I got my award letter from NSF yesterday. 14 months post submission. I’m so excited and grateful. And new instruments are on their way!

@tampabaytimes.bsky.social did an amazing job capturing life at @cmarinescience.bsky.social post fire. And, they made my mom’s day ❤️ Support local journalism!

Update on how things are going at work www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

How is USF St. Pete’s Marine Science Lab doing 2 months after catastrophic fire?

For the 150 students and faculty housed in the building, the last couple months have been a series of ups and downs.

tampabay.com

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · last mo.

dog shit country, truly

Fire update: thanks to heroic efforts by contractors & USF CMS ops staff, my group got most of our samples. Yesterday books emerged. Waiting for space allocations for prep labs & offices. Instruments & buildings will take longer; advocating for mobile labs in short to mid term. Funding still needed.

The White House has cut or frozen billions in scientific research funds that had been approved by Congress. It’s an assault on the rule of law and on the security, health, and prosperity of all Americans. bit.ly/42ytB9B

The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding

Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.

brennancenter.org

Greetings from Hawkins Marine lab here in the upside down. Yesterday we stood at the gate and and recieved samples from the relatively protected walkin cooler. The building is red tagged; unclear how much can be recovered. So many awesome people are working really hard to help us. I’m very greatful.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.

Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta

On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support

gofundme.com

So this happened today. My office, lab, husbands office, lab… students offices… not great. Tough times ahead

Well the day had arrived. It’s the first time since 2002 that I have not had governmental (UK or US) funding for my research program… Anyone else here with me? Any ideas about what to do next?

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

insidehighered.com

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

go.nature.com

If I were a fired NSB member, I would be exploring opportunities to litigate actions taken by NSF that legally require board input

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

nature.com

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

My Gen X self had to be notified of successful launch and splashdown. Still traumatized by the live action I experienced in 5th grade. Yay Artimis II!

The obeying in advance is so odd.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

#nokings in St Pete FL with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social and @drtrevorwilliams.bsky.social. Summary: more people, more men 40-60, not enough 18-30 year olds. More honking and fewer fingers. Florida is shifting (I think).

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

This person should be fired from their job, because they clearly don’t value teaching or learning. Gross. My students bring me the greatest joy and are the reason I do what I do.

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

science.org

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s theconversation.com/in-its-hunt-...

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s

There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.

theconversation.com

Come on Thermo… seriously?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump to Local 12 Cincinnati: "There's never been a better year for a president. I've been rated. That includes the stoppage of 8 wars with a 9th to come. The economy is roaring. It's phenomenal. That's why I'm here. This is an excursion, a little excursion, and I think it's only that."

As a kid, my great aunt Mary woods hole (family nickname) gave me a book each Thanksgiving. The books were always about adventures (swallows and amazons was a fave) and she would write that I could do anything and be anything I wanted to be. ADHD and oceanography must be genetic.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution@whoi.edu · 5mo ago

Behind every great mind... is a really messy desk! Mary Sears was one of the first staff members at WHOI who transformed the once-obscure field of oceanography into a prestigious international science. 📲 Learn how Sears helped “solve the ocean” during WWII: go.whoi.edu/MarySearsWWII

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

nature.com

Controversial opinion. Let Gen X have some leadership responsibility. Watching this same dynamic in all facets of my life at the moment, with all the same issues

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Uhhh… well maybe we can all be raptured and escape this hellhole timeline.

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Meanwhile, many of us have to think about how we wind down our lab operations in the next month, while proposals languish in purgatory. For what?

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

5/10

Meanwhile, polar scientists are running out of money, have proposals sitting in NSF purgatory for over a year and crickets… I’m about ready to throw in the towel on my science career.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's an ambitious task, but someone needs to do it if we're going to understand rapidly retreating glaciers in Antarctica. That someone is Scripps Oceanography polar geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum, and @nytimes.com's @zhonggg.bsky.social shares more about this crucial work. ⤵️