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Meriel J. Bittner @merielj3.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!

💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · Aug 11

It is so much fun to work with @yunqianhu.bsky.social, who is an incredible interdisciplinary scientist! 🔬

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · Aug 11

📣#MTTM
🔬Emily Hu (@yunqianhu.bsky.social‬) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @maratimes.bsky.social & @akrinos.bsky.social at Brown. She uses microbial sequence data and computational tools to uncover how biotic🦠& abiotic drivers shape microbial community assembly in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.

Photo of Emily Hu on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Emily is standing outside with the bow of the ship and the ocean behind her. Photo provided by Emily Hu.

Emily collects seawater from the CTD rosette into a bottle on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

Emily uses sterile forceps to load filters onto filter holders in one of the labs on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Emily is using the filters to capture particles, including microbes, from the seawater. The DNA from the microbial cells will be extracted, sequenced, and analyzed to understand the microbial community composition of the seawater. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Jul 23

Not your Grandfather's summer. Changes in July temperatures from 1950 to 2024. Enough of the "it's just the same summer it's always been...." narrative

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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · Jul 21

reminder of amazing fellowship opportunity!

Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Jul 21

There are 10 days left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! Deadline is 7/31: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/06/02/s... #science #ecology #evolution

Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity for graduate students in ecology and evolution.

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Big up to @rdzombak.bsky.social for bringing eyes to this story. 🧪

So many people beyond my little cohort of fellows are impacted by slowdowns at NOAA. America is rapidly losing footing as a leader in climate science and we all are paying the cost.

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse McNichol @jcmcnch.bsky.social · Jul 2

So excited to announce the GRUMP paper is published! This global dataset provides relative abundances for plankton spanning Archaea to Zooplankton from unfractionated (>0.2µm) water samples using 3-domain universal primers that amplify 16S and 18S in one PCR reaction.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

www.nature.com

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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · Jul 2

Future grad students starting in Fall 2025 or Fall 2026 in ecology and evolution should apply to this excellent opportunity from @simonsfoundation.org!

Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Jul 2

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Jul 2

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 17

hey, @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social this is a good idea

Dr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · Jun 17

A new sustainability standard has been set for conference lanyards! This #ICCB2025 one is compostable & plantable! Native seeds r embedded into the name tag so local delegates encouraged to plant it for habitat. How good?! As paying delegates, we can and should ask for sustainability like this 😎💃

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · Jun 17

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA.

All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · Jun 16

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

www.wilderness.org

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 10

BREAKING: The Pentagon said the deployment of National Guard members and Marines to protests over immigration raids in LA will cost $134 million.

Hegseth faces sharp questions from Congress on deploying troops to Los Angles and Pentagon chaos

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been quickly met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to fire key military leaders and and purge diversity programs.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jun 9

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

apnews.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Jun 7

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 7

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.

They departed Texas 5 days ago.

What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.

(🎥 DW)

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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

Edward Doherty PhD. @drtcell.bsky.social · Jun 7

A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

#science #savescience #stat

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us

From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

www.statnews.com

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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · Jun 2

I am honored to have been named a 2025 Howes Scholar by the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship committee!

www.krellinst.org/csgf/about-d...

Kellison and Krinos Named 2025 Frederick A. Howes Scholars | DOE CSGF

The two former computational science fellows were recognized for their science and their impact as mentors, teachers and volunteers.

www.krellinst.org

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 31

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 30

Friday PM attempted massacre... of science.

The fight is not over. There are things to do.

Organize with @standupforscience.bsky.social

Get informed: scienceimpacts.org

Call your representative & ask: what are they doing to stop the self-destruction of American's innovation economy?

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

scienceimpacts.org

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · May 31

Today was a perfectly colorful day 🌈—on the way to sample coccolithophores, we stumbled upon a pink lake. Under the scope, I found green algae and diatoms in a “forest” of pink! 💗💚🔬
#protistsonsky #CoccoChannel #HRZZ

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · May 31

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · May 30

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.

We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · May 30

Oh my god

Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · May 23

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 13

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

Save and share the post!

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · May 13

Bioinformatics folks: check out our @biorxivpreprint on a new, very efficient and accurate system for automated genome annotation, EviAnn, led by my colleague Aleksey Zimin: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn

For many years, machine learning-based ab initio gene finding approaches have been the central components of eukaryotic genome annotation pipelines, and they remain so today. The reliance on these app...

www.biorxiv.org

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