Participants Needed: Are you diagnosed with LONG COVID and/or CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME? SIGN UP HERE! Participate in a Sociological Study about how people with Long COVID and ME/CFS utilize online resources in their journey to diagnosis. Interviews will take place over Zoom for 30-60 minutes. ELIGIBILITY: • Must be at least 18 years old • Diagnosed with ME/CFS or Long CoViD by a us doctor • Living in the US • English speaker Principal Investigator: Christie Fancher Cfancher@ucdavis.edu (916) 572-8471 Complete a short pre-interview survey and choose your interview timeslot using the link above Full link: https://qualtricsxmlv9d5n9qp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9oDhzv7ZxlqLUXA UCD IRB: # 2399450-1

Participants needed: this sociological study explores how people with Long COVID and ME/CFS utilize online chronic illness communities and content while navigating their journeys to diagnosis. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

Freed from fellowship funding, i am happy i get tax refunds now instead of paying several thousand dollars in taxes every April

I read about this in the now defunct Our Daily Climate newsletter! It was also one of the most fascinating articles to me :)

I feel like it’s a bit early for it to be so warm!!! I can check historical temperature records and compare…

Taking heart with this reminder at my office this week. My favorite part is “give less of a shit” 😊 I get anxious about my advisor’s reactions to certain things (thanks to trauma from previous PhD advisor) and it helps me to remember how much of all this… doesn’t matter as much as I think it does 😌

It was basically 70F a few days this week in Salt Lake City 🫠

Randomly got invited to a math retreat to do a talk?!!! Am VERY excited 😃

Present your research at the 2026 CNY Environmental Science & Studies Conference (March 27–28, SUNY ESF)! Student oral talks (10–12 min) & posters welcome. Free, interdisciplinary, and open regionally.

Registration deadline is March 6! There are still lots of spots open for student talks!

Student sharing a PowerPoint

Student sharing a graphical abstract

Celebrated #PhycologyFriday in lab meeting with project updates & graphical abstracts. Proud #newPI here! 🌊 🧪

Is this still open for signing? I was going to see if I could send it to some people in my dept but it doesn’t look like it’s editable on my end, so you might have closed it off?

We already have over 40 signatures from US researchers and professors supporting NSF-NCAR and telling NSF to maintain control of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer with NCAR! Do sign and share.

Very glad to be doing this with @350brooklyn.bsky.social and @bklynlibrary.bsky.social! Join us next Saturday afternoon, RSVP link follows --

Red broken heart graphic on a navy blue background. The text overlay on the heart reads: "Having Long Covid is heartbreaking because… sweeping my apartment means spending a day in bed." Above the heart, highlighted text reads: "Share what it’s like to live with Long Covid by March 1." In the bottom right of the graphic is a teal bubble; inside, the text reads "your experience here" with an arrow pointing to the heart.

Red broken heart graphic on a navy blue background. The text overlay on the heart reads: "Long Covid is heartbreaking because… it’s robbed my son of his childhood and his education." Above the heart, highlighted text reads: "Caregivers: Share your Long Covid experience by March 1." In the bottom right of the graphic is a teal bubble; inside, the text reads "your experience here" with an arrow pointing to the heart.

March 1 is the deadline to share your Long Covid story for our public awareness project. Submissions will be displayed at our Long Covid Awareness Day events on March 15th, to highlight the many different ways #LongCovid is heartbreaking.

Submit your story here: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...

Four-panel comic of a black cat with stern eyes and the text “I wish your March is full of…”. In the final panel, the cat’s eyes turn big and shiny against a pink background as it holds a small red heart.

As spring break approaches, I hear the sound of my former advisor’s voice saying, “Spring break is an undergrad holiday” (and also lamenting about how it didn’t used to be a holiday between Christmas and New Year’s).

The best things that came out of a geology class I took at Harvard were the 2 good friends I made and the dinosaur nuggets that one of them introduced me to

Thanks to my geology friend for introducing me to dinosaur chicken nuggets. Now I only buy the dino ones, no other chicken nugget is worthy :)

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

Need more industries to speak up against the attacks on NCAR.

www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).

academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It! YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up!

We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good.

drawdown.org/news/project...

The EPA's decision not to rely on the DOE Climate Working Group report for the Endangerment Finding repeal is appropriate. The report’s fundamental flaws make it unsuitable as a basis for policy decisions. The report demonstrates systematic methodological failures. It relies heavily on cherry-picked studies while omitting contrary evidence from the peer-reviewed literature. Key findings are presented in ways that misrepresent what the underlying research actually shows. These are not minor errors—they are the kinds of problems that would render a scientific analysis indefensible in any rigorous review process, including judicial review. The process itself also failed to meet basic scientific standards. The report was not peer reviewed and certainly appears to be working backward from a pre-determined conclusion. The DOE received substantial public comments challenging the report’s conclusions after the public release but never responded to them. A credible scientific assessment requires engagement with contrary evidence and criticism, not silence. Notably, the Climate Working Group’s membership are the cream of the crop of climate contrarians. The DOE report therefore represents the best case against mainstream science. That they produced a report that is so lacking in credibility actually demonstrates how strong mainstream climate science actually is.

I've been getting a lot of requests from reporters for comments about the removal of the DOE Climate Working Group report from the EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding.

Here are some comments:

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

“Do you ever think about

how much life goes on around you

while you go about your business?”

My first new comics poem for Terra Affirma is live: sarahmgilman.substack.com/p/passages-f...

What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departments… come join us in Switzerland 🇨🇭! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day.

They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach!

I can help. Let’s chat.