Don’t mind me! Just an academic mom writing a proposal while entertaining my 2 and 5-year old, who enjoy sitting in my lap while singing Danny Go. I may or may not have just had a wedge of brie, crackers, and iced coffee for dinner… But actually, I’m loving every second.

Earlier this week, Camille kicked off the field season by scoping out sites for her thesis! Big thanks to Dr. David Burdick for sharing his expertise and insights. We’re excited to learn more about what microbes can tell us about restoration trajectory. Stay tuned! 🧬🌎🌱 #restoration #microbes

Interested in hearing updates from our SPARC working group focused on understanding consequences of plant-microbe interactions over time? Join us tomorrow March 10 at 1 PM ET to hear from our team. Register below! 🌱🦠📈📉 #nsffunded #plant #microbe #synchrony #lter

Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States)@uslter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

LTER data synthesis draws on 45 years of experiments and observations across dozens of diverse ecosystems to understand the mechanisms they share. March 10 @ 10 am PT: lternet.edu/events/2025-... - how grazing changes ecosystem structure - connections between above -and below-ground communities

Our college is hiring a new TT faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about working in the college or living in St. Pete, FL (spoiler, I love it here :)) jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676280/t...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Aquatic Ecotoxicology - Saint Petersburg, Florida job with University of South Florida | 676280

The College of Marine Science (CMS) at the University of South Florida (USF) seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology.

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Did you know that less than 0.5% of philanthropic giving goes to Native Americans. Here are Native-led places you can donate this #GivingTuesday.🧵

Today’s cozy cabin vibes combine the calm of snowy seclusion with the chaos of proposal writing. ‘Tis the season! 🌲❄️

EPA accused of misleading public about ongoing production of harmful PFAS www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/epa-...

EPA accused of misleading public about ongoing production of harmful PFAS

Federal regulators are falsely claiming that production of a dangerous PFAS chemical has been phased out in the US, according to a complaint filed this week by an environmental watchdog group alleging...

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On this 19th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Yup’ik agricultural specialist Elias Kelly’s memoir about life in #Alaska. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #yupik #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #author #native #nativeamerican verastarbard.com/2025/11/19/t...

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 19

On this nineteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “My Side of the River” by Yup’ik writer Elias Kelly. In this memoir Elias gives a unique look at ecological and legal discu…

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The Coastal MicroEco Lab had a blast at the CERF @cerfscience.bsky.social conference! Congrats to lab members Camille and Marley for superb posters and THANKS to panelists/participants of collab sesh with @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social) focused on integrating microbes into restoration efforts 🌎🦠🧬

Today’s win so far is when the barista handed me my chai latte and told me to “enjoy,” I refrained from saying, “you too.” 🥇

Fall views in the salt marsh = some of my favorite field work days 🍁🌱🧬

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year! "Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)." www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Sometimes #academicmom life is writing a proposal narrative draft on your phone with two kids sitting in your lap while watching Bluey on a Friday night.

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching

2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊

At #ESA2025? Ideas on how to expand above and belowground community datasets? Check out: SS 10 "Time is of the Essence: Toward Meeting the Pressing Need for Paired Long-Term Sampling of Above- and Belowground Communities." BCC 338 Mon 10:30-11:30. We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!

Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎 #LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience

Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems - LTER

The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the Nation...

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Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

Protect transgender scientists

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

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I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec? Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together! www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers

**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

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For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact." (NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)

I hadn't seen anything about USDA NIFA/AFRI in the FY26 request so I looked it up. Does this just get rid of Hatch Act funding for land grants? Am I reading that right?

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

Yes! Another foundation stepping up to meet the moment. I’ve been waiting to hear more news like this.

Science for Good ☀️@sciforgood.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project? RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️ More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US! Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources. "If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now. And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.

Shout out to the tenured and emeritus faculty who are speaking up on here, at rallies, in calls and emails to legislators, in board meetings, in meetings with funders, so that us non-tenured folks don't risk our careers to speak out against *waves hands wildly* all of this

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

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Interested in what we can learn from microbes in coastal restoration efforts? Submit an abstract to our session for @cerfscience.bsky.social in Nov: "Microscopic to Mighty: Harnessing Microbial Ecology for Restoration Success", co-led by the fabulous @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social! #CERF2025

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation@cerfscience.bsky.social · last yr.

CERF 2025 Registration is NOW OPEN! Join us November 9–13, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia for an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow coastal and estuarine science professionals. #CERF2025 🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science