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Daniel S Helman, PhD

@helmandaniel.bsky.social

I'm an artist who turned tail and became a geoscientist, working in mineralogy, sustainability and nonviolence. https://osf.io/3zd68/

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3d ago

In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4d ago

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 6d ago

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6d ago

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies are our best hope to stop climate change from getting worse, so this Supreme Court case is really about the habitability of our planet.

Daniel S Helman, PhD@helmandaniel.bsky.social · last wk.

Paper by Meister & Preto on new mineral nomenclature to distinguish between biologically influenced, biologically precipitated, biologically mediated, etc. minerals. Check it out? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How life affects mineral formation: A reappraisal of concepts and terminology

We present a moderately revised terminology of concepts how life may influence mineral formation. This framework would be more consistent and universally applicable.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · last wk.

Would be curious if they're winding down other divisions in a similar way but on a slower time table. The number of grants provided by the Geosciences division was halved this year compared to prior years, the *explicit expectation* is for it to be halved again next year. Comparing notes is good.

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · last wk.

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.