Heartfelt reflection from @cornellasap.bsky.social co-prez and founding member of @snapcoalition.bsky.social, @emmascales.bsky.social as she shares her #McClintockLetters piece and some of what she learned along the way <3 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Environmental challenges, like extreme weather events & critical changes in Earth systems, remain a priority, underlining the importance of risk mitigation in an interconnected world.🌐⚠️ —WEF Global Risks Report 2025 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/global-risks-report-2025-bleak-predictions/

Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR gene editing. “There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines. 🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG

Spotted at the @researchamerica.bsky.social National Health Forum! Very cool @jpflores.rbind.io and @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social

@rosemalb.bsky.social and Naman's work at @upenn.edu centered around a "Reverse Science Fair," which challenged graduate researchers to present their scientific work to high school students.

SNAPpers Amanda, Naman, and @rosemalb.bsky.social (from @pspdg.bsky.social) presented their @researchamerica.bsky.social #SciPol projects at the National Health Research Forum (at @aaas.org headquarters). Thanks R!A for sponsoring these projects + investing in the next gen of #ScienceAdvocates!

Amanda's project focused on increasing #scipol skills in students at the @uofalabama.bsky.social Birmingham and fostering connections between student scientists, the Birmingham community, and policymakers.

Support this great organization @carpentries.carpentries.org

The bsky tag did not go through on the first post @carpentries.carpentries.org

Learn more about their decision and how to support The Carpentries (a 501c3) here. carpentries.org/blog/2025/06...

"We are proud to have been recommended, and believe in the value of our proposed POSE project. However, we are rescinding our proposal and will not pursue funding through the NSF, or other US federal funding agencies with similar requirements, as long as these requirements are in place."

...for grantees, including a stipulation that all new awardees certify that they “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI.” The Carpentries embraces diversity, equity and inclusion as part of their mission.

First, the proposal "was flagged for DEI content, namely, for “the retention of underrepresented students, which has a limitation or preference in outreach, recruitment, participation that is not aligned to NSF priorities.”" Then they "learned that the NSF has recently adopted new conditions ...

🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall. The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds. They withdrew the grant.

Let's go, California! We can fund science that fuels our economy when Trump is trying to harm our great universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

We're excited to announce the fall 2025 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Schedule in the thread 👇 💻 More details + registration: www.philsci.org/psa_...

Been having lots of fun co-organizing and doing Congressional District Visit days with my colleagues across the Triangle in NC! So cool to see our SNAP initiative hit 29 states! (41 visits completed, 10+ scheduled!) (Virtual visits not pictured!)

Excited to see @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and I’s seltzers at the @researchamerica.bsky.social National Health Research Forum next week! @sciforgood.bsky.social ‘s pilot sites (11 sites across the country) are working hard to make this happen in their local communities!

And of course, I’m excited for the looming debuts of the Atlas of Inspiring Latin American Scientists (Fall 2025) and the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists (early Winter 2026). We also have a very motivated team working on the Atlas of Indigenous Scholars, stay tuned 👀

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.” Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

At UNC, I'm doing a Cert in Innovation for the Public Good and taking a Nonprofit Management class. Interesting excerpt on "Founder Syndrome": "... the founder’s psychological identification with the organization... may make it impossible for them to accept a more democratic, team approach..."

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

sciencepolicyreview.pubpub.org/pub/w21ewo8q... Excellent piece co-authored by SNAPer Gabriel Vega-Bellido for MIT Science Policy Review discussing the value of #citizenscience

FABBS is hiring a short-term Tech Policy Fellow to focus on behavioral science and AI (link below). Share with early career policy wonks @ilpfoundry.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @scipolguy.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @matthourihan.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social #scipoljobs

What a great overview of the #Cornell #potato #plantbreeding program! cals.cornell.edu/news/2025/08...

BREAKTHROUGH: BTI scientists have created the first complete genetic makeup of a sweetpotato genome—all 90 chromosomes! 🧬 This could fast-track breeding of drought-resistant, nutritious crops for millions. The future of food just got a boost. 🍠 news.btiscience.org/252852-decod... #PlantScience

Our summer researchers brought plant science to 90 campers at the YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County! Younger kids explored nature with bingo and leaf-press art, while older campers learned to ID trees and made UV leaf prints. A day full of discovery, creativity, and the wonder of plants!

The future of American science event coming up from our friends over at @stpolicy.bsky.social featuring Rep. Brian Babin Aug 27 from 3-4 PM, available live and in-person www.bakerinstitute.org/event/future... @kennyevans.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social

Thanks! We've created scienceimpacts.org to scale insights from these studies to a broader audience, and gotten national and local news coverage. We're also working with advocacy groups like @standupforscience.bsky.social & @snapcoalition.bsky.social to get these messages to the public and Congress

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe– major report “The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Grateful for the mention! For anyone interested, please sign up to get involved: snapcoalition.org/join/ #SciPol #SciComm #PhD #ECR

Impactful matriculation speech for new #gradstudents by @yale.edu Grad School Dean Lynn Cooley on how crucial #SciComm is, with shout-outs to @snapcoalition.bsky.social & wonderful SNAP co-founder Alex Rich. ~23 minutes in: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGv...

The Trump DOE (Energy) misrepresented a scientific finding about climate change undergirding the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave to attempt to claim carbon dioxide emissions are not a problem. Our impact on nature cannot be erased by decree. www.linkedin.com/posts/karen-...

I AM affiliated with @sciforgood.bsky.social & @snapcoalition.bsky.social 🤗

Huge shoutout to the crew on this! @abankston.bsky.social @siararouzer.bsky.social Amy & Crystal, woo!

Our piece is out in SciTech Forefront! Check it out here: medium.com/scitech-fore... Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊

Congratulations to all of the winners of our New Media Course final project competition: Ian Gonzalez, Felicity Hills, Meg Sales, Lida Sarafrazarpatapeh. Be sure to check out these projects (and all of the public submissions) on our website at scopepolicy.org #newmedia #scopepolicy #scicomm #scipol

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

Breaking: A federal judge ordered the Trump admin. to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement buff.ly/cJKbdTY 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

Huge shoutout to @kassstem.bsky.social for doing such a great job with the SNAP website! snapcoalition.org

From 2020 to 2022 COVID vaccines prevented over 18.5 million hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved the US $1.15 trillion. mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.

Curious if anyone’s done a Fulbright post-PhD??? If so, lmk! Looking to pick some brains!

Looking for a new podcast? Check out “From where does it STEM” hosted by recent guest and PhD candidate JP Flores. If you want to dive in to how scientists have overcome barriers and found success check it out wherever get your podcasts.

What the article DIDN’T mention is the Slack has a name! I’m so lucky to be a part of a team of passionate science communicators and advocates in @snapcoalition.bsky.social

“Bridging science and society is a problem everywhere...As someone passionate about science and society, I want the scientific workforce to reflect the diversity of the country, and these executive orders are going to stop that.” @jpflores.rbind.io www.aaas.org/membership/m...

@snapcoalition.bsky.social is a grassroots organization that organized the McClintock Letters & just ran a training for our congressional district visit days. It’s a group with leaders from all over the country & a group where we put the team and goals FIRST. No silly titles. Just work we believe

Trump's latest Executive Order is another attempt to assert political control over research and must be resisted! We have concrete actions to take--check them out! defendresearch.org #DefendResearch www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...