Inside the lobby at NSF…

Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave. The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Keep imagining better worlds.

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

www.cbc.ca/news/world/f... Guantanamo is part of this now? Seriously what the actual fuck

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Just got confirmation from NSF that all review panel meetings scheduled for this week are canceled and will be rescheduled. Story coming.

A pretty great sunset over Lake Champlain for for anyone that needs one today

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.

A 92-year record of ice phenology is helping show how lakes worldwide could change in coming decades, thanks to new #AGUPubs research from @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social @instaar.bsky.social and @richardsond.bsky.social. eos.org/research-spo...

My Limnology students made some memes… enjoy!

5.5 years and still going… this Anabaena cylindrica culture has been sitting unopened in my office window since 2019 (originally from UTex culture collection)… and keeps growing slowly and happily 🦠

Do any freshwater plankton people out there know what this is? Sent to me by the New Hampshire DES, turning up this year for the first time in their 80 um net tows.

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Hi friends! 👋 I’m a limnologist that thinks about feedbacks between functional diversity and biogeochemistry in lakes. Also here for your dog content (this is Jack, who you will see a lot of).

Updated Limnology! starter pack here: go.bsky.app/Qv3DLZ6

Published today: our paper on the ~100 year ice record on Mohonk Lake, a mtn top lake in upstate NY. Ice is forming later, and variability in duration and ice clearance has increased substantially. Notably, recent years have seen intermittent ice cover. bit.ly/mohonkWinter