A report from the House Science Democrats documents how, at OMB direction, NASA attempted to execute the president’s FY26 budget request rather than follow Congressional appropriations

No!! Don’t mine the boundary waters!!!

The first step in solving a problem is understanding what the problem is.

When it comes to climate change, it basically boils down to phasing out greenhouse gas emissions.

But what gases, exactly? And where do they come from?

Here's the latest data.

Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.

Map showing flood watches expanding across Wisconsin.

Map showing the accumulated rainfall across Wisconsin over the last 30 days.

In addition to the severe thunderstorm chances this week, we'll also be seeing more heavy rain.

Flood watches are expanding across the state as we continue to add more rain to fairly wet soils and high rivers.

Remember: Turn around, don't drown!

Be making statements about and against this. Where are our leaders? Who is taking a stand??

A lot to be upset about with this administration but today I am ashamed my government bombs schools and universities. Hearing from my colleagues about what it’s like watching their college classroom in Tehran bombed fill me with a new level of grief and anger as a professor. Us universities should

This says it all.

also the guitar, and so much innovation in hydrology. this list goes on. what wonderful things do you know that come from Iran and its peoples? Id love to hear about it

words insufficient to describe how horrible Trumps attitude towards Iran and destroying people is. Let us remember the WONDERFUL things Iranian people and culture have given us. Poetry from Rumi! Algebra! The algorithm is named after an Iranian (Persian) Mathematician! (Al-Khwarizmi) INCREDIBLE food

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today.

This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

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Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Global Flood Partnership Meeting is in Provo, Utah, this August 4-6. its free to go! its a nice small meeting of end users of flood data and the scientists, companies, and government agencies that produce flood data www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-a...

Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository | Data Science Journal Chinua Achebe’s award winning novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), chronicles the cultural disintegration that occurred during the early phases of the British colonization of Nigeria. Any moment of…

📚 What we're reading: "Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository," by Alex de Sherbinin.

Alex shares an account of the data rescue efforts of the NASA SEDAC to offer lessons for other data repositories and to advocate for solidarity in the data community.

#datarescue #openscience

21 Other Things The US Could Do With The $200 Billion The Pentagon Requested For The Iran War Could someone please send my wishlist to the White House?

The Pentagon is asking for $200 billion to help fund President Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran.

Our taxpayer dollars should go toward keeping our communities safe, not an illegal war.

5 things to know about rare earth elements UW–Madison Professor Julie Klinger shares her expertise on a resource that is reshaping geopolitics.

UW–Madison professor Julie Klinger argues that cleaning up abandoned mines in the U.S., where rare earth elements are already present, “could literally be trash to treasure.”

Here are five things to know about rare earth elements that are reshaping geopolitics.

CU Boulder proposes plan to run NCAR if federal breakup proceeds n a letter to the National Science Foundation, CU outlined a university-led consortium that could take over the lab if restructuring moves forward.

CU Boulder, along with Wyoming and Oklahoma, submitted a joint proposal to NSF to essentially keep NCAR intact and replace UCAR, Brooke Stephenson at the Boulder Reporting Lab reports.

Mayor Mamdani goes deep on St. Patrick's day and its lessons for today's struggles for justice and emancipation around the world.

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

Looks rad I can’t wait to check it out!!

A worldmap of the spatial distribution of extracted flood events in the Groundsource dataset. The map displays the total number of flood events extracted by the LLM-based pipeline aggregated per grid cell. The data are visualized using a Robinson projection, with event counts represented by a logarithmic color scale. Red points indicate the spatial centroids of reference flood events from the GDACS database.

Excited to announce Groundsource - an open-source dataset of historic flood events! This has easily been one of the coolest projects I've worked on recently!

Thread 🧵 for details and all relevant links. 1/n

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)

The Inspector General for NSF must launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to sell-off parts of NCAR — immediately!

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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.

Retired: the terawatt hour (TWh)

Wired: Strait Of Hormuz (SOh)

Usage:

“Last year the world added an entire Strait of Hormuz worth of new solar power generation.”

#energysky

Timely!
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Important commentary here regarding water use of data centers.
Data Centers Water Footprint: The Need for More Transparency - Privette - 2026 - AGU Advances - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change

Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...