I had breast cancer during COVID. My long awaited reconstruction surgery was abruptly cancelled this February. My surgeon lost their regular theatre booking to prioritize other surgeries.
This is shameful.
Dear Friends,
Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.
Deadline is April 17.
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Homies On Donkeys in Leytonstone has good tacos (with vegan options).
Giovanna’s Deli & Wine in Forest Gate has great pizza and cocktails.
These are not bagels in the New York sense. They are delightful though.
I get bagels from Rinkoffs Bakery in Whitechapel or Costco.
If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.
I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...
Greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare
I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.
One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
When I read that this morning I was like that's a weird escalation... and omg did none of these people look at a fucking map
NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)
An electric bike with a dog basket with two dogs inside
Not gonna lie. This e-bike has been life changing. And the dogs like it too.
The Miocene is the new Pliocene.
I blinked several times reading this post. Then I read the article and blinked a million times more. Why is this allowed again? (This is a rhetorical question.)
New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
A government shutdown stalls science, threaten jobs and weaken U.S. leadership. Call Congress today and tell them to to prevent RIFs, and work together to support science and end a government shutdown.
📲: agu.quorum.us/campaign/143...
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
The latest #TalesFromTheDeep episode on the StoryCorps Archive is from Carl Brenner, director of the U.S. Science Support Program for scientific ocean drilling. Take a listen to Carl's background -you might be surprised at what he majored in at college- and his leadership role in this community. 🌊⚒️
@agu.org's own Elizabeth Landau is next up. “I am testifying on behalf of AGU and its scientists, who affirm that climate change, which is unequivocally driven by human activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions, is endangering human health and welfare in the US and globally,” she said.
NEW on the Babblery: Dr. Heather Ford explains how the job of scientist is now a global one, how her work adds to human knowledge about climate, and how climate change affects all of us, whether we believe in it or not.
babblery.com/2025/07/scie... @ksqdfm.bsky.social @hl-ford.bsky.social
changes in rainfall intensity (1hr and 24hr) maps for CONUS showing increases in intensity in southern Texas and whole of the North East (slight decreases in the SW). From Kim et al. (2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101480) Period is 2000-2021 compared to NOAA Atlas 14.
For a bit of context w.r.t. the Texas floods, the intensity of rainfall in this region has likely already increased in the 21st Century and will likely continue to do so:
a little late to the party, but AGU Science Policy is on BlueSky! Follow us for science policy news and opportunities #SciencePolicy @agu.org
Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
