📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

500 Women Scientists@500womensci.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you? Goodnight 💚

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

standupforscience2025.org

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2y ago

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

Erika Crable, PhD@erikacrable.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Today has been a DAY but we are happy to have shared it with all of you. Rest well knowing they fumbled HARD this weekend. And send photos of your emotional support pets! See you in the morning!

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

American Meteorological Society@ametsoc.org · 2y ago

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Less than a month away! Seattle folks, spread the word!

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · 2y ago

BrainFest is coming back! Join us on Mar. 15 at Pacific Science Center for a cerebral celebration for all ages! 🧠 ⚡️ 🤘 BrainFest is incl. with general admission. Limited number of free general admission tickets will be given out at the door starting at 10am. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/events/brain...

Gotta love nerds raising over $3 million for charity in 48 hrs - what a great distraction from the world this weekend. It's not too late to donate and/or vote on the recipient nonprofits at www.projectforawesome.com

John Green@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 2y ago

So what exactly is the Project for Awesome? Since 2007, my brother @hankgreen.bsky.social and many friends and online creators have come together to host an annual 48-hour livestream in support of great charities. Over the years, we've raised over $22,000,0000 for a huge variety of charities...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

They’re firing NIH scientists and replacing them with people with this level of crappy chart-making? Sounds like the DOGE kids would benefit from going through the NIH postbac program. 🧪

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action. I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments. Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission. Start with SIFT method:

⏱️ ACTION STEPS ⏱️ 💥Call your reps and demand they oppose RFK Jr, NIH Cuts and the Musk Takeover 5calls.org 💥Call your state’s Attorney General and demand they fight Musk’s access to data and funding cuts. www.usa.gov/state-govern...

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.

And Academic T&P committees, maybe take a beat & consider how the continuous & unsustainable push for CV conspicuous production has been a competitive inhibitor of scientists & scholars being engaged in their communities in meaningful ways as a bulwark to the shitstorm happening now.

a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

Alt: a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner saying "There, I said it."

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Dear biologists & neuroscientists -- I'd like to collect some cursory data on what the "typical" breakdown of funding between federal & private looks like in labs. If you run a research lab or know enough about yours, could you fill this small form out? forms.gle/PEzWEYojBjfj...

Neuroscience & biology lab funding

What is the current rough breakdown of funding sources for your lab? The answers below should add to 100%!

forms.gle

Ashley Juavinett, PhD@ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve decided that explicitly teaching about how science funding works needs to be a part of my neurobiology lab course — it’s something I haven’t included before, and that was an oversight. Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.

What started as a small group of park rangers has grown into a movement of over 100,000 federal employees. People all across the nation have risked everything to challenge Elon, his staffers, and the Trump administration, ensuring the truth reaches the public.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Welp I'm not going to the AAAS conference this year but now I want to renew my membership just for the shirt...

HPS @ AAAS@hps-aaas.bsky.social · 2y ago

Free t-shirt for renewing your AAAS membership #InclusionIsElemental 🧪 #HPS

How are y'all dealing with the cognitive dissonance of much of your daily life continuing as normal right now even as really really really bad shit is happening in government (that will certainly have ripple effects that will reach us all)? Because I'm honestly feeling a little insane right now.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

This week has seen a stream of appalling, transphobic executive orders from the new administration. We shouldn’t minimize the harm these will cause—but we can find some hope in the actions being taken to stop them. Click thru to learn more & find resources to help. #trans mombian.com/2025/01/31/f...

Fighting Back: Actions Being Taken Against Transphobic Executive Orders - Mombian

This week has seen a steady stream of appalling, transphobic executive orders from the new administration. We shouldn’t minimize the harm these will cause—but we can find some hope in the actions alre...

mombian.com

I am genuinely, viscerally terrified of what might happen to PubMed.

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/rou...

If anything, RFK, Jr. permanently ended impostor syndrome. After today, no one should ever feel unqualified for anything, ever.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

in case anyone else needs this reminder too... (I'm off to pet some cats and listen to an audiobook)

Ashley Juavinett, PhD@ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 2y ago

STOP SCROLLING the bad news will be here tomorrow i promise