Kelly Andersen

#NExTropics symposia at #ATBC2025 find out the latest from nutrient addition experiments from across the tropics

Congratulations to Amanda Cordeiro for leading this effort & to all the @tropiroot.bsky.social members who contributed! Putting tropical roots on the map!

Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

More bad news for US science, indirect rates capped at 15% will further gut our research institutions & univerisities
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

2 Major Science Organizations Unite For Vital Climate Collection With the 6th National Climate Assessment in limbo, two respected science organizations, AMS and AGU, are stepping up their actions.

Good news for today! The @agu.org and @amspolicy.bsky.social are teaming up to support climate science in the US and fill the vacuum left by the cancellation of the support team and dismissal of the authors of the Sixth National Climate Assessment.

More from @drshepherd2013.bsky.social here:

Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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Happy Earth Day! 💚

🥳 Congrats to Dr Lee who passed his PhD defense today. Ming Yang is a founding Team Underground student & @tropiroot.bsky.social member who studies root ecology in Southeast Asian tropical forests trying to understand how diverse forests overcome phosphorus limitation.

Let's speak plainly about what is happening. The First Amendment has been terminated for immigrants.

To the 3137 (1000+ who should have received the #GRFP this year) & countless qualified grad or soon to be grad students. This sucks, but you don’t. I’m sorry for your bad luck & timing.👇👇👇

Dang, only 1000 NSF GRFP awards this year... A more than 50% cut in the number of fellowships from last year.

Congratulations to all of the fellows !

I am sad for the 1000+ people who should be added to this list that don't get this life-changing opportunity...

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

The NatSec group chat shitshow illustrates why DEI is necessary. Otherwise, completely unqualified people will be hired just because they're white dudes.

The Flower Files Inside the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, the largest collection of plants and fungi specimens in Louisiana

The LSU herbarium is featured in the most recent Country Roads. Check out the article here!

countryroadsmagazine.com/lsu-herbarium/

Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE.
To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

a cartoon of two women standing next to each other holding hands . Alt: a cartoon of women standing next to each other and then lifting each other up.

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I'm proud to work with so many excellent women scientists and to teach and mentor the next generation of #WomenInSTEM.

Women in Science: William L. Brown Center - Discover + Share Get to know the women in science who work at the William L. Brown Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden during Women's History Month.

Grateful to be working with colleagues like these #WomenInSTEM discoverandshare.org/2024/03/15/w...

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Geolatinas (Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences). An inclusive, member-driven, circular organization embracing, empowering, and inspiring Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences. All welcome and included. Geolatinas logo. Photos with faces of a lot of women. Words in Spanish: acogiendo, comunidad, inspirando, apoyo mutuo, desarrollo

¡Hoy en el #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujerYLaNiñaEnLaCiencia queremos celebrar a todos nuestros increíbles miembros! Les agradecemos por hacer que nuestra comunidad sea fuerte mientras nos abrazamos y nos empoderamos mutuamente e inspiramos a las próximas generaciones de #MujeresEnCiencia 👩‍🔬🧪 #11Feb

📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking.
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!

I’ll reach out and see if they plan to publish it or if members can share it more widely

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Is publishing policy changes at multiple US gov levels & issued a letter members. Hopefully that will be online soon!
esa.org/esablog/poli...

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Is publishing policy changes at multiple US gov levels & issued a letter members. Hopefully that will be online soon!
esa.org/esablog/poli...

Pleas share links to the US (or int'l) professional societies who have published statements about what's happening in the US.

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.

"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."

www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Great leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!

The label of one herbarium specimen from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium collected in 1869 by George Engelmann, the first scientist at the Garden. The Garden's herbarium collection is now close to 8 million specimens and will be comprehensively digitized as part of a new initiative called Revolutionizing Species Identification (https://mobot.org/RSI)

Major new initiative at Missouri Botanical Garden will revolutionize plant species identification and allow global access to big biodiversity data.

6 million newly digitized specimens = manifold uses and stories for botany, conservation, and history.

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Tropical plant ecologists unite!