Alex Culley

YouTube video by Peter Carter Is It Too Late For The Climate?

Following the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtiQ...

Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...

Check out the tail on this one! Nice work Adi. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/s...

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/c...

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Charlie Rice on This Week in Virology at ASV 2025

From TWiV 1237: Hep C and persistence with Charlie Rice

He makes everything dirtier

Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants-but it's likely not enough.

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Lysenkoism redux

Cuts to federal science spending will cost every American America’s scientific leadership is teetering. The proposed federal budget would send it off a cliff.

To what end?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
scienceimpacts.org
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/cuts-fe...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch).

When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building

nasawatch.com/congress/con...

In latest blow, National Science Foundation staff to be booted from their headquarters Trump administration is giving building to housing department but has not said where science agency will go

The National Science Foundation has lost its 8-year-old headquarters building to another federal agency as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the size of the U.S. government. scim.ag/3HYXNUk

NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found

Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ

Evidence for Hadean mafic intrusions in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Canada Many questions remain regarding Earth’s earliest crust owing to the rarity of Hadean (>4.03 billion-year-old) rocks and minerals. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) in Canada may be the only known...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt— a complex geological sequence in northeastern Canada—harbors surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust, dating back to ~4.16 billion years old, according to a new Science study.

Learn more: scim.ag/3FXN8sq

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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also...a few pics from our lab's work in the N here:https://www.viralecologylab.com/gallery...updates forthcoming

This should be great! avw12.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Hawaiian November sunrise. Inhale & exhale.