@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.

I wish the public could read the heartfelt goodbye emails I received from colleagues leaving the federal service this week. The brilliance, kindness, and dedication of the U.S. federal civil service is unmatched. Their departures are a loss for me, but also the entire American public. 💔

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

Our country relies on @noaa.gov for everything from daily forecasts & severe weather warnings to protecting marine habitats. I toured their Western Regional Center in Seattle and my message to Trump and Elon? Keep your hands OFF NOAA.

They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

The NIH has been a wonderful place because it allows scientists to take risks, form unique collaborations, and do studies difficult to conduct elsewhere. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and I’m fortunate to have had such wonderful colleagues and scientific collaborators.

Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.

🧪 #consgen I’m leaving NOAA on April 28. I never anticipated resigning at any time when I joined the agency 5 yrs ago to help modernize fisheries management and conservation with genomics. Making the work more effective and efficient was the central objective. I loved working at NOAA because… 1/x

My heart has been so heavy the last couple of months with how these brilliant, kind, hardworking colleagues who chose careers of public service have been treated. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The wild thing about this is every single one of these 5000 contracts has made it through layers and layers of agency review and been deemed "mission critical" precisely because the secretary is insisting on reviewing them. There are probably 1000s of others that the agency just gave up on.

Wow, honored that the sanitation of government owned facilities made it to today's top 15. 🫠

Thank you @propublica.org! www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

Our office has a Google spreadsheet instead of janitors now, and that about sums up how federal employees are doing. 💩

Also the cost of senior level career feds (who make like 200k) vs the VP of basically any private company...

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡