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Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPEN UBC, Vancouver, Canada biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... "The UBC Biodiversity Research Centre comprises over 100 faculty members with interests in ecology, evolution, systematics, biodiversity, and conservation"

AMNH is hiring a tenure track Assistant Curator/Professor in Climate Physics. You can find the posting here: careers.amnh.org/postings/4579

No matter what history teaches us about the dire consequences of unconstrained hubris there is always some idiot who comes along and proclaims, “Hey! I’ve had this really neat idea.”

Trump zet steeds meer stappen om onafhankelijke wetenschap de nek om te draaien.

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.

2025 has seen the second warmest first half of the year on record after 2024 – and is on track to be the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850. My latest State of the Climate report over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

I hope a journalist on the climate beat will report on this - this may be only one piece of the general awfulness that is happening to federal science, but the NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship has trained many of the current leaders in weather and climate: cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/current-...

Good news! Trump sought to eliminate NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which would have led to the closure of NOAA Research Labs. Among other important climate research, this would have meant eliminating the Keeling Curve. The Senate Appropriations Committee said no! bit.ly/3TShZKk

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.

Two good #AGU2025 sessions about vegetation-climate interactions and past ecosystems... abstracts due July 30! PP019: Modeling and Reconstructing Vegetation-Climate Interactions in the Past. PP026: Paleoecological Perspectives on Past Climates Section: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Hi folks. I’m doing a panel. Hit me with your best networking tips for your academic career. Conference or meeting networking, professional networking - give me your best tips for ECRs and I’ll pass them forward for my panel!

This is a great article by Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social on how solar power hit an inflection point and has now become an unstoppable force. A must read. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Even in oil country, the energy shift is undeniable. In just 6 yrs, Texas (ERCOT) flipped its midday grid from gas-heavy to solar-dominant—with wind & batteries now key players. This isn’t theory. It’s reality. Even in a red state, the sun shines & change wins. Yellow = progress.⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition

Very sorry to learn that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the incomparable Arkady Renko series, has died. My deepest condolences to his family, including @luisacruz.bsky.social. His final book, HOTEL UKRAINE, was published earlier this month and was a fitting send-off to the series.

Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.) Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year. www.science.org/content/arti...

In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The GOP is trying to kill the Keeling Curve, the most iconic time series in the environmental sciences.

Things are looking DRY out west, especially in the Colorado and Rio Grande river basins. The Missouri too. This is megadrought country, and it's a HOT megadrought (since 1999) thanks to climate change. droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/S...

My new favorite conference activity: themed fossil stamps of conference swag! Kudos to @vojtechabraham.bsky.social for this fun activity.

From 1939-41, the WPA funded a massive Texas paleontology survey. I wrote about some of my favorite discoveries from its archives. Field crews behaving badly! Landowner nightmares! The creation of a creationist myth! Someone unexpected accidentally joins the Manhattan Project! It's HEAT DEATH! 🧪🦖

Excited to see (and be part of) this conceptual framework now published about the ecoevolutionary acclimation of ecosystems to climate change, across a range of timescales. Really nice press release here: www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/bridgin...

20. Furlough of @unidata.bsky.social (May 9, 2025)

Well this is exciting! Here's an interview I did for @nature.com about #NaturesMemory - talking about how natural history #museums can help save the world, as the best evidence we have for understanding environmental change, plus colonial legacies, male bias, and more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well this is f’in sad #ASMicrobe

"Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill...demanding the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the arbitrary multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input" www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

One of my friends noted early on, in relation to the DoD removing photos of the Enola Gay because it had the word ' gay', that no one does malicious compliance quite like the DoD.

This IEA graphic shows how global sales of electric vehicles & improved efficiency of combustion vehicles (eg hybrids) is slashing growth in global oil demand. Use in road transport has peaked & likely to soon post annual declines. Aviation & petro-chemical feedstocks only drivers of growth now.🔌💡🔌🚗

This is one the most authentic, frustrating, and alarming inside looks at what pressure, cuts and "forced" retirement have done to a critical National Weather Service forecast office. Worth a read to illustrate what many of us have been saying www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Taking a quick peek at firesmoke.ca/data/ ... things are heating up.

Science saves lives in a changing world

Check out the weather and climate 100-hour livestream! @drkatemarvel.bsky.social currently talking about climate change and uncertainty. "One of the things we don't understand is what will happen to cloud cover when climate changes."

"Working life is secure, with good employment conditions, collective agreements, and access to tax-funded welfare benefits, such as healthcare, paid parental leave, and subsidised childcare. .. and diversity and inclusion are protected by law." www.vr.se/english/rese...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

If you are the PI of an NSF project and have navigated difficult decisions about how to rescope work with regard to Broadening Participation, I'd love to talk offline and confidentially for peer to peer support and knowledge sharing. If that's not you, please ignore this. DMs open, etc.

'This hollowing out is not just about governance in the abstract, it has material consequences for which research questions get asked, which datasets get produced, which knowledge gets produced [...] It has consequences for the integrity of knowledge itself.' time.com/7285045/resi...

NEW: The charges against Rep. Lamonica McIver escalate a confrontation between the political branches at a time when President Trump is seeking to maaximize executive branch dominance. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Cutting research spending to save money is like sawing the wings off an airplane to make it lighter.

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#NeotomaDB ranks in top 10 of databases that mint dataset DOIs using DataCite and CrossRef services. We're just ahead of Taylor & Francis! Not totally sure about methods and weirdly Neotoma is listed as solely affiliated with UMinnesota, but still interesting journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Interesting bibliometric analysis of #palynology papers and NeotomaDB datasets noting that papers per year has peaked, but the number of international coauthorships has grown, suggesting that the field has reached a new stage of maturity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @neotomadb.bsky.social

This reporting confirms — NASA is kicking GISS scientists out of their 59-year-home, but the federal government is still on deck for the $3M/yr lease until 2031. So no fiscal savings to the federal government as a whole (just a cost transfer from NASA to GSA), plus cost of disruption and relocation.

I have been the director of the Cornell Center for Applied Mathematics (where our applied math PhD program lives) since July 1, 2020. So I was doing this job during the tail end of the first Trump administration as well, and was bracing for chaos in January.

Canada Excellence Research Chairs in Arctic Climate and Marine Sciences at the University of Alberta apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

The AP is reporting that in addition to the 9 people killed in Kentucky, another 7 were killed in Missouri. This is exactly why we need robust federally funded weather forecasting, warning systems, and emergency management. apnews.com/article/torn...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.