This just passed subcommittee. Keep calling your reps as I believe it's heading quickly on to the next step.

Late in posting but here’s a paper from a MS thesis in my group! Feels odd to post science in the current context, but this paper is one I’m really glad to see out.

Obituary: Gladys Mae West (1930-2026) mathematician who pioneered GPS technology go.nature.com/4jWMeM8

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

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

Hi US science folks, NSF has released some policy changes to the document I know you’ve memorized: the PAPPG. Take a look, send me your questions, I’ll add them to our own and try to get some answers. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable. If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.

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Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in the Paraná Basin of Brazil as one of the oldest and most widespread lichens from the fossil record. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Recruiting now: #geoscience mentors and mentees! Applications are now OPEN through September 12 for both mentors (senior graduate students through senior faculty/staff) and mentees (students interested in geoscience graduate school and fellowships). Check it out! gems-program.org/matching

What a pull

US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

Reading and thinking and writing (words and code) are all fun and rewarding and good human activities to do

wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

"The employee, who did not want to be named out of fear of retaliation for speaking to the media, said that the NSF's rigorous review process had been disassembled, and that political mandates had taken precedence over scientific merits when assessing proposals." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

If you benefited from past NAGT/NSF Early Career Geoscience workshops you may want to support this years participants and activities which have apparently been defunded by NSF. Contribute here: nagt.org/nagt/get_inv...

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Interesting article on the spatial biases in paleotemperature reconstructions using d18O. Important observations: • End-Ordovician-Silurian was colder than appears • End-Carboniferous was even colder than appear in face-value-record www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The @planetarysociety.bsky.social makes it super easy to send letters to your congresspeople urging them to support NASA science during these trying times. If you believe in the power of science to transform the world for the better, please consider doing this.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

In Iowa: NIH Funding: $209 million Jobs Supported: 2,579 Economic Activity Supported: $504 million www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

This Black History Month, AGU celebrates and honors the contributions of Black scientists, researchers, and communities to geoscience and beyond. Follow along across all our social channels as we share stories of innovation, resilience, and excellence. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

If you're in DC, join the protest at the Office of Personnel Management at 1900 E St NW now Otherwise, there is a mass mobilizing call tonight at 8 pm ET with Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, etc

NSF’s cash management service is now back up and running. Seems like they responded to the court order. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Why isn’t every single Democrat in the House co-signing articles of impeachment right now?

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: We’ve learned that Reynolds and GOP lawmakers are working on a bill to remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act! Use our tool below to email Governor Reynolds and tell her that discrimination has no place in Iowa! actionnetwork.org/letters/no-d... #ialegis

This is the money that we all paid taxes for that was supposed to be sent to Iowa for Iowans. Many Iowans sacrificed years to bring these clinical trials and other grants to Iowa. This money should not be kept in Washington DC (2024 data) report.nih.gov/award/index....

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

Hello out there scientists. If you're having meetings or grants or anything else impacted by freeze of NSF meetings, please feel free to reach out to me to share your story. Signal: thealexknapp.79 Email: [email protected]

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

Two great PhD student presentations at AGU23. Sam Duncanson talking about Snowball Earth and N isotopes ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?... AND Alex Grajales presenting fossil leaf N and C data as a window into the atmosphere ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?... #AGU23

#AGU2023 Want to learn about how we can use hydrothermal systems to integrate meteoric water isotopes and study hydro climate? Come check out my elightning talk! ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?pa…#AGU2323

AGU! Come check out work I’m showing that a MS student Dana Mineart completed today about when Earth had dry land. Afternoon posters P13C-2804 ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?... #AGU23

So I’m teaching a stable isotopes class and, as a stable isotope faculty, I think I finally insets at C4 photosynthesis lol plants are wild