I have always been told I have a face for radio! Tune in to hear about government science! news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/main...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... How good is remote sensing getting at detecting surface water in small waterbodies? The answer is always.....it depends! So proud of the work of all the co-authors to get this truly interdisciplinary effort out. Cheers to useful science.

Super interesting collaborative journalism agwaterdesk.org/2025/04/14/d...

I'm supporting a large team grant writing process. #Transdisciplinary 🧪 I'm also on a large team grant being supported by someone else Big differences I won't 'out' the bad stuff Here are some things that work well if you want the best from the team: A #HigherEd 🧵

April fools, the last 71 days don't count! Right, right, right?!?!

Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social “The ecological benefits of more room for rivers” Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx #rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another devastating plan. EPA science is critical for keeping our air, water and environment safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

Tax the rich

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

Federal scientists: You are not alone. ❤️ @csldf.org provides free, confidential legal advice to researchers facing legal intimidation, harassment, & other attempts to sideline your critical work. Please reach out for a 1:1 with one of our attorneys: csldf.org/contact

Tenth Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference: A Decade of Action and Impact. Our #HBCU Consortium is punching above its weight. We built community-university partnerships that work. Our goal is to add all of our schools to the network. www.bullardcenter.org/hbcu-ccc #HBCUClimateChange #HBCUalum

This would be a bigger story in a less crazy world. Imagine what else is not making it to your eye balls

Look here, you calcareous asshole, who asked you anyway?

From a colleague: The unstaffed USGS booth at the world’s largest mining and exploration conference, the 2025 PDAC in Toronto. ⚒️🧪

Thanks to the National Weather Service and NOAA scientists everywhere

Due to the Musk/Trump Administration’s draconian cuts, the National Science Foundation is significantly scaling back its program to provide college students with paid summer research internships. Many of my colleagues attribute their start in science to this program. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dark days ahead. Protect and amplify the humanity of those that will be impacted the most. Everything else can wait.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

A friend who works for the US Department of the Interior (DOI) says that their government credit cards (PCards) have their purchasing limits set to $1, so they essentially can’t buy anything. Also, the DOI doubled down on the 5 bullets email and wants to make it a weekly occurrence. 🤬

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

Remember way back in the beginning of the 2020s when the U.S. federal government provided free breakfast and lunch to children at public schools across the entire country from sea to shining sea for like two whole years?

How has it only been ONE month

When you call your legislators, please include this as one of your talking points. Once again the United States Government is violating their agreements with tribal nations. Shame on them. More in comments. nativenewsonline.net/health/break...

NOT OPTIONAL. Haskell Indian Nations University had to let go of about 50 staff, including instructors. Some students were left without teachers for classes in the middle of spring session. This is enraging.

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

I was laid off this morning from USFWS as part of the sweeping DOGE cuts to probationary employees across the Dept. of Interior. To say I'm devastated doesn't even scratch the surface-I'm losing my dream job working with pallid sturgeon on the Missouri River. Solidarity with all my fed workers. 💔🐟

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

Just numb. Fuck this shit. Who let the boomers turn real life into a Facebook comment section?

What a shitty fucking day thehill.com/policy/energ...

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

Taking back stolen focus is an act of resistance these days

I’m so sick of people promoting their work on here. Imagine how annoying it’d be if I spent my time on this site promoting my book about the surprisingly literary origins of ecology, *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science*? That would be pointless and unforgivable, obviously

damn anybody need 8 ISCO autosamplers in Southern CA? They appear to be brand new 😲 www.govdeals.com/asset/3807/1...

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

How do we as a society want our science done: Well, Fast, or Cheap? You can only have 2.

And exhale

This week is already better than last week

What a fucking week

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Russ Vought promised donors that a second Trump admin would put career civil servants "in trauma," according to a recording of a private speech obtained by @documented.net and @propublica.org. It's now clear he wasn't bluffing.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

New: the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union representing 750,000 federal employees, told its members not to resign via that deferred resignation email they got yesterday. www.theverge.com/news/602142/...