Heading to Portland, Oregon for #SICB2026 with a couple posters—on fish muscle fibers and humpback whales! Stop by Tuesday and say hello!
Kathryn Kavanagh
@kathykavanagh.bsky.social
Scientist- Evolutionary biology, coral reef ecology, reproductive biology, biodiversity conservation. Professor. Art enthusiast. Mother of daughters.
Incredible morning spotting 12 endangered North Atlantic Right Whales off Herring Cove Beach , Cape Cod, with my UMass Dartmouth biology students!
What is this about? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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"Why has the public gutting of science not caused an immediate political backlash? The authors of the culling have correctly recognized that the public has no idea how science works and has no connection to scientists who aren’t on television" 🧪⚒️
C. Brandon Ogbunu@cbo.bsky.social · last yr."No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
Was wondering if there are any billionaires who would like to quickly step up and fund an experiment of the science, education, and health system we really want. Plenty of top talent in the U.S. ready to go. As a model for scaling up when we’re out of this mess.
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
globalchange.gov
Yep
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2y agoThe price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Imagine - just imagine - having literally HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars AND the power to influence through a communication device in the hands of half the world’s population.
🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ 🧵⤵️
About 1000 years ago, Taino people spent quite a lot of effort carving symbols of life (as spirals) and coqui frogs into this amazing rock at la Piedra Escrita, next to a gorgeous swimming hole in the mountains of Puerto Rico.
With the incoming administration, there's going to be a lot of bullshit and misinformation about offshore wind floating around. Here is a well-documented summary of the best scientific information on the subject: oceanconservancy.org/wp-content/u...
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Cool tree roots and cool kid on a walk in New Hampshire.
