Andrew Bennett (he/him)
@arbennett.bsky.social
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Building better models of the critical zone and beyond. 🌄🏜🚵‍♀️
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arbennett.bsky.social
There's always the burnt out Old Spanish Trail Motel: maps.app.goo.gl/76v7Leq9gh1V...
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troytassier.bsky.social
How much will your state lose with the new NIH indirect funding cap?

(From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)
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luckytran.com
US military budget: $850 billion

US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion

That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.
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arbennett.bsky.social
Important thread - if you want to calculate for your own institution I made a little webapp: arbennett.github.io/nih_overhead...

Results for University of Arizona:
Screenshot of example of the NIH Overhead Rate Impact Calculator for University of Arizona.

Total NIH Funding: 218588000
Current Overhead Rate: 53.5%


Financial Impact Analysis
When current level of direct costs are maintained

Calculated as:

directCosts = totalFunding / (1+oldRate)

newTotalFunding = directCosts * (1+newRate)

loss = newTotalFunding - directCosts
New Total NIH Funding

$163,762,997
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$21,360,391
Total Loss

$54,825,003
When current overhead is reallocated to direct costs (unlikely)

Calculated as: loss = total * ((1 - 1/oldRate) - 1 - 1/newRate)

Or in simplified terms: loss = (total/newRate) - (total/oldRate)
Current Overhead Amount

$76,185,394
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$28,511,478
Total Loss

$47,673,916
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laddkeith.com
The most recent executive order to gut existing and future NIH research will have a huge impact on universities, communities, and their local economies across the U.S. if it's allowed to move forward www.science.org/cont...
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costasamaras.com
Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.
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joshuaholland.bsky.social
No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, unelected, drugged-up fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.
schumer.senate.gov
You’re worried about tomato prices.

Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
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illdave.bsky.social
You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
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As my inaugural bluesky post, proud to share some work we put out today!
carbonplan.org
We compared risk analysis results from two private firms for a sample of 342 addresses, looking at fire risk in CA and flood risk in NY. We can’t say one company is more right than the other. But we can say their results don’t always match. (2/8) carbonplan.org/research/cli...
Climate risk companies don’t always agree – CarbonPlan
A comparison of address-level fire and flood risk assessments.
carbonplan.org
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Decades from now, the polite mainstream will claim the legacy of the protester who stands bravely against the jeering white boys - just like it currently claims the legacy of protesters who stood bravely decades ago.

But let’s remember where the polite mainstream stands in the moment.
joshuajfriedman.com
JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...
Photo described in main post
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
would be nice if we took the risks of a culture of total elite impunity as seriously as we seem to take the risks of political backlash
nytimes.com
The Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump could remain on Colorado’s primary ballot, rejecting a challenge to his eligibility for another term that could have upended the 2024 race. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03...
A card reads: "Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Remain on Ballot. The justices ruled that the 14th Amendment did not allow Colorado to bar the former president from the state’s primary ballot. The justices offered different reasons, but the decision was unanimous."
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jamellebouie.net
appropriate answer to this is "no"
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thirstygecko.bsky.social
Paleoclimate graduate students! Applications are now OPEN for the summer 2024 paleoCAMP! Come be part of an amazing two week intensive paleoclimate summer school! paleoclimate.camp/apply (colleagues, please share and RT widely, here and on other platforms)
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
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mtsw.bsky.social
every single election the dems have lost in my lifetime has resulted in a huge, generational setback to human welfare and democracy in the united states.
swin24.bsky.social
I know people get pissy at politicians for continuously messaging that the next presidential election is the “most important election of our lifetime,” but I mean, I’m sorry, it does feel like a lot of recent history has been building to 2024, I dunno what to tell you