Grace Wilkinson
@goodgracious23.bsky.social
Limnologist | Ecosystem Ecologist | UW–Madison | attempting carcinisation 🦀
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This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Interested in managing graduate ecology programs and supporting excellent students? Come join us in the Dept. of Integrative Biology at @uwmadscience.bsky.social Apply by August 10.
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Graduate Program Manager - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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July 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Interested in managing graduate ecology programs and supporting excellent students? Come join us in the Dept. of Integrative Biology at @uwmadscience.bsky.social Apply by August 10.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/graduat...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/graduat...
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Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.
‘Devastating:’ Chan Zuckerberg charity slashes funding for more Bay Area nonprofits
‘Devastating:’ Chan Zuckerberg charity slashes funding for more Bay Area nonprofits
“They are making sure to cut anything that would sound or even be construed as DEI-esque,” one former employee said.
sfstandard.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.
Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!
The first paper from my PhD is now out in @aslo.org Limnology and Oceanography Letters! We used nine years of daily temp and chl data from Peter, Paul, and Tuesday Lakes to show that aquatic heatwaves increased surface chlorophyll concentrations during 24 out of 29 events.
doi.org/10.1002/lol2...
doi.org/10.1002/lol2...
May 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!
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US based scientists are not ok.
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
US based scientists are not ok.
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URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
April 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
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Writing about this right now, just need to scream.
"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
April 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Writing about this right now, just need to scream.
"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.
April 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.
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Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.
NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced.
"efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
"efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.
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🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants:
"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
April 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants:
"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin
Judge says UW-Madison international student with terminated visa can't be deported for now
A federal judge barred the government from taking any action against a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering student from India.
www.jsonline.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin
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Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.
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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
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One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
April 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
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1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
April 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
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One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...
April 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...
Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years.
You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...
You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...
Susan Crawford ran directly against Elon Musk's millions & struck first electoral blow against Trump-Musk plan for oligarchy. Dems should replicate this in every race
Progressives will now control WI Supreme Court through 2028 & can strike down 1849 abortion ban, Act 10, gerrymandered US House map
Progressives will now control WI Supreme Court through 2028 & can strike down 1849 abortion ban, Act 10, gerrymandered US House map
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years.
You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...
You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
@msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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Sidenote, because I love this story: #igivearod was started by #uglydogs, fans of musher @blairbraverman.bsky.social. She was racing across the Alaska interior and had no idea people were raising money while anxiously following her progress. When word filtered back to her it was pretty damn great.
March 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sidenote, because I love this story: #igivearod was started by #uglydogs, fans of musher @blairbraverman.bsky.social. She was racing across the Alaska interior and had no idea people were raising money while anxiously following her progress. When word filtered back to her it was pretty damn great.