Linda Terrill
naturegroove.bsky.social
Linda Terrill
@naturegroove.bsky.social
Lover of nature who wants to pass it on.
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Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is going to be important:

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March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...”

"Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
DOGE targets child support database full of income data
The U.S. DOGE Service’s attempt to access a federal database with sensitive information has provoked yet another internal disagreement.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Science is necessary, but clearly not sufficient, for conveying the climate crisis

https://go.nature.com/3XjoJCU
How scientists can drive climate action: celebrate nature and promote hope
Nature - After years of storytelling and running classes and festivals, I’ve seen first-hand how a love of nature makes people want to protect it.
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March 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

https://go.nature.com/3QLda3z
Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks
Nature - Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.
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March 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Exclusive: The U.S. Department of Defense is gutting a landmark project designed to fund social science research with important implications for national security. scim.ag/41qhiuO
Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
scim.ag
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them.
https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4
US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.
go.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM