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Erin Robinson
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CEO, Metadata Game Changers | Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science. Nerd out about infrastructure, field stations, and metadata. https://erinrobinson.info
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sethabramson.bsky.social
These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
erinmr.bsky.social
My colleague and collaborator, Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber, pushes back on Trump's disinformation campaign on climate change as a 'con job' in a powerful op-ed today. Science is clear. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
thehill.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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localcontexts.bsky.social
Part of this week's Hub update was an expansion of the Hub’s connection to @orcid.org. Researchers can now connect their Local Contexts account to their ORCID record as an external ID. Learn how to utilize this update in our blog:
localcontexts.org/october-2025...
October 2025 Minor Hub Updates – Local Contexts
localcontexts.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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openscapes.bsky.social
📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!
connect – Openscapes
openscapes.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
erinmr.bsky.social
Thanks @colorado.gov for taking swift action to stabilize the approach for everyone who wants them, to get COVID and flu vaccines at their local pharmacies. We got vaccinated yesterday at Safeway.
colorado.gov Governor Jared Polis @colorado.gov · Sep 3
We’re making it easier for Coloradans to get the updated COVID and flu vaccines this fall—no doctor visit required. Available at local pharmacies and supermarkets without a prescription, these vaccines save lives and protect our communities.
www.colorado.gov/governor/new...
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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grist.org
This #ClimateWeekNYC, Grist is teaming up with artist Louise Lao for Between Waves—an art show honoring the ocean 🌊.

RSVP here: www.climateweeknyc.org/events/betwe...

🗓️ Sept 20, 2025
🕔 5–8pm ET
📍 141 Flushing Ave, Suite 1313, #Brooklyn, #NY

#Art #Climate #Oceans #Sharks #Sea #Shark
August 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
erinmr.bsky.social
There are billions of #biodiversity observations worldwide 🌱🐞. Yet, almost none of them have associated #IndigenousDataSovereignty rights assigned to the data. I'm looking forward to participating in this upcoming panel at #ClimateWeekNYC on these issues. RSVP to join: lnkd.in/g6zb_TXr
August 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
erinmr.bsky.social
I am sorry to only hear about successful community infrastructure at this tipping point. The line that strikes me: "Flybase is free to use, but it isn't free to make." This highlights the risk of funder dependence, but more so the scientific enterprise's lack of other financial support mechanisms.
peiferlabunc.bsky.social Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 23
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
Dear Fly Community, In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled. The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC). Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options. To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum). To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu… https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase Our immediate goals are: 1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online 2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance). Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data. At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise. Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028. We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide. Sincerely, The FlyBase Team
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
Dear Fly Community, In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled. The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC). Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options. To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum). To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu… https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase Our immediate goals are: 1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online 2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance). Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data. At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise. Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028. We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide. Sincerely, The FlyBase Team
August 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social
NYC 2025 Climate week! Excited to be there in the action and for this session hosted by @localcontexts.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.
And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.
August 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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coweatherman.bsky.social
Flood Watch issued yesterday at 1:18 pm.

WPC had mesoscale discussions throughout the event.

NWS issues Flash Flood Warning at 1:14 am.

NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency at 4:03 am.

NWS was on the ball.

The challenge is always getting the warning the last mile and getting people to respond.
mattlanza.bsky.social Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · Jul 4
Everyone making comments about DOGE and FEMA as it relates to the Texas flooding is insulting to the NWS employees working this event that were well aware of how bad this was becoming. Plenty of opportunities to use those arguments elsewhere.
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
erinmr.bsky.social
Thank you, @baratunde.com, for illuminating history and putting this moment we are in now in a larger context. Reading: On America’s Birthday, Frederick Douglass, the Haudenosaunee, and Unrecognized Founders newsletter.baratunde.com/p/on-america...
On America’s Birthday, Frederick Douglass, the Haudenosaunee, and Unrecognized Founders
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July Still Slaps
newsletter.baratunde.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Every single House Democrat will stand up for the American people.

We just need four Republicans to join us.
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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agu.org
🌍 This #EarthDay, science needs you more than ever.

We celebrate our planet through stunning imagery and vital data—but we can’t protect what we don’t understand.

#StandUpForScience #AGUAction
Image credit: NOAA On Dec. 21, 2024, NOAA’s GOES-19 captured this image of Earth during the winter solstice shortly after the Northern Hemisphere reached its maximum tilt away from the sun, positioning the sun directly over the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5° south latitude.
April 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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cfiesler.bsky.social
If any journalists are writing about the recent NSF cancellations, I can give you a good example of a grant that was framed as AI workforce development (and is not about misinformation) that seems as if it was cancelled due to a control-F for the word misinformation.
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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nonorarara.bsky.social
Protest today (Monday 3/3) at 11:45 MT at NOAA/NIST campus in Boulder, CO if anyone is looking to connect with federal lab workers (lots of them on r/Boulder btw)
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March 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ruha9.bsky.social
“So yes, we've experienced a coup, not the old fashioned kind, no tanks or mobs, but an undemocratic and hostile takeover of government. It is cruel, it is petty. It can be brutal. It is at once chaotic and surgical…The question is, will the rule of law hold?”
The words “ITS A COUP” in red bold letters atop the front page of New York Times featuring a photo of Elon Musk.
March 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
erinmr.bsky.social
This was a particularly good @jamesclear.bsky.social 3-2-1 email this week. I liked the "Things that keep people from fulfilling their potential" section and make each decade rich. jamesclear.com/3-2-1/februa...
3-2-1: On the secret to self-control, how to live longer, and what holds people back
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “There are two ways to live a longer life: 1) Biologically. Extend the timeline between your birth and your death. 2) Psychologically. Fit more lives into whatever time you are give...
jamesclear.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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esa-earlycareer.bsky.social
🌎 Here’s a list of flagwords for NSF grant proposals you might need to review: bsky.app/profile/darb...
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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esa-earlycareer.bsky.social
✨Deepen connection and collaboration through the LTER Site Exchange Opportunity. Apply by March 28!
lternet.edu/stories/site...
Site Exchange Opportunity - LTER
Apply to travel to a different site to pursue comparative research. Deadline: March 28, 2025.
lternet.edu
February 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
It’s not just the staffing crisis—our day-use reservation system, designed to protect park resources and improve the visitor experience, appears unlikely to return this year. Without it, overcrowding will strain our fragile ecosystems even further.
February 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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wired.com
If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
wrd.cm
February 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM