Meaghan Clark
@meaghansaurus.bsky.social
NSF Postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, studying population and conservation genomics, and taking photos of my cats. she/her
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Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a new paper out where we use 12+ years of monitoring data to document the impacts of inbreeding on fitness in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Inbreeding reduces fitness in spatially structured populations of a threatened rattlesnake | PNAS
Small and fragmented populations are at high risk of local extinction, in part because
of elevated inbreeding and subsequent inbreeding depression....
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Thrilled to have a new paper out where we use 12+ years of monitoring data to document the impacts of inbreeding on fitness in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
So great to get out on the water, see some beautiful kelp beds, and learn more about kelp microbiome sampling!
Super fun #kelp genetics & microbiome 🧬🦠 fieldwork day yesterday with my amazing interns & UCSC collaborators @meaghansaurus.bsky.social Always nice to be on a boat! 🌊
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
So great to get out on the water, see some beautiful kelp beds, and learn more about kelp microbiome sampling!
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I'm beyond words at this point.
If I wanted to literally straight-up destroy any efforts at basic biology research in the US, this is exactly how I'd do it.
If I wanted to literally straight-up destroy any efforts at basic biology research in the US, this is exactly how I'd do it.
May 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I'm beyond words at this point.
If I wanted to literally straight-up destroy any efforts at basic biology research in the US, this is exactly how I'd do it.
If I wanted to literally straight-up destroy any efforts at basic biology research in the US, this is exactly how I'd do it.
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On this week’s ep, Kevin Bird (@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social) explains the events of the last 3 months, how science is funded in the United States, why it is being attacked so aggressively, and the ideologies behind these attacks. Found everywhere you get podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...
Is science political? - with Kevin Bird
Tiny Living Beings · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
On this week’s ep, Kevin Bird (@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social) explains the events of the last 3 months, how science is funded in the United States, why it is being attacked so aggressively, and the ideologies behind these attacks. Found everywhere you get podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...
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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
Friday Night Massacre of accurate information.
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
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If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute
How to contribute a Story
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March 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
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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
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As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
Has anyone heard anything about the impacts of the OMB memo on fellowships administered directly by federal agencies. E.g., NSF (at least used to) pay(s) postdoc fellowship stipends directly to the postdocs
Do you know anything about graduate fellowships administered by agencies?
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.