I NEED HELP!
Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!
I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!
Please circulate widely!
Went to a celebration of young people last night who've created something new and cool. They reminded me how powerful it is right now to be *doing* good things. Creating, partnering, collaborating. Voicing opinions is...fine. But if you're feeling heavy go find and help people doing positive things.
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
This is incredible! Would love to be able to see similar data/visualizations for funding from DOI or USDA agencies.
This seems like a great moment to talk about the importance of science communication!
Science communication matters because it connects scientific research with people, giving folks information they need to make informed decisions about everything from health to hazards.
what a decade this week has been
You know what's good? Books.
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
Yesterday, I did a @skypeascientist.bsky.social session with a big class of 7th graders. Obviously I still have a few days, but I already know it’ll be the most joyful part of my work this week. Smart, curious, hilarious questions. 10/10 🧪
There should be a word for "setting an out-of-office auto-reply as I travel to go to a conference even though I'm still going to be checking email constantly while at the conference because of who I am as a person"
two cuttlefish hover over a reef where the female has laid eggs with tiny little baby cuttlefish in them. It's the month of December
This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar!
Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them!
Sales will fund our '26 Native 🌱 Project
Order before 10/1 to get a free plant sticker!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
A map of the United states titled "United States of Science 2025" with the skype a scientist logo and 2000 tiny empty circles spread out across the USA. States with low population numbers have fewer than where there are more people.
Whew, ok, with a few hours to spare, the 2025 classroom map is ready! The 7th annual United States of Science competition starts tomorrow.
If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘
givebutter.com/USS2025
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
Marbled crayfish.
How hard is it to get rid of unwanted cloning marbled #crayfish?
Marbled crayfish were released into 1️⃣ pond in Prague.
The pond got drained. Collected every visible crayfish. Nope: still crayfish.
The pond got drained AGAIN. Collected every visible crayfish AGAIN. Nope: still crayfish.
1/4
Why do scientists study obscure things like Joshua trees? Because we don’t know what we don’t know. A Yellowstone hot spring microbe led to PCR, the technology behind cancer diagnostics, forensics, HIV tests, & more. Basic research leads to BIG SURPRISES that change the world. 🧪🧬🔬
❗️ The R tax bill would hand unchecked power to the Trump admin to punish nonprofit orgs that don’t fall in line with the its ideology by labeling them as terrorist-supporting groups - w/o due process, w/o a third-party investigation & w/o public evidence: www.councilofnonprofits.org/articles/non...
Plankton? Daphnia are so cute
Ugh, foundations are tough! Just got another ‘no’ this week too. We keep trying, but every time we get our decision I’m left shouting at my screen “what do you waaaant?!?”
I’m the Executive Director at Invasive Species Action Network based in Montana. We provide outreach, education, and services focused on invasive species prevention. Check us out at stopais.org or on socials.
We’re doing geocache trackables (or travel bugs) to talk about forest pests and their native lookalikes. You can tie lots of communication to the associated web page, but fun and new to us.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
A collection of handmade Victorian ink bottles
A tiny posy of fresh flowers in a cobalt blue Victorian ink bottle
A tiny posy of blue & purple spring flowers in a cobalt blue Victorian ink bottle
The front cover design of a booklet I've written on how making a tiny posy in a beautiful little antique bottle will improve your mental health, along with a brief guide to/history of Victorian ink bottles.
Tmrw evening at 8 I'll be opening my Etsy for a limited no. of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to👇 anxiety while you make something lovely.
Contents:
Victorian ink bottle
booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity
tiny dried flower posy.
A RT would help so much🌿
May I [once again] interest you in a little sturgeon break?
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants about COVID-19, leaving long COVID funding in limbo, according to a new internal guidance document I obtained.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says.
We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
Folks, exactly 5 years ago today I made this offer, & I'll do it again.
Many graduate students are in danger of losing their one field season for collecting data- in March 2020 because of the pandemic, now because of Musk-Trump BS. This means that many won't be able to finish graduate school. 🧪🧵
If you’ve any doubt the nonprofit sector faces an unprecedented existential threat, see yesterday’s Joe Rogan interview with Elon Musk.
Remember - while his power is significant, ours is greater. When we unite to protect & advance the entire nonprofit sector, we are formidable, and we will win.
