a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? '' ALT: a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? ''

As a histologist, can’t believe what I just read when I just saw methylene blue is trending

Seeing @noaa.gov pushing propaganda valorizing deep sea mining makes me feel physically ill. Another one of our most essential scientific institutions decimated by fascism.

Trump budget document points to ending federal role in Great Lakes science by next year Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.

The administration's preliminary FY 2026 budget requests that federal involvement in many aspects of #GreatLakes science be eliminated entirely by next year, including completely ending funding for Sea Grant programs nationwide www.freep.com/story/news/l...

XKCD comic about PhD timelines making a political statement about illegal student seizures and illegal imprisonment of foreign students.

xkcd.com/3081

So glad I just did an interview about the importance of NSF. Should be published right about the time it’s shuttered for good.

a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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Had a blast communing with longnose suckers this week in Wisconsin with @karenjmurchie.bsky.social, whose long-running study of these quietly charismatic fish has done much to reveal the extent and phenology of their spawning runs. A herd of aquatic bison fertilizing a liquid prairie.

Here's my full statement on the Trump EO opening Pacific Islands Heritage to industrial fishing

I'm going to try to record a quick video today explaining what science says about this crime

The support is appreciated as the college threatens students who are in our classes to enroll in other courses or else they will jeopardize their financial aid & visa status. This message is sent while ICE is kidnapping students off the streets! Students are not bargaining chips!!

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.

Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make.
Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word
#WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/in...

They can’t fire science! Tell your story: http://bit.ly/faces_of_science

Are you or someone you know:

A recently dismissed federal scientist?

Doing science-related work affected by the mass firings and defunding of science?

“You Can’t Fire Science” is a project to illustrate and share those stories: bit.ly/faces_of_sci...

A good follow up to #StandUpForScience!

Teufelsberg - outside Berlin, Germany

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org

Quick watercolour of a Platy for #SundayFishSketch 🎨🐟
I used to own Platies as a child, so this was a nostalgic one for me!

Science IRL decisions went out today!

We were able to fund 13 of the 77 proposals that were submitted. They are communicating science in stage productions, boxes at bus stations, interactive frog statues, musical performances, farmers market tables, backs of cars, knitting clubs, and much more.

The group that harassed these researchers is openly bragging about it on their website btw. They are so unafraid of any repercussions.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

Ending the week with a little motivation from our office mural. 💙 We hope you all have a great weekend. 🦈

This is me ~6 months ago, excited for my first day of work as a Scientist for the US Navy. After getting my PhD at UCLA and a postdoc at Caltech, I made the big move across the country to help our fleet. Now I may be fired due to the indiscriminate firings of new, “probationary” federal workers.

Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.

Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.

A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:

🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵
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💡#JobOpportunity: Scientist, Fish Ecology

🏢 Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
📍#Melbourne #Victoria #Australia
🗓️ 12 months, fixed term
💰$76,817 - $93,275
🚨Deadline to apply: 23 Feb

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#sciencejobs #sciencecareers #biology #fish

We are hearing today that NIH is restarting issuing grant awards — that is, for awards already approved by council, or renewals that normally happen as matter of course, money will start going out.

Caution, though, before we interpret this as a win...

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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.

SICB is back! Please follow the society's new BlueSky account: @sicb.bsky.social SICB recognizes that the scientific enterprise is only successful because of the people performing that science. Without those people, science and all of the political and economic strength that it provides, stops.

You can read the blog I wrote for SICB about organizing with and for Black environmentalist here:

integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/g...

Link to full text of the statement from SICB leadership here!

A portion of the Statement from the society for integrative and comparative biology reading: “The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science.”

I am continually proud to be a member of SICB. Great science 🤝 great people

All researchers will be impacted (we are literally required to address broadening participation/diversifying the STEM workforce in our grants) but these institutions will absolutely be affected the most. If you don’t think these impact you, I promise you your work is next. Fight back nowwwwww