"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.
BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the ESA – a ruling that will derail ongoing efforts by the current Trump admin to further weaken the bedrock environmental law.
YOU JUST KNOW LIL DONNY IS PISSED 😁😁 Millions of people in the U.S. are making history today with #NoKings and we LOVE to see it. #WeSayNoKings
Image with text to email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.
Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.
He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest.
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HEY YOU!!! There's research WE NEED to PROTECT!
How you ask? We are rallying NATIONWIDE on SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH to SAVE SCIENCE, PROTECT HEALTH, and DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
Join us by visiting standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally, volunteer, host a local rally, or host a pop-up protest!
The Colbert interview Paramount, Ellison, Trump & GOP don't want you to see:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
IPBES 12 delegates hold a bee sign
Emma Reynolds, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Luthando Dziba, IPBES Executive Secretary
Delegates at #IPBES12 expressed resolve in preserving @ipbes.net scientific integrity amid a tough geopolitical context
Many shared disappointment at the US’ intended exit, with France, Japan, and the UK announcing new pledges to support the Platform’s work
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Springsteen releases new song: "Streets of Minneapolis":
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst...
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
Here @ashleyrparker.bsky.social tries to explain the peculiar passivity with which America has greeted naked authoritarianism.
SCBNA strongly opposes the decision of the U.S. to withdraw from more than 60 international scientific, environmental, and cultural organizations.
Full statement: tinyurl.com/5n7s9wk8
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
I wrote to my representatives @hirono.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social, and Ed Case to tell them to stop the dismantlement of NCAR. You can do the same with your representatives at this link.
Matt Yglesias gets a guest essay in The NY Times to push oil industry propaganda. And he is no different from the likes of Stephen Miller in his approach to the facts. But let's start with his big idea!
"Liberals should support America’s oil and gas industry."
"Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics [i.e. me] say" | Great piece by Robin Bravender for #Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
TAKE ACTION with SCBNA TODAY to write in opposition to the proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) implementation guidelines.
If enacted, they will deteriorate vital ecosystem functions that sustain biogeochemical processes and jeopardize the core benefits that people get from nature.
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance.
Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.
These findings underscore the need for adaptive environmental monitoring following battery fires and raise critical considerations for ecosystem protection and infrastructure as energy storage systems expand. #MossLandingFire 🔋🔥 #ElkhornSlough
Cool paper documenting ecological insights about Indian tropical savannas in traditional literature between the 13th and 20th century. Grassland-scrubland biomes are often misconceived as deforested and/ or degraded wastelands. So, important paper.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Really good article by Dean Kuipers about Wolves in California.
redcanarycollective.org/magazine/why...
Great new #openaccess paper from Chris Wilmers and colleagues: Ecological Impacts of Large-Carnivore Recovery in North America
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Amazing this did not work
New York City Mayor PROJECTED WINNER D Zohran Mamdani DecisionDeskHQ.com Decision Desk HQ
Good job everybody.
