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Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year. Gov. Tina Kotek has been pushing to make progress on the state's renewable energy projects since ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting highlighted obstacles.

NEW: Stories by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica identified bottlenecks that have stalled green energy projects in Oregon.

The governor aims to accelerate efforts through a series of mandates. Here's where they stand.

The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration.

Sharing this piece by @katherinejwu.com - A succinct explanation about why i fear for the younger generation of scientists...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Love that @arcadiascience.com has made and shared these beautiful illustrations.
I'll ask the following on @tuthill.bsky.social 's behalf: might you add a snow fly to the library?
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...

Thanks for mentioning and recommending 'Perfect Days' @romanmars.bsky.social. We watched and _really_ enjoyed it last night.

Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨

#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia

He continued: “I’m kind of sicko; I love putting in the work. I love getting to practice. I love getting to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don’t understand the point."

Think you understand Scottie Scheffler? Think again.

One of several really thoughtful, honest reflections from Scottie Scheffler.

Being the best golfer in the world is "is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”

www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

100% agree @nicolecrust.bsky.social.
Equally strong recommendation for another book (roughly) in this same genre - Kathryn Schulz's 'Lost and Found'.

Good for you @tuthill.bsky.social. Both for serving on study section and sharing the/your experience with others.

Read the Politics and Opinion sections of any one newspaper with a skeptical eye, and, when possible, sampel the Politics and Opinions sections of multiple papers. (It's both interesting, and informative, to see what is and isn't said in the NYT and WSJ, for example...)

do read the Times— they have enormous resources and great reporters— but read the Politics and Opinion sections with a skeptical eye. And then read indep political news too- TPM, the Prospect, the Guardian, the Inquirer, ProPublica, etc.

Thanks for sharing this @rdhernand.bsky.social; this finally made it 100% clear (if it wasn't already) that I and others that have been watching from the sidelines need to jump into the fray. It's 'go time'.

I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.

Closing the divide between analysis and publication: The notebook pub We're experimenting with treating our computational notebooks as publications themselves. This approach reduces publication burden, encourages faster publishing, and builds in reproducibility. Scienti...

Oh I'm very into open science approaches that deploy Jupyter Notebooks. I really like what @arcadiascience.com is doing with their new publication efforts & team - research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...

Howard University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro...

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help.

1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting:
60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!)

2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

My wish: That every scientist who is passionately advocating for science here will take their same message and also broadcast it in some other venue.

We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced).

Please consider it 🙏

Not exactly 'broadcasting', but I've reached out to two Republican-leaning folks in my circle:
• One didn't know what the NIH (or NSF) does and was open to learning more -> an opportunity to inform.
• The other is very familiar with NIH, but wasn't aware how this change will impact biotech.

Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.

Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts.

It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

Such conversations are important everywhere, but especially in 'Swing States' - e.g., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, etc..

Agree with Stephens that Dems should 'get to know Trump voters, and not just through data analysis or comments by their most idiotic, caricaturish champions. If Democrats continue to stereotype those voters as a bunch of racist, misogynistic yahoos, they will be unable to understand the country.'

Picture of the interior of the London Library, with steps, many bookcases and a glass balustrade

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below.

Please share :)

www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

good post
www.science.org/content/blog...

Engage Republican-leaning family / friends with (i) verifiable info and (2) your opinion: 'Destroying the NIH, NSF, CDC, FDA, and USAID will (I) not save much $ and (iI) have a hugely negative impact…'
[A family member responded well to this, and even admitted he'd heard of the CDC but not NIH/NSF.]

So, what can scientists do?

- Talk to the public; try to drive public attention.
- Find other scientists to talk to and work with.
- Get universities and rich ppl involved.
- Work on the science attacks - but weave them together with the constitutional attacks.

More tomorrow. Be well.
9/9

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

This is a great article!
I have just one small quibble: the idea that 'most colors represent a single wavelength of light'. I'd love the authors / editors to provide a few examples that (i) support and (ii) argue against that conclusion...

Purple exists only in our brains Most colors represent a single wavelength of light. But your brain invents purple to deal with wavelengths from opposite ends of the visible spectrum.

Did you know…
Purple isn’t real.
It’s a pigment of the imagination!
www.snexplores.org/article/colo...