Makes me miss spring in the Midwestern woods 🤩💚

The best mushroom!

Are you excited as I am?
BECAUSE IT’S PHOSPHORUS WEEK !
Official declarations from governors of N Carolina (below), Wisconsin, and Illinois !

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Eastern Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) Eastern Glass Lizard from Jupiter, FL 33458, USA on March 30, 2025 at 06:57 PM by Stacie Flood

Found a nice lizard-no-legs enjoying the late march sunshine ☀️😎 what a cutie face! 🫠

French angelfish gang coming through! #frenchangelfish #angelfish #ganggang #school #parade #braincoral #suncoral #staghormcoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

Wrasse fin-esse 😎🧪

This could morph into a hard lesson in the outsized impact a fairly small group of (brilliant, hardworking) US scientists have had in defining chemical risk, particularly for data-poor compounds.

Dismantling ORD would have tragic consequences for wide swaths of international research, including almost all forms of chemical safety and protection from occupational or environmental exposures.

it's been over 50 years since the EPA was created (by Nixon admin) and people forget.

📢 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Tipping Points & Impacts!

We're hiring a postdoc in my group at the University of Bern, Switzerland, to study ocean tipping points and their impacts. The position is part of HEurope project TipESM (@tipesm.bsky.social). Feel free to reach out with any questions. 🌊

Which is not to say that states aren't vital to the science - it is a partnership. The feds provide context (e.g., standards), nationwide data, large scale imagery, models, and yes, $$ that makes my work possible, and we are ALL understaffed and devoted to working for the public interest.

As someone who works at a water management agency, I can assure you every person in the US relies on the work at NOAA and the EPA for uncontaminated drinking water.

Oh lordy, Gina McCarthy is sorely missed!

Watch for turtles too 🐢 they're all for the slow

Wait. You're not fired but don't work from home. We dropped the lease on your office. But don't work from home, wait what don't you understand?!

One of your best summaries yet.

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis

This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to.

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Or, and I'm just riffing here, instead of raising prices they could do fewer stock buybacks and/or maybe not start their own space programs

Plus Star Trek, which may explain my core appreciation for diplomacy and mission-focused work 🖖

I agree! And also have this exact list as the base for my core personality! 💫

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Not great.

Private equity space race.

National guideline criteria, e.g., water quality standards, are mere virtue signaling? That will be news to the state and local governments.

🎶 There it is again...

That said, one party has favored cutting services and programs for decades, and my experience working with federal scientists is that this is not who we should blame for our current situation.

The functions of federal civil service hinge on the commitment to non-partisanship. Routinely collecting data on party affiliation would run counter to that ethos.

I think this is a nice bug! If it's a Dimorphic Macalla, the caterpillars eat poison ivy 💓 I think that's very nice of them 😅