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Research Ecologist. Mostly I just want to plant native plants everywhere 🌺🌲🌴🌼🌿🌱🌳 🥄She/her

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · Jan 24

Blew off office work today to go help with a post-Davis Fire reseeding volunteer effort in Davis Creek Park organized by the park and Nevada Div of Wildlife/Forestry. Hopefully we get some precip to help all those grasses, forbs and shrubs come up!

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 6h

Incredible cover of "Crusin" by D'Angelo.. original by Smokey Robinson.

Rest easy, D'Angelo 🥹💔🕊

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 8h

It’s amazing to me that The Administration has managed to make university researchers deal with some of the BS federal scientists have been dealing with. I honestly thought they would be safer.

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 9h

Here is the email from the provost reversing the decision & saying we can attend if presenting research. However, we still cannot recruit or attend without research benefit. Also many students did have registration cancelled (or missed registration deadlines) when OSU was prohibiting attendance.

SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update
Hi All,

Please see the email below from the provost with new guidance related to the SACNAS conference.

Best regards,
Todd

From: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
To: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Cc: Garcia, Anne <garcia.680@osu.edu>
Subject: SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update

Hi everyone,

Our office has been working with the Office of Legal Affairs regarding participation in the upcoming SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in light of the outreach the university received last week from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Based on our conversations, the Office of Academic Affairs is recommending the following as it relates to participation in this year’s SACNAS conference:

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research at the SACNAS conference, then the faculty member or student can attend and use university funds to do so.

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is NOT scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research (e.g., the purpose of attending is solely for recruitment) at the SACNAS conference but wishes to participate in the conference, they may still attend but must use personal resources to do so.

For participation as a research presenter or in sessions that advance their research, we are requesting that a designee within each college or unit (e.g., the Associate Dean of Research) affirms that the participation is in fact to present or advance research as part of the approval process for university funding.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 9h

The Littles was an 80s cartoon, just not as popular as some of the others.

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Susan Bell @susanbellair.bsky.social · 1d

JPL Earth science is gonna get hit badly too based on the budget requests. Today is a frantic "make sure everyone's working files are copied somewhere that those that remain can get to" day.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is waging all out war on science and knowledge—from climate change denialism to vaccine conspiracies to defunding institutional pillars—despite its unpopularity, because they don’t expect to compete in free and fair elections.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.

Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11h

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 1d

Frost is coming, so ready or not I grabbed a bowl of green tomatoes (there’s so many more on the vine 😭) and the butternuts.

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 2d

More RIFs are coming

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

CDC scientists purged so no-one contradicts these clowns

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

But there is nothing noble or respectable about what Vought is doing, about his vision for the country. He is a fully competent, utterly committed radical ideologue. He lusts for counter-revolution and radical measures. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 3d

Do they even boil their “bagels”? Because if not it’s just bread with a hole in it anyway.

Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 3d

It pays to bank with Credit Unions!

Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 3d

Just checked my bank account and saw a banner that read "Federal Government Shutdown Assistance: Are you a federal government employee affected by the loss of wages during the shutdown? We're here to help! Visit GNCU.org/Shutdown to learn more about our assistance options."

Greater Nevada Credit Union Offering Assistance to Nevadans Affected by the Government Shutdown | GNCU

GNCU is here to help by offering financial assistance to those affected by loss of wages or government-provided benefits due to the government shutdown.

GNCU.org

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to decide on my sign for the Oct 18 No Kings protest. What do you think?

Russ Vought is a schmuck

or

F*ck you Russ Vought

I feel like the first one better captures how my Yiddish-speaking ancestors might feel.

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 3d

Stand Tall.
We Will Win.

(🎨 Nikkolas Smith) @4nikkolas.bsky.social

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

RIF Russell Vought.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 3d

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Table of how many federal employees have been laid off in the latest RIF (Reduction in Force). This is from an OMB legal filing from Oct 10. For each agency, it lists number of fired employees, RIF notice date, and whether the administrations has recalled any of those employees to do work. Total headcount is 4,100 across 8 agencies. Treasury (1446) and HHS (1200) are the most affected. EPA (30) had the fewest layoffs this time.

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