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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Spread the word.
100 hours of non partisan climate and weather science @wclivestream.bsky.social.
AT 1130 ET today, I'll be speaking about Greenland's fragile ice sheet, climate, and why US NSF supported science matters to everyone, everywhere. Watch at wclivestream.com
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#scicomm
#UVMresearch
We keep fighting—this is why. In our case against the illegal dismantling of our scientific agencies the judge has issued a preliminary injunction. This massively extends the block against RIFs and reorgs until our case is resolved.
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
I put together a curated list of books to nurture your apocalyptic optimism. It includes the amazing books by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social @mattywin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & Kim Stanley Robinson (naturally)
Check out the full list here: shepherd.com/best-books/n...
I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered. “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser. “The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled. The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say.
Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Call for submissions of ocean conservation success case studies.
We ( @drcatmac.bsky.social and I) are writing a marine conservation science and policy textbook!
We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please be clear and detailed!
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
DNC Chair Ken Martin seated on stage with other Democratic officials who participated in a town hall event in Bethlehem, PA.
An attendee at the town hall standing up to ask a question, with a microphone in his hand.
Attendees at the town hall clapping
DNC Chair Ken Martin posing for a photo with two individuals at the town hall
Packed town hall in Bethlehem, PA tonight.
Unlike their GOP Congressman, we listened to folks—in person—about what matters to them.
Thank you for having us.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA
Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*
Make that part clear when you ⬇️
SPREAD THE WORD: On Monday, March 3rd at 10 am Congressional leaders and advocates will gather at NOAA HQ in Silver Spring, MD (right at the Silver Spring Metro stop) to tell Trump and Musk to keep their hands off of NOAA. www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...
The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.
Brilliance from @privateeyenews.bsky.social !!
@bas.ac.uk
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Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
"see no climate change, hear no climate change, speak no climate change"
For those who follow climate clichés, this may be an all-time record:
"This makes the ice sheets canaries in the coalmine for climate change, and we ought to pay close attention. Crucially, the window for corrective action may still be open for the ice sheets..."
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems.
Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today on International Day of Women and Girls in Science we are highlighting some of the incredible women in the Ocean Census Science Network!
Hear from some of the scientists involved in different stages of species discovery 👇
oceancensus.org/women-in-sci...
#WomenInScienceDay
In a new article in Reviews of Geophysics, L.G.Bennetts and colleagues explore the complex dynamics of the Southern Ocean, linking the smallest scales of ocean mixing to the global circulation and climate doi.org/10.1029/2022... @agu.org @soosocean.bsky.social #AGUPubs
Little things really matter...! Excellent new paper by Swan Sow and colleagues about the importance of microbial interactions in Antarctica.
Delighted to make a (suitably small) contribution to this work - check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ICYMI — 🚨 💰 “Trump’s tax agenda will add at least $5 Trillion to the debt”👇🏽🤔
AGAIN: They don’t care about the debt, they just want to cut programs for regular folks to make room for tax cuts for the rich.
(As Trump tweets “Balanced budget!” Like we’re all morons)
The past two-weeks of budget cuts aren’t motivated by efficiency, ideology, or even common sense. They’re motivated by cruelty, plain and simple.
