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Liz Haswell

@ehaswell.bsky.social

Writing & Editing @ www.thesustainableprofessor.com 🌱Co-host, The Taproot Podcast 🌱Former midwestern biology professor finding her way as a writer and bon vivant in the PNW 🌱Check out what I'm up to or contact me: https://elizabethhaswell.carrd.co

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Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social · 2d ago

More than 65,000 people have been displaced by the Spokane Complex Fires — and hundreds have lost their homes. If you have even $5 to go towards short and long term assistance, here's a trusted community source: innovia.org

Home - Innovia Foundation

Learn how you can bring your whole community together through the power of a shared meal. APPLY FOR A GRANT Find an event What is your America at 250? Join the mosaic, host a meal, share a story, and ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 3d ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 7d ago

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

MaizeGDB@maizegdb.bsky.social · last wk.

We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.

We are very sorry to share the sad news that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year long battle with esophageal cancer. Mike was a long-time faculty member in the Plant and Microbiology Department at University of California-Berkeley, a groundbreaking plant geneticist, and an inspiring teacher and mentor to over two dozen Ph.D. students, four dozen postdocs, and countless undergraduates. He was best known for pioneering work on maize anaerobic metabolism and gene regulation, transposon biology, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole-genome duplications in plants. Mike was hired by UC-Berkeley as an assistant professor straight out of graduate school in 1973, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to full professor in 1984. He was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies in 2017. Mike taught genetics, comparative genomics and scientific reasoning to our graduate students, and he also taught a popular genetics course for non-majors that had various titles over the years but was affectionately known as “Genetics for Poets.” Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and many colleagues.
Liz Haswell@ehaswell.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you are interested in any kind of writing, I strongly recommend the Pt. Townsend Writers' Conference. Even if all you do is sit and look at the water, you'll be inspired (but you'll be at workshops and craft talks and readings, too).

Sunrise over the Puget Sound in peach and orangeThree smiling writer ladiesA tiny dorm room with a view of the sea
Presbyterian Outlook@presoutlook.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why Christians should care about science denialism When misinformation fuels disease outbreaks and deepens inequality, science denialism becomes more than an intellectual debate. It becomes a social justice issue that Christians cannot ignore, writes Elizabeth Haswell. @ehaswell.bsky.social

Why Christians should care about science denialism

When misinformation fuels disease outbreaks and deepens inequality, science denialism becomes something Christians need to notice.

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

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

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Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · last mo.

We all need to try harder to stop publishing and uplifting the visibility of the suite of Nature journals. If you want glam then stick with society journals from AAAS.

Josh Fischman@jfischman.bsky.social · last mo.

An eventful week at Scientific American. Owner Springer Nature rushed to sell SciAm 3 days before the staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union, and laid off a lot of people. Including me. I got to work with amazing writers during my time, people who made me better. Thank-you list in comment below:

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 2mo ago

Yet another week where I was following some news closely and other parts not so much and *boggled* when it came time to edit our briefing. USPS is forbidden to deliver ballots from states that refuse the voter data grab?? They're doing *what* with medical records?? unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...

Briefing: Data Security + more — Unbreaking

This week we have a Data Security focus, plus updates on Infectious Disease Control, Archives & History, and Trans Healthcare.

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Unbreaking@unbreaking.org · 2mo ago

Infuriating and dangerous things are happening with voter data and federal control of elections. Our Data Security team breaks it down: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...