Caroline Blommel
@carolineblommel.bsky.social
PhD student • bird girl • full of rage (she/her)
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Breaking news: A Senate spending panel today offered a glimmer of hope to the more than 1600 scientists who had their grants terminated earlier this year by the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/46ctgwj
Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants
Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment
scim.ag
July 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Breaking news: A Senate spending panel today offered a glimmer of hope to the more than 1600 scientists who had their grants terminated earlier this year by the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/46ctgwj
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Normalize absolutely clowning fascists and ruining their day every single time they leave their house.
JD is an embarrassment and should be treated precisely as such every time he shows his busted ass face in public.
JD is an embarrassment and should be treated precisely as such every time he shows his busted ass face in public.
Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic
March 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Normalize absolutely clowning fascists and ruining their day every single time they leave their house.
JD is an embarrassment and should be treated precisely as such every time he shows his busted ass face in public.
JD is an embarrassment and should be treated precisely as such every time he shows his busted ass face in public.
Call your reps today and oppose any budget that cuts vital funding to social programs, public land, and American science!
🚨 The House will vote on their extreme Trump-endorsed budget on Tues. We can block this! A budget that mandates $2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other vital programs to pay for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich is NOT POPULAR.
🔥📞🔥 Demand your rep votes NO 👉 5calls.org/issue/budget...
🔥📞🔥 Demand your rep votes NO 👉 5calls.org/issue/budget...
Oppose Safety Net Cuts to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks - Vote Tues 2/25 ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (02/21/25): Early on Feb 21st, Senate Republicans passed their own slimmed down budget resolution. The Senate plan does not yet extend the 2017 …
5calls.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Call your reps today and oppose any budget that cuts vital funding to social programs, public land, and American science!
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Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
go.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
Apart from this being personally horrifying, kneecapping American science has decades-long global consequences. Call your reps.
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
www.science.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Apart from this being personally horrifying, kneecapping American science has decades-long global consequences. Call your reps.
Did not think I’d be spending my day downloading a ton of climate data before Elon’s interns remove it but that’s where we’re at I guess.
February 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Did not think I’d be spending my day downloading a ton of climate data before Elon’s interns remove it but that’s where we’re at I guess.
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Thankfully the "NSF could have a hard time legally terminating grants, because their funds are appropriated by the US Congress, meaning they are protected by law"
A minor win here in a few weeks of pure chaos for scientists everywhere.
🧪 #AcademicSky
A minor win here in a few weeks of pure chaos for scientists everywhere.
🧪 #AcademicSky
Inside the NSF’s Effort to Scour Research Grants for Violations of Trump’s Orders
The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil
www.scientificamerican.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thankfully the "NSF could have a hard time legally terminating grants, because their funds are appropriated by the US Congress, meaning they are protected by law"
A minor win here in a few weeks of pure chaos for scientists everywhere.
🧪 #AcademicSky
A minor win here in a few weeks of pure chaos for scientists everywhere.
🧪 #AcademicSky