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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

Students, listen up! NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2025

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · 9d

Just in case anyone is looking to share this information over on the other social space www.instagram.com/p/DPMS6p6jlx...

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · 10d

This quiet shutdown of one-third of the USA's climate adaptation capacity will happen this week.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 10d

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds.

The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers

A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · 11d

It's remember how to pronounce "prothonotary" time of year.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 18d

Three regional CASCs - the Northeast, South Central and Pacific Islands - will cease operations in coming weeks because Dept of the Interior won’t approve their next 5-year agreements.

Other CASCs have had projects cancelled and funds reprogrammed in violation of Congressional appropriations.

A climate science network may lose its Pacific hub. Here's what that means for local researchers

A local hub for climate research is facing an uncertain future. As HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports, time is ticking for them to receive crucial federal funding.

www.hawaiipublicradio.org

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 18d

The national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers met this week in Juneau, AK. Our visit coincided with a glacial outburst flood, atmospheric river and landslide - hazards becoming more frequent and severe as climate warms.

CASC science addresses these risks & more, but is under threat.

The Mendenhall Glacier during a glacial outburst flood.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Aug 16

Federal workers tracking the storm to keep you safe.

Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · Aug 16

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.

Simply incredible.

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isaac @sevier.io · Aug 16

15 hours means a storm like this could be identified in the middle of the night and, if it was making landfall, you’d wake up needing to figure out evacuation later that day.

Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hurricane Erin went from Category 1 to Category 4 in 15 hours Y'all. That's well beyond our definition of rapid intensification. My update on the hurricane. It may not be done strengthening yet. Where is it going and how strong will it get?
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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Hurricane Erin Explosively Strengthening - Close to Category 5

Hurricane Erin has explosively intensified to a Category 4 storm and may not be done yet. Here's the latest.

www.forbes.com

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Firefly

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ALT: a man is holding a camera and saying `` my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. ''

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is extremely alarming news and very bad for the future of science (not just climate) in America.

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Aug 7

This would mark an extraordinary, unprecedented, and alarming level of interference in what has historically been a fair and systematic process. The previous NCAs were authored by hundreds of scientists who were leading domain experts in their fields. www.cnn.com/2025/08/...

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

www.cnn.com

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jul 31

Me too! To a much lesser extent than what you experienced, but some men really didn't like hearing that female white sharks are larger and stronger than males.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jul 20

Mark your calendars! Me and my buddies are on shark week this week, Thursday at 8pm!

This is the most intentionally silly show I have been on. I hope it turns out well 🦈

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Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center @secasc.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our summer science and communication #interns, Joleen & Juan, got to meet Loretta (left) and Ernie (middle) during our field visit to the Yates Mill Aquatic Conservation Lab!

They (except Ernie) are helping with #science synthesis and #communication projects. Watch this space for their products!

Loretta, Joleen, and Juan standing next to a large freshwater tank named "Ernie" from Sesame Street.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jul 7

You DO NOT need a social media following to be a "good" conservationist. You DO NOT need a super aesthetic social media account to be an effective conservationist.

Most of the superstar conservationists I know don't even have accounts.

Just FYI for no particular reason...

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Jul 2

For those looking for the National Climate Assessments:

NCA5 (2023): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
NCA4 vol. 1 (2017): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...
NCA4 vol. 2 (2018): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...
NCA3 (2014): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 28

I feel the same way about AI that most folks feel about climate change (I don't understand the details or how it directly impacts me, but I know it's bad). This was an eye-opening explainer for me. Thx @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 27

Not to be that person who says, "what about MY work?" to everything, BUT a major service NOAA provides is community resilience funding (e.g. chainsaw training, cistern monitoring, flood planning). There are many communities that have had their resiliency taken away, completely, by NOAA cuts.

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · Jun 25

Elasmo #dreamjob. Join the lineage of great elasmobranch researchers who have filled this position at CSULB. Review of applications starts early September...
#sharkscience @iucnshark.bsky.social

csucareers.calstate.edu/en-us/job/54...

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 15

I guess when he said America is "so hot," this is what he meant?

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 15

What a hot mess.

Climate change dashboard updated through last month: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through May 2025. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 431 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1934 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 15

You take care, too! ❤️

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Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center @secasc.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔥 Building Fire Resilience in the Southeast 🔥

SE CASC funded research help managers apply controlled burns effectively, reducing fuel loads and lowering wildfire risks year-round.

Read more: loom.ly/DfWWVek

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · Jun 4

I continue to find it fascinating that during times of crisis 1) people seem to think comms/scicomm will be able to overcome enormous systemic and political problems and 2) how everything we know about the deficit model flies out the window.

Eos @eos.org · Jun 3

Her last directive is to “rebuild trust.” Science, she said, needs to be a nonpartisan issue. Scientists cannot assume that public trust in science has rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic. The scientific community needs to communicate better to the public, she said.

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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · Jun 3

The federal employees I work with won't even let me pay for their campus parking when they visit so that they don't potentially violate this.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jun 3

Federal employees can not accept a gift of anything valued at more than $20. (training.smartpay.gsa.gov/training_pur...).

Did…did the NYT witness and document a gift transaction higher than that? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/m...

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