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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 5d

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!

"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes #academicmom life is writing a proposal narrative draft on your phone with two kids sitting in your lap while watching Bluey on a Friday night.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 29d

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · Sep 9

This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · Aug 20

2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you missed today’s session, want to learn more, or just get in touch, check out our working group website: francis-chaves.github.io/Above-Belowg...

Above-Belowground Coupling

francis-chaves.github.io

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Aug 10

At #ESA2025? Ideas on how to expand above and belowground community datasets? Check out: SS 10 "Time is of the Essence: Toward Meeting the Pressing Need for Paired Long-Term Sampling of Above- and Belowground Communities." BCC 338 Mon 10:30-11:30.

We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Jul 1

Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎

#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience

Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems - LTER

The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the Nation...

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sigh, hopefully next year. Have a great time!

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · Jun 19

Protect Trans Scientists.

cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

Protect transgender scientists

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

www.science.org

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · Jun 12

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 11

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers

**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

www.mcgill.ca

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Jun 10

For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 10

Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact."

(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · May 31

I hadn't seen anything about USDA NIFA/AFRI in the FY26 request so I looked it up. Does this just get rid of Hatch Act funding for land grants? Am I reading that right?

A table depicting discretionary spending requests for NIFA budget authority. The Hatch Act line has a - for the 2026 budget instead of the $265 million from the years before.

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · May 19

Woot!! 🎉🧬

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · Apr 25

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.

Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · Apr 23

Yes! Another foundation stepping up to meet the moment. I’ve been waiting to hear more news like this.

Science for Good ☀️ @sciforgood.bsky.social · Apr 23

Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?

RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️

More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

www.rwjf.org

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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · Apr 21

PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US!
Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources.

"If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 21

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪

🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far

🔴 Cancelled grants focused on

→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change

Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.

Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now.

And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Apr 16

The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.

UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female

The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Apr 16

Shout out to the tenured and emeritus faculty who are speaking up on here, at rallies, in calls and emails to legislators, in board meetings, in meetings with funders, so that us non-tenured folks don't risk our careers to speak out against *waves hands wildly* all of this

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · Apr 16

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

www.science.org

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Apr 12

Scientific session not enough? Be sure to check out our *collab session* "Microbes in coastal restoration: Networks bridging science, policy, and practice" that provides a space for networking and idea sharing about incorporating microbial information into restoration practices! #CERF2025

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · Apr 12

Interested in what we can learn from microbes in coastal restoration efforts? Submit an abstract to our session for @cerfscience.bsky.social in Nov: "Microscopic to Mighty: Harnessing Microbial Ecology for Restoration Success", co-led by the fabulous @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social! #CERF2025

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation @cerfscience.bsky.social · Mar 27

CERF 2025 Registration is NOW OPEN! Join us November 9–13, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia for an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow coastal and estuarine science professionals. #CERF2025

🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 18

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

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Jenn Fehrenbacher @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social · Mar 19

OSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically.

jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...

Oregon State University Jobs Portal | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor | Print Preview

jobs.oregonstate.edu

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