Nathan Brown
@oslrocks.bsky.social
Luminescence! Geomorphology, active tectonics, geochronology, thermochronology. https://nathandbrown.wixsite.com/home
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The Stanford Cosmogenic Isotope Lab is hiring a new (permanent) Lab Manager. Please share and apply if you are qualified. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDSD1UPF
Cosmogenic Isotope Laboratory Manager in Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Cosmogenic Isotope shared laboratory within Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS) is seeking an experienced.....
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August 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Stanford Cosmogenic Isotope Lab is hiring a new (permanent) Lab Manager. Please share and apply if you are qualified. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDSD1UPF
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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨
The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.
Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.
& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND
The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.
Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.
& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨
The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.
Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.
& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND
The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.
Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.
& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND
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National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...
National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos
Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...
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On The Climate Brink: Our newest endangered species: The vanishing American scientist
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Our newest endangered species: The vanishing American scientist
The proposed federal budget slashes federal funding for scientific research at a tremendous cost to innovation and breakthroughs.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
On The Climate Brink: Our newest endangered species: The vanishing American scientist
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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...
A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle
Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…
Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…
A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle
Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college — whose main qualification appears to be founding a company that puts ads on the blockchain — logs into a Zoom meeting, pays more attention to his fingernails than the discussion, and kills your grant with a disinterested thumbs down.
www.techdirt.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...
This is the most telling aspect of this move: if the stated goal is purely financial gain, then fund science at higher rates. So we'll raze our national economy to own...scientists? Who study cancer? Or earthquakes? Or cheaper renewable energy?
Investing in basic science more than pays for itself! Cutting NSF and NIH would hurt the US economy. (Now might be a good time to remind your congressional reps about this)
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is the most telling aspect of this move: if the stated goal is purely financial gain, then fund science at higher rates. So we'll raze our national economy to own...scientists? Who study cancer? Or earthquakes? Or cheaper renewable energy?
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
www.npr.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
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The Trump administration is trying to reverse decades of American science greatness. I've written this piece showing why such cuts will only hurt our country.
Please amplify and help keep American science great.
🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#science
theconversation.com/unprecedente...
Please amplify and help keep American science great.
🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#science
theconversation.com/unprecedente...
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life
The Trump administrations has canceled more than 1,400 federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
theconversation.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Trump administration is trying to reverse decades of American science greatness. I've written this piece showing why such cuts will only hurt our country.
Please amplify and help keep American science great.
🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#science
theconversation.com/unprecedente...
Please amplify and help keep American science great.
🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#science
theconversation.com/unprecedente...
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Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.”
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
May 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.”
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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“Save the US NSF” Take Action Toolkit www.savensf.com
Home | Savensf
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May 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Save the US NSF” Take Action Toolkit www.savensf.com
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Under pressure from the Trump administration, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a $9 billion agency funding scientific research that has made America great, has canceled over a thousand grants and slowed new funding. That's just the beginning and will get way worse unless Congress intervenes.
Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis
The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.
wapo.st
May 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Under pressure from the Trump administration, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a $9 billion agency funding scientific research that has made America great, has canceled over a thousand grants and slowed new funding. That's just the beginning and will get way worse unless Congress intervenes.
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NSF PD Raleigh Martin out with another statement on the NSF grant freezes. 🧪 ⚒️ #climatesky
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
NSF PD Raleigh Martin out with another statement on the NSF grant freezes. 🧪 ⚒️ #climatesky
Even in his final note he refuses to name what's happening. In fact, he thanks Trump for the opportunity 🙃 We deserve leaders who speak from their chest when fascists dismantle our national science.
NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Even in his final note he refuses to name what's happening. In fact, he thanks Trump for the opportunity 🙃 We deserve leaders who speak from their chest when fascists dismantle our national science.
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Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
April 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation.
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usual
The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...
nanoscale.blogspot.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation.
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
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NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
February 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Hello new followers! Please repost so we can reach a much wider audience!
November 6, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Hello new followers! Please repost so we can reach a much wider audience!
Very excited for the lineup in this session 🤩 Please stop by if you're going! And looking for session OSPA judges, so lemme know if you're interested 🙏 @paleoquake.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Very excited for the lineup in this session 🤩 Please stop by if you're going! And looking for session OSPA judges, so lemme know if you're interested 🙏 @paleoquake.bsky.social
