Letter of Dissent | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
https://democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/lofgren-afge-leaders-hold-press-conference-releasing-nsf-employees-letter-of-dissent
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Now NSF employees have also stood up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/science/trump-science-foundation-letter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.h32r.Mqed3wBuoV0O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Javier del Campo
4 months ago
Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB)
4 months ago
U.S. GO-SHIP seeks physical/biogeochemical oceanographer with hydrographic & cruise-planning experience to be Chief Scientist on Feb-May 2026 P04E (tentatively Costa Rica, to the Marshall Islands) Deadline August. 15
tinyurl.com/334y4daw
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Noam Ross
5 months ago
With news of court-ordered
#NIH
grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have! Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to
grant-watch.us
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5 months ago
Federal judge rules against NSF rate cap, a victory for research universities.
#AcademicSky
#HigherEd
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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Judge Sides With Universities, Blocks NSF’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap
A federal judge has blocked the National Science Foundation from implementing a 15% cap on the reimbursement of indirect costs on research grants funded by the agency.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/06/22/judge-sides-with-universities-blocks-nsfs-15--indirect-cost-cap/
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Dan Garisto
5 months ago
BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.284307/gov.uscourts.mad.284307.77.0.pdf
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Scott Delaney
5 months ago
THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
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"the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them"
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Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation
We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/time-for-congress-to-save-american-scienceand-the-nation/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=BulletinAtomic/magazine/Bulletin+of+the+Atomic+Scientists
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Anita Devineni
6 months ago
The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable. NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️
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Flemmy Wallstein
7 months ago
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
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YouTube video by Amy Rodgers
https://youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
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Sergey Kryazhimskiy
7 months ago
Wow, this is insane.
@billgates.com
: you want to spend your foundation money by 2045? Why not open up your own version of NSF to fund all science EXCEPT artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science?
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NSF Director resigns
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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-director-resign-amid-grant-terminations-job-cuts-and-controversy?utm_campaign=NewsfromScience&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=ownedSocial
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James Fallows
7 months ago
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
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Scott Delaney
7 months ago
🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to
@noamross.net
for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Carl Zimmer
7 months ago
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
& I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link)
nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
https://nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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Carl T. Bergstrom
7 months ago
Thread.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
7 months ago
🧪 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"
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Marco Foster
7 months ago
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters have gathered in front of The White House for a 50501 rally against Donald Trump 👇🏻
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“In the meantime, according to sources, NSF will not make any new awards.” This violates the impoundments act.
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New report eviscerates Cruz NSF DEI report
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Ranking Member Lofgren Urges NSF to Ignore Inflammatory Cruz Report, Releases Democratic Staff Report in Rebuttal | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
https://democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-lofgren-urges-nsf-to-ignore-inflammatory-cruz-report-releases-democratic-staff-report-in-rebuttal
7 months ago
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
7 months ago
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
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Go Cory!!
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Todd B. Bates
9 months ago
Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic | Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3278
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Retribution?
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
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Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/maine-sea-grant-funding-terminated-as-trump-administration-makes-cuts-to-noaa/
9 months ago
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New AGU President. Congratulations Brandon!
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Leading Science Organization Makes History With New President
The American Geophysical Union elected its first black President. Here's why that matters.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2025/02/27/leading-science-organization-makes-history-with-new-president/
9 months ago
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Glad to hear that the NSF pay portal is up again.
10 months ago
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Download all active NSF awards from the awards database in case they rescind awards.
10 months ago
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Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️🌈🖖🏻
10 months ago
Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science (Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
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From Richard Powers “Playground”
12 months ago
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Just ignoring the law
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STCmicrobeblog
about 1 year ago
tagging
#MicroSky
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Laura Eme
about 1 year ago
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Evolutionary Biology at the U of Rhode Island. Join us to explore the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes using cutting-edge comparative (meta)genomics and molecular evolution approaches. Applications are due December 15th. Contact me ASAP at
[email protected]
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John Dolan
about 1 year ago
Learn about the Plankton Manifesto!
doi.org/10.1093/plan...
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CREW
about 1 year ago
Good news: The Senate just confirmed David Huitema as the permanent head of the Office of Government Ethics. That's an important step to safeguard ethics compliance ahead of a second Trump administration that threatens to be even more corrupt than the first.
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Senate confirms Biden’s ethics czar, who will remain under Trump
Senate Democrats use dwindling floor time to confirm a new head for the government's ethics office, with whom Trump administration often butted heads in his first term.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/11/senate-confirms-bidens-ethics-czar-who-will-remain-under-trump/401041/
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