Jennifer Middleton

Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...

The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

Apropros of nothing, here is an example of something beautiful & inspiring funded by NSF. Footage like this is what drew me to science in the first place.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...

02.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.

07.03.2025 17:58 — 👍 866    🔁 227    💬 26    📌 6

NSF state cards - Google Drive

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

19.02.2025 11:06 — 👍 273    🔁 177    💬 12    📌 21

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

18.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 237    🔁 144    💬 10    📌 15

For the NASA folks that can't, we will.

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Some light relief in this chaos. Our piggies demands are only more treats. @hicestory.bsky.social

29.01.2025 10:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Beginning to doubt that wokeness is the biggest threat to higher education

28.01.2025 03:09 — 👍 1935    🔁 218    💬 19    📌 8

All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.

This seems truly unprecedented. In my team alone: 10 grad students, multiple undergrads, two ECR researchers, each at risk of job loss & worse ramifications. I hope I am wrong but the trend of government decisions are not suggesting that I am. 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...?

28.01.2025 10:02 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

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Close up photo of a fluffy guinea pig in a black and white bumble bee costume eating a piece of carrot.

2025 is off to a rough start. Before things get worse, please enjoy this photo of our guinea pig in a bee costume. 📷 @helengrimsley.bsky.social

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Hello world! I hear it's better here...

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