Noam Ross
@noamross.net
Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-founder of https://grant-witness.us/. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
This is an excellent guide!
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is an excellent guide!
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If you are doing year-end giving, please join our campaign for Al Otro Lado: @alotrolado-org.bsky.social . They work on both sides of our southern border helping migrants with everything from “know your rights” training to reuniting deportees with their pets.
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alotrolado.org/letsdosometh...
Lets Do Something — Al Otro Lado
alotrolado.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you are doing year-end giving, please join our campaign for Al Otro Lado: @alotrolado-org.bsky.social . They work on both sides of our southern border helping migrants with everything from “know your rights” training to reuniting deportees with their pets.
alotrolado.org/letsdosometh...
alotrolado.org/letsdosometh...
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RSMF grant and the STF grant are both providing the R Foundation and the #rstats community a solid opportunity to modernise the infrastructure and lay the ground work for the next 10 years of language roadmap while mentoring new R Core members and enabling the community to participate directly.
Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R.
I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here.
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here.
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
blog.r-project.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
RSMF grant and the STF grant are both providing the R Foundation and the #rstats community a solid opportunity to modernise the infrastructure and lay the ground work for the next 10 years of language roadmap while mentoring new R Core members and enabling the community to participate directly.
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we aren't powerless! never forget that outrage and pushing back works, even if it just buys time until we have more power. this is a marathon, not a sprint
“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came within hours of publicly promoting Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule as an option for American parents — before legal &political concerns got in the way…the HHS Office of the General Counsel said it would invite a lawsuit the administration could lose”
RFK Jr. wanted to endorse the Danish vaccine schedule. He was forced to pull back.
Legal and political concerns prompted the health department to cancel a planned announcement on Friday, officials said.
www.politico.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
we aren't powerless! never forget that outrage and pushing back works, even if it just buys time until we have more power. this is a marathon, not a sprint
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While many nonprofits rely on government dollars, about half of those that edited or watered down diversity, equity and inclusion language in their mission statements reported receiving no government funding.
Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statem...
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
While many nonprofits rely on government dollars, about half of those that edited or watered down diversity, equity and inclusion language in their mission statements reported receiving no government funding.
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Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.
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cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...
Horn Point Confirms Deep NOAA Cuts
A nearly 50 percent reduction in federal funding for oyster restoration threatens to sharply reduce oyster production in the Chesapeake Bay, jeopardizing one of the region’s most successful environmen...
cambridgespy.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.
cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...
cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...
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I need #RStats C help! @mgirlich added me as a maintainer on {tibblify}, which has been archived due to use of non-API entry points (among other things). I want to learn to fix this, but I don't know where to start. I'll see where I can get with AI, but would greatly prefer some human guidance!
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I need #RStats C help! @mgirlich added me as a maintainer on {tibblify}, which has been archived due to use of non-API entry points (among other things). I want to learn to fix this, but I don't know where to start. I'll see where I can get with AI, but would greatly prefer some human guidance!
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aka the Good Trouble in Public Health list.
It's a partial list and growing by the day.
Plenty of room for more.
It's a partial list and growing by the day.
Plenty of room for more.
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
aka the Good Trouble in Public Health list.
It's a partial list and growing by the day.
Plenty of room for more.
It's a partial list and growing by the day.
Plenty of room for more.
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An end-of-year list we need that does’t sugar coat the destruction of our science & health infrastructure in 2025: “Let me be clear: We are, by & large, fucked. But the only reason we’re not even more fucked is that these people are working day & night to keep what is left of these agencies afloat.”
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
An end-of-year list we need that does’t sugar coat the destruction of our science & health infrastructure in 2025: “Let me be clear: We are, by & large, fucked. But the only reason we’re not even more fucked is that these people are working day & night to keep what is left of these agencies afloat.”
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NPR talked to and quoted a transgender teen whose treatment is threatened. Did your news organization?
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
The Trump administration Thursday proposed two rules targeting hospitals that treat transgender children and youth using Medicare and Medicaid as the lever. The move would affect trans youth who have ...
www.npr.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
NPR talked to and quoted a transgender teen whose treatment is threatened. Did your news organization?
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Today's list of HHS grant terminations includes 7 programs run by American Academy of Pediatrics that RFK Jr. killed out of spite. Programs to:
- Reduce sudden infant sleep deaths
- Screen newborns for hearing loss
- Treat babies with birth defects
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- Reduce sudden infant sleep deaths
- Screen newborns for hearing loss
- Treat babies with birth defects
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December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Today's list of HHS grant terminations includes 7 programs run by American Academy of Pediatrics that RFK Jr. killed out of spite. Programs to:
- Reduce sudden infant sleep deaths
- Screen newborns for hearing loss
- Treat babies with birth defects
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- Reduce sudden infant sleep deaths
- Screen newborns for hearing loss
- Treat babies with birth defects
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Scientific societies need to realize that their very existence is now a political struggle and act like it. It should be societies' priority to form PACs, file lawsuits and amicus briefs, organize protests and heckle fascists! Follow what @aaup.org and @standupforscience.bsky.social are doing.
At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Scientific societies need to realize that their very existence is now a political struggle and act like it. It should be societies' priority to form PACs, file lawsuits and amicus briefs, organize protests and heckle fascists! Follow what @aaup.org and @standupforscience.bsky.social are doing.
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Now they're going to triage. Every proposal was discussed, and that resulted in better reviews and more informed outcomes. This is such a loss.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
scienceforeveryone.science
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Now they're going to triage. Every proposal was discussed, and that resulted in better reviews and more informed outcomes. This is such a loss.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
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Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459...
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Thakur v. Trump, 3:25-cv-04737 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Thakur v. Trump, 3:25-cv-04737 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459...
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
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This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.
Global north researchers running a global south field site rife with medically unethical and statistically abysmal research practices, all to manufacture support for their pet theory and undermine global vaccine access & health security…the research colonialism is genuinely staggering.
is the “”gold standard science”” in the room with us right now?
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.
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New @propublica.org:
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New @propublica.org:
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
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One thing about @standupforscience.bsky.social: we are *going* to get our message across.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
One thing about @standupforscience.bsky.social: we are *going* to get our message across.
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Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.
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A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
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I asked our plugged in & savvy early career scientists to hold off til morning (when we might be able to do something) to spread this word so that we could have a brief recharging respite to reaffirm our commitment to our shared earth and science - and yes : humans— eg Americans #agu25
If nothing is done to stop Trump and the GOP, in three more years there will be nothing left of this country.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I asked our plugged in & savvy early career scientists to hold off til morning (when we might be able to do something) to spread this word so that we could have a brief recharging respite to reaffirm our commitment to our shared earth and science - and yes : humans— eg Americans #agu25
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We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The second story identify some of the terms that are being flagged by an internal "AI" system.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
5/9
www.notus.org/health-scien...
5/9
NIH Pauses New Funding for Grants That Include ‘Health Equity,’ ‘Structural Racism,’ Pending Review
New guidance to the agency dictates staff must use a “text analysis tool” to identify programs deemed “misaligned” with the administration.
www.notus.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The second story identify some of the terms that are being flagged by an internal "AI" system.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
5/9
www.notus.org/health-scien...
5/9
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So the administration will continue to require applicants to modify their grants to get through the administration's ideological filters.
They are just doing it in an orderly way so that they do not run afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act with arbitrary and capricious actions.
4/9
They are just doing it in an orderly way so that they do not run afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act with arbitrary and capricious actions.
4/9
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So the administration will continue to require applicants to modify their grants to get through the administration's ideological filters.
They are just doing it in an orderly way so that they do not run afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act with arbitrary and capricious actions.
4/9
They are just doing it in an orderly way so that they do not run afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act with arbitrary and capricious actions.
4/9
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Wow. Grants might now be rejected/accepted based on a single outside review and no panel
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Wow. Grants might now be rejected/accepted based on a single outside review and no panel
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New stories out about Official NIH Policy about "remediating" NIH applications so that they can be considered for funding.
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
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First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
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NIH specifies how grant reviewers should ensure alignment with Trump priorities
In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.
www.statnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New stories out about Official NIH Policy about "remediating" NIH applications so that they can be considered for funding.
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9