As Year 2 of Trump 2.0 begins, here’s a refresher on how first-year actions affected climate, energy, public health, academia, and the environment. Follow the AGU Eos thread below ⬇️

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The U.S. is forcing massive deportations of working-age people with jobs who're contributing to the safety net, while conservatives drape themselves in concern for an aging population. This is entirely about nativism.

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Cuyahoga River! *currently NOT on fire

ICE doesn't keep our communities safe.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Brooke is a great scientist and fabulous science communicator and disability advocate. You should hire her.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

I called my reps. The theme was “YOU HAVE TO DO MORE. DO MORE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YOU HAVE TO STOP THIS.” The 5 calls app makes it super easy: 5calls.org

Everyday is a reason for impeachment

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

Worth applying to! I was a GSPA participant in 2021 if anyone wants to chat about the application or experience

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Love my sewer district!

Friends, I need your help. The Trump Admin has announced it will “break up” my employer NCAR calling it a source of “climate alarmism” and saying its work should be dismantled. Please call congress today to voice your support for UCAR/NCAR and stop this unlawful action! (202) 224-3121 #savencar

There’s a lot going on these days - don’t forget to consider applying to SPEC School 2026 and/or sharing with the grad students and postdocs you know!

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

I'm not at #AGU this year but I have some wonderful lab mates from the Jarzyna Lab @majarzyna.bsky.social who will be there! Chenyang Wei is giving two talks that remote sensing and biodiversity folks won't want to miss. Both topics are about #GEDI and avian diversity.

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology. Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I was part of this program in 2023 and would highly recommend it for anyone interested in remote sensing and ecology. Happy to chat about it too if you want more info!

I was part of this program in 2023 and would highly recommend it for anyone interested in remote sensing and ecology. Happy to chat about it too if you want more info!

New paper alert! We just published a massive meta-analysis in @EcologyLetters asking: How does crowding affect survival in reef fish populations? The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought. 🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship & advising a foreign graduate student or postdoc. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding." Dictators despise science.

Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions. 📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146... #sciencepolicy #saveNASA

Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner. www.space.com/space-explor...

5. There is a 60-day public comment period ahead of any formal implementation. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Jobs in climate! #ClimateJobs

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Annual plug for the fabulous phylopic.org website with tens of thousands of easily searchable silhouette images for almost every life form imaginable. They make nice additions to your biology plots!

This is a great institution that deserves saving. Donate if you can support it

Dr. Jane Goodall is the main reason I became an ecologist. She has inspired me ever since I first learned about her in sixth grade. I had the privilege of seeing her speak for the first time only a few weeks ago. We’re going to miss her voice in the world, but her legacy will last for generations 💚

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

🚨 EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS DECLARED 🚨 if you call your reps & show me a screenshot of your call history with the call, i will reply with one (1) never-before-seen picture of my cats! capitol switchboard ☎️: 202-224-3121

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Good people, don't outsource anything you're not willing to lose....

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”

For those of you looking for science jobs, I've been collecting links to job boards and fellowships as I've come across them and figured others might find them useful. Feel free to reach out if you know of something that would be good to add to the list! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...