This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Main Topic: Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate Report via @npr.org On The Extreme Temperature Diary WED 9/03/2025 At: guyonclimate.com +#climate #weather + record temp reports via @extremetemps.bsky.social/ @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

🚨 Breaking News | Judge Rules Harvard Funding Freeze Illegal A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

An extraordinary joint op-ed and plea by NINE former directors or acting directors of the CDC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, succinctly describing undermining of public health, and what’s needed now. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Insisting on expertise over ideology is not “politicizing” science. The ideologues installing scientific and governmental policy that is contradicted by evidence and data are. By emphasizing ideology over expertise, THEY have made arguing for expertise and evidence-based decision making partisan.

Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

“Daskalakis went on to say that Kennedy… had never taken a briefing by a CDC subject matter expert from his center” [vax and respiratory disease]

It’s a hard reality to see all of the NSF & USDA climate education funding vaporize. My sense of how to collaborate & move work forward has shifted tremendously. Definitely feeling some anchoring in the student energy, work, & community right at home.

For the eleventy billionth time: Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere. It means a lot less science for everyone. There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.

"work like this falls to the National Park Service, which was already facing staffing shortfalls when the Trump administration this spring directed additional cuts ... The service used to have 200 people assigned to maintain thousands of acres of trees and gardens in D.C., and now there are 20"

This week FEMA staff raised legitimate concerns about the agency's ability to effectively respond to extreme weather events. The Trump administration responded by punishing the messengers instead of better preparing for the next climate disaster. www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

Yesterday we had a “using AI” workshop in faculty retreat - one exercise was to upload PDFs and let it make a little podcast about the info. It defaulted to a man and woman talking and apparently it is normal that the male rattles off the facts while the woman goes “oh gosh that’s interesting” 🙄

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd

Really enjoyed this, and would recommend for non-marine and non-polar folks (like me). Definitely good stuff for those who are or are involved with ECRs.

"At the end of the day, the effectiveness of the education we deliver is scaffolded on the quality of the relationships we build with our students." #HigherEd

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.

Modelling connectivity at a regional scale during seasonal movements of the greater horseshoe bat 🦇📊 Acoustic, stratified sampling at local & large scale provided enough spatial & temporal accuracy to model connectivity throughout the life cycle of bats 🧪🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

The government is “using levers of power that are completely unrelated to the underlying allegations…Cutting off research for diabetes, cancer, heart disease will not improve the safety of Jewish faculty & students on campus & will not address antisemitism.” —Mia McIver, AAUP Executive Director

Faculty Latest Targets of Big Tech’s AI-ification of Higher Ed Last week, Instructure, which owns the widely used learning management system Canvas, announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate into the platform native AI tools and agents... bit.ly/3H5zSm0 #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Right then... A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts /thread/

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

"The bill slashes SNAP by more than $100 billion, which is a devastating blow to families trying to make ends meet. But there’s more to the story than the cuts themselves." Learn what's at stake in Melissa Kaplan's blog.

So depressing submitting grants while knowing the funding rate is going to be extra abysmal. Just hoping for the calls to not be cancelled or some sort of weird desk reject because of the subject matter. Keeping fingers tightly crossed for the one going out today.

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

This is theft. These reports belong to the American people - they should be easily accessible by all.

NYTimes: NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/c...

One of our “green new scam” research grants that USDOT terminated focused on making transit infrastructure more resilient to more frequent and severe weather events. But “climate change adaptation” was too woke, obviously, and doing this research is clearly unnecessary

The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.

The National Science Foundation continues to be threatened with major cuts. The link below lists the Congresspeople who are on the frontlines of deciding these cuts this week and would be well worth a quick call today if they’re in your state to advocate for not cutting NSF’s budget.

What happens now that SCOTUS has lifted the injunction preserving the Education Department? •Mass firings will move forward •Offices will be downsized, transferred to other agencies, or shuttered altogether •Civil rights adjudication will likely freeze •Billions in school funding is imperiled

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

Trying to be a bit better w/ engaging here, and so apologies that this is so delayed but... Congrats to @rhall01.bsky.social successfully defending her MS last Thursday! Really cool work spanning spatial scales for bumble bees: landscape genetics across the state and nesting within cattle pastures.

On Thursday, the #EPA placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of #dissent” against Administrator Lee Zeldin and the greater Trump administration. newrepublic.com/post/197616/...

It's a 100-year-old lesson that was obvious 2 years ago:

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

scientists work like crazy to get tenure, but that kind of pace and lack of work-life balance is not sustainable...

This picture broke me. The US and Texas governments have treated our Mexican neighbors so poorly for so many years now. But here the first responders are, crossing the border without another thought to help with flood rescue & recovery in Kerr County. www.npr.org/sections/the...

A full 25% of my clinical practice is just sitting with terrified parents who don’t know what will happen to their child’s services in the next school year. I can’t help them plan because it’s completely uncertain, except for certainly not as adequate as last school year.

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

The Nazis burned books, attacked universities, and crippled German science. The MAGAs delete websites, attack universities, and cripple American science. The website www.globalchange.gov of the mandated Global Change Research Program & all the National Climate Assessment reports has been deleted.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...