A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

You guys SUBSIDIES DON'T SHAPE OUR DIET. (mostly) Subsidies generally FOLLOW farmer preferences, rather than create them. And farmers grow what people will buy. Here's @hannahritchie.bsky.social on how subsidies affect me at prices: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/meat-subsi...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Environmental Research: Food Systems @iopp-environment.bsky.social is now indexed in Scopus! 👩‍🌾 Huge thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editorial team – this will help food systems research reach an even wider audience.

Many people feel overwhelmed with the number of potential climate solutions, and are not quite sure what to focus on. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social has always been at helping people navigate the minefield. Their new explorer is really cool, and helps to make things clearer: drawdown.org/explorer

Under-prediction of past high temperature extremes suggests climate models are underpredicting future high temperature extremes. sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/publications New open-access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... New research brief: drive.google.com/file/d/1tvJ5...

American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada? Here’s a good opportunity!

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

for those who missed the CLIVAR climate risk webinar, it's now online. great talks by @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang. youtu.be/sktn8mu98UQ?...

There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

If you’re wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah they’re freaking out.

If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Our opening is about to close while we read applications, but here's another catastrophe R&D role with a great team at Trans Re, with Maryam Haji who runs one of the sharpest shops in reinsurance.

Feed cleanse: Colorado blue skies (and wildflowers)

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Good cover @economist.com

I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.

The article includes this beautiful photo of the baby looking up at one of the doctors who saved his life. This extraordinary, life saving research is exactly how I want my tax dollars spent. “KJ is now well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him from the hospital and live at home”

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:

Yep. People have started to appreciate (and question) the fact that we use 30-40% of our US corn supply for ethanol, but it flies under the radar that we now use 40-50% of our US soybean oil supply for biodiesel. BTW all this supplies only like 5% of US transport fuel. Inefficient resource use.

Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another. Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

USDA officially canceled $500 million in additional funding for food banks. The department pointed to other sources of new funding for the program but food banks told me it's not enough at a time of record-setting need. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Thanks to the team at Harvard, Maryland, and UBC for providing a backup of the #USAID #FEWSNET Data Explorer: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...

Attn: universities/journals who are still stuck on X #academicsky

Rough day to be teaching about global food insecurity. Shout out to all those at USAID and FEWS-NET.

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...

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Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

We are advertising a PostDoc position in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich (1-6 yrs, >$100K salary), offering excellent conditions to pursue innovative research projects & prepare for a professorship. Please spread the word to interested candidates: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Congrats to former lab member Lindsey Sloat and @worldresources.bsky.social's Global Pasture Watch team on the release of this new global grassland time series dataset! landcarbonlab.org/insights/fir...

Wow! 🌍 Over 30,000 attendees from around the globe joined us in Washington, D.C., and online to explore What’s Next for Science at #AGU24. THANK YOU for an incredible week of collaboration and discovery! 🤝✨ We can’t wait to see you next year at #AGU25 in New Orleans! 🚀🌆

It is always mind boggling at how massive @agu.org is every year. This is just one session of the poster room, which changes over twice daily for the duration of the conference. #AGU24

Soil carbon is commonly thought to benefit crop yields most during drought conditions – but is this actually true? @alisonelinor.bsky.social will unpack hydroclimate x SOC interactions that matter for crop yields this morning at #AGU24:

@agu.org I’m not sure if it’s possible to do this last minute, but could you remove X as the default platform for posting on the #agu24 app? Aside from all the issues with the platform, we aren’t there anymore. We’re here!

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

I've put together a starter pack of PhD students working in sustainable food systems, food justice, and environmental sciences, for anyone that would like to connect with fellow PhD students. Let me know if you would like to be added! #academicsky #foodstudies go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5

This is what I probably missed the most from old science Twitter 😍 Working at the intersection of many fields, it is extra hard to stay up on new papers or advertise jobs/grad positions to applicants with a wide range of backgrounds.

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields. Below, I humbly submit 12 main types of scientific papers on food, agriculture, land, & natural climate solutions (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #FoodStudies 🧪

My colleague Hannah Ritchie has published an excellent three-part series on the impact of climate change on agriculture. In part 1 she shows that yields have increased dramatically in recent decades, but some crops would have improved more without climate change. ourworldindata.org/crop-yields-...

I tried to prepare a starter pack on climate, weather and hydrological extremes. Please let me know if you would like to be added, the more the merrier! go.bsky.app/86zAwyH

Excellent compilation of current land system science postdoc and faculty positions, from the job board at the Global Land Programme meeting: whova.com/event-job/gl...