Tom Hanson
@hansonlab.bsky.social
Microbial physiologist working on phototrophic and soil microbes at UDelaware. Come for the microbiology, stay for other random commentary.
https://sites.udel.edu/hansonlab
https://sites.udel.edu/hansonlab
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We’re hiring! Ad for coastal physical oceanographer: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Chat me if you have any questions! #oceanography #marine
Chat me if you have any questions! #oceanography #marine
University of Delaware - Details - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Coastal Physical Oceanography
careers.udel.edu
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We’re hiring! Ad for coastal physical oceanographer: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Chat me if you have any questions! #oceanography #marine
Chat me if you have any questions! #oceanography #marine
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“If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known… then [Larry] Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else.” @warren.senate.gov
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known… then [Larry] Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else.” @warren.senate.gov
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🎓🧪🔬🔭💵
Much-needed data on lottery-based funding! #SNF
Our current system wastes resources (~40 days for applicants, ~10 days for reviewers for ~85% rejection).
It selects great grant writers, not necessarily great projects, with strong biases against minorities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Much-needed data on lottery-based funding! #SNF
Our current system wastes resources (~40 days for applicants, ~10 days for reviewers for ~85% rejection).
It selects great grant writers, not necessarily great projects, with strong biases against minorities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🎓🧪🔬🔭💵
Much-needed data on lottery-based funding! #SNF
Our current system wastes resources (~40 days for applicants, ~10 days for reviewers for ~85% rejection).
It selects great grant writers, not necessarily great projects, with strong biases against minorities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Much-needed data on lottery-based funding! #SNF
Our current system wastes resources (~40 days for applicants, ~10 days for reviewers for ~85% rejection).
It selects great grant writers, not necessarily great projects, with strong biases against minorities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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about that...
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
about that...
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
@coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov Will you hold or will you cave? We, your constituents, are watching. We want you to hold for real reforms, not false promises.
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov Will you hold or will you cave? We, your constituents, are watching. We want you to hold for real reforms, not false promises.
@micromaresca.bsky.social Numbers for you below. But you probably have them saved already?
I called them both! New Yorkers, so should you
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
Oh for the love of
Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line
Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542
Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451
Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line
Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542
Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@micromaresca.bsky.social Numbers for you below. But you probably have them saved already?
Coons' office: 302-573-6345
Blunt Rochester's office: 302-573-6291
Call and tell them to hold the line!
Blunt Rochester's office: 302-573-6291
Call and tell them to hold the line!
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Coons' office: 302-573-6345
Blunt Rochester's office: 302-573-6291
Call and tell them to hold the line!
Blunt Rochester's office: 302-573-6291
Call and tell them to hold the line!
@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov Don't do it. The promise of a vote on ACA subsidies is an absolute sham. Your constituents will remember how you vote here.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@bluntrochester.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov Don't do it. The promise of a vote on ACA subsidies is an absolute sham. Your constituents will remember how you vote here.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
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This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
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Quinn Finley and Blake Montgomery each scored twice and Wisconsin finished off a home sweep of Minnesota to remain unbeaten at 6-0-2.
https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20251101/min/wis/
https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20251101/min/wis/
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Quinn Finley and Blake Montgomery each scored twice and Wisconsin finished off a home sweep of Minnesota to remain unbeaten at 6-0-2.
https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20251101/min/wis/
https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20251101/min/wis/