Get inspired for your academic website 💻 Check out the award winners in this year's Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 🏆🎉 Hosted by Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social, Ian Li @owlstown.com, and Brittany Trinh #AcademicSky #ScienceSky theacademicdesigner.com/2025/winners...

Ohio State University to add 100 faculty as part of new AI push. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

#AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 — word use matters

Did u know?This might look mundane, but leaving areas of grass to grow long & stay long is one of the best things you can do to help small souls in the chilly months.For e.g, many b'fly caterpillars feed on grass throughout the winter - Small Heaths,Meadow Browns & Ringlets,so leave it long. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐛

Good Sunday morning. A misty blue sky to greet us Blueskyers in London and an 80% waxing gibbous Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

#VenusExpress science highlights included: 🌀 the complexity of polar vortices 🌋 hints of current volcanic activity 🫧 first ever detection of atmospheric water loss Read more 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/gfaumrkior  3/ 🔭

20 years ago today, our first mission to Venus was launched 🎉 #VenusExpress gave us a unique global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour and paved the way to #ESAEnvision.  1/ 🔭🧪 #planetsci

Trump's war on solar furloughs 1000 "it’s being penalized by Customs. The US government under Trump says it’s keen on boosting domestic manufacturing. Why would it work against a company that’s onshoring an entire solar supply chain, including recycling?" electrek.co/2025/11/07/u... #energysky

"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." ― Carl Sagan, born 9 November 1934 Video Credit: @planetarysociety.bsky.social #PaleBlueDot 🔭 🧪 #CarlSagan

James 2:15-17 "Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

Also if you're like, what what the heck is going on? I got you. I helped put together this timeline of the two dozen stories I've done about the work Trump has done to block funding to SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

🚨 Trump is following Project 2025 to starve Americans, kids: Project 2025: "the White House must strongly support these reforms... there would be opposition from left-of-center groups who do not want to reform SNAP and would expand welfare and dependency—such as through universal free school meals"

Hakeem Jeffries: “It’s not reasonable for Donald Trump to withhold intentionally SNAP benefits from 42 million Americans. It’s not reasonable for Republicans to devastate the healthcare of the American people to find $40 billion to bail out their right-wing dictator friend in Argentina.“

This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S. service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted SNAP support for military families. Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve. (🎥hatteri621)

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Love the idea of the "deletion test" posed by @needhibhalla.bsky.social & coauthors in their commentary about costs of cutting DEI efforts in science. What if that student were "deleted?" What will the costs be? Screenshots attached to enhance access. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions. 📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146... #sciencepolicy #saveNASA

🧪 Two of my favorite sci-things! Already run q.e.d on my latest bioRxiv submissions :)

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers We are supposed to take this seriously?

We will not let Minnesotans go hungry.

His "concept" of a Healthcare Plan is finally revealed. It involves eliminating the Insurance Industry & people purchasing their OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE. Unrelated, note his obsessive envy of Obama, historically rated 1 of our finest presidents, who he still believes was born in Kenya. #sad 🤣

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

Every administration since the start of SNAP has ensured funds kept flowing despite a government shutdown — the Trump admin, even if forced by a judge, is trying to weasel their way out. Because the cruelty IS the point. TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive

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I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics: go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations." Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530 #PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪

“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟

Stop the scroll ✋‼️ Got 5 minutes? Get involved with Stand Up for Science! We're fighting to protect our science and our public health — whether by meeting urgent needs in the moment, or gearing up for electoral battles down the line. JOIN US! Links are in our bio: www.standupforscience.net/ta...

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

Gliding over a forest of quadricolor anemones in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity

Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪

Mt. Toro and the Santa Lucia Range float like islands above Monterey Bay, between the Salinas Valley and Pacific Ocean.

Billions of State and Institutional Aid Dollars Go to High-Income Students https://bit.ly/47Gnke0 #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

“Dysfunctional government” doesn’t even begin to describe this. 1.4 million civilian federal employees didn’t get a paycheck. And the part no one’s talking about: even if the government reopens tomorrow, we’ll be right back on the edge by November 21—the next shutdown deadline. Chaos on repeat.

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Anyone particular on your mind @harmitmalik.bsky.social ? 😜

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

Harmit is the anti-toxin to Watson