Cat Allman

Must read piece on @carpentries.carpentries.org 's brave and principled decision to turn down a $1.5M NSF grant rather than compromise their core value of inclusion.

Kudos to The Carpentries, and let's support them and others who won't cross the first line.

I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s

Dalhousie University is seeking visionary scholars for the 2026 Canada… | Dalhousie University Dalhousie University is seeking visionary scholars for the 2026 Canada Excellence Research Chairs program – one of Canada’s most prestigious and generously funded research initiatives. Apply now: Appl...

Data, tech, ocean, climate, geography, GIS, etc friends. Huge opportunity. Distribute widely to colleagues. @deepseadawn.bsky.social @mgould.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @smbrander.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @andrewmaynard.net

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I don't want to see imposter syndrome from anyone ever again, ya hear?

In case you have been sleeping well - too well - lately, I give you....

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
This quote is often attributed to economist John Kenneth Galbraith

Sooooo… ICE now has a bigger budget than the NIH which funds almost all of the biomedical research in America.

This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.

South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a Dick His approval rating could double thanks to Trump’s tantrum, experts believe.

South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a Dick
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It seems like the head of the Department of Homeland Security should know what habeas corpus is. Especially since it is a pillar of the Constitution, the WH Policy Director has said publicly that they may suspend it, and DHS will have to enforce that. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Here our piece ( @digital-science.com
together with Peter Kolarz from Research On Research Institute (@rorinstitute.bsky.social)) on how Funders themselves need scrutiny if we want fair, unbiased decisions and a healthy research ecosystem.

😌 Relieved to see that Europe continues to choose #science, and with it, #openness, #reason, and #progress. In a world where some major powers like the USA under Trump seem to head in the opposite direction, this brings a sense of hope

And Svalbard has great fossil hunting! A random assortment I picked up ( and put back) simply by watching where I was walking ..

Svalbard is as beautiful as I remember.

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and climate. 04/14/2025 topic: Breaking news in recent days surrounding even deeper and more startling cuts to NOAA, NASA, FEMA, and other federal e Weather & climate office hour 04/14/2025: Dismantling of NOAA, NASA, & climate research accelerates

On Mon, I held a livestream on accelerating efforts to dismantle not only American weather & climate science funding (via NOAA & NASA) but also real-time meteorological predictive & disaster response capacity--concerns that have only further escalated.

www.youtube.com/watc...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Yikes!

I can't help but wonder; does tRump not know that almost all golf equipment is made in Asia? Perhaps he's so rich that he doesn't care if only wealthy people will be able to play 🤔. Perhaps it's a crafty plan to keep the merely middle class off his courses?

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.

Butterflies on a blue sky

THREAD

The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter

In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.

By quite a lot.

Release the Kraken...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Trump Live Updates: Hegseth's War Plan Texts, Tariffs and Federal Layoffs

"But what about her emails?" 🧐
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Octopodes are so cool and i'm imagining this as an evil underseas ratatouille situation

Deep-Sea Miners Are Set to Dig for Critical Minerals, Even if Rules Aren't Done As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway over when and whether to allow mining of untouc...

New: As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway in Kingston, Jamaica, this week over when and whether to allow mining of untouched, biodiverse ecosystems.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deep-sea miners are set to dig for critical minerals, even if rules aren’t done The Metals Company has said it will file an application in June for an ISA license to begin mining.

Luisa Araúz, Panama’s representative to the International Seabed Authority at the current meeting: “The potential consequences for marine ecosystems demand rigorous scientific scrutiny. The abyss has waited millions of years and it can wait for us to get this right.”

www.mining.com/web/deep-sea...

I'm proud to have been a part of USENIX, a co-signer of this petition to the US federal government to restore funding to the many science agencies being cut.
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Not enough. And now one less.

It is stunning how committed Trump is to removing American soft power, built up over generations.

If we don't need anything Canada has, why bother... Sorry, I was thinking logically. My bad.

I found this quite interesting. app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/intera...