Johanna Harvey
@johannaharvey.bsky.social
#NewPI | Asst Prof URI | Avian disease ecologist | Avian influenza | breast cancer survivor | Latina | She/Her
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Johanna Harvey
@johannaharvey.bsky.social
· Jul 15
The Bird Flu Story No One Is Telling
Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands
www.scientificamerican.com
Glad to be part of this wonderfully written article by @meghanbartels.bsky.social along with @saverygo.bsky.social and others on the devastating & unseen impacts of HPAI on wild birds and mammal populations. So many species are still being impacted by mortality and this virus is not going away.
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Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
Glad to be part of this wonderfully written article by @meghanbartels.bsky.social along with @saverygo.bsky.social and others on the devastating & unseen impacts of HPAI on wild birds and mammal populations. So many species are still being impacted by mortality and this virus is not going away.
The Bird Flu Story No One Is Telling
Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands
www.scientificamerican.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Glad to be part of this wonderfully written article by @meghanbartels.bsky.social along with @saverygo.bsky.social and others on the devastating & unseen impacts of HPAI on wild birds and mammal populations. So many species are still being impacted by mortality and this virus is not going away.
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Virus researchers! Please consider participating in this project - it would be a huge help to our lab, and we think it'll lead to some really exciting synthesis. Plus, you'll get an invitation to participate in a workshop later in the project! 🦠😷
🧬🦠🌍 What are the big, cross-scale questions shaping the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses?
@torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
@torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Virus researchers! Please consider participating in this project - it would be a huge help to our lab, and we think it'll lead to some really exciting synthesis. Plus, you'll get an invitation to participate in a workshop later in the project! 🦠😷
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H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan in ferrets: airborne transmission, moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
June 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan in ferrets: airborne transmission, moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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You're invited to inform science policy this summer with the AIBS Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits. This event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials in their home state. Sign up by July 14!
SSE Members Invited to Inform Science Policy This Summer
SSE is pleased to announce that we are once again joining with the American Institute of Biological Sciences to sponsor the 16 th annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. …
www.evolutionsociety.org
June 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You're invited to inform science policy this summer with the AIBS Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits. This event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials in their home state. Sign up by July 14!
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NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
www.eenews.net
May 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
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For decades, the US raced to be the best in STEM. Now, while we are in a race to literally sustain human life on this planet, the US has benched its starters and canceled all training camps. It won’t just end our country - it may cause the extinction of our species. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
www.nature.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
For decades, the US raced to be the best in STEM. Now, while we are in a race to literally sustain human life on this planet, the US has benched its starters and canceled all training camps. It won’t just end our country - it may cause the extinction of our species. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑🔬🧬🖥️🦑
May 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑🔬🧬🖥️🦑
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"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
www.science.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.
We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
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When the U.S. withdrew from WHO, prominent voices in public health reached for the wrong talking point - "Okay, you're right, WHO is flawed / inefficient, so, reform it." My undergrads now repeat this back to me, with no understanding of why they believe that. This can't happen to NIH/NSF. Instead:
This has never been about efficiency.
The NIH is a remarkably efficient organization.
No, this has all been about destroying our investment in science and academia.
The NIH is a remarkably efficient organization.
No, this has all been about destroying our investment in science and academia.
“Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.”
That is 3 times the entire NIH budget
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
That is 3 times the entire NIH budget
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
When the U.S. withdrew from WHO, prominent voices in public health reached for the wrong talking point - "Okay, you're right, WHO is flawed / inefficient, so, reform it." My undergrads now repeat this back to me, with no understanding of why they believe that. This can't happen to NIH/NSF. Instead:
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🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪
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More great work by J. Weitz and colleagues.
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
More great work by J. Weitz and colleagues.
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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🚨 Weather Forecasts Are Already Being Compromised 🚨
Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA
Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA
Former Biden administrator explains why NOAA workforce cuts are "disturbing," "surprising"
Hundreds of staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, have found themselves the target of the Trump administration's efforts to cut back the federal workforce. The move...
www.cbsnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨 Weather Forecasts Are Already Being Compromised 🚨
Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA
Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA
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1500 hundred dead just in Indiana
richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...
richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...
Bird Flu Mutes the Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution
The Sandhill Crane's spring migration is normally a sign of hope. Not this year.
richardconniff.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
1500 hundred dead just in Indiana
richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...
richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...
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BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
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This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise!
Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters?
Journalists: COVER THIS!
Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters?
Journalists: COVER THIS!
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise!
Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters?
Journalists: COVER THIS!
Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters?
Journalists: COVER THIS!
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Firings happening right now at the NSF.
February 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!
Dr Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist who worked for Cornell University and the USGS to develop vaccines for avian diseases and studied environmental impact on diseases in water fowl.
#Avian #Science #USGS @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Dr Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist who worked for Cornell University and the USGS to develop vaccines for avian diseases and studied environmental impact on diseases in water fowl.
#Avian #Science #USGS @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!
Dr Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist who worked for Cornell University and the USGS to develop vaccines for avian diseases and studied environmental impact on diseases in water fowl.
#Avian #Science #USGS @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Dr Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist who worked for Cornell University and the USGS to develop vaccines for avian diseases and studied environmental impact on diseases in water fowl.
#Avian #Science #USGS @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
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Louis R. Purnell became well known as a #Tuskegee Airman during WWII, before earning his Bachelors and working at the Smithsonian as a Museum Specialist of #invertebrate #paleontology and #paleobotany #collections.
siarchives.si.edu/history/feat....
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
siarchives.si.edu/history/feat....
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
Louis R. Purnell
A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tusk...
siarchives.si.edu
February 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Louis R. Purnell became well known as a #Tuskegee Airman during WWII, before earning his Bachelors and working at the Smithsonian as a Museum Specialist of #invertebrate #paleontology and #paleobotany #collections.
siarchives.si.edu/history/feat....
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
siarchives.si.edu/history/feat....
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth