PLANTS scholars and PLANTS Advisors during Botany 2024.
NSF Terminates Funding for Successful Workforce and Leadership Program in the Botanical Sciences
botany.org/home/awards/...
#botany #plantscience
Email didn't even come to me as PI. It went to our AOR.
New EFI blog post! Resources for Reviewing Code
ecoforecast.org/resources-fo...
This blog post gives an overview of the importance of reviewing code and shares resources and templates that individuals in the EFI community have developed and found useful when reviewing code.
A 🆕 Perspective in Earth Stewardship: Indigenous-led kelp farming restores coastal ecosystems while providing cultural & economic benefits
📄Restorative aquaculture stimulates cultural and ecological benefits: Centering sugar kelp, indigenous stewardship, and a New York estuary
tinyurl.com/ms3jvdhb
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Highlights of really cool new research coming out of ESA journals, would highly recommend checking all of these out-- especially the one about seed sourcing for restoration :)
esa.org/blog/2025/03...
Predicted distribution of (a) edible and (b) medicinal plant species richness based on harvest year range random forest models. The study area was restricted to a 150-km buffer from sampling and clipped to the same vegetation type (central mixedwoods). Areas in gray are masked from prediction
🆕 in Earth Stewardship: Assessing industrial forestry practices w/ both Western science & Indigenous Knowledge
📄Indigenous-led research on traditional territories highlights the impacts of forestry harvest practices on culturally important plants
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
A generation erased,
dreams gutted,
minds that mapped oceans,
tracked fish fleeing
warming tides.
They knew the sea’s voice,
spoke reef’s tongue,
now silenced.
Who hears the currents now?
Who watches the fish?
We bury tomorrow’s voices,
feeding today’s greed.
Bottom line: The intentional loss of exceptional scientists and other terrific public servants at NOAA leaves our country less safe and more vulnerable.
I'm interested in talking to any NOAA Fisheries employees who lost their jobs today, especially those in the PNW, at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, or those who work on Columbia River salmon. DM me or hit me up on signal ericbarker.67
USAID staff have two days to clean out their offices at the agency’s former headquarters in DC.
People are gathering on the sidewalk in the rain to show their support, applauding workers as they pass by.
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
Know folks who DOGE fired? The Congressional Dems has a survey for you. Might help them put a stop to this dangerous nonsens. #geoscience #oceanography #Climate #standupforscience @davidpepperoh.bsky.social #NSF #CDC #HHS @altnps.bsky.social
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.
Image text: ASPB Reaffirms Its Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. Statement from ASPB’s Board of Directors, February 11, 2025. Featuring ASPB logo.
ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period."
Read full statement 👉 blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commi...
Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.
Scenes like this wouldn’t be possible without whistleblowers coming forward about Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover. Reminder that if you’re a public servant wishing to report fraud, waste, or abuse at a federal agency, you can do so on my website:
February 2025 cover of Ecosphere
Take a taste of Ecosphere's February issue! Its cover features a Ugandan red colobus monkey enjoying a leafy meal, highlighting new research by photographer Patrick Lauer & colleagues on the monkeys' selective feeding behavior
Peruse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
🌿🌱 The summary of our recent session "ESA 2024 Meeting Review: Belonging and Identity in Ecology" is now available online. 🌱🌿
This review delves into the crucial topic of fostering a strong sense of belonging among undergraduate ecology students in the field.
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
Photograph of two people in chest waders walking in the center of a stream. Dr. Amina Pollard, a Black freshwater ecologist, is on the left.
In honor of #WorldWetlandsDay and #BlackHistoryMonth, check out this @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social panel on Black Ecologists-Shaping the Science of Ecology, featuring Dr. Rashidah Farid, Dr. Amina Pollard, and Dr. Steward Pickett. Recorded in 2021, it still resonates today. esa.org/black-ecolog...
Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF.
If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you.
Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947
I'm not breathing a sigh of relief. This chaos and confusion is standard operating procedure under a Trump presidency. Until we learn more, it certainly reads like Trump is plowing ahead with his plans that will crash the economy and make communities suffer.
My lines are open, folks. Keep the messages coming because what I'm hearing so far is horrifying and I'd like to shine a light on this. 🙏🏼
We’re the Science Advocacy Alliance, a new coalition defending U.S. #science agencies & public health against federal freezes on research & communication.
Join us @defendscience.bsky.social to volunteer.
Please 💙 & repost.
#ScienceAdvocacy #SciSky #ResearchMatters #SciPolicy #SciComm #BioSky
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
#academiasky #womeninSTEM #teaching/learning Does anyone know if there is a full listing some place of the #NSF programs that have been terminated? Also, any word on what will happen to funded projects from those programs?
BTW you might like to see our new account for journals content: bsky.app/profile/esaj...
A young woman with dark hair speaks into a microphone as she comments at a special session at the 2024 ESA Annual Meeting.
We're ready-- Proposal submissions now open for special sessions, short courses, workshops, field trips & Career Central workshops at #ESA2025 in Baltimore! Submit by January 9: www.esa.org/baltimore202...
A woman gesticulates enthusiastically while speaking into a microphone at the 2024 ESA Annual Meeting. Superimposed over it is the call to action, ADVANCE NEW IDEAS, special session proposal submissions are now open, learn more and submit
We're already hearing about amazing workshop & special session proposals for #ESA2025. Add your ideas to the mix! This round of proposals is about unique teaching, learning & exploring opportunities across ecology, adding a dynamic element to the program. Due Jan. 9! www.esa.org/baltimore202...
