Education & Outreach Coordinator, Liz Schultheis, awarded Sound Science Fellowship from @ncse.bsky.social. Fellows will enhance K-12 education by identifying and resolving common misconceptions and conduct research to develop best practices for science education.
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It is that time of year! Registration is open for Underground Innovations, hosted by MiAA and the @kbslter.bsky.social! This winter meeting for innovative farmers, agricultural and environmental professionals, and more! Join us in Frankenmuth from Feb 4-5, 2026!
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Marika Jaeger will join us at the end of this week as this year's joint KBS LTER + LTAR Artist in Residence!
Marika is a painter and scientist whose work highlights themes related to endangered species, climate change, and social-ecological systems.
Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research lternet.edu/stories/list...
Day 2 of our Walder Foundation and NSF sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was also a big success! We had preservice, middle, and high school teachers from throughout Chicago and from several other states. Huge thank you to @eschultheis.bsky.social @kjelvikm.bsky.social and Sam.
We are excited to announce our second Artist in Residence, Dr. Blaire Morseau, visiting @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social in June. Blaire is a beadwork artist & Assistant Professor in Dept. of Religious Studies & affiliate faculty in American Indian & Religious Studies at @michiganstateu.bsky.social.
We’re so excited to be in Chicago this week to present Data Nuggets to a group of preservice, middle, and high school teachers! Thanks to Mike @mikegrillo.bsky.social and Lara at @loyolachicago.bsky.social for being such amazing hosts!
Day 1 of our Walder Foundation sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was a big success! Scientists from Loyola, the Field Museum and Chicago State built new Data Nuggets on prairie restoration, Anolis lizards, plant microbiomes, and endangered mice..and we caught a Cubs game!
Welcome to our first @kbslter.bsky.social Artist in Residence for summer 2025 - Mikayla Thompson! Mikayla is with us at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social this week. Mikayla explores grief, love, and joy through her poetry depicting relationships between herself, her loved ones, and the natural world.
New DN! Caro analyzed data from a 30-year experiment to compare ag practices to see which ones increase soil carbon. Her work helps identify how to benefit both farmers and the planet. #EarthDay #edusky #DNOTW 🧪 @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social
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Want to learn more about Digital Data Nuggets on @dataclassroom.bsky.social? Check out this past webinar where we introduce the two programs and our collaboration!
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Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Education & Outreach Coordinator for the @kbslter.bsky.social, @eschultheis.bsky.social, spoke on #prairiestrips at Cultivating Resilience with a panel of MiSTRIPS farmers and collaborator Kathryn Docherty. If you missed the event, recordings are now live!
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A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
Knew it was coming but it still makes me mad. On Friday DOGE terminated our NSF grant supporting @datanuggets.bsky.social and an amazing collaboration to help encourage more students to pursue STEM careers. That’s $1M that would have went towards jobs, educators, and teaching kids data literacy.
"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%."
Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.
We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
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New study in JAMA. Modelling shows that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again in the USA. If rates continue to decline, ditto for rubella, poliomyelitis and diphtheria, leading to many preventable hospitalisations and deaths.
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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.
🚨 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."
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Infuriating
<Puts on @asn-amnat.bsky.social President's hat>
It is my great pleasure to say that the American Society of Naturalists election results are in (and winners notified). Our future council will include:
Jen Lau (President 2027)
Martha Munoz (Vice President 2027)
Stephen Proulx (Treasurer 2026-8)
Congratulations to our 2025 Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis, for her collection of education resources called Data Nuggets, created together with Dr. Melissa Kjelvik! Learn more here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @datanuggets.bsky.social
Opportunities to get involved with @datanuggets.bsky.social for both K-12 teachers and undergraduate instructors!
#edusky 🧪
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Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
Worshipping at the altar of bipartisanship—at a time when innocent people are being kidnapped and trafficked to foreign concentration camps, our government is trying to forcibly resegregate society, and our universities are being obliterated of free thought—is morally bankrupt.
Becky, who studies bluefin killifish, noticed that males found in springs with clear water have red or yellow fins, while males in swamps have blue fins. In this activity, explore data she collected to test the mechanism behind this pattern. #edusky #DNOTW 🧪
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
