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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump administration welcomes 49 white South Africans as refugees The Trump administration is welcoming a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home.

This is revolting. Only white people count as "refugees" now?

apnews.com/article/sout...

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by engaging people with exciting research.

🧪 I love how this article explains how much basic research benefits everyone. As scientists we all (mostly) know this of course but it is worth repeating over and over given the political climate in the USA

theconversation.com/basic-resear...

Article about the lab: www.nwf.org/Magazines/Na...

USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

A photo from an undersea robot or ROV, the robotic arm is reaching out towards a small rock partially buried in the seafloor sediment, with a translucent white colonial tunicate growing on it.

A different rock, picked up from the seafloor and displayed with a ruler in front of it. It has sponges, anemones, and lots of other tiny invertebrate life growing all over it.

I heard it's #DeepDay, so here's a fun deep sea fact: we picked up 18 rocks from deep in the North Atlantic and looked at every single animal that was using those rocks. In total, we found ONE HUNDRED (and one) species* of invertebrates on those rocks alone 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So, only a quarter of US adults can read at a 6th-grade level or higher? That (a) is appalling and (b) explains a lot ...

Want some tea?

#WomenInSTEM

Great news!
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I'm a New Englandah! A1Z

GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’ Trump's canceled NIH grants and HHS layoffs threaten U.S. biomedical leadership, Collins says, as she calls for funding to be restored.

🧪Slight progress getting GOP Senators to speak up against cuts to the various HHS organizations (NIH, CDC...). Definitely need more red state Senators and Representatives speaking up. Call your people, let them know. The operator here can connect you (202) 224-3121
www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that!

My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social

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Charter Books

And there's Charter Books, down in Newport! A fantastic store

charterbookstore.com

YouTube video by TBS Friends: Rachel's English Trifle (Clip) | TBS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08p...

The cover of Nature's Action Guide, by Sarah F. Jayne

Spring is sprung!
The grass is riz!
If you're interested in native plants,
The best book this is.

#NativePlants #gardening #biodiversity #pollinators #bees

The protests were not civil disobedience -- by all accounts, they were peaceful. They were freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

The fact sheet doesn't even bother to finish saying what this is supposed to achieve:

Not even wealth is saving Americans from dying at rates seen among some of the poorest Europeans Experts said a new study of wealth and mortality in middle-aged and older adults points to deep-rooted health risks in the U.S.

50 years ago, life expectancy in the US and wealthy European countries was about the same. A new study led by Professor Irene Papanicolas finds that today, the wealthiest adults in the US have roughly the same likelihood of dying as the poorest adults in northern and western Europe.

Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem

In January, an iceberg broke off of Antarctica and some scientists happened to be right there and decided to go see what had been living below it. Kind of like turning over a rock to see what's wriggling underneath. (by @ashleybvigil.bsky.social) 🧪

"We observed systematic patterns of bias in US parents’ descriptions of boys and girls: parents were more likely to use gender-neutral labels to describe boys vs. girls and gender-specific labels to describe girls vs. boys"

Emmy Noether: The Queen Of Mathematics Who Revolutionized Physics Born on 23 March 1882, Emmy Noether, considered by Einstein the most important woman in history of mathematics, had a great passion for theo...

Emmy Noether was a mathematical genius, who made fundamental contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
Noether's theorem, which links symmetries to conservation laws, revolutionized modern understanding of physics.

My post: www.lanostra-matematica.org/2025/03/emmy...

🧪 ⚛️ #histsci

Poets should check, too -- I just found one of my poems in there.

What a fascinating article!

I have these in my yard but never knew what they were called, and never heard of cellophane bees until a couple of days ago on iNaturalist! That makes it EIGHT bee species in my urban backyard in RI. Gotta love native plants.

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Were these the bees you saw, @inkfish.bsky.social ?

Not an entomologist, but it probably is! Among ground-dwelling bees, the males emerge first and wait for the female bees to emerge so they can mate. I love this time of year.