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Let’s raise our voices to stop funding cuts to federal community-driven science programs! Join the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and urge your House representative to support crucial science programs! https://p2a.co/L6ajLKZ. Please join their effort and tell Congress that community-driven science programs need robust support! U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittees are currently weighing Fiscal Year 2025 bill language that steeply decreases funding for federal science agencies. If passed by Congress, this would result in the following reductions: 11% from NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, 37% from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Office of STEM Education, and 15% from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Office of STEM Education. Additionally, it would obstruct NSF’s U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Community-driven science brings together scientists and community members, benefiting scientific and community interests and transforming communities. AGU is urging Congress to support the agencies that maintain and manage community-driven science programs, specifically NSF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, EPA Science and Technology, and NIEHS. Science-based community-driven programs rely on government funding to continue promoting equity in historically underserved communities. These programs use local knowledge to create solutions for our environment and people while maintaining credibility with the public. Thank you so much for acting today!

Solid solid program for the Year of Open Science Conference. Getting back on the "Year of Open Science" and hot updates on all things OS - Grassroots initiatives, Policy & Compliance, Reforming Research Evaluation, Measuring OS. Basically all the things we have been and are continuously working towards at the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute & The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), but at the slightly* larger US-Federal scale...

Trending Article in PNAS: One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/NPTe50SrURT. For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/u2PN50SrURQ.

🗓 Save the date! 🗓 The 2nd European Polar Science Week is taking place from 3 – 6 September 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goal of this week is to bring the European polar science community together and reinforce European cooperation for polar science. 📊 ❄   The European Commission (Directorate General for Research and Innovation) and the European Space Agency - ESA are working to improve cooperation and to address science challenges in polar research that could drive EC-ESA scientific activities in the future.    Other aims for the 2nd year of the Polar Science week are as follows:  -Share latest results in polar science with a focus on Earth observation, and promote networking and collaborative research in polar sciences, bringing together different expertise, data, and resources in a systemic manner. -Discuss progress in addressing recommendations from the 1st European Polar Science Week.  -Identify major polar scientific challenges, observation gaps and research needs for the coming years. -Formulate recommendations for a Polar Science Agenda, in particular with regard to maximising synergies between the ESA and Horizon Europe Programme. -Develop and provide policy relevant recommendations.   ⏳ Registration closes on 31 July 2024! ⏳   Please find the preliminary agenda and other details about the European Polar Science Week here: https://lnkd.in/eRteY5ZP  

We want your research at #ANESCR to help your fellow scientists unpack the Consequences of Aneuploidy. Submit your abstract by July 21 and save your space: https://hubs.ly/Q02FjMHY0

📈 Trending Article in PNAS Nexus One of the most-viewed PNAS Nexus articles in the last week is “The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/HQpz50U3gSw. To learn more about submitting your own research, visit PNAS Nexus at https://ow.ly/xXTx50U3gSs.

Missed #TwitterHour? The highlights of our conversation on 'challenges of interdisciplinary research' can be found in our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e-khKtVM

Greetings -- Space Warps is back! We’re so excited to launch a new Space Warps project -- Space Warps - ESA Euclid -- to find strong gravitational lenses in sky images from the ESA Euclid Space Telescope! Read on for more information from the team about the project. Find the needles in a haystack - spot the elusive hidden distant galaxies using the power of gravitational lensing in exquisite new Euclid data! Massive galaxies warp space-time, bending light rays so that we can see around them to even more distant galaxies. These gravitational lenses are super rare but in previous surveys you have already helped us find hundreds of new candidates. We're improving our analysis using your data, and finding even more interesting images - come and help us find more lenses! In this new project, we will be inspecting new high quality imaging data from the ESA Euclid Space Telescope in which many previously unknown strong lenses will be hiding. We can expect many new lenses, more than we have discovered before, to be revealed in this exceptional data. We are very excited to ask you for help to inspect the candidates. In this first batch, we have around 30,000 images to inspect. Given your success in the past, we think we can inspect all of these images in a week!  Can you help us reach our target of 150,000 classifications by next week and meet this challenge? We think you can! Join us and be a cosmic lens hunter! To get started, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eT6rsiSU   Please note: the Zooniverse platform will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, November 20 from 4pm-10pm US Central Standard Time (2024-11-20 22:00 UTC to 2024-11-21 4:00 UTC). During this period, all projects and platform services will be inaccessible. We apologize for the inconvenience; this maintenance is necessary to make updates to platform infrastructure and improve long-term reliability and uptime. Please visit status.zooniverse.org for updates before and during the downtime period. For any additional questions, please email [email protected].   Good luck with this new project -- take care! Cliff & the Zooniverse Team

What drives the acceptance and success of Open Science policies? In this webinar, Open Science practitioners will share their insights, experiences, and critiques on what works—and what doesn’t. Join this fireside-chat-style discussion—definitely not one to miss!

Friday afternoons are tough, aren't they? I will try to make one of them better. Join me on December 6 for the PLOS Open 2.0 webinar series. In this episode, I will ask our speakers about their vision for Open Science policies for the future. Bring coffee, bring an open mind and take part in this free-flow discussion. No slides, just a meaty discussion.