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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · Jun 30

Marika Jaeger will join us at the end of this week as this year's joint KBS LTER + LTAR Artist in Residence!

Marika is a painter and scientist whose work highlights themes related to endangered species, climate change, and social-ecological systems.

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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · Jun 30

Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research lternet.edu/stories/list...

Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research - LTER

The goal of the KBS LTER Listening Session was to understand where gaps between research and implementation occur and how they might work together to support farmers.

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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · Jun 19

Day 2 of our Walder Foundation and NSF sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was also a big success! We had preservice, middle, and high school teachers from throughout Chicago and from several other states. Huge thank you to @eschultheis.bsky.social @kjelvikm.bsky.social and Sam.

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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · Jun 12

We are excited to announce our second Artist in Residence, Dr. Blaire Morseau, visiting @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social in June. Blaire is a beadwork artist & Assistant Professor in Dept. of Religious Studies & affiliate faculty in American Indian & Religious Studies at @michiganstateu.bsky.social.

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Jun 18

We’re so excited to be in Chicago this week to present Data Nuggets to a group of preservice, middle, and high school teachers! Thanks to Mike @mikegrillo.bsky.social and Lara at @loyolachicago.bsky.social for being such amazing hosts!

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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 1 of our Walder Foundation sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was a big success! Scientists from Loyola, the Field Museum and Chicago State built new Data Nuggets on prairie restoration, Anolis lizards, plant microbiomes, and endangered mice..and we caught a Cubs game!

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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · Jun 3

Welcome to our first @kbslter.bsky.social Artist in Residence for summer 2025 - Mikayla Thompson! Mikayla is with us at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social this week. Mikayla explores grief, love, and joy through her poetry depicting relationships between herself, her loved ones, and the natural world.

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Apr 23

New DN! Caro analyzed data from a 30-year experiment to compare ag practices to see which ones increase soil carbon. Her work helps identify how to benefit both farmers and the planet. #EarthDay #edusky #DNOTW 🧪 @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social
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Farms in the fight against climate change ‣ Data Nuggets

The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 4 Grading Rubric Carbon, when it is f...

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Jun 3

Want to learn more about Digital Data Nuggets on @dataclassroom.bsky.social? Check out this past webinar where we introduce the two programs and our collaboration!

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Past Workshop: Data Nuggets Workshop — DataClassroom

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Jun 3

Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!

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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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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · May 23

Education & Outreach Coordinator for the @kbslter.bsky.social, @eschultheis.bsky.social, spoke on #prairiestrips at Cultivating Resilience with a panel of MiSTRIPS farmers and collaborator Kathryn Docherty. If you missed the event, recordings are now live!
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MiSTRIPS - Michigan Prairie Strips, Research and Implementation - Cultivating Resilience 2025

YouTube video by Ottawa Conservation District

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Liz Schultheis @eschultheis.bsky.social · May 10

Knew it was coming but it still makes me mad. On Friday DOGE terminated our NSF grant supporting @datanuggets.bsky.social and an amazing collaboration to help encourage more students to pursue STEM careers. That’s $1M that would have went towards jobs, educators, and teaching kids data literacy.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · May 1

"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%."

Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.

Nature @nature.com · May 1

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Apr 27

We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 25

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social · Apr 25

New study in JAMA. Modelling shows that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again in the USA. If rates continue to decline, ditto for rubella, poliomyelitis and diphtheria, leading to many preventable hospitalisations and deaths.
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Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US

This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · Apr 24

55%

Fifty-five.

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NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin

The director did not state a reason for the resignation.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 18

🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants:

"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."

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Statement of NSF priorities April 18, 2025

NSF priorities are grounded in the mission of the agency and modulated by statutory directives and administration priorities. NSF uses two statutory criteria to ensure that every award has the potential to advance new knowledge (Intellectual Merit) with maximum impact on the Nation and its people (Broader Impacts). NSF investments unleash groundbreaking discoveries, translational solutions and expand participation in STEM. These efforts strengthen our domestic workforce to fuel economic prosperity, national security, and global S&E competitiveness. The principles of merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence are the bedrock of the NSF mission. NSF continues to review all projects using Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria. NSF's broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere. These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities. NSF will continue to support research with the goal of understanding or addressing participation in STEM, in accordance with all applicable statutes and mandates, with the core goal of creating opportunities for all Americans. NSF will continue to support basic and use-inspired research in S&E fields that focus on protected characteristics when doing so is intrinsic to the research question and is aligned with Agency priorities.

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Liz Schultheis @eschultheis.bsky.social · Apr 18

Infuriating

Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Apr 18

NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced.

"efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
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Updates on NSF Priorities

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Apr 16

@asn-amnat.bsky.social President's hat>

It is my great pleasure to say that the American Society of Naturalists election results are in (and winners notified). Our future council will include:
Jen Lau (President 2027)
Martha Munoz (Vice President 2027)
Stephen Proulx (Treasurer 2026-8)

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congratulations to our 2025 Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis, for her collection of education resources called Data Nuggets, created together with Dr. Melissa Kjelvik! Learn more here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @datanuggets.bsky.social

T. H. Huxley Award: Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis

Congratulations to this year’s T. H. Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis ! Dr. Schultheis is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Kellogg Biological Station…

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Apr 14

Opportunities to get involved with @datanuggets.bsky.social for both K-12 teachers and undergraduate instructors!

#edusky 🧪

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Data Nuggets Opportunities - April 2025

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Apr 12

Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:

What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?

Because that’s what this is.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 11

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

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