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EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants, documents show

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

So very sorry to see this Rachael. Truly no words, from one scientist in a targeted field to another. Sending you and your team my best wishes.

“essentially closing research operations in my group” = no new experiments save 1 recently funded grant. Spending freezes limit our ability to order supplies and reagents. We need to focus remaining funding on maintaining personnel + analyzing existing samples w whatever’s left in the cabinet

Scary to do, but absolutely critical to be vocal about supporting public science and public education 🧪 www.pressherald.com/2025/03/10/c...

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors...

Being silent won't protect you.

Doug was a NSF program officer for a few of my projects before stepping into his role below. His loss is an example of the many negative impacts. I speak often on the value of collaboration and cost sharing to get the most bang for our buck. Losses like Doug’s work affect everyone in the U.S. 🧪

Did you know that in southwestern #BritishColumbia, tectonic plates are moving at about the same speed your fingernails grow and that we get 3 types of #earthquakes here? Every day, small earthquakes are recorded (1000+/year).
For details, see:
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu...
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I think many of us would leave at this point and agree.

We can have a similar special programme in the EU as well. We already had (a small) one during Trump's first term 🧪🇪🇺

Fair. I get it. No judging, it’s a tough decision these days on what is going to hurt or help us all in this specific case. But, I wish you well at least!

Thanks!

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Disgusting decisions being made at this point. 🧪

This is one egregous example of a decision like many others being made by this administration that has ZERO ZERO ZERO benefit to anyone BUT the wealthiest two who are causing this to happen and some of the politicians and billionaire class that are standing by watching this unfold. 🧪

Juneau receives 2 million visitors annually & MGVC is one of the major tourist stops for visitors. It provides significant economic value to the city while also providing environmental knowledge to visitors of Juneau and Alaska. 🧪

I have been told that performance of these people was nothing short of stellar. No bad or unsatisfactory performance evaluations were possessed by any of these staff. And many had received awards from the agency, if not multiple awards. 🧪

Part of the letter employees received: “…Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest. For this reason, the Agency informs you that the Agency is removing you from your position of… immediately” 🧪

Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪

“But despair is not an option,” writes Gretchen Goldman in Nature. “It is important to remember that notable gains have been made in federal scientific-integrity protections in the past two decades.” 🧪

Those of us concerned definitely need to keep sticking together!

Agreed! Another great read from Porter for sure and definitely alarming. What’s going on.