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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sharing this #postdoc that might be a good fit for @srcdorg.bsky.social trainees looking to launch their career post-PhD! @leveprev.bsky.social and I are looking for an awesome collaborator who is invested in shaping prevention programs for youth in foster care!

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 We’re #hiring! 🚨
Looking for an awesome #postdoc to join our new #NIH R01 hybrid trial adapting prevention programs for youth in foster care!

Job ad careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

See below for more info 🧵

Current Opportunities | UO HR Website

careers.uoregon.edu

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

💡 Supportive, interdisciplinary team with the opp. to mentor others, write grants, and grow
✈️ Conference and training/travel funds available!

Please share! I'm happy to connect about the opportunity. #postdoc #NIH #implementation

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

📍 Position in-person in Eugene, OR (mountains + ocean!) 👩‍🏫 Co-mentored by me
@iastateresearch.bsky.social
@leveprev.bsky.social of
@universityoforegon.bsky.social
🤝 Hands-on training in implementation science, research-practice partnerships & intervention adaptation +

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 We’re #hiring! 🚨
Looking for an awesome #postdoc to join our new #NIH R01 hybrid trial adapting prevention programs for youth in foster care!

Job ad careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

See below for more info 🧵

Current Opportunities | UO HR Website

careers.uoregon.edu

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

actionnetwork.org

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · May 3

I’m so glad this bridge funding exists, and feeling for colleagues who recently received notice of NSF grant cancellations. I’m also glad they explicitly acknowledge private foundations cannot possibly close the gap left by devastating federal research funding cuts.

Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

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

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Apr 18

Link to apply here. Please share! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Apr 18

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

Research Project Coordinator

Position Title: Research Project Coordinator Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated proficiency with persona...

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Apr 18

We’re #hiring!

My lab at #IowaState is hiring a project coordinator to launch a new two-generation phase of our ongoing longitudinal study. Come and work with our collaborative team of scientists! If you are highly motivated, exceptionally organized, and have great interpersonal skills, apply here!

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Apr 15

As a dairy farmer’s kid, I rate this 💯🧀

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Apr 13

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 23

a little uplift as a treat

Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · Mar 22

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Mar 8

"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters"
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay

Painting of a close up of an open red poppy with a black centre, all against a white background

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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Feb 21

Same here— hometown editor responded in 20 minutes with a yes!

Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · Feb 20

We've heard this a lot. Newspapers editors know there is a story and an important perspective to get out.

You can do it!

Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Feb 20

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

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