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Marissa Milstein
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Wildlife veterinarian and researcher studying pathogen transmission at the human-animal interface | Assistant Professor @ University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
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I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
scim.ag
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Expert voice from SCIENCE.

Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems
Imagine a world where the variety of food sources we rely on is reduced to a mere handful of species. This is not a dystopian future. It’s the path we are on right now, and it’s happening silently in ...
www.science.org
December 28, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Dutch chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has been at the forefront of pushing sustainability in cocoa production - long before the EUDR was conceived of.

Hopefully these new regulations will add to their efforts & rid the supply chains of imported commodities like cocoa of deforestation.

Read:
‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers
It might not come as much of a surprise that Tony’s Chocolonely has expressed its support for the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR). The Dutch chocolate maker is known as much for it...
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM