 
                                            A female scientist looks at a flask. Text: They can’t fire science. Tell us your story. Link: bit.ly/faces_of_science
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
               
            
            
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                Research Associate - Water Quality Monitoring
                The University of Louisiana at Lafayette invites
applications for the position of a Research Associate in Water
Quality Monitoring. The selected candi...
            
        
    
    
            📢 Job Alert!! We’re hiring at @ullafayette.bsky.social for a Water Quality Monitoring professional to support current projects in Louisiana. Please share widely!! Application review will start on April 4. louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
               
            
            
                20.03.2025 16:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.
DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.
               
            
            
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            “Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
               
            
            
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            Academic Skyers:  I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
               
            
            
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            I’ll include this part of the email we got from Univ Louisiana at Lafayette as an example of how NOT to handle it: “As principal investigators (PI), it is now your responsibility to review your federal grant agreements for compliance with this directive.“ 😭
               
            
            
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            Today at UL: getting a memo about an immediate spending freeze while continuing to fight a plan to incur a ton of debt clearing native prairie at a university facility to build a solar farm. I don’t think *we’re* the ones who need to stop spending money…
               
            
            
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            Great talk from #StaufferLab #ULLafayette PhD student and @cerfscience.bsky.social  #RisingTides participant Jen Raabe at #CERF2023. Really fun project on toxic cyanobacteria and oyster response w/colleagues at #LSUAgCenter 🦠🦪 #ULGradSchool
               
            
            
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            Who’s coming to #CERF2023?!? Come check out all the #LOSPAT presentations and get your fill of #oysters 🦪 #harmfulalgae 🦠 & the #gulfofmexico 🌊
               
            
            
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                                            The International Society for Evolutionary Protistology Serves People with Interests in the Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Cell Biology, and Evolution of Protists. https://www.isep-protists.com/ Account managed by @animalculum.bsky.social
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Professor for Marine Geomicrobiology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Opinions expressed are my own.
Retweets are not endorsements.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Manager of the Southern California Seismic Network and
Research Professor at Caltech
Earthquakes, EEW, Moonquakes, Plate Tectonics, etc. Por cierto, trabajaba en la UNAM en México por mucho tiempo también.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Savannah-based oceanographer. linktr.ee/capecodnative
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Historian. Disaster researcher. Louisiana-based.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Evolutionary biologist meets conservation geneticist meets aspiring bioinformatician. Lover of bicycles and mountains. #Fulbright🇨🇴 alum | #NatGeoExplorer
Lab website: www.cassinsackett.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Neuroscientist, Geneticist, Educator, and Mama Bear. German-Chilean. My Lab studies Astrocytes, FGF Receptors, the Neurobiology of Self Injurious Behaviors. Ally for LGBTQ rights. Opinions are my own.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution interested in phytoplankton ecology
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Biological oceanographer focusing on marine protists.  Developing the PR2 databases for metabarcoding: https://pr2-database.org
Emeritus at CNRS (SBR, Roscoff) and Guest Investigator at the University of Oslo (AQUA section, IBV).
https://daniel-vaulot.fr
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Mom and Associate Professor @UNH. Runs the UNH Phyto Lab, we maybe have too much fun. Love all things marine and microbial.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Marine plankton, home educator, biology undergrad, autistic, non binary. Norfolk UK. Runs The Plankton Project 
linktr.ee/elizabethbeston
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            I like to think about how cells work, especially among #protists. Driven by curiosity and a love to share detailed research and odd observations. Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. He/him. https://www.protistsystems.org/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Marshes, mud, and microbes! Microbial ecologist interested in the intersection of microbial genomics and biogeochemistry. 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto 
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Benthic ecology, baseball, and brewing. Self-declared fantasy baseball expert. Dead head. Faculty at Georgia southern University. Opinions are my own
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry and PI of the OsburnLab.
Director of the Blue Economy Innovation Program at NC State University.
I study the C-SAW: Carbon Saturation and Weather among other things involving organic matter and other elements.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Ecologist & Dad exploring coastal & marine community responses to environmental change | #LSU | #UCSC | #BLM | he/him |🦐🐟🐧🐋|🌴🌾🐚🦀🐠🦈|
www.politolab.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Assistant Professor, Biology and Environmental Science at Gonzaga University, WA (USA). Microbial and phytoplankton ecologist studying climate change and ecotoxicology.