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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · 5d

Carl is a great science writer looking to hear stories about how this administration has disrupted research and lives. @entsocamerica.bsky.social His first story covers a scientist who studied native #pollinators

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5d

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 5d

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 25d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · 12d

Sun dog season is back!

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · 25d

Nothing old is new. Watching a movie from 1941.

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 25d

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us

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Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

www.climate.us

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · 27d

Great piece by former USDA NIFA director Sonny Ramaswamy on the very real challenges for humans being exacerbated by the Administration's efforts to slash funding for R&D.
capitalpress.com/2025/09/17/s...
#entvocate25

Science in the time of Trump | Capital Press

My wife and I were running errands on a recent morning and we happened to catch “On Point,” on the National Public Radio affiliate WBUR out of Boston. The topic […]

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Mack @wifeguy.org · Sep 14

My Sunday (brunch) holy trinity: the father (coffee) the son (water) and the Holy Spirit (beer)

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 14

This has been a tough week. If you need a change of scene immediately, I recommend the following films: the thoughtful and contemplative "Paterson" by Jim Jarmusch (my husband's rec which I enjoyed) and the brilliant and life affirming "Stranger Than Fiction". Maybe in that order.

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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · Sep 12

Newly registered or re-registered insecticides and herbicides will be rolling out with labels that may require drift/runoff mitigations to protect ESA-listed species. Learn more about how to navigate the menu of mitigations in a 90 min webinar next Tuesday from EPA: www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Mitigation Math: Webinar Offers Tips to Tally Points for Pesticide Use

In 2026, more pesticide labels are likely to require measures to protect endangered species. EPA is offering a webinar next week to help farmers navigate these requirements.

www.dtnpf.com

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fantasy football is tough when you're playing your husband on the same week your #1 team (Packers) plays your #2 team (Commies), and both their QBs are on your fantasy team. And he's got the Packers defense. #letsgopack

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you for sharing this link! It's the best thing I've seen all week!

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Josh Burch @jburchdc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

Four people together with DC Statehood signs.

Three people with heads through holes in DC Flag.

People marching with We Are All DC signs.

Thousands of people marching to Free DC!

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 6

The older I get, the harder it is to act my age.

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 5

It wasn't quite on the "if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" level, but it would have bothered me all day if we hadn't figured it out.

Mack @wifeguy.org · Sep 5

Yesterday at breakfast a waitress had to clarify someone’s cheese order with ‘feta, with an F’ which made no sense to me until my wife reminded me how people in the northeast pronounce ‘cheddar’

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! As a sadly predictable Virgo, I'm thankful @wifeguy.org puts up with all my nonsense!

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Aug 31

You know I like my day job when, on vacation, I drag my husband @wifeguy.org to meet a couple of awesome entomologists I work with who are faculty at the University of Maine, Dr. Angela Mech and Dr. Allie Gardner, so I can say hi and see their labs.

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Aug 24

Can confirm. 😉

Snowden St. @snowden.st · Aug 24

Jokes on those assholes, the actual @wifeguy.org is a peach of a man, everyone should follow him for a dose of healthy dudein’

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Aug 24

One thing I think about a lot is how we agreed that dudes hating their wives is pathetic and gross, and then the internet invented Wife Guy as an epithet to hurl the same contempt at dudes who love their wives.

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Erin Cadwalader @erincadwalader.bsky.social · Aug 23

Chuffed to see this. Entomologist @meganorourke.com, who has worked on Congress as well as for USDA, is also running for Congress if you're looking for great candidates to support! #standupforscience

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 23

Political group 314 Action—dedicated to helping Democrats with science backgrounds win local, state, and federal elections—says more than 150 doctors have reached out about running for office in nearly three dozen states. Who knew RFK Jr. could do that?

Democratic Doctors Are Pouring Into Politics. Thank Trump and RFK Jr.

Plus: How one group is working to STEM the tide of Trumpism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Mack @wifeguy.org · Aug 22

When mom is gone there are no rules

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Aug 22

Watching the United States dismantle the scientific infrastructure it built across half a century is astounding. An incredible act of self-sabotage, one that leaves the country poorer, its people sicker, and hands the future to adversary nations.

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 22

In a major blow to scientists who had NIH grants terminated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has told the government it can refuse to restore $783 million in federal research funding. https://scim.ag/45R0QWZ

Supreme Court upholds Trump cancellation of NIH grants

Justices rule lower court had no authority to compel restoration hundreds of studies on diversity, transgender health, and other sensitive topics

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 14

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.

This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 13

MAHA ignores the real causes of poor health in the US, but Defend Public Health doesn’t.

Our report has 11 pillars of actions for Improving the Health of Americans Together, like reducing gun violence, combating scientific misinformation, and removing RFK Jr. from office.

‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed

Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 12

- Undesirables from seedy underground locations making lots of noise at night (cicadas)

- How much an ice cream vendor on the Mall tries to charge you for one chocolate ice cream before you explain you aren’t a tourist

- Preferring Rehoboth over Bethany

Crimes I Have Witnessed as a Resident of Washington, DC

“President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police depar...

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