Emily Graslie

YouTube video by thebrainscoop The true crime history of solar energy

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🗣️ New Brain Scoop Video!!!

This is a wild ride, get in

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

Letter to the Smithsonian: Internal Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions and Materials The Honorable Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1000 Jefferson Dr SW Washington, DC 20560 Subject: Internal Review of Smithsonian

Sickening and appalling. Can’t wait for those jokers in the WH to realize the “woke” material the NMNH is pushing are just new species descriptions of worms

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Awwww my heart 🥹

That’s why we do it!! 👏🏻

Corrie Moreau stands on a stage before a crowd, with slides behind her showing a phylogeny of ants and images of ants

amazing talk by SSB prez Corrie @corriemoreau.bsky.social this morning!

it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜

tbh they give me the heebie jeebies

.@dradriansmith.bsky.social coming in hot with more unbelievably cool insect footage!!!

tbh I didn't even know earwigs could fly 🤯

These are some of the coolest 3D print models I've ever seen

Thank you for sharing!!

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.

Great statements from @ehmee.bsky.social on science creator concerns stemming from recent government funding & infrastructure demolition... keep sharing these stories, Grist.org!

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Thanks to @clurelise.bsky.social for taking the time to listen & share my story, clearly putting into words the uncertainty and anxiety many of us have about our professional futures.

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts.

Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.

grist.org/looking-forw...

#Jobs #FederalJobs #Science #Climate #Communications #YouTube

Thank you so much for doing this. You’ve been on my mind constantly as they continue to roll back food safety protections.

a screenshot from the white house website describing a list of so-called justifications for defunding NPR and PBS.

just saw that an @npr.org podcast i interviewed for about queer nature is the first thing on the administration’s list attempting to justify defunding NPR & PBS.

there are thousands of species that are intersex (etc.) & ppl afraid of these scientific facts simply shouldn’t be running our nation.

YouTube video by thebrainscoop Trump is gutting museums and libraries.

Losing the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) would be an act of monumental neglect.

I made a video about what’s at risk, and how orgs like @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and the American Alliance of Museums need us to help advocate for these critical places.

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I spent my early career in museums and I endorse everything that Emily says here. If I can add my own take it’s that Museums produce some of the most amazing scientists and people, like Emily! Museums build empathy with the world and we need to fight for them

If you’d rather have this in text form with citations, I gotchu 💛

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YouTube video by thebrainscoop Trump is gutting museums and libraries.

A must see video from @ehmee.bsky.social about the loss of funding for museums and libraries youtu.be/fYLC-KWy-Ks?...

YouTube video by thebrainscoop Trump is gutting museums and libraries.

Losing the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) would be an act of monumental neglect.

I made a video about what’s at risk, and how orgs like @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and the American Alliance of Museums need us to help advocate for these critical places.

youtu.be/fYLC-KWy-Ks?...

The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums. www.wired.com/story/instit...

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The beginning construction of the Berlin Wall didn’t happen during the day with heavy machinery. It was started by laying out huge coils of barbed wire through the middle of the city in the dead of night.

Just some things I’ve been thinking about lately 🙃

The communist-imposed laws governing who could work in scientific fields - and control the sort of work they were doing - held the field of science in East Berlin back for almost half a century.

This wasn’t that long ago. I was born in 1989.

You don’t need me to remind you that spying on our neighbors and colleagues is infinitely easier today than it was back when you had to sneak into their house to plant a microphone behind their wallpaper. Now you just need to get into their computer.

This went on from 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Some things to keep in mind: many of the Stasi scientists didn’t have a choice. Their compliance wasn’t just out of fear of losing their jobs - it was also the very real concern that the Stasi would imprison or kill their families.

YouTube video by thebrainscoop 200 years, WWI & WWII, Communism: The Story of Berlin's Natural History Museum

(We made a video with the MfNK a few years ago and briefly cover this part of their history in case you want to learn more about that/them in general:

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Some science staff became covert Stasi agents. They started spying on each other, breaking into one another’s offices, rifling through drawers and reading their mail. Anyone found to be corresponding with collaborators outside of Germany was reported to the police.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

After WWII, the Museum of Natural History in Berlin fell on the eastern side of the Wall. Scientists were prohibited from collaborating w/ anyone besides those in communist countries (which is why they’ve got a phenomenal land snail collection from Cuba.)

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