#SciComm friends! It's the last day for late submissions to @galacticpolymath.com's #MySciJourney Challenge! www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Time to stop doom scrolling & check out some AMAZING 3 min science videos. Your thumbs up could decide who wins the #MySciJourney challenge! 🧪🐸🪶🔊 Thanks to lead funder @ncse.bsky.social & organizers @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com @scitalker.bsky.social 🙌 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Teachers, check it out! Andrew's awesome video is part of our growing collection of short, classroom-ready videos. Watch them and vote with likes to decide who wins the #scicomm competition! #edusky

Scientists, you can still join Andrew & share your 3 min science journey with classrooms across the US (and compete for cash prizes). Accepting late submissions till Nov 3! 🧪🪶🔉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Oct. 12!✨ I don't need to tell you that public support is crucial to sustaining science. #SciComm has never been more important, so don’t miss this chance to give the public a window into how science really works—and why it works so well. Join the #MySciJourney Challenge!

Scientists, here's your chance to remind the public about the beauty of science & why your work matters! Make a 3min presentation with a template; cash prizes! 💰 Deadline extended to Oct 12. www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij... Funded by @ncse.bsky.social Plz repost! 🧪🪶🐸🔊 #scicomm #MySciJourney

Undergrads, grad students, professors, medical researchers, scientists in industry: help middle and high schoolers across the country understand what you *actually* do and why it matters! Be a source of inspiration amid all this chaos.

Friends—1 week left! If you use science in your job (undergrad, in academia, in industry...anything!) & you want to help students understand what it's really like & why it's important—here's your chance! 🧪 from @galacticpolymath.com & @ncse.bsky.social 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

anybody know what kind of wasp this is?

Friends—1 week left! If you use science in your job (undergrad, in academia, in industry...anything!) & you want to help students understand what it's really like & why it's important—here's your chance! 🧪 from @galacticpolymath.com & @ncse.bsky.social 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

To appreciate the power & promise of science, people need a deeper understanding of the _processes_ of science. Join the #MySciJourney Challenge to show the world what “doing science” looks like for you! Scientists at all stages are invited to submit their short videos by September 30.

Scientists, only 2 weeks left to share your work, why it matters & win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow with our template. This #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪🔊🐸 👉https://galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scijourney-scicomm-competition-2025

"...it checks all the boxes — authentic science, student-led inquiry, & ready-to-go NGSS-aligned materials..." 😊 Check out this guest post from @brewerbiology.bsky.social after teaching our free unit about @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's research 🐸🔊🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/what-ca...

Crazy discovery in ants 🤯🐜 One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago."

Scientists, here's your chance to share your work, why it matters, and win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow and recording it. We made templates and examples to make it easier. Our #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social & @civicscimedia.bsky.social sky.social #scicomm

What would you tell your younger self about why your research matters & what's happening to science in the US? I made an example #MySciJourney video (not part of the contest) & a Slides template to simplify the creation of classroom- & social media-friendly vids. Make it your own! 🧪

What would you tell your younger self about why your research matters & what's happening to science in the US? I made an example #MySciJourney video (not part of the contest) & a Slides template to simplify the creation of classroom- & social media-friendly vids. Make it your own! 🧪

🎉 We're so excited to announce the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge: A #scicomm competition for researchers to share their authentic journeys in science with students, teachers, & the broader public! 🧪 💸 $1k in cash prizes, thanks to @ncse.bsky.social! 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Looking for a forum to speak to K-12 students & the public to let them know what science & scientists are really like? Want to tell them why your research matters & what defunding science will do to our way of life? Here's your chance! 🧪🔉🪶🐸

Great news for those who love the Merlin app, but wish it helped you identify frogs and other critters! deepmind.google/discover/blo... 🪶🐸🔉

ICYMI, we (@galacticpolymath.com) created a free web-based sound analysis tool. Great for teaching about birdsong, physics of sound, band, or advanced #bioacoustics! Just a free app with no installation or coding needed thanks to NSF funding! #SaveNSF 🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/dive-in...

Check out these #bird scientists showing how to be observant and ask good questions! 🤩🪶 Featuring Drs. Allison Johnson & Dai Shizuka, and some adorable Australian fairywrens! #NSF -funded research and #BroaderImpacts 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjve...

If you're teaching any science class (middle school to college) where you want students to learn how to ask better questions, check this out! Free thanks to funding from NSF. #saveNSF #birds #Edusky🧪

THIS! 🔥👇 "We’re not going to fix education with more technology... we’re putting too much emphasis on what looks innovative, and not enough on what’s actually effective." #EduSky #EdTech Wonderful guest blog by Michelle Blanchet of The Educators' Lab! 👏 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/stop-ch...

When I began studying bird song 16 yrs ago, my daily experience of the world changed forever. Since then, I've wanted to help others get curious about croaks, chirps & whistles at the edge of their hearing. What's making that? Why? What are they saying? Plz check it out & share! 👇🐋🐦‍⬛🐸🔊 #EduSky

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

It makes me very happy to see teacher demand grow for these resources we developed with scientists over the last 4+ years with Broader Impacts NSF grant funds 😊 And very dismayed that future funds are being slashed & news today that NSF is even being booted out of its office building 😖 #SaveNSF 🧪

I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.

This meme asks a really good question about why the thresher shark has such expressive eyes & why those eyes always seem so concerned or shocked. What's up, in other words, with the squaliform side-eye? I have an answer!

Good news! After almost a year of development, we're so pleased to share SoundLab: An #openaccess tool for *seeing* & analyzing sounds. Intended as a teaching tool for middle school to college—introduce students to #bioacoustics & the science of sound 🧪🔊🐋🪶🎶🐦‍⬛ www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/dive-in...

When I began studying bird song 16 yrs ago, my daily experience of the world changed forever. Since then, I've wanted to help others get curious about croaks, chirps & whistles at the edge of their hearing. What's making that? Why? What are they saying? Plz check it out & share! 👇🐋🐦‍⬛🐸🔊 #EduSky

Today I’m thinking about Macropinna microstoma—the fish with a see-through head. All brain, no filter. Just floating through pressure and poison, watching everything. May we all be so transparent and unbothered. #DeepSeaMood

What happens when NIH is under threat? 📉 Fewer clinical trials. 💔 No new treatments for cancer, rare diseases. And long-term? We surrender our global leadership in biomedical research. NIHers risked everything to speak out, b/c the stakes are life and death. Stand with them here⬇️ zurl.co/OArEE

For the last 4+ years I've been trying to build capacity to mobilize knowledge into classrooms through #openaccess curriculum developed with researchers (with @galacticpolymath.com). We're making significant progress, even as our NSF funding is being attacked. #saveNSF 🧪 bsky.app/profile/gala...

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

The proposed NIH budget cuts would lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic losses and the elimination of 68,000 jobs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this happening the same day Trump threatens Iran...the weekend after my elected state legislators were attacked in their homes, with 2 dead. Science is in tatters. The world reels from mindless trade wars. The survival of the Republic depends on Republicans showing an ounce of courage. Fuck

Trump's $20 billion cut to biomedical research would significantly reduce the life expectancy of Americans. New estimates suggest that these cuts to new therapies will result in 82 million fewer years of life for Americans over the next 25 years.

If we can't support cancer research, what hope is there for basic science and the future of innovation in this country?! Gonna be watching this closely 😶‍🌫️

Still 25% less than the usual number of awardees, from what I understand, but great news nevertheless. 🧪

Tiny part.

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

I offered it a piece of chocolate cake, a pickle, an ice cream cone, a cupcake and a watermelon, but all it wanted was this nice green milkweed leaf

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

So stoked to announce this free, NSF-funded unit for middle school & above! Help your students build #dataliteracy & #climateliteracy as they dive into data from @ourworldindata.org! Developed w/ @scitalker.bsky.social at @unlincoln.bsky.social 🧪 #SaveNSF teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/17

"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying" -- anon