What isn’t liked about NASA science or NSF science is the truth part, which is often inconvenient to the status quo. Also the part where expert Americans nationwide, make thoughtful decisions on how to use public resources to advance public knowledge.:.
'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Seeing this recently too, and similarly annoyed! I learned in high school how useful em dashes are and just never stopped using them!
I've excerpted a ~5 minute segment from my recent livestream discussing my deepening concerns regarding on the ongoing (and accelerating) threats not only to weather and climate science, but American science leadership and continuity at large.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will withdraw from #Antarctic research vessel operations after nearly six decades, with private-sector entities expected to take over following the retirement of the icebreaker #Shirase in fiscal 2034.
www.newsonjapan.com/article/1488...
Let us be radicalized by the skillful competence of NASA public servants and their career colleagues across our federal agencies.
Let Artemis II help us hold on to our love for these investments in ourselves!
New paper: @ptrckflmm.bsky.social (@prif.org), Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) and myself teamed up to analyze technological challenges alongside geopolitical implications of connecting Antarctica 🇦🇶 with other territories (🇳🇿, 🇨🇱) through subsea data cables.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
Dislike. I hope this flops and floats past with all the other noise of the day… meanwhile US investments in Antarctic peace, science, and operations have simultaneously been large (probably north of $10B since the 1940s?) but a very high return to in part maintain peace on the icy continent…
The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
We don’t consider pre-satellite era reanalysis to be valid in Antarctica, as before then it is too poorly constrained by observations and doesn’t correlate with station observations. See papers by Dave Bromwich and others.
Some articles really don’t need to be written. Further fueling the 2048 Antarctic resource extraction myth also not helpful. (2048 is not a magical opportunity for mining within the Antarctic Treaty, and steady commitment to counter any impulses for resource extraction is a must for US policy)
Folks within the agency are still mostly dedicated public servants deserving of our trust and respect. Doing their level best in a dire situation and awful work conditions. The administration is just inserting its priorities and likely some staff more so than any prior executive administration.
Indeed. But does the buyer want such old ships? Beggars can’t be choosers I suppose.
Also would still be good to know if dropping the Palmer lease in 2025 and pushing for a contract for replacement in 2026 was a strategy advocated for by any shipbuilders…
Still watching to see what Chouest does with Palmer and Gould… they’ve been working on them recently I hear from folks down in Port Fourchon…
This is basically how we lost the remaining U.S. icebreaker last year:
1) president‘s budget proposes drastic cuts to NSF
2) agency responds by identifying cuts, the icebreaker among them
3) NSF acted on (2) before congress had time to pass a budget.
Yes. Contributes to the NSF budget for other science being even more than a54% cut. Absurd.
@carlosmoffat.com
👀 A $900M (and much needed) future #Antarctic Research Vessel has found its way to the top of the 2027 NSF president’s budget request… making up a scary fraction of a very small budget for our critical federal R&D funding, another attempted 54% reduction.
Nature on TikTok 😱
Well, in Antarctica it has worked pretty well but it’s self serving if we try to hold idealism back. In 2026 I certainly see your point, not that I wouldn’t have previously. We (US) are a lot… always have been
Auto caption didn’t hear Nathaniel B Palmer correctly…
US #Antarctic scientists have no research #icebreaker. In a world where #polar regions are changing and increasingly tense, this is a big blind spot limiting progression of human knowledge and preservation of Antarctica for peace, international cooperation, and science.
I don't think there's much sense in overanalyzing this list, This admin is so anti-science that I'd be surprised if this council affects much actual policy.
But this roster gives us a perfect look at what science and technology this admin thinks is important…
While everyone is (rightly) obsessed with levels of CO2 in the atmosphere 3 million years ago, don't sleep the observation that avg. atmospheric methane (CH4) DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE CHANGED AT ALL over the last 3 million years (1/4). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I miss pretending we in the US did things together for the American people. We can barely do science on earth right now as American scientists…
New Nature paper by PhD candidate Julia Marks Peterson! @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social and her COLDEX collaborators published their findings on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 over the past 3 million years based on measurements of ice cores from the Allan Hills, Antarctica. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is figure 1 from “Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years.” It shows characteristics of the greenhouse gas data from the ALHIC1901 ice core.
Key climate shifts in the past 3 million years may have been more heavily influenced by changing ocean temperatures than greenhouse gases, according to analyses of ancient Antarctic ice cores published in two Nature papers.
go.nature.com/41cCdBT
go.nature.com/3Pkaa0M
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It’s an odd one. Shared with my undergrad class today and they are befuddled. I suspect a course correction will happen as it’s not been fully released yet (but is all too real and cost $1M or so)
I had to check whether this was real… uffda indeed
