Thanks @katebgr.bsky.social for having me join the podcast! Great fun as always, talking with you!

EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants, documents show www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“essentially closing research operations in my group” = no new experiments save 1 recently funded grant. Spending freezes limit our ability to order supplies and reagents. We need to focus remaining funding on maintaining personnel + analyzing existing samples w whatever’s left in the cabinet

Scary to do, but absolutely critical to be vocal about supporting public science and public education 🧪 www.pressherald.com/2025/03/10/c...

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

Doug was a NSF program officer for a few of my projects before stepping into his role below. His loss is an example of the many negative impacts. I speak often on the value of collaboration and cost sharing to get the most bang for our buck. Losses like Doug’s work affect everyone in the U.S. 🧪

Did you know that in southwestern #BritishColumbia, tectonic plates are moving at about the same speed your fingernails grow and that we get 3 types of #earthquakes here? Every day, small earthquakes are recorded (1000+/year). For details, see: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu... ⚒️🧪

We can have a similar special programme in the EU as well. We already had (a small) one during Trump's first term 🧪🇪🇺

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Disgusting decisions being made at this point. 🧪

Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪

“But despair is not an option,” writes Gretchen Goldman in Nature. “It is important to remember that notable gains have been made in federal scientific-integrity protections in the past two decades.” 🧪

Five former Treasury secretaries sound the alarm: "Not since the Nixon administration has [withholding of federal funds authorized by Congress] been contemplated. At that time, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the president did not have the power." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Some people asked if I could list real impacts from some of the recent federal decisions. Here are SOME real impacts our team has faced already in 3 weeks: 1. Im quite certain 1 project (likely 2) I have that support low income high school students across the country, will be canceled. 🧪

For U.S. science, I could not imagine much worse, but if history repeats itself, I suspect this is just the start. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

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. 🧵

Please share this and call your politicians daily! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

If there’s anyone out there who might want to move to Canada and is a senior-level scientist working on marine ecosystems and global change, check out this research chair position at @seos-uvic.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ @jaytcullen.bsky.social www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Dreaming of ice filled chimneys to climb, beautiful scenery, and more relaxing times… sometimes it helps to remind yourself of some of the beauty in life too!

Originally introduced in 2018 to congress, and reintroduced on Jan 31, 2025, the attempted termination of the U.S. Dept of Education. I would recommend scientists & educators share this one and bombard your representatives to make sure it doesn’t make it anywhere. 🧪

"There were other worries looming as well — about American science falling behind, about the United States experiencing the sort of brain drain it had previously benefitted from. For many, though, the most immediate concern was getting paid. " 🧪 #AcademicSky www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

🔥New paper alert! 🔥🧪❄️🥼 Ever wondered what to consider when drilling through an ice sheet into rock? We take you through how we chose a drill site in West #Antarctica using field observations, samples, radar survey, modelling & satellite imagery. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @bas.ac.uk 🧵1/n

Hi Earth Systems Science friends looking for jobs, please consider applying to work with us at @umaine.bsky.social! & please share this so your soon-to-graduate PhD students, postdocs, & other ECR see the opportunity! 🧪 fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Today those of us funded by @NSF received this memo. Perhaps the most concerning statement: “Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis.”🧪

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

This seems truly unprecedented. In my team alone: 10 grad students, multiple undergrads, two ECR researchers, each at risk of job loss & worse ramifications. I hope I am wrong but the trend of government decisions are not suggesting that I am. 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...?

This administration will have disastrous impacts on science and education in the U.S. this is just the start I fear. Please share far and wide. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Had a great visit to the summit of Mount Washington in NH this week to meet with Observatory staff & discuss science & education efforts we are working on together. Not a bad day for some windy weather as well! Peak gusts hit 86 mph. Check out this worthy organization! 🧪 mountwashington.org

Our science program has arrived on Bluesky! If you squint, you can spot me in one of those pictures with our Empowering Global Voices program, a cohort of young scientists from all over the world who Natalie (at the end) is mentoring to write and submit their first peer reviewed article 💚

A new study led by @umaine.bsky.social Climate Change Institute Associate Director, Dr. Jasmine Saros, shows significant rapid changes to Greenland lakes 🧪https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413855122?

I've been taking screenshots of climate.gov, epa.gov, and globalchange.gov . Downloaded the 5th National Climate Assessment report. I expect all of these to be pretty much obliterated within days. But at least we're better prepared for preserving content - see the effort at climatemirror.org .

Hey cryosphere folks - Billy Armstrong has joined the chat. Give him a follow! @app-glaciers.bsky.social 🧪⚒️❄️

Did you know that you can simply bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse (Mastodon + beyond) by following @ap.brid.gy? It's a great way to ensure what you share here is widely available. Give it a try, it just takes one click!

My quote in the @kuer.org article below: “It's our choice, as a society and as a state,” Mitchell said. “When we adopt those [clean energy] technologies, we will improve our #AirQuality. And so whether we do that in the next decade or in 3 decades, that's up to us.” #utpol @davidcondos.bsky.social

Hi friends & colleagues! We have an exciting new position as an Assistant Research Professor at @umaine.bsky.social working with our team on snow, water, and landscape evolution research! Please share this far & wide! fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 🧪

The real reason confidence in science (still high) is dropping is the intensive propaganda campaign by Trump and the GOP to ignore, disavow, or dispute science when it conflicts with their economic interests and drive for power. Read this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Glaciers store much of Earths freshwater in frozen AND liquid form. Many such as the Juneau Icefield (JIF) store water within its pore spaces year-round. Here is a firn core extracted from the JIF draining water. We are mapping aquifers across the JIF to estimate how much water is stored! 🧪

Hard to stomach…the disinformation machine. www.npr.org/2025/01/05/n...

It has started a movement. Cartoonists are paying homage to Ann Telnaes. Here are two of them. Ann’s is the final. Steve Brodner, @danboriscreates.bsky.social @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Last time, they didn’t even find out NCA4 was happening until too late to do anything more than delay its release + publicly contradict its conclusions. As one of the only non-fed authors on Vol 1, I ran a Twitter thread tracking + rebutting these claims. Not surprised by this at all ⬇️

“Ironic” is one word for it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕

This tracks. Also, see all other university faculty work (not just research).

ICE-DAY! Cool layers & melt/refreeze features in ice cores extracted from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. We drilled thru ice to collect subglacial bedrock to determine the last time the bedrock was exposed to the sun using cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating. Also, a beautiful ice crystal! 🧪❄️

I made this flubber model in 2008 & still show it all the time to teach about glacier ice flow in a valley & related topics. I’ve used this to talk about basics of glaciers with grade school students up to deriving shear & normal strain rates, & vorticity, with undergrad & grad students! Enjoy! 🧪

Should climate scientists stay in the US?