Science is essential—it helps us understand change and guide decisions. But how we do science is expanding: more collaborative, more connected, more inclusive. When it starts with communities, it leads to solutions that last. My Earth Day op-ed is out www.seattletimes.com/opinion/eart...

U.S. government science safely sent a woman, a black man, a single dad, and a Canadian to the moon and back. 🤯 Upon returning to earth, they were like, "Can you tell the boats we can hear them but they can't hear us? We're gonna try a restart. Yep, we think we are pushing the right buttons." 🤣

The beauty of a failure is it can be a solution to another problem. With AI, you lose the most precious part of discovery: gaining deep understandings of failures. Incorporating them. Drawing upon them later. 12/n

Four NOAA #fisheries #stockassessment jobs opened today www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

Or, when you are furloughed during peak fall gardening season, you sign your hopefully-future-will-almost-certainly-get-it paycheck.

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...

📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

Writing grants as a federal employee: This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.

Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.

4 people: spend combined dozens (100s?) of hrs getting quarto PDFs 508 compliant. (No thanks to Posit here.) Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you? Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮 If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑

@thewaroncars.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social excited to see you in Seattle on Weds! I’m attending with folks from @sngreenways.bsky.social and we’d love you to get word out about www.fixballardbridge.com Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest.

As a Ballard resident who takes Amtrak to Portland often, SDOT's refusal to make the Ballard bridge anything but absolutely miserable to bike over during repaving is increasingly glaring with the new bike path on Alaskan Way and improvements to the Elliot Bay path. #seabikes @seattlebikeblog.com

This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Happy to report I am dominating my family's fantasy football league by... letting ESPN draft for me using its secret sauce of probabilistic algorithms and making zero changes. Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift.

I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is 🥜 compared to a modern-day gestapo, but the bottom *70%* of NOAA employees are now capped to 1% performance raises. Not because of limited budgets. Because they want *all* money going to the top 30%. Guess rewarding the top at expense of everyone else is the same as their tax policy. 🤷

Trump cuts 100% hit young scientists hardest. It’s also incredibly elitist to focus this article on Harvard, a university that gives out an absurdly tiny fraction of graduate degrees in the U.S. And I would venture to say that things are much worse at most flagship state unis (even in blue states).

A thing I like about this article is it acknowledges this is a problem that predates Trump, but also describes how Trump has made it worse. This is true for like 90% of the issues with the U.S. bureaucratic state.

It's obviously a bad time in history for the fall of democracy, rise of military states, rollback of civil rights, weakening of government institutions, etc. It is also truly an abysmal time to shop for women's jeans.

These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly ocean mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade. The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it. www.kuow.org/stories/scie...

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production. I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

Happy national whistleblower appreciation day to all who celebrate! 🙃

This is why I turned off the AI results in my Chrome browser: tenbluelinks.org

In honor of today's Supreme Court decision

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

Way number 366894 they are impounding congressionally appropriated funding without saying they're impounding: offices are not receiving their 2025 budgets until all deadlines for major spending for the year have past.

You can get the same produce any day of the week for less money, no crowds, and a far superior vibe at Top Banana.

I was recently talking to a short man about anti-short man bias (they are the comedic relief of many movies, etc., etc.), and that fits into this 100%

NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Thinking of all of the amazing federal scientist moms who have left recently.

Meanwhile I have been offered two modest honoraria this week for participating in review panels later this summer that I will have to turn down, even if I do the reviews. 🫠

Funding opportunity: The Washington Research Foundation is accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships with "potential for real-world impact in natural sciences" through June 26. Fellowships must be completed at an eligible WA institution - UW is one! www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

Proud 🧪 post: @iangtaylor.bsky.social, other collaborators, and I have been working furiously despite *waves hands* to produce the best possible science for management of yellowtail rockfish. Today, our draft document (typos and all! 😶‍🌫️) was posted publicly prior to the review 2 weeks from now.