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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 1d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 1d

The statue is gone now, but it will live on.

www.thingiverse.com/thing:7164814

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 2d

This is horrendous. The Trump Administration's flagrant disregard for the legal process directly threatens kids’ safety which is just plain wrong under any moral code.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

Trump administration prepares to offer money to unaccompanied migrant teenagers to voluntarily leave US | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to offer unaccompanied migrant teenagers in the United States the option to voluntarily leave the country and receive a payment, according to three sou...

www.cnn.com

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 3d

PUERTO RICANS ARE U.S. CITIZENS 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

PUERTO RICANS ARE AMERICANS

PUERTO RICANS ARE U.S. CITIZENS 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

PUERTO RICANS ARE AMERICANS

PUERTO RICANS ARE U.S. CITIZENS 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

PUERTO RICANS ARE AMERICANS

PUERTO RICANS ARE U.S. CITIZENS 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 5d

If you are trying to get over arachnophobia, as I am, I suggest subscribing to the r/spiderID subreddit! Lots of cool spider facts and people fawning over spiders in such an endearing way. Plus, a spider on your homepage every day helps you get used to them.

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 6d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

applyingtoeeb.info

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Two victims have been killed in this attack.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says British authorities have ordered additional police presence at synagogues around the country.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING

Four people were injured in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The suspect was shot by British authorities.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 6d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 7d

I have wrapped up my postdoc and am officially an ex-academic - and now looking for a new role *full-time*!

I’m seeking roles in policy and regulatory spaces, climate strategy, ESG, and similar, ideally based in CA, remote, or outside the US, but I’m open to roles in solid blue states!

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18d

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach

Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

actionnetwork.org

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12d

New eligibility requirements? "First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)"

Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 12d

Whyyyyyyyyyy did NSF have to drop GRFP updates right before my grad writing class. *groans in professor*

New, later deadlines btw. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 12d

Whyyyyyyyyyy did NSF have to drop GRFP updates right before my grad writing class. *groans in professor*

New, later deadlines btw. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 12d

This is a tangential thought to David's important message, but... I'm fascinated by the idea of "physiological fragile" fishes. Goosefish are so freaking fragile, and I would love to know why. I have some guesses. If you're a fish physiologist, it's a great research question.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this”

www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

Giant hammerhead shark reeled in at Corpus Christi beach

It was the third-largest hammerhead shark the Texas fishing guide caught this year.

www.mysanantonio.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

I am not anti-fishing.

I am not anti- shark fishing.

But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for “catch and release” of any known fish species.

And it’d be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this”

www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

Giant hammerhead shark reeled in at Corpus Christi beach

It was the third-largest hammerhead shark the Texas fishing guide caught this year.

www.mysanantonio.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian

nativenewsonline.net/currents/nat...

National Museum of the American Indian Among Smithsonian Museums Under Trump-Era Review

The National Museum of the American Indian—with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C.—is one of eight Smithsonian Institution museums currently undergoing a “comprehensive internal review” t...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 12d

I did not present it as credible. In fact, I did the opposite.

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 13d

Do any of my SICB friends have students in your lab looking for a roommate for Student Support? If so, please DM me.

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 13d

By the way, before AI, google lens was kind of useful for stuff like this (i.e., finding the original source of an image and/or real articles about it). Now it's just AI slop and ads.

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