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Ted Morgan
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Citizen, Dad, Husband, Scientist, program officer at NSF, former biology professor and sports “expert”. Views are mine and do not represent my employer. Returning to social media on my personal time .
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Artificial selection for resistance to copper and off-target physiological and behavioral effects in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679338v1
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
www.nbcwashington.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Nice to hear Bill and Sam speaking about NSF.
In our most recent episode we talk with Bill Zamer and Sam Scheiner, two former BIO program officers at the NSF, about the recently proposed 56% budget cut to the NSF.

🎙️Listen now: bigbiology.substack.com/p/savensf-ep...

#scicomm #science #sciencecommunication #SaveNSF #NSF
May 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Had a very short layover in ORD tonight and the gate next to mine included my brother in law! So nice to see him on personal travel in Chicago for 25 minutes.
April 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Not a great day at the office.
April 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM