Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

ABOUT DAMN TIME is now streaming on YouTube! The new short chronicles the journey of the Colorado River's trailblazing boatwomen. Learn more about the @americanrivers.bsky.social supported film and start watching here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

“Average North American Monsoon onset is delayed in years with anomalously high spring soil moisture in the Colorado Plateau”

New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...

With the EPA targeting the Endangerment Finding, @ccallahan45.bsky.social, Alex Gottlieb, & I conducted an end-to-end attribution of climate damages from U.S. power sector emissions. The result: $78 billion in climate losses to the U.S. economy over 1973–2023. See here: zenodo.org/records/1687...

I had a few people at #ESA2025 say that it was hard to find where to apply for jobs in Sweden. If you want to check jobs at university, here's the website: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #forests #restorationecology #forestry #silviculture

Loud voice: This is a win for a classroom! (Whisper: it’s a win for you too. It doesn’t take long and it’s hard to imagine feeling low after participating in @skypeascientist.bsky.social). I participated last spring it and will again. Strong recommend!!

"Nature’s secrets will continue to be uncovered, even if Americans aren’t the ones who see them first."

Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation 🔗 buff.ly/AZABRtK

ABOUT DAMN TIME, the new short supported by @americanrivers.bsky.social, follows the trailblazing boatwomen of the Colorado River. Read more about it and stream it for free (this weekend only) via our Shorts: Wild Lives virtual collection. open.substack.com/pub/dceff/p/watch-now-about-damn-time

Way excited for Savannah's defense next week! If you love biogeochemistry and thinking about potential for soil carbon management, mark your calendar for Monday, July 28th @ 11:00 AM MDT (or stop by campus if you're in Moab 😉) Public Zoom Link: usu.zoom.us/j/8144285688...

Happy to share an excellent study on the self-organized spatial patterns of biocrusts. Biocrusts make a difference. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation theonion.com/rising-...

Senate Appropriations has a markup hearing for science this morning. In their bill: $9B for NSF (current is $9.06B). Also includes protections for NOAA and NWS staffing. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

Climate.gov will likely soon shut down, as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

'The [Ecosystems Mission Area] is also a core part of federal climate research. The Trump administration has sharply reduced or eliminated funds for climate science across federal agencies, calling the study of climate change part of “social agenda” research' www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Are you keeping up with the firehose of changes to science policy? You can, with our handy (and sortable) tracker. eos.org/research-and... Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (‪@nytimes.com‬)

Mojave Desert Land Trust is hiring a Field Coordinator with the Mojave Desert Seed Bank! 🫘 #seedjobs 2 positions posted, hiring 1 candidate depending on quals & experience. Coordinator/Lead – min 1 yr experience, $23-25/hr Supervisor – 2-5 yrs exp., $25-28/hr saveplants.org/forums/topic...

A climate change curriculum cocreated by a team of Western and Indigenous researchers could amplify adaptation on the Colorado Plateau.

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Did you know that the Humboldt penguin (with whom Humboldt dances here) can blush? This penguin type lives in relatively warm habitats – in contrast to the icy environments of other species. The blushing helps it to cool down! 💚

Here's the start of a python script / notebook that starts tapping into some NCEI API's to get the data you need. The goal here is for this to become a supplement to the RCC's ACIS API, should that go away for...reasons github.com/jjrennie/nce...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Not only are more forests/trees around the world experiencing mortality as a result of increasing stressors, but recovery is impaired as a result of increasing temps, drought, other climate-related impacts. Positive feedback loop -- as forests go, so do we. 🌏

What are the ultimate factors controlling fire regimes? The case of boreal forests royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... Phil Trans Roy Soc B, @royalsociety.org With JE Keeley & @dramalamujer.bsky.social jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/t... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐🍁🌾 wildfire #philsci #ecoevo

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! @EsaSeeds

Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. The happiest of the bryophytes. Northwest Territories, Canada. #bryophyte

In new work by Sharon, we studied whether changes in #soil N in response to shifts in precipitation may favor tradeoffs between AOA and AOB nitrifiers and the emission of NO and #N2O 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent special issue in @Ecology_Letters featuring decades long studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Response of Carbon Uptake to Soil Moisture Stress: Adaptation to Climatic Aridity 📄 buff.ly/fA7kTkN

A busy day for the Aparecido lab! @biancazorger.bsky.social taught my Ecosystem Ecology class on warming effects on ecosystems. Later, lab undergrads, Tucker (mentored by @rebeccasenft.bsky.social) and Sydney, presented on their ug research at the College of Science res symp. Proud of this crew!! 😎🤩

Amid political turmoil, NOAA is still issuing crucila climate messages, including drought warnings in a key seasonal climate update.

New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More info: link.springer.com/collections/...

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.

There were a record 331.9 million recreation visits to U.S. National Parks and properties in calendar year 2024. Almost one per person (U.S. pop 340 million). In case anyone was thinking they weren't popular and no one would notice/care if they were gutted. www.nps.gov/subjects/soc...

Windblown dust has heavy economic consequences. When comparing billion-dollar disasters, dust was second only to hurricanes. 🧪

Confirmed by my psychologist family

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here's an excellent reflection from a now former NRCS employee, a range management specialist, who lost her job in the recent purge of probationary employees. NRCS lost 1,200 employees nationwide. kansasreflector.com/2025/02/25/c...

🚨 Job Boards 🚨 Some resources for those who may need it now 🧵: 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌳🌲🍁🪶🪴🦦🎓 #PlantScience #Ecology #JobAlert - Rangelands Job Board | rangelands.org/job-listings/ - TAMU Natural Resources Job Board | jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu - Western Landowners Alliance Job Board | westernlandowners.org/job-board/

Amzing article written by an intelligent, hard working co-worker who was wastefully let go. Thanks for sharing your story.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Utah’s national park sites brought $3 billion to the state’s economy in 2023, according to a National Park Service report released in September, bringing in 15.7 million visitors and supporting over 26,500 jobs.

Do you know any students that might be interested in ecological forecasting? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social student/early career association is hosting two workshops on how to get involved. Both are targeted to early career (e.g., undergraduate) audiences, but open to all!

Hey NOAA, FEMA and federal scientists and staff — I’m a climate reporter at NPR. To share info anonymously, you can reach me on Signal at sommer.55