"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Photo of Maine St in Brunswick showing protestors lining both sides of street for no kings protest
No Kings protestors lining side of street
No kings protestors gathering in Brunswick Maine
Was not aware we could tag butterflies. That’s incredible.
Excited to share our new open‑access paper in PLOS ONE! We present a Monte Carlo framework to estimate how far resident killer whale pulsed calls can be detected in the Salish Sea by combining in‑situ ambient noise, tagging data and propagation modeling. 🧪🔊🐋
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
Sadly, at least some of that work on stream and river temperatures is currently funded by the northeast climate adaptation science center, which looks to be shutting down imminently.
Nicely researched article on the effects of warming temperatures in Maine (gift link)
www.pressherald.com?p=7503460&uu...
Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds.
The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
Photo of a tent and bike at a campsite with ocean view.
Photo of the rocky Maine coastline at sunset
Photo of kayakers on a coastal Maine bay with islands in the distance.
Nice thing about living in Maine is all the world class coastal camping just 20 min from home.
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
Excited to announce the launch of a new homepage for passive acoustics monitoring at NOAA Fisheries. This is just the start of something big! #bioacoustics #NARW
Yep, it’s faster, easier and cheaper than running a traditional tile server, and can handle way more features than geojson. If you build web apps to show large geospatial vector datasets, highly recommend giving this a try.
USGS’s Ecosystems Mission Area faces elimination, threatening salmon, bat, and wildlife research. Cuts align with Project 2025’s rollback of environmental protections. A generational setback for science. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
The Lost Decade of Small Data?
Pretty amazing what we can do with @duckdb nowadays.
duckdb.org/2025/05/1...
What do monarchs, trout, bison, black bears & YOU have in common? You're all supported by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area.
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Unfortunately, federally funded climate adaptation science and services are being cut well ahead of the FY26 budget.
We've been doing our best to speak up for what would be lost if the Climate Adaptation Science Centers are eliminated.
From @leahstokes.bsky.social aka one of the smartest energy folks in the country, the details on the GOP attempt to kneecap clean energy development
He's basically saying they're considering declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution if the courts continue to rule against them. This guy is seriously the worst of them all.
Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.
Federal scientists will stop updating the NOAA list of billion-dollar weather disasters. The list, which had grown rapidly in recent years, reflected both worsening extreme weather and expanding development nationwide.
This is terrible news. Been working with USGS Ecosystems Mission Area for almost 10 years, and it's all about to go POOF, just like that.
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
Remember: NOAA is not its social media accounts. Do not let the takeover of NOAA communications take away your support of the real NOAA and the very real scientists behind it. The administration would want nothing more than for us to stop supporting our science agencies 🧪
