Graph of science funding of NASA from 1980 until present with estimated 50% cut included. This drops NASA Science to under $4B. Image source: Casey Dreier/The Planetary Society

Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research.

NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...

😲 So sorry to hear this, absolutely devastating

NASA's DC-8, Used by Caltech Scientists as an Airborne Lab, Retires — Caltech Magazine A NASA DC-8 aircraft used to train many Caltech student-scientists has taken its final flight.   By Andrew Moseman When the vintage DC-8 airliner made one of its harrowing low passes over Cal...

This is a lovely tribute to the DC-8 “flying lab”, retired last year. It’s been an integral part of my career, from the very start of my PhD right through to our most recent paper in review. Although the plane has retired, its legacy lives on through the data! ✈️

magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...

a chart showing aus way above us, eu, china etc for emissions

Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is

theicct.org/publication/...

@agu.org do you have an email address to contact for help with an AGU account? The website won’t allow me to update my account to my new email address following my change of affiliation. Thanks!

The School of Chemistry @uofgchem.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social is recruiting a permanent lecturer/senior lecturer in Physical Chemistry. Apply by 21 Feb. Come join us!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ320/l...

I’ll still have a bit of research time in there. Undergrad education has always been a passion (going all the way back to those student-faculty conferences in my Caltech days), so pretty excited to make that a focus area for the time being!

Absolutely! I’ll still get a little bit of research time (and we should stay in touch even if we aren’t doing science together!)

Professional update: after 12 years at the University of Wollongong (including the last one on secondment to the public service as a science policy fellow), today I start a new position at James Cook University (JCU) as Associate Dean Learning & Teaching in the College of Science & Engineering.

A report from the 2025 Los Angeles fire apocalypse just my personal account

What it has been like, living a few blocks away from the devastated area.

Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

Thanks for your support of our JPL family.

@kathrynemmerson.bsky.social @nadineborduas.bsky.social @dbm.bsky.social

Thanks would be great to get added to this!

Ignore the timestamps on all but my pinned post; looks like these came across from Twitter without timestamps but they’re all more than a year old, some going back a decade!

After almost a year of hiatus, I guess I'm here now.

📷 @ElineMarieS (another ride co-leader!)

Great morning yesterday co-leading the @UOW @Healthy_Cities Ride2UOW from the northern suburbs. Great to see so many riders out, despite a windy morning, ending with a nice brekkie and an interview for @UOWTV !

This was a massive effort, spanning nearly 3 years with co-authors from 4 continents.

If you want to learn more, come along to our Minamata Online webinar on 12 April (12h00 CEST): mercuryconvention.org/en/events/mercury-southe...

The anthropogenic paper focuses on 4 key areas of difference:
1. Legacy Hg
2. Fire and deforestation
3. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining
4. Industrial sources

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-0...

The natural paper focuses on 5 key areas of difference:
1. Background Hg in soils
2. Litterfall & throughfall
3. Ocean Hg sources & sinks
4. Methylation processes
5. Geogenic sources

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-0...

You’ll never believe it, but the SH and the NH are different!
How so, you might ask? This is exactly what our papers address.

As a community, we have more data in the NH and tend to treat NH findings as globally representative. This work highlights where that may be a problem.

Excited to share TWO new papers on Mercury in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) now published in a special issue of Ambio:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-0...
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-0...

These papers synthesise understanding of...

Great to see @UOW now flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags! #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

@uowresearch

Thanks @uowresearch for supporting #OpenAccess! Thanks to funding from a UOW OAHI grant, this publication that I first shared back in May is now free to read for all.

I did a new thing! I’ve been a podcast super-fan since I got my 1st iPod in 2005. But I’ve never been on the other side 🎙 … until now!

Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇

https://dir.lat/CsxGN3

https://x.com/AtmosJennyF/status/1595181034768695296

A cool benefit of receiving a medal is attending Science at the Shine Dome (#ShineDome22), where all the new fellows are inducted.

Hard to describe how inspiring it is to see a diverse group of scientists share their career highlights.

BUT... (2/n)...

Thank you all for the congratulatory messages last week when I received the 2022 Anton Hales Medal from @Science_Academy ! Before I share my thanks and what this means to me, I want to talk about the cognitive dissonance I've been feeling over the last two weeks... 🧵👇

@UOW_VC @eileenamcl @DrDanChem @Antarcticmoss @uowresearch @UowCac @UOW_CSES @GeoQuEST_UOW