Jenna Ekwealor

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:

NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase

Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:

💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.

📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

18.04.2025 18:59 — 👍 199    🔁 100    💬 2    📌 8

And the hits keep coming. NSF just cancelled the Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation grant at the CSU. Since its inception in 1993, CSU-LSAMP has served ~30,000 @calstate.bsky.social students (2000/yr), working to increase graduation rates & broaden participation in STEM careers. 🧪

02.05.2025 21:25 — 👍 38    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 2

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26.04.2025 03:40 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary

12.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...

our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.04.2025 16:06 — 👍 34    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2

Congratulations to future @sfstatebio.bsky.social students attending #ExploreSFState today! Welcome to #SFSU!! Happy to highlight our microbiology labs, organismal bio labs, neuroscience labs, seawater core facility, human anatomy lab, and greenhouse!!

05.04.2025 18:55 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

19.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 2603    🔁 937    💬 38    📌 238

Here is a short video about the work that is still being done at SFSU but that will soon grind to a halt. In this video are my amazing colleagues in the chem and bio departments and two impressive students (one of them was in my lab).
@sfsu.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social
vimeo.com/996323996

01.04.2025 18:57 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The latest NIH grant chaos:

NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country.

These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers.

MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.

31.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 82    🔁 67    💬 2    📌 8

Thanks to the amazing generosity of our donors, we’ve surpassed our initial goal! We’d love to keep the momentum going, and every extra dollar we can raise goes directly to support more students, more research and more ways to transform lives. Please consider a gift to reach our next goal of $4000!

03.04.2025 03:12 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Growing in Relationship: Plant Ecology, the Three Sisters, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge | MEEP Lab @ SFSU Last fall, our Plant Ecology class combined hands-on experimentation with the Three Sisters planting system, soil nutrient treatments, and the teachings of Braiding Sweetgrass to explore plant interac...

Read more about this experiment here: meep-lab.com/post/2025-03...

03.04.2025 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s still time to donate to #GatorsGiveDay!

www.givecampus.com/0ng63u

Your support will allow students to do class experiments like this one we did in the greenhouse with the Three Sisters (corn 🌽, beans 🫛, and squash 🎃).

@sfstatebio.bsky.social

03.04.2025 04:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

01.02.2025 17:34 — 👍 651    🔁 240    💬 10    📌 8

Against Anticipatory Obedience The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...

Against Anticipatory Obedience:

www.aaup.org/report/again...

03.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0