Huh, this doesn’t sound like the NSF I’ve experienced.

What am I going to do with a whole week where no one bothers me??? The possibilities are endless but really involve one option. Not going to AGU is a gift.

This year, the NSF funded 35% fewer grants in geoscience, with 25% less money. Meanwhile, the Office of the Director spent almost three times as much money as in a regular year. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just when this evening couldn’t get worse, a cockroach leaped out of the medicine cabinet and into my pants. I ran to the closet screaming, took off my pants, and it ran down my leg, & into the pants. My husband found me in the closet, half naked, screaming, and jumping up & down on a pair of pants.

#NOLA city council has a web portal to report abuse by Trump’s illegal paramilitary forces #ICE could be useful for @agu.org to distribute council.nola.gov/know-your-ri...

USF’s new ice sheet modeler extrodinare, Dr. Dan Lowry, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Students to join his research group. For more details: ice2oresearch.org. Join Dan and our growing Antarctic/ Southern Ocean research group. #Antarctica #glaciology #oceanography

USF’s new ice sheet modeler extrodinare, Dr. Dan Lowry, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Students to join his research group. For more details: ice2oresearch.org. Join Dan and our growing Antarctic/ Southern Ocean research group. #Antarctica #glaciology #oceanography

"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... archive link: archive.ph/TxBWo

When it “feels like 27 F” in Florida and the sleeves aren’t finished 😡

Any deal that counts on GOP being good faith partners in governance misunderstands the modern Republican Party. Idiotic and out of touch!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

🧊 New research reveals an overlooked Antarctic process that may skew sea level rise projections. ☀️ A team led by Dr @fabiobdias.bsky.social (ACEAS/UNSW) found East Antarctica ice shelves melt in summer bursts as sea ice retreats and warm water flows underneath. 🔗 antarctic.org.au/overlooked-m...

I gotta say, watching US news roll in from a remote South Pacific island is surreal and it makes everyone capitulating to King Toddler look totally idiotic. And literally no one I’ve run into can believe this is happening or understand why no one is stopping him.

Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

M 7.6 earthquake in the Drake Passage earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

My super awesome colleague @oceanandclimate published a great paper in science this week. And, he helped do my intended day late and a $ short publicity. So, my summary is read it! Good stuff!

Wondering what my better half has been up to? Well, wonder no more! stpetecatalyst.com/st-pete-rese...

I have achieved the impossible and got my COVID booster in Florida. The CVS pharmacist said “we have tons, and we can’t give them to anyone.” She also said that doctors are super frustrated and asking if they can call in one script for all of their patients, but the CVS system can’t handle that…

@willerstorfi.bsky.social does it again. Nice work all! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kennett had his party shirt on for his 85th…

Carl… ❤️

We are giving up global leadership. Are we great yet? What can you do? Call your representatives. Ask why Russia and China are building more ice breakers. Why risk national and economic security by ignoring sea level rise?

I have so many angry and unkind thoughts about the decisions made by the head of OCE and then the GEO directorate more recently. First the JR and then this. For what? My two science platforms are gone and with them my hopes of new science. I’m glad Mike is talking to journalists. He was a great PO.

Excited to enter “descendant of religious nutcases who came over on the Mayflower”. Maybe it will help me during my proposal’s gold standard political review. Of course I’ve got gender working against me so I probably won’t ever get funded… with that, is everyone excited about Taylor’s new album?

I wonder if Murkowski’s bribe for voting for the BBB was that Alaska would be given back to Russia.

The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back. You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

0112Z, 7/30: The #Tsunami Warning Center now estimates that #Hawaii could see a 1-3 meter (or 3.2-9.8 feet) maximum tsunami height. ETA 7:17 PM HST tonight.

News from a failing nation …

Devastating for US Antarctic researchers. US abdicating multiple global leadership roles in marine science. USAP people, we need a professional lobbyist-large sections of both senate and house bills dedicated to drilling and nothing about the NBP. Community led push needed and a comms strategy.

Vacation mode activated

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

It's incredible to think that people work their entire lives doing useful things without seeking a second of the limelight while the stupidest person on earth becomes US President and then appoints the next dumbest people to important positions where they confirm their stupidity.

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

Your reminder that concentration and death camps in Europe and the killing fields of Cambodia only lasted about 4 years each…. We have a long way to go in the regime. At least this guy is posing with his crimes against humanity. Will make the ICC’s job easier when this is all over.

So, what carve out did Alaska get?

If Trump keeps firing America’s top scientists, other countries will hire them—and we’ll be the ones paying the price.

It's time to re-read this to understand how what's being done to NOAA could significantly harm the U.S. economy and national security. If a foreign adversary were doing this at any other time, we would go to war to protect NOAA.

I’m really not pleased that my tax dollars are funding concentration camps. Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful. Also, this used to be the CIA airport in the Nixon era.

An honest-to-god descriptive headline.

HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”. I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

This particular funding cut happened after two years of big bipartisan efforts and promises to massively increase NSF's budget by something like 50+%. 🙃

Oh good. A nice tent camp in the swamp on the CIA airstrip … just in time for hurricane season. For those who care, none of Florida’s state prisons down there (or my office for that matter) have AC. The cruelty is the point.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

So Miller attacked LA because Musk stole his wife and Trump is bombing Iran because no one came to his birthday party. Men are too emotional to lead.