An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.
Students walking along a coarse grained beach. Sky is yellow and orange, reflected on the calm water.
📣 WWU Geology is searching for an Assistant Prof in *Hydrogeology*! Application deadline Dec 15.
Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community.
App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Pic from my local field trip last week.
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Dr. Tina Dura, part of the CRESCENT Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) working group, was featured recently in a PBS Terra video about the future Cascadia megathrust event.
Learn more about what the event could mean for the PNW and how you can prepare here ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uV...
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Faculty Position at University of #Iowa 🧪⚒️
Solid Earth #geology, focused on #structural geology, tectonics, geochronology, thermochronology, critical minerals, or geodynamics.
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today.
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*"
70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.
We are just getting started. “American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating…” wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...
oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017
US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
tl;dr: This federally funded science will help us understand deadly geologic hazards and we should fund basic research because it will save lives, money, and result in wonder!
I live in Seattle, WA. My city and the PNW is going to have a huge >8Mw earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Fault in the near future. I want to know all the hazards we will face when this earthquake comes, and learning more about these fault systems from the rock record is key!
We're here, three PIs, one postdoc, two graduate students, and one undergrad on a research grant funded by the NSF. We're working on basic science, and our data is key to understand how the earth works and has important implications for seismic hazards along subduction fault zones.
Four geologists swim in the Aegean Sea past a highly deformed shear zone/island towards an outcrop only accessible by water.
With everything going on *gestures wildy*, I am feeling so to be on Ios Island in Greece with some incredible other geologists learning everything we can about subduction↘️💥🌋, underplating ↗️🍽️, deformation 〰️, fluids💦, and (perhaps?)...slow slip 🫴🦋.
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
So many of my colleagues are struggling with this same decision: stay or leave. I’m staying as long as it’s within my power to do so, but this is 🔥🔥🔥
Letter: I use funding from the NSF for my research at the University of Utah. Trump’s deep budget cuts would devastate science.
Office of the Director (OD) $4 Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) $5 Biological Sciences (BIO) $15 Engineering (ENG) $25 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) $34 Geosciences (GEO) $34 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) $35 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) $41 STEM Education (EDU) $590
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Reminder: the budget where you see NIH & NSF getting cut by 40-50% has been PROPOSED by the President of the United States.
The Senate and the House must approve this budget-- and they generally do NOT. See below.
✨Congress needs to hear from you.✨
CALL YOUR REPS & tell them to Save our Science!
NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%.
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.
Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.
MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
NIH DOGE'd.....
Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript
www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣
The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS!
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