"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts"

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A siege on science: How Trump is undoing an American legacy In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has slashed federal agencies, canceled national reports, and yanked university funding.

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Patterns and drivers of Holocene moisture variability in mid-latitude eastern North America - Nature Communications Thousands of years long droughts have occurred in eastern North America during the Holocene (past 12,000 years). The authors link the droughts to the impacts of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and the follow...

New paper out! "Patterns and drivers of Holocene moisture variability in mid-latitude eastern North America." Some of the best data-model agreements yet... the melting of ice sheets and changes in insolation were major drivers of changing rainfall patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

Ever wondered how reliable species distribution models (SDMs) are in the face of climate change compared to more mechanistic approaches? We did too, and our results are now published in Ecology Letters ⏬
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A forested slope in the Rocky Mountains with a large bolder in front, and conifer trees behind, including a huge ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, with orange bark. Behind the trees is a cliff. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

See that big pine? You own that tree, and billions of other trees on public lands. The trump kleptocracy will overharvest, mismanage, and steal our forests. Our land needs care from highly trained people, but they are being fired. We have to stop them. We need to force congress to act on our behalf.

Higher ed must resist authoritarian rule. It's the mission. Trying to make your institution a smaller target isn’t going to work.

A clear-eyed perspective on what is going on to higher ed: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

Hoping my @li-corenv.bsky.social mug can give me the inspiration to write my dissertation today🙏

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

We’ve heard a lot in the US that we should call our representatives to oppose a wide array of policies from our new fascist regime.

5 calls, which collates contact information and generates scripts for your zip code, makes it easy for anyone to take at least this small action regularly

5calls.org

Great landscape level analysis of how different regions of the western US are experiencing varying amount of fire deficits compared to historic norms.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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"This is a moment to unite."

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

I know this is kind of a dumb question but what should I say when contacting representatives? Is there some boilerplate language available?

The NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, let us name him early and often, is by LAW required to to support programs designed to broaden participation of underrepresented populations in STEM fields

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Refining past climate records with wood anatomy Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Julie Edwards explains how quantitative wood anatomy helps refine records of past climate.

I got to write a 'Tools of the Trade’ article about quantitative wood anatomy a little bit ago. Check it out for an accessible summary of how measuring wood cells is improving our understanding of past climate!

WORKING LIFE Four lessons for being a great mentor to undergrads. Illustration shows two individuals walking through darkness, one using a flashlight that shines a light on various symbols

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth https://scim.ag/3E1bAYj

No problem! The good news is that that type of tree does not have damage to its important tissues from that happening so it is probably still healthy!

Is it getting hit by a weed whacker?

Why is Beth’s face cropped in😭

Here’s a super cool new paper using the US Public Land Survey System to understand local scale drivers of tree communities in northern Ohio!🧪🌳

Fascinating choice to solicit feedback but put the solicitation behind a paywall

Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes - 2: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

Job Alert: hiring (ASAP) post-doctoral/early career scientist to join our greenhouse-gas team @nasagoddard.bsky.social to work on 3rd REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment & Processes study (RECCAP3) - help make advances over RECCAP2 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... -send email w interest

Powerful, data-driven reporting.

@nytimes.com
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Dear Bluesky followers, if you followed me over from Twitter you will see I am a different man on Bluesky. I was a wimp about Mexican Indigeneity over there....but here its all Mexican pride, all the time. Maybe not what you signed up for, but its what you're gonna get. We have fed the world!

A streamlined pipeline to enhance geospatial modeling accuracy, addressing issues like imbalanced data, spatial autocorrelation, prediction errors, and the nuances of model generalization and uncertainty estimation.

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R Color Palette Finder The ultimate tool for finding the perfect color palette for data visualization with R and paletteer. Explore over 2000 palettes, see them in action on various charts, simulate color blindness, and exp...

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R:

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