Manuel Lerdau
Father, Husband, Environmental Scientist, @UVA
- Reposted by Manuel Lerdau🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauSuddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
- Reposted by Manuel Lerdau𝐵𝑅𝐸𝐴𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝑁𝐸𝑊𝑆 A company that made its name regurgitating and recombining sliced-up bits of intellectual property in statistically probable ways (sometimes verging on plagiarism) without due compensation is now … whining about . another company apparently doing the same, at lower cost.
- Garrett Epps has a remarkably clear explanation of the issues surrounding Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. Even this plant physiologist could follow it. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/27/t...
- Query to sciencey folks: We noticed yesterday that NSF moved its Bio Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program web page from <active> to <archived>. Have they paused/ended the program? Was this planned? Is it in response to an directive from on high, or is NSF leadership showing initiative?
- Reposted by Manuel Lerdau“Post-mortem studies of human brains provide direct evidence that numerous pollutants — including nanoparticles and toxic metals — accumulate in brain tissue.” Interesting article by @liamdrew.bsky.social as an overview of PM pollution & growing research on brain effects like tau tangles, etc.
- Just received news that we had a paper rejected. The reviewers found a potentially important error. They suggested that once we fix the mistake we should consider resubmitting. The Editor's letter was critical but constructive Sometimes peer-review works.
- Reposted by Manuel Lerdau"If you stop doing something bad for the environment, but it has a warming effect on the climate, are you geoengineering?" Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on what happens when cleaning up pollution means more warming, feat. @danvisioni.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social:
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauWe humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍
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- 18 years ago this month I left the Ecology&Evolution Dept. at SUNY-StonyBrook to move to UVA. Today, my eldest child pointed out that I still have not returned Doug Futuyma's pliers. Good thing his initials are on them; otherwise I wouldn't know whom they belonged to
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- Since I tend toward being narrow-minded and ignorant, I often do not know of cool things beyond my wheelhouse. For example, I just learned of this blog, which has become my favorite blog by a scientist. She is smart, interesting, and writes in a way that even naifs can enjoy. deevybee.blogspot.com
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauI just had an ENTIRE 6th GRADE CLASS email me with questions about ancient Egypt because their teacher *assigned them to do it.* What in the actual fresh hell? Teachers, there is this magical place called a LIBRARY, full of BOOKS, which have WORDS and KNOWLEDGE. Do your job. Mine ain't this.
- unalloyed good news to start your holiday: www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/11/wolf...
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauOkay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauDorothy Bishop explains why Elon Musk’s membership in the Royal Society devalues the entire organization.
- New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
- Many of my sciency friends are posting about today, 11-24, as esp. important because 165b years ago today The Origin of Species... was published. here's a brief, very personal, comment
- The interwebz appears to agrees that leopard face-eating appeared first in October of 2015 thanks to Adrian Bott. What did people say before then to express this idea?
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauMore attacks on civilian water systems reported. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Manuel LerdauReuters: Trump's pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him “Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his secretary of state pick and others,” says one anti-Harris “Muslims For Trump” co-founder in PA www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
