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faculty @ Williams College, math, ecology, population dynamics, beagle lover, they/she, 🏳️🌈
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Adam Kinzinger
12 days ago
So if Tylenol creates autism we’re cool then with vaccines right? RIGHT???? RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
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Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!
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MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society
Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26839
about 2 months ago
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Michael E. Mann
4 months ago
"Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research" | My interview earlier today on
@msnbc.com
#KatyTurReports
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www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
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Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research
A new executive order claims the Trump administration is restoring a “gold-standard” for science. However, thousands of scientists, academics and researchers have signed onto an open letter that says ...
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/scientists-speak-out-against-trump-admin-s-move-to-defund-research-240903237882
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Defend Public Health
4 months ago
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Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign Grow Louder
More doctors are taking to social media to call for Kennedy's ouster
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/115928
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This is insane (though I find myself saying that way too often these days)
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Homeland Security blocking Harvard’s ability to enroll international students
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blocks-harvards-ability-enroll-international-students-nyt-reports-2025-05-22/
5 months ago
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Charles Logan
5 months ago
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/rapid-response-bridge-funding-program
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Dan Garisto
5 months ago
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
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Joshua Weitz
5 months ago
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything
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Max Kozlov
5 months ago
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01361-z
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
5 months ago
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!✨ Lots of lovely penguins on here today for
#WorldPenguinDay
! Here's a flashback to 2019 and London Zoo's most famous gay couple Ronnie and Reggie . . . 🐧🌈🐧
www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/...
#queer
#birds
#QueerInSTEM
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Some penguins are gay. Get over it. | London Zoo
Zookeepers have made a special mini banner for the Penguin Beach home of the Zoo’s most famous gay residents, Humboldt penguins Ronnie and Reggie, paying homage to Stonewall’s groundbreaking ‘Get Over...
https://www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/news/some-penguins-are-gay-get-over-it
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60 Minutes
5 months ago
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority.
https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
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It’s Transgender Awareness Week! Now more than ever, it’s important to support marginalized communities. Below are 2 links: one for information and the other an organization dedicated to supporting transgender youth that you may consider donating to
glaad.org/transweek/
www.transyouthequality.org
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Transgender Awareness Week | GLAAD
Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members...
https://glaad.org/transweek/
11 months ago
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Williams College is hiring an applied mathematician to start Fall 2025. Come work with me 😁
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24...
about 1 year ago
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Register now for the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling @ New Haven CT, June 10-13!
resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm-2024/
over 1 year ago
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Favorite headline on this:
apple.news/AcwG9D_JOSQu...
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Opinion: America isn’t cool anymore. Just ask the French
This week France enshrined abortion rights in their Constitution in reaction to the US overturning Roe vs Wade. It’s just one example of how the French are increasingly looking to the US with less env...
https://apple.news/AcwG9D_JOSQuG3shu3ybTiQ
over 1 year ago
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
over 1 year ago
This is huge!! An attenuated vaccine for dengue that over 80% effective against symptomatic dengue fever 🧪
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Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan–Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults | NEJM
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan–Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2301790
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pikaole
over 1 year ago
It's not easy to be okay
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James Poniewozik
over 1 year ago
Fox News, which once gave a regular weekly commentary slot to the host of an NBC reality show called The Apprentice, would like entertainers to stay out of politics
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/b...
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Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’
The prospect of the pop megastar endorsing President Biden in the 2024 election has irked conservative stars on the cable network.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/business/media/taylor-swift-fox-trump.html
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Back from the JMM and first post on Bluesky!
over 1 year ago
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