Ron Parsons

@ronpar.bsky.social

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Itinerant biologist. Most recently working with photosynthetic critters.

Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
A REALLY well done grid of Arabidopsis germinating on a black mat.
A picture of a child’s bucket loader for playing in a sand box … or maybe snow! 😉
Photo of the Bio-Rad 2-D gel electrophoresis system showing reservoir, casting stand and inserts to hold gels in the rig.
A micrograph of a 0.1 mm grid
Micrograph of a stained onion epidermis
A squirrel on a white picket fence. Both made of LEGO and part of an exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
A photo of the Northern lights with green near the horizon and red above. Some vertical banding.
A photo of the Northern lights with green near the horizon and red above. Some vertical banding.
A series of panels showing scanning electron micrographs of a developing maize ear.
A view of snow capped mountains in the distance
A photo from the canyon rim of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park with a view of the river below.
A bulb used to fill and empty pipettes.
Picture of a Gilson Pipetteman with tip.