Sally James
@jamesian.bsky.social
Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times. More at https://seattlesciencewriter.com
My husband and myself are raising money for 2 charities - LA food bank and @oceana.bsky.social by being in a contest called "America's Favorite Couple." Vote for us at this link americasfavcouple.org/2026/sally-a...
Vote for Sally And Richard as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will share their love story in a Variety Magazine advertorial, take home $20,000, and enjoy a triple date with Jeff & Emilie Goldblum, plus Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis.
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Registration opens 8-4 for the @sciencewriters.org conference in Corvallis, OR in Sept. Insiders know - all the best field trips are FULL within hours. So read program - use your keyboard trigger fingers. #research #comms #sciwri26 @oregonstate.edu 🧪🌳🦠🐟
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Not surprised. #research #science #medicine apnews.com/article/cali...
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Had a strange "cancelling" experience with Facebook and Instagram. Account frozen over post sure seems innocuous. Related to contest called "America's Favorite Couple" run by colossal.org Does anyone have experience with colossal? americasfavcouple.org/2026/sally-a...
Vote for Sally And Richard as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will share their love story in a Variety Magazine advertorial, take home $20,000, and enjoy a triple date with Jeff & Emilie Goldblum, plus Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis.
americasfavcouple.org
Be sure to take photos for #mothweek. See this special link at @inaturalist.bsky.social for the details. www.inaturalist.org/pages/mothweek #bugsky #diversity
Kids in camps are being rushed around. Swimming cancelled. No soccer. #camp #kids #emergency
Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3w agoThis Seattle lightning is not playing around.
If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies
Here’s the research showing the importance of attribution to garner public support for climate policy: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
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Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.
"In 1975, about half of 20-somethings said they read the newspaper every day. Today less than 10 percent do," writes @rosehorowitch.bsky.social in "The End of Reading." Link below. As #journalist, it pains me. Photo below - reporter myself using phone books to find people's home addresses.
Registration opens 8-4 for the @sciencewriters.org conference in Corvallis, OR in Sept. Insiders know - all the best field trips are FULL within hours. So read program - use your keyboard trigger fingers. #research #comms #sciwri26 @oregonstate.edu 🧪🌳🦠🐟
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If you have the chance, I recommend the @northcascades.bsky.social nonprofit Environmental Learning Center. You can learn a lot, do some canoe time with many others. #nature #retreat
I will say that the thing that finally got us to install air conditioning here in (until recently) largely AC-free Seattle was smoke: being unable to safely open your windows to cool your house is something else entirely, and this sort of compounding risk will become more common.
Why OMB changes could hurt everywhere. By @drjudystone.bsky.social
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last mo.This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
If you are following layoffs + sale of @sciam.bsky.social ...please check out worker's union perspective. #writing #union
Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · last mo.Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
Beautiful writing in essay about both #grief and #neuroscience: "in the months immediately following my husband’s death I often yearned for a place ... (1,2) #writing By Amanda Petrusich @thenewyorker.bsky.social
Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ – Grant Witness
The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.
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We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”
Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · last mo.We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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My brother is on a fishing boat in Alaska right now. Here is the #showyourstripes temperature results, showing the climb in temps since 1850. He sees the impact in many ways. Alaska suffers more extreme temp shifts than the lower 48. #climate #science #warming showyourstripes.info/l/northameri...
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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“To return to shore and hear this news is quite exciting,“ @osubeaversnews.bsky.social oceanographer Jack Barth said after completing a cruise that removed the NW’s last floating ocean observatory funded by the National Science Foundation. www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
Northwest’s yanked observatories to return to ocean after Trump administration backs down
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Congressional pushback halts dismantling of ocean monitoring. #ocean #science #fedcuts NSF retreats on ocean monitoring cuts after Capitol Hill revolt - E&E News by POLITICO share.google/IrlllDVHBmJm...
NSF retreats on ocean monitoring cuts after Capitol Hill revolt
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to protect the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
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Great @deborahb.bsky.social piece on what the past tells us about the current science-policy nightmare. "Maybe it could be seen as an opportunity,” one scientist tells her. "It’s like the opportunity you have to build a better house when yours burns down.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Scientists weathering Trump’s attacks on research can look to the past
It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
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I just want to say: American science was always in this fight. Just a lot of the time a lot of scientists didn’t know it, pretended they weren’t, or were on the other side.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 2mo agoThe Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.
Props to high-school student Alice Prokop for her well-reasoned essay in favor of WHOLE BOOKS in school and not just excerpts. #seattle #books #publishing #neuroscience #EdSky www.seattletimes.com/education-la...
Students need more books, not fewer
Students are rarely required to read full books anymore, leaving them unprepared for the future, Student Voices contributor Alice Prokop writes.
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