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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · Jul 28

Interested in managing graduate ecology programs and supporting excellent students? Come join us in the Dept. of Integrative Biology at @uwmadscience.bsky.social Apply by August 10.
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Graduate Program Manager - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · May 13

Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.

The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · May 13

‘Devastating:’ Chan Zuckerberg charity slashes funding for more Bay Area nonprofits

“They are making sure to cut anything that would sound or even be construed as DEI-esque,” one former employee said.

sfstandard.com

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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · May 10

Thank you for your reporting. Can you please clarify if the intent is to only fund the 5 priority areas in each directorate? There's some confusion in the community based on the statement in the piece that directorates will remain but clusters will focus on the 5 core areas.

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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · May 8

I'm really sorry, Tim

Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · May 6

Don't Hesitate (poem by Mary Oliver)
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate
Give in to it
There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be
We are not wise, and not very often kind
And much can never be redeemed
Still, life has some possibility left in it
Perhaps this is the way of fighting back, that sometimes, something happens better than all the riches or power in the world.
It could be anything but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins
Anyway, that's often the case
Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of it's plenty
Joy is not made to be a crumb.

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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · May 2

Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!

Danny Szydlowski @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social · May 1

The first paper from my PhD is now out in @aslo.org Limnology and Oceanography Letters! We used nine years of daily temp and chl data from Peter, Paul, and Tuesday Lakes to show that aquatic heatwaves increased surface chlorophyll concentrations during 24 out of 29 events.

doi.org/10.1002/lol2...

A boat sits on the shore of the heavily forested Paul Lake. The water is still and the sky is completely clear with the sun beating down on the lake, reflecting off the water. The boat has two oars and is prepared for someone to hop in and go sample the lake.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Apr 25

US based scientists are not ok.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Apr 24

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Apr 18

Writing about this right now, just need to scream.

"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Apr 18

To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.

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."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Updates on NSF Priorities

www.nsf.gov

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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."

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Apr 16

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Apr 15

Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin

Judge says UW-Madison international student with terminated visa can't be deported for now

A federal judge barred the government from taking any action against a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering student from India.

www.jsonline.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Apr 12

Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Apr 12

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.

DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.

with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions

A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Apr 11

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

www.science.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Apr 11

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 10

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · Apr 10

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Apr 5

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.

2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.

3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.

4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Apr 4

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · Apr 2

One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...

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Grace Wilkinson @goodgracious23.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years.

You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Apr 2

Susan Crawford ran directly against Elon Musk's millions & struck first electoral blow against Trump-Musk plan for oligarchy. Dems should replicate this in every race

Progressives will now control WI Supreme Court through 2028 & can strike down 1849 abortion ban, Act 10, gerrymandered US House map

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Mar 29

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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