The #SFSU center houses the #SFBA National #Estuarine Research Reserve & the #Smithsonian #EnvironmentalResearch Center. It works on eelgrass #restoration, #WaterQuality monitoring, #EndangeredSpecies rehabilitation, sea-level rise adaptation, etc. It’s the only #MarineBiology center in the #BayArea.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12036970

Update. The #OpenAccess Biodiversity Heritage Library (#BHL) needs a new home. The #Smithsonian will stop hosting it next January.  
#^https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#Biodiversity #DefendResearch #ILoveBHL #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

Artnet is “tracking the impact of President Donald Trump's recent executive orders and policy changes on the arts.” IOW the gutting of US art and culture. Long read but important. #arts #NEA #nationalgallery #NEH #IMLS #DOGE #smithsonian #artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-executive-orders-arts-2605142

In the face of Republican threats to the message of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, this Atlantic reporter visits and listens to visitors' reactions. (Gift Link)

#Smithsonian
#NMAAHAC

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/smithsonian-executive-order-nmaahc/682512/?gift=vSsI2wAk0RnLp1M8ak7lBDsatwwDzNBMfSlujcG-Q1s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

'Biological reality': What genetics has actually taught us about race by Adam Rutherford

#anthropology #smithsonian #dna

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250417-biological-reality-what-genetics-has-taught-us-about-race

Is the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Finally Moving Forward?

Amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, a bipartisan coalition is advocating for a bill that would guarantee the institution a spot on the National Mall.

https://hyperallergic.com/1004842/is-the-smithsonian-museum-of-the-american-latino-finally-moving-forward/ #museums #Smithsonian #Latino

“At first, researchers were only able to recover the women’s mitochondrial DNA, which gets passed down from mothers. But, eventually, they were able to sequence the mummies’ full genomes, which gave them a more complete understanding of their ancestry.” #DNA #ISOGG #ancientdna #Smithsonian #geneadons

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-180986403/

Traveling for work & on my morning off, I captured both

1) CENTAURS

And

2) DARK SKIES & SPACE ROCKS

#StarryTime is Life

If you too like centaurs & space — check out our #podcast here: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episodes.html

What a fun fascinating #Smithsonian article on how and why #literature moves us.

From #Aristotle to now, 8 literary devices/tools explained from a #neuroscience perspective
#bookstodon #books #writing #CognitiveScience

I'd be interested in hearing what my #author friends (and everyone else) think of it :-)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/eight-literatures-most-powerful-inventions-and-neuroscience-behind-how-they-work-180977168/

One of the most telling parts of the horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeting #Smithsonian is its defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

"A new executive order from the #Trump administration focuses on the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, seeking to take away displays they describe as “flawed” and “divisive.”"

"In this executive order, the white house is looking to change the museum so that it focuses on the positive aspects of American history and replace the current displays which they subjected guests to ‘ideological indoctrination’."

https://www.kktv.com/2025/04/04/giving-people-fairytale-history-colorado-college-professor-reacts-executive-order-focused-popular-national-museum/ #BlackHistory #Smithsonian