Happy Juneteenth my friends
June 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy Juneteenth my friends
Some good news. Piping plovers are adorable
Two of Chicago’s most famous seasonal residents have returned — and they are expecting. blockclubchi.co/3GX8A0R
May 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Some good news. Piping plovers are adorable
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My ongoing request:
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My ongoing request:
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
You get a funding cut, and you get a funding cut… 😩
One in five Chicagoans will lose access to the CTA, Pace and Metra if the state doesn't fund public transit, according to the RTA.
1 In 5 Chicagoans Will Lose Access To CTA, Pace, Metra If State Doesn't Fund Public Transit, RTA Says
The Regional Transit Authority is calling on state lawmakers to fill the gap to avoid massive cuts that would include the CTA shutting down half of all "L" lines and eliminating nearly 60% of bus…
buff.ly
March 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You get a funding cut, and you get a funding cut… 😩
Man what the actual fuck
*screams into the abyss*
*screams into the abyss*
March 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Man what the actual fuck
*screams into the abyss*
*screams into the abyss*
Despite the terrible weather Chicago showed up for science yesterday. Thanks @durbin.senate.gov for speaking, along with all the amazing scientists across Chicago.
March 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Despite the terrible weather Chicago showed up for science yesterday. Thanks @durbin.senate.gov for speaking, along with all the amazing scientists across Chicago.
My (likely) final first author paper was published today. I miss research but 4 months out of the academic track, I don’t miss the lifestyle needed to sustain a career in it.
Scientists work so hard to push human knowledge and the concerted attack on these efforts will harm us all.
Scientists work so hard to push human knowledge and the concerted attack on these efforts will harm us all.
March 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My (likely) final first author paper was published today. I miss research but 4 months out of the academic track, I don’t miss the lifestyle needed to sustain a career in it.
Scientists work so hard to push human knowledge and the concerted attack on these efforts will harm us all.
Scientists work so hard to push human knowledge and the concerted attack on these efforts will harm us all.
Reposted by Erin Cox
Here are the three goals of the March 7th #standupforscience as information is altered & removed, funding changed in ways that penalize scientists, & needed expansion in participation replaced with opportunities for less.
March 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Here are the three goals of the March 7th #standupforscience as information is altered & removed, funding changed in ways that penalize scientists, & needed expansion in participation replaced with opportunities for less.
So cool 🤩 fun fact: seeing the Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation is one of the reasons I pursued astronomy
Ever wonder how something like the Pillars of Creation forms?
This animation shows how young, hot stars carve out roughly spherical cavities in the surrounding gas. The densist pockets of gas and dust shield the material behind them, leaving behind pillars. 🔭🧪
webbtelescope.org/contents/med...
This animation shows how young, hot stars carve out roughly spherical cavities in the surrounding gas. The densist pockets of gas and dust shield the material behind them, leaving behind pillars. 🔭🧪
webbtelescope.org/contents/med...
February 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
So cool 🤩 fun fact: seeing the Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation is one of the reasons I pursued astronomy
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Flower Pot - sprayed three glazes on thick hoping to get some depth and texture.
lsps studio glazes; Empire Strikes Black / Metallic Green / pull tape / Speckled Ivory
lsps studio glazes; Empire Strikes Black / Metallic Green / pull tape / Speckled Ivory
February 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Flower Pot - sprayed three glazes on thick hoping to get some depth and texture.
lsps studio glazes; Empire Strikes Black / Metallic Green / pull tape / Speckled Ivory
lsps studio glazes; Empire Strikes Black / Metallic Green / pull tape / Speckled Ivory
Scream it from the rooftops. Just because someone’s not interested in science doesn’t mean it hasn’t made their life better. Let’s all be better science communicators
I wish we could reach the average American and let them know that with Trump’s cuts to the NSF, NIH, and CDC, they will no longer have access to cutting-edge medicine. U.S. physicians won’t have access to new technology. New cancer treatments will be available in other countries but not to them.
February 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Scream it from the rooftops. Just because someone’s not interested in science doesn’t mean it hasn’t made their life better. Let’s all be better science communicators
You love to see it
Also, that acronym
Also, that acronym
BREAKING: Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the ELON MUSK act which would ban "special" government employees like Musk from having federal contracts.
The full title of the bill is the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act.
The full title of the bill is the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act.
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You love to see it
Also, that acronym
Also, that acronym
The most important thing I’ve learned in my new, non academic role — if it’s not on your *outlook* calendar it doesn’t exist 😳
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The most important thing I’ve learned in my new, non academic role — if it’s not on your *outlook* calendar it doesn’t exist 😳
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More of this.
NEWS
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
bit.ly
February 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
More of this.
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Hear the President of the American Astronomical Society, Dara Norman, talk about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, participatory science, black hole-galaxy coevolution, and more on Monday (Feb. 3)!
In person (Chicago) and online! Registration at: pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures
🔭🧪👩🔬
In person (Chicago) and online! Registration at: pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures
🔭🧪👩🔬
If our kick-off celebration (incl. a talk from @highzclouds.bsky.social) on Jan. 30 isn't sufficient diversion, come hear Dara Norman talk about global scale astronomy from the Windy City on Feb. 3!
Free for the public in person and also streamed online!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
Free for the public in person and also streamed online!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
February 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hear the President of the American Astronomical Society, Dara Norman, talk about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, participatory science, black hole-galaxy coevolution, and more on Monday (Feb. 3)!
In person (Chicago) and online! Registration at: pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures
🔭🧪👩🔬
In person (Chicago) and online! Registration at: pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures
🔭🧪👩🔬
Reposted by Erin Cox
I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people.
That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.
That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.
January 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people.
That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.
That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.
Dems keep asking for money, but only some seem to be actually fighting back.
ICYMI: This week, Donald Trump started gutting the National Labor Relations Board – putting special interests over working families.
It’s a terrible sign of what’s to come.
Here in Illinois, we’ll keep standing up for workers’ rights.
It’s a terrible sign of what’s to come.
Here in Illinois, we’ll keep standing up for workers’ rights.
Scoop: Along with NLRB GC Abruzzo, Trump has ousted NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, despite law forbidding firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Dems keep asking for money, but only some seem to be actually fighting back.
Reposted by Erin Cox
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
My new boss has done research on post Soviet countries as well as worked for years in Central Asia. I’m thankful for her perspective when I start to spiral.
Breathe and reach out to your network
Breathe and reach out to your network
January 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My new boss has done research on post Soviet countries as well as worked for years in Central Asia. I’m thankful for her perspective when I start to spiral.
Breathe and reach out to your network
Breathe and reach out to your network
Rescinded due to criticism. Keep contacting your reps all, being annoying works
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Rescinded due to criticism. Keep contacting your reps all, being annoying works
I appreciate when folks react to slack posts
January 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I appreciate when folks react to slack posts