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Hannah Reich
@hannahgreich.bsky.social
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Asst Prof SUNY ESF + #newPI of the PhycoSymbiosis Lab. Fan of microalgae, cell culture & trace metals. Swammer, cat person, #NeurodiverseSquad 🧪🌊🪸🧫🐈🏊🏽‍♀️

https://phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/
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hannahgreich.bsky.social
10 weeks of #MarineSymbiosis paper discussions & the verdict on their favorites is in! I had a blast piloting an upper-level course this semester & had them vote on superlatives to celebrate their hard work. #newPI #SymbiosisSky

Mini blog here: phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/updates/mari...
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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istuetzle.bsky.social
You'd have to be a “scientific publisher.” You'd make better profits than Apple and could benefit twice from public funds, from research and from libraries, which would then have to buy back the results in book form. Simply awesome.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 23d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Today was a special day! I got to sit on my first PhD defense! Congrats to Dr Abby Webster for her exciting, innovative dissertation on benthic Cyanobacteria! You did @sunyesf.bsky.social, @aslo.org LOREX, and MANY other collaborator institutions & funding agencies extremely proud! #MicrobialSky
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Christmas came early… Lab sticker restock!

Featuring some lab staples: classic lab logos, taxidermied leopard… and some new glow in the dark #Pyrodinium (cartoon designed by one of my PhD students).
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Today is my traditional post-Thanksgiving Day of:

"OMG I have so many letters of reference due 12/1"

Along with my:

"Why the F(*#(@ does every place have to have a different system"?
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Sunday scaries hit differently when they’re before a 6 hour drive & the last week of the semester (they start on Saturday). 🥶 #AcademicSky
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Thankful for time at home & with the fam! 🌊
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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hollybik.bsky.social
Faculty plan out our grant writing MONTHS if not YEARS in advance - having programs suddenly disappear like this is utterly demoralizing and completely destructive for everyone’s productivity (including students!)
robingnelson.blacksky.app Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 8d
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 (Responses)
docs.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Every semester our kickoff lab meeting is updating our sharpie mark & recapture meeting. #newPI
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Yay @micromaresca.bsky.social !!!

@sunyesf.bsky.social
markowenmartin.bsky.social Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 19d
It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
Fridays are a bit challenging. Next, recording a fabulous #MattersMicrobial podcast session with Dr. Julie Maresca about microbes and concrete! Holler to @mostlymicrobeshost .
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Oct 9
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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vectorpark.com
If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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omfishient.bsky.social
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.

We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!

*nearly 900!

@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
omfishient.bsky.social Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · Sep 29
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?

We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.

Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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jlgoff.bsky.social
Help advance water research in CNY! Participate in SHARCS on Sat Oct 4, a community science project led by SUNY ESF researchers!

Collect a quick water sample, snap a photo, fill out a short survey, and return the sample. Adults 18+ welcome! No experience needed. More info: bit.ly/CNYSHARCS.
September 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Sep 26
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
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
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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chelseasprite.bsky.social
God this makes me want to cry. Increasing enrollment while cutting staff and placing blame on a staff increase and staff: student ratio shows a fundamental misunderstanding of his higher ed works.

SUNY has implemented *several* unfunded mandates across campuses in the last few years.
September 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM