Bethany Williams
@blw9786.bsky.social
NSF PRFB at the University of Missouri St. Louis studying multiple stressor tolerance in sulfidic fish🐠
https://bethany-williams.github.io
https://bethany-williams.github.io
Some very skeptical and cute cichlids checking out my camera (and a bunch of tetras in the back). #fishsci #fieldwork🐟
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Some very skeptical and cute cichlids checking out my camera (and a bunch of tetras in the back). #fishsci #fieldwork🐟
It’s the best time of the year! Field work season 😁 Check out these Theraps lentiginosus cichlids guarding their babies!
May 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It’s the best time of the year! Field work season 😁 Check out these Theraps lentiginosus cichlids guarding their babies!
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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MEEC2025, CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Submit your abstracts for MEEC2025 here! www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...
Current or proposed research is acceptable to present! Abstracts are due by March 28.
Submit your abstracts for MEEC2025 here! www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...
Current or proposed research is acceptable to present! Abstracts are due by March 28.
February 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
MEEC2025, CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Submit your abstracts for MEEC2025 here! www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...
Current or proposed research is acceptable to present! Abstracts are due by March 28.
Submit your abstracts for MEEC2025 here! www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...
Current or proposed research is acceptable to present! Abstracts are due by March 28.
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Our grad student Soren Johnson was featured in a recent UMSL Daily article.
blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/02...
blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/02...
Biology doctoral student Soren Johnson studying how cave fish evolve in response to their unique environment - UMSL Daily
Johnson was a 2024 recipient of the R. C. Lewontin Early Award, a graduate research grant from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
blogs.umsl.edu
February 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our grad student Soren Johnson was featured in a recent UMSL Daily article.
blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/02...
blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/02...
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Reposted by Bethany Williams
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
new.nsf.gov
January 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
As a NSF PRFB postdoc it would be nice to know if I can pay rent next month (crazy, right). In the meantime, for no reason whatsoever, here are a few ‘wasteful’ things I’ve done as a postdoc: been a science pen pal, helped run a booth at a science center, mentored a high school lab intern.
January 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
As a NSF PRFB postdoc it would be nice to know if I can pay rent next month (crazy, right). In the meantime, for no reason whatsoever, here are a few ‘wasteful’ things I’ve done as a postdoc: been a science pen pal, helped run a booth at a science center, mentored a high school lab intern.
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#SciEd friends, UMSL is hiring a Des Lee Family Endowed Professor in Science Education. This is one of the endowed professorships in the Des Lee Collaborative Vision, which emphasizes community engagement and outreach. Would love to see some biology folks apply!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37753610...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37753610...
E. Des Lee and Family Endowed Professorship in Science Education - St. Louis, Missouri, United States job with University of Missouri, St. Louis | 37753610
Hiring Department
The Department of Educator Preparation & Leadership at the
University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL)
Job Description
The...
jobs.chronicle.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:52 AM
#SciEd friends, UMSL is hiring a Des Lee Family Endowed Professor in Science Education. This is one of the endowed professorships in the Des Lee Collaborative Vision, which emphasizes community engagement and outreach. Would love to see some biology folks apply!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37753610...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37753610...
Bluesky finally has videos so now I can share some field work videos from this summer! 😁🐠Here are some sulphur mollies in a sulfidic spring all “doing the wave” aka all diving down at the same time when they see a predator (aka me standing up) #fishsci
September 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Bluesky finally has videos so now I can share some field work videos from this summer! 😁🐠Here are some sulphur mollies in a sulfidic spring all “doing the wave” aka all diving down at the same time when they see a predator (aka me standing up) #fishsci
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The RFP for #PRFB is out again. If you are interested in developing a postdoc research project in the realms of (extremophile) fish biology, evolutionary ecology/genomics, and/or conservation, shoot me a message. St. Louis is an awesome place to live and do science!
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
August 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM
The RFP for #PRFB is out again. If you are interested in developing a postdoc research project in the realms of (extremophile) fish biology, evolutionary ecology/genomics, and/or conservation, shoot me a message. St. Louis is an awesome place to live and do science!
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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A wild week surveying the endangered inhabitants of springs, sinkholes, and wetlands in the Chihuahuan desert. We had an awesome team working through 70 sites; ready to return in the fall!
July 13, 2024 at 3:41 AM
A wild week surveying the endangered inhabitants of springs, sinkholes, and wetlands in the Chihuahuan desert. We had an awesome team working through 70 sites; ready to return in the fall!
Opening Bluesky for the first time in ages to share two things. First, some cool pictures from my most recent research trip to Mexico studying fish in sulfidic waters!
June 25, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Opening Bluesky for the first time in ages to share two things. First, some cool pictures from my most recent research trip to Mexico studying fish in sulfidic waters!