A drop from 26% funding to 7% funding success means that those limited people are going to be spending MORE time writing high quality proposals for lower yield. Whats this about "efficiency"?
These screenshots are coming *directly* from the Request to Congress document. Just raw, wanton destruction

I was part of the scientific ocean drilling community for over a decade before I ever got to sail and collect sediments myself, and while I loved sailing, being on the JR was only a tiny part of my ongoing scientific ocean drilling work. This is the legacy of open science, and we need to protect it.

I also validated their feelings: it is a really scary time to be in the US. I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared every day, for my future and those of my friends, colleagues, and communities. But fear can paralyze or it can galvanize. Let it galvanize you. And its always better with friends.

Join a committee at a professional society. Volunteer with a local chapter of a nonprofit. Make art. Contribute to something bigger than yourself. Most of all, don't give up on a better future. If we all work just a little bit towards building the world we want to see, it will help, it has to.

This is how @palaeopercs.bsky.social started: I was feeling isolated and scared for the future in May 2020. I reached out to some friends and they felt similarly. We came together, brainstormed, and a global weekly paleo & ECR-focused seminar series was born. 5 years later its still going strong.

A *huge* kudos to the current committee at @palaeopercs.bsky.social for continuing this work. This seminar, run by a global team of ECRs for the global community of ECRs across Pal(a)eo-Sciences is one of the things I'm proudest of playing a part in creating. Thank you to all who participate in it.

Its a career/life goal for me to be on Ologies, but I don't think I've earned it yet!
I study microfossil fish teeth and shark scales to explore marine predator dynamics in geologic time.
I'm an ancient fish dentist (paleoichthyodontist?) and a micropaleoecologist. www2.whoi.edu/site/paleofi...

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