🧪Calling all scientists, farmers, pilots, and everyone who benefits from weather and climate predictions: help save NCAR! Call your reps. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Here we go again with another list of forbidden terms from the self-described "most transparent administration" in history... 🤦🏻‍♀️ climate.law.columbia.edu/content/doe-...

PLEASE AMPLIFY 🔈 I hear that some staffers at Interior Department and NOAA are being called back to the office from furlough for "administration priorities." I'm on Signal if this includes you or you have more information: @clare.14

Please help circulate this postdoc fellowship opportunity! (And shameless plug that here at OSU there would be opportunities to build intersections between forest biology, remote sensing, modeling, or creative uses of the impressive new OSU supercomputer.) www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

I'm excited to share this work led by Lynn Riley investigating albedo impacts from afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation projects. We hope the findings will guide future projects in the fight against climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired. Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/lDxXk Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/VOiPa

I am fairly skeptical of many ways people use LLMs, but drafting a refutation of misleading statements that have regurgitated in variants many times over the last couple decades and therefore are well-represented, alongside refutations, in training data is not an obviously terrible application.

This past week brought a landmark legal opinion for climate and set another series of staggering heat records: a powerful reminder of why we all have a role in accelerating climate solutions. Read the full edition of the newsletter here:

So what makes a climate assessment? In short: not this new Energy Dept report, which rehashes contrarian greatest hits with areas of known uncertainty -- that climate scientists talk about all the time. It's all a little grim. Who needs 721 authors when you have 5?

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.

Advocating for science www.agu.org/events/webin...

Standards and measurements sound boring, but they are absolutely essential to science. Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

The FAQ on the COA form is a little vague on the criteria to use, but it is generally accepted that, if there was no communication among a subset of co-authors on a particular paper, then it doesn't rise to the level of a collaboration to list. (Streamlined COA forms help program officers.) (19)

Also, NSF takes conflicts of interest seriously. That said, when you're filling out your COA form, listing every single co-author might not be necessary. When papers have many co-authors (e.g., genetics papers), not everyone rises to the level of a collaborator. (18) www.nsf.gov/funding/seni...

Oh, one more thing. This website is probably the best resource for NSF's response to the executive orders: www.nsf.gov/executive-or... Please check there first before emailing the program officers (who have been coached to email you this link as a first response). (17)

Finally, have confidence that the program officers and staff members working in NSF’s directorates are among the most committed and thoughtful people that you could ever hope to meet, doing their absolute best to uphold the agency’s mission as long as the time allows. (16)

Perhaps now more than ever, cultivate curiosity in your students and reassure them that there are paths toward becoming a scientist in the future. Education and training remain a huge part of the NSF mission. (15)

Great ideas can come from anywhere, and congressional legislation (e.g., CHIPS and Science Act) has directed the NSF toward the goal of broadening participation in science. Researchers can organize and approach the legal counsel at their universities for clarifications on their activities. (14)

If you are invited to submit a draft of an abstract, recognize that abstracts are written for public audiences (i.e., taxpayers), not your academic peers. Make it clear why this study is worth doing. Avoid jargon. Think big picture. Minimize potential for misinterpretations. (9)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Share the impacts on your research: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An important read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... See you in the streets 💪🏻

Tesla Owner Running Out of Room For Bumper Stickers Explaining Tesla Ownership: bit.ly/3X1tdOs

Some people asked if I could list real impacts from some of the recent federal decisions. Here are SOME real impacts our team has faced already in 3 weeks: 1. Im quite certain 1 project (likely 2) I have that support low income high school students across the country, will be canceled. 🧪

Just found Alt NIH on Bluesky. Hoping to find a good Alt NSF, Alt NASA, Alt USDA.... heck, how about an Alt universe I can join for at least 4 years...

FAI is closely tied up with Koch-world. A majority of its employees and board members have Koch ties. FAI’s goal is as said here, to privatize government including NIH and NSF.

Proximal remote sensing helps bridge the gap! Congratulations to Zoe Pierrat and other co-authors on this New Phytologist article: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Hello Blue Sky! Good to be here. How well can leaf reflectance spectra predict hydraulic traits in Amazon trees? Find out in our new RSE article led by Dr. Maquelle Garcia! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kGKn7qzT3...