WV Scientists, let's stick together and show each other support! First meeting is tonight-- shoot me a message if you're interested in joining! Tremendous thank you to @morgan-glass.bsky.social for organizing!

Summer research drawing to a close called for a combo of two of my favorite things: baking and polyploids! 🦎🧬

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

Great SciComm teaching tool -"Bad news"
"Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. Playing it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that you may encounter online." 👍
www.getbadnews.com/en

Since we recorded, more NSF grants have been cut, more NSF workers slated to be fired, NSF budget proposed to be cut nearly in half, & NSF & DoD indirect rates were announced to be cut to 15%. On the plus side some people stepped in to save a USAID research lab (aces.illinois.edu/news/1m-gift...)

I spent 14 years at a teaching-focused primarily-undergraduate institution (PUI) and found it be a stimulating, challenging, and rewarding environment. Check this out 👇
"How I found professional satisfaction by adjusting my definition of success" | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...