Mike Sieracki
@msier.bsky.social
Biological oceanographer, bicyclist, father, leader
Cool cats
In early #Caturday news: Once-extinct wildcats to make a comeback in England
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England
Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Cool cats
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A Compact for Control:
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
A Compact for Control (opinion)
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
www.insidehighered.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A Compact for Control:
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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🌊 Job Opportunity with BGC-Argo! 🌊
We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.
📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo: gdallolmo@ogs.it
We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.
📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo: gdallolmo@ogs.it
September 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🌊 Job Opportunity with BGC-Argo! 🌊
We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.
📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo: gdallolmo@ogs.it
We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.
📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo: gdallolmo@ogs.it
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Institute has done good work on the circular economy for battery materials. Like: rmi.org/insight/the-...
The Battery Mineral Loop - RMI
A comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.
rmi.org
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Institute has done good work on the circular economy for battery materials. Like: rmi.org/insight/the-...
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A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity" - Oceanographic
An historic treaty to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas, the High Seas Treaty, will come into force in 120 days.
oceanographicmagazine.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Not sure that free speech and gun rights are compatible. Will we need to choose?
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Not sure that free speech and gun rights are compatible. Will we need to choose?
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Latest test to our good luck this year on its way
September 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Latest test to our good luck this year on its way
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Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.
My group at NOAA/Miami is hiring a postdoc to lead a marine eDNA biodiversity effort (Bio-GO-SHIP). You'll develop and deploy high-throughput metabarcoding assays for ocean DNA. Help make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring! t.co/p53s7E0YiL
https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job/509519
t.co
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”
“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”
Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”
“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”
Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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U.S. GO-SHIP seeks physical/biogeochemical oceanographer with hydrographic & cruise-planning experience to be Chief Scientist on Feb-May 2026 P04E (tentatively Costa Rica, to the Marshall Islands) Deadline August. 15 tinyurl.com/334y4daw 🌊
July 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
U.S. GO-SHIP seeks physical/biogeochemical oceanographer with hydrographic & cruise-planning experience to be Chief Scientist on Feb-May 2026 P04E (tentatively Costa Rica, to the Marshall Islands) Deadline August. 15 tinyurl.com/334y4daw 🌊
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With news of court-ordered #NIH grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have!
Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.
Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
With news of court-ordered #NIH grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have!
Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.
Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.
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Federal judge rules against NSF rate cap, a victory for research universities. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Judge Sides With Universities, Blocks NSF’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap
A federal judge has blocked the National Science Foundation from implementing a 15% cap on the reimbursement of indirect costs on research grants funded by the agency.
www.forbes.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Federal judge rules against NSF rate cap, a victory for research universities. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious."
"They are of no force and effect."
"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
"They are of no force and effect."
"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
"the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them"
Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation
We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...
thebulletin.org
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them"
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The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable.
NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️
NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️
Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
scim.ag
May 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable.
NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️
NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️
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Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
lastnsfhistorian
YouTube video by Amy Rodgers
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May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
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Wow, this is insane. @billgates.com: you want to spend your foundation money by 2045? Why not open up your own version of NSF to fund all science EXCEPT artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science?
May 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Wow, this is insane. @billgates.com: you want to spend your foundation money by 2045? Why not open up your own version of NSF to fund all science EXCEPT artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science?
NSF Director resigns
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NSF Director resigns
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Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.