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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 12d

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 12d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Savannah Ferretti @savannahferretti.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you @mattepritchard.bsky.social!

Savannah Ferretti @savannahferretti.bsky.social · Sep 8

My first lead-author paper, “Explaining South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Seasonality Using a Metric of Plume Buoyancy,” has been published in Geophysical Research Letters! 🌧️

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Explaining South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Seasonality Using a Metric of Plume Buoyancy

A buoyancy-based process-oriented diagnostic (POD) describes South Asian monsoon rainfall at monthly and subregional (500–1,000 km) scales The POD predicts the sign of monsoon rainfall changes in...

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Savannah Ferretti @savannahferretti.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks for sharing my paper! 😁

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

www.science.org

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Jun 30

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.

This is what you get when you try to access them online

An error message reads: Safari can't find the server "nca2023.globalchange.gov"

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jun 30

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.

1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS.

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jun 30

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.

The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30

It's only Monday of the following week and...

❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.

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Andrea Jenney @ajenney.bsky.social · Jun 26

I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 3

This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.

John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · May 27

Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow!

Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research!

wclivestream.com

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · May 2

Not good

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Apr 18

NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced.

"efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Updates on NSF Priorities

www.nsf.gov

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 17

Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!

Funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025 due to a suspension of federal funding from NOAA through the Department of Commerce. It is unknown if or when funding will resume. All data and services offered under the HPRCC contract, including this website, are unavailable.

If there are particular products and services you rely upon, please fill out this form so we can identify products to prioritize for continuance. Unfortunately, some products will be discontinued indefinitely because of their association with the Regional Climate Center program.

Support for all MRCC-hosted products and services is currently suspended as of April 17, 2025, due to a lapse in federal funding from the Department of Commerce through NOAA.

Federal funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025. It is unknown when or if funding will resume, pending decisions by NOAA and the Department of Commerce. If there are particular products and services that you rely upon, please contact us at sercc@sercc.com or reach out to your federal representatives and communicate their value and why you need them.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 11

Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Apr 11

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

www.science.org

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Apr 9

What did I say.

Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
she/her
Hoist (Own petard)
Buffalo Bills
Science Journalism
Buffalo Bills
Trump's gonna tank the economy, then pull tariffs, and then get credit for saving the economy.
April 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
¿ Some people can reply &

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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · Apr 9

Your wallet is being cleaned out by expert pickpockets. This is criminal. Literally criminal. I call for an IMMEDIATE investigation into who knew what, when, and what they did with the info. You can bet the Admin and many here in DC are considerably richer tonight than they were this morning.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 31

When Musk tells you that he is sure there is massive fraud in government, it is more of a confession about how he operates rather than an unbiased assessment of how public servants work.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Mar 31

What an amazing coincidence that the chair of Wisconsin College Republicans got one of Elon Musk's $1 million checks in Musk's most-likely-illegal stunt to bribe the voters.
MAGA Republicans are con artists trolling for easy marks. Don't be one, Wisconsinites.

Republican Operative Nicholas Jacobs Locks Twitter After Elon Musk Check Controversy

Jacobs received a $1M check from Musk at a rally in support of Brad Schimel

meidasnews.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Mar 6

"... how the agency's 600 layoffs could impact access to critical weather predictions." via ABC News

Former NOAA employee says layoffs could impact coverage of weather and severe storms

ABC News’ Juju Chang spoke with Zachary Labe, formerly of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, about how the agency's 600 layoffs could impact access to critical weather predictions.

www.goodmorningamerica.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 23

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · May 22

We now have a website. udm14.com

&udm=14: the enshittification Konami code
If you want to give people easy access to an AI-free Google search, send them to this page.

What is "&udm=14"? • TenBlueLinks • FrogFind • Built by Tedium

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Savannah Ferretti @savannahferretti.bsky.social · Jan 16

One of my favorite places to visit in Ithaca, please #savethemuseumoftheearth!

Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Jan 14

Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US).
⚒️🧪🦑
Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...

Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors […]

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · Dec 19

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

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