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Andrea 🔎🌱⛓️‍💥
@melting-permafrost.bsky.social
PhD student/grad worker, working with tiny plants real high up, runner cyclist lover of unions yada yada 🌱🥾🚲⛓️‍💥🪩🔎🌾
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It’s probably a good day to explain to your non-scientist socials that graduate students are not merely the next generation of academic science, they are an important component of the current scientific labor force. Feel free to mention that this is cut rate labor as well.
February 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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We are in the final stretch of editing These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5! I am so proud of the puzzles we've pulled together — although times are dark, our puzzles highlight joy, community, and solidarity 💕✨

You can learn more and donate for presale here:
fund.nnaf.org/tpfa
February 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🥹❣️ from A Science of our Own: Marxism and Nature by Richard Levins
February 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Can we as ecologists & biologists who are losing jobs and funding left and right, organize now?
February 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Some poems & photos
enjoy or don't!
meltingpermafrost.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Spent a few days floating in the woods and mountains with amazing friends, entering a new decade of life, only to come crashing back to the reality that is american fascism & the erasure of our rights. Ain’t nothing like it!
February 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The regime is 100% coming for academic freedom and most of university admins will buckle... unless we force them to do something else. If you don't already have a union get involved with @aaup.bsky.social
Organize Every Campus
The AAUP is excited to be kicking off a new organizing campaign, Organize Every Campus. As we’ve seen increasing attacks against our right to teach, research, and advocate for higher education as a pu...
www.aaup.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Check out this new Review in the #AJB!

The changing #biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene

By Paul Markley, Collin Gross & Barnabas Daru

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #climatechange
January 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote some silly little ramblings about how scientists need to be organized and how a great place to learn about organizing is through our labor unions, timely!

open.substack.com/pub/meltingp...
Science is political and science is labor, duh.
Why scientists need to organize with their labor unions & other ramblings
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science

(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.

The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Training for a 100 mile gravel race with All Bodies on Bikes at this moment in time…is doing wonders for my menty health 💖 bikes are cool af, highly recommend
January 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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It's always a good day to organize your workplace.
January 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I’m reading today
#booksky
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
January 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM