Jeremy Koster

AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano joined Rep. Zoe Lofgren and AFGE National President Everett Kelley to highlight the damage being done to NSF by the Trump Administration and discuss a letter sent to Congresswomen Lofgren signed by 150 NSF employees
#SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundNSF

The National Science Foundation continues to be threatened with major cuts.

The link below lists the Congresspeople who are on the frontlines of deciding these cuts this week and would be well worth a quick call today if they’re in your state to advocate for not cutting NSF’s budget.

"How we practice our field now influences where we go next. How can we deliberately steer the field in better directions, rather than waking up each day and shortsightedly chasing another grant or publication?"

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue: Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine) Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky) Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska) Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina) Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas) Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota) Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas) Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia) Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana) Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi) Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee) Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama) Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma) Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska) Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota) Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington) Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois) Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island) Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire) Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon) Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware) Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii) Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin) Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut) Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland) Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico) Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan) Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York) Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

Welcome to Blue Sky, @marvimatos.bsky.social, and thank you for the reminder that federal funding for science is like rocket fuel for the economy:

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Arguably the 2nd-most valuable player on that 1984 Tigers team (second to Trammell in Wins Above Replacement, that is):

www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/19...

Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review Abstract. Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the p

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls - Carlos Cinelli, Andrew Forney, Judea Pearl, 2024 Many students of statistics and econometrics express frustration with the way a problem known as “bad control” is treated in the traditional literature. The iss...

Here's another useful overview for modelers:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Notably, this helpful list of action items for scientists implies that the primary audience will probably not be found on BlueSky.

#WithoutNSF ‘s support I would not have been able to teach >8000 undergraduate students in my 25+ year career as a biology professor. No grants, no job, no promotions.

In many respects, every chapter in the textbook, which summarizes current perspectives in human behavioral ecology, is an outgrowth of the challenging questions that emerged at the Man The Hunter conference, which highlighted the need for more empirical data and refined hypotheses to examine.

Division of Labor (Chapter 6) - Human Behavioral Ecology Human Behavioral Ecology - March 2024

To illustrate the thoughtful ways that human behavioral ecologists engage with debates and diverse cross-cultural data about the sexual division of labor, the textbook chapter by Codding and Bliege Bird is a great place to start. The data defuse stereotypes.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Life History (Chapter 2) - Human Behavioral Ecology Human Behavioral Ecology - March 2024

Mike Gurven’s chapter on life history theory would be another one to read:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Demography (Chapter 13) - Human Behavioral Ecology Human Behavioral Ecology - March 2024

The first thing I did was to check the bibliography to see if this chapter was cited (it wasn’t):

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

These are fantastic data. Maybe try to make some of the video footage available as supplemental files.

“Eggs-ogenous Shocks”

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NSF Invests $72 Million In Four University Pandemic Research Centers The National Science Foundation will invest $72 million to establish four multi-university research centers that will focus on the prediction & prevention of pandemics.

The National Science Foundation has recently supported research to help curtail future pandemics:

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Folks in the GEO community should know that I have seen Manda Adams dedicate extensive overtime hours to Coastlines and People during crunch panel season. She'll go the extra mile in the months ahead, but she and others will benefit from all the help that PIs and reviewers can muster. Hence the 🧵 ⬆️.

Also for early-career researchers, although program officers cannot share examples of funded proposals with you (except through FOIA), principal investigators *can* and often will share their proposals. See the award database and then reach out to funded researchers. (22)
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Every June, NSF tends to get a slew of inquiries from principal investigators who had already started drafting a proposal without considering what program would review it. Program officers are normally happy to help find a good fit, but they'll be multitasking and slower to respond this summer. (21)

Meanwhile, for early-career scholars contemplating a CAREER proposal, please note that those proposals are reviewed by core programs (Behavioral Systems, Sociology, Chemical Synthesis, etc.), which you must designate upon submission. The proposal should align with the programmatic objectives. (20)

The FAQ on the COA form is a little vague on the criteria to use, but it is generally accepted that, if there was no communication among a subset of co-authors on a particular paper, then it doesn't rise to the level of a collaboration to list. (Streamlined COA forms help program officers.) (19)

Frequently Asked Questions: Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Information Template Do you have questions about the Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Information Template? You can get them answered here.

Also, NSF takes conflicts of interest seriously. That said, when you're filling out your COA form, listing every single co-author might not be necessary. When papers have many co-authors (e.g., genetics papers), not everyone rises to the level of a collaborator. (18)

www.nsf.gov/funding/seni...

Absolutely ditto, Karen. It'd be great if our paths were to cross again soon.

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

Oh, one more thing. This website is probably the best resource for NSF's response to the executive orders: www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Please check there first before emailing the program officers (who have been coached to email you this link as a first response). (17)

There's hope in part because the people who remain at NSF are first-rate. The attrition is detrimental, but they'll find a way to maintain relatively high standards given the circumstances. To the extent that PIs and reviewers can help to streamline the process, everyone will benefit.

Thanks, Courtney. It's true that these are generally useful suggestions for interacting with NSF. Probably the most important thing to emphasize is the time crunch -- program officers will be frenetically multitasking and, therefore, timely responses from PIs and reviewers are needed more than ever.

The curtailed detail with BIO/DEB is tough. The Ecosystem Science program officers are both super sharp and amazingly kind and thoughtful. And the proposals in this cycle include some top-notch science.