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...

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...

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)

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.

👀 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.

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...

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 🧪 🌊

President Donald Trump’s budget office has disrupted the traditional process used to implement spending directives from Congress. https://scim.ag/4rBqcRu

Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.

US McMurdo Station, #Antarctica on departure. Largest research station on the continent, operated by the United States Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation. Supported by Operation Deep Freeze. Jan 2023.

Please read books. They are helpful. These are about the #Arctic. I think #peace and international cooperation in the polar regions should remain a thing.

Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf heading for collapse. Monthly average velocities Jan 2025 to Feb 2026 derived from EU Copernicus Programme Sentinel-1 SAR data. Grounding lines in black and yellow from NASA MEaSUREs

Lawyers are looking at the long game and considering the likelihood of a courtroom scenario that has no modern precedent in state history: criminal charges being filed by the state, without the cooperation of the federal government, against federal officers for use of deadly force.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking at a town hall event when she was rushed by a man who sprayed a liquid at her via a syringe. n.pr/3LGNR46

I wish I could just post about glacier ice again but you should really stay aware of how ICE and friends and those inspired by this administration are terrorizing my adopted home city Minneapolis Saint Paul (I live in one and work in both, for the record).

I’m relieved Ilhan is okay and the guy who did this is in police custody. Notice how Ilhan stood up and basically said “No, I'm not done yet. I'm not going to let this guy scare me away from doing this town hall.” That's what service and patriotism looks like.

This administration must stop its attacks on Minnesota before more people are killed. Congresswoman Omar should not fear physical violence but faces it due to years of targeted verbal abuse from the president.

Nothing has changed wrt the federal siege by this administration in Minneapolis Saint Paul and Minnesota.

Radical stuff here. But seriously actually a radical use of the guard. 🙏

Take a break to touch grass if you can. Or in Minnesota, a crisp walk on snow in the woods. Keep leading the way through these unprecedented abuses, Twin Cities.

Minnesota knows ice. Minnesota is stronger than ICE. Neighborhood vigils all across the Twin Cities. -7 degrees F.

Vigils were held across the state to remember Alex Pretti after he was fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday in Minneapolis. Many also gathered to protest increased federal immigration enforcement happening in Minnesota. For our latest coverage visit www.mprnews.org/live-updates.

As his family is, we in the Twin Cities are heartbroken but also very angry.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

The Children’s Theater is blocks away. Like so many we go to Eat Street for a nice meal before watching the production of The Grinch every December. Make Minneapolis Safe Again. ICE must go.

Deep deep depravity in official communication that we all pay for (in so many ways). I hope it helps their legal defense, such disgusting disrespect for someone accused of a crime but of course innocent until proven guilty…

We should just let them do their thing? There is no trust in Minneapolis Saint Paul to stand by and watch laws and rights wantonly and intentionally broken while other laws are allegedly enforced.

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

This is why our public schools in Saint Paul have been closed: developing online learning so targeted families can stay home. It is horrific. My kid is 6. First year in school. First school lockdown last week caused by this chaos.

I hope a lot of people are subscribing to @startribune.com and donating to @mprnews.org.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Life in Minneapolis Saint Paul. ICE was in my neighborhood today and abducted three including at least one observer.

Welcome to Minneapolis. Our neighbors have witnessed too many war crimes at this point. Federal agents even left weapons on the ground.

How do you think you’ll feel when the paramilitary drives by your kid’s elementary school in a show of force? I hope you never have to find out.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

U of Minnesota starts class today. Students are fearful to come to class. Saint Paul public schools are closed today & tomorrow to develop online learning for families afraid to leave home due to unchecked, reckless federal agents profiling & harming people of color across the Twin Cities & state.

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

The windchill was below-zero when ChongLy Scott Thao, 57 — wearing only boxers and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders — was handcuffed and ushered outside by federal agents agents who broke open his door.

Same, doors locked at the restaurant I went to in the Minneapolis suburbs today. Life is upended. It is shameful.

A 36-year-old man arrested by ICE agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 6 died in a Texas detention facility, the agency said Sunday. According to the El Paso Times, Diaz is the third detainee to die while facing deportation at Camp East Montana, which opened last August.

The absurdity is getting difficult to fully track. Starting the semester this week is going to be wild. Many students rightfully are fearful and I suspect most of my colleagues are offering hybrid learning options (just like our K-12 public schools).

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...