Fossils, ancient scrolls, and blue holes—just some of the things paleo-oceanographers use to peer into the past! At WHOI, researchers interpret these artifacts to learn what life was like in warmer climates—and improve predictions of our future. 🔎Travel back in time: go.whoi.edu/ancientseas

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!

More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down. We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Our fieldwork doesn't only happen at sea! C-CoMP researchers working with @maratimes.bsky.social collected Providence River water to test extraction methods for samples collected on C-CoMP cruises. In terms of filtering speed, 5 L of Sargasso sw = 50 mL of Providence River water!

📣#MTTM 🔬Emily Hu (@yunqianhu.bsky.social‬) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @maratimes.bsky.social & @akrinos.bsky.social at Brown. She uses microbial sequence data and computational tools to uncover how biotic🦠& abiotic drivers shape microbial community assembly in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.

🌊 ↪️↩️ Deep ocean currents play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @jcvi.org and Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @science.org. ⬇️

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Big up to @rdzombak.bsky.social for bringing eyes to this story. 🧪 So many people beyond my little cohort of fellows are impacted by slowdowns at NOAA. America is rapidly losing footing as a leader in climate science and we all are paying the cost.

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

Hey Rhode Island, we have one like this on the table, the session's not over & the budget's not signed legiscan.com/RI/text/S032...

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪 www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Great talk by @syiwang.bsky.social today !

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities" The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc. The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

“this idea that you get what you voted for… the reality is that me and everybody else I worked with at NOAA really cares about every single one of the hundreds of millions of people in this country. We don’t care what your personal opinions are—we want you to be safe, we want you to be healthy… “

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles. Read and consider signing with your support. www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Six cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the 1st year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @alleninstitute.org, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.bsky.social.

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

Some neighborly actions for the coming week: two sweet hands-on learning opportunities (mobility aid repair & DIY solar for disasters), plus fundraising for a nourishing summer program & a delicious opportunity to tax the rich. neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)

NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening? www.science.org/content/arti...

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

To foster research excellence, institutions should value both researchers and technicians — and facilitate collaborations between them. https://go.nature.com/4iQct4U

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.

NEW: Thousands protested when NYU Langone Hospital cut off healthcare for trans youth. Now, State Senator Kristen Gonzalez says the hospital has assured her they will resume treatment for children who'd been cut off from care. Big win for protesting and organizing. Full story on Assigned Media:

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

Well, it’s been a wildly eventful 100+ days, to say the least. Sharing a few resources that are helping me keep track of it all + a call to action. Protect the Inflation Reduction Act! ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/100-days-e...

Really great to see someone say what needs to be said over and over: lots of those executive orders are bullshit grabs for powers the president doesn't have--unless we give it to him, and that starts through misinformation.

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

This is cool ⬇️

Action Alert: Ask Your U.S. Representative to Support Investment in NSF by signing a Dear Colleague Letter. AIBS has this nice template that you can send to your Rep! www.congressweb.com/AIBS/3?frame...

Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South — after their federal funding from NOAA ran out. Here's why you should care:

#PVDlocal / #RIlocal: Some food distribution, some SEIU picket support, & some funds for our neighbor Diana who is 75 and should not have to be on the street. neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/feed-thy-n...

@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪 It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend

Incredible

"This is not bad science; it's not science. Science is driven by open inquiry, not fixed outcomes. Funneling money into 'research' to find evidence of a predetermined belief will not result in any actual science, but rather disinformation disguised as science." Always read @sabs.bsky.social -

Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%... www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg eos.org/articles/thr... 🌊

SWOT's up? Check out my quick explainer of why oceanographers are excited about observing ocean dynamics from space! 🧪 🛰️

This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.

Now do NIH/NOAA/USDA/NPS/USAID