Isabella Oleksy's Mountain Limnology Lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. Their investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are changing in the Anthropocene www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025... @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social & @jbaron4.bsky.social

NSF staff release their appeal—slightly different format than the declarations of dissent from EPA/NIH/NASA; a more formal petition to Congress to redress attacks on the agency and its employees. 149 signatories (48 named) democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Why was a remote alpine lake in Colorado's Weminuche Wilderness turning green? And how do pack mules help? @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social's Mountain Limnology Lab features in this unique & collaborative story: Read it at doi.org/10.1002/lob.... Video clips www.youtube.com/watch?v=31lb...

I am proud of this piece that my lab wrote about the collaboration we began last summer with the US Forest Service in CO-- an effort to understand why remote, high elevation lakes in the Wilderness are greening. We need publicly funded science now more than ever: doi.org/10.1002/lob.... @aslo.org

Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.

🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech. From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:

👏🏽 Congrats to the faculty supporting @colorado.edu undergrads on UROP research projects, incl INSTAARs 👤 @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social: Mountain lakes & carbon cycling 👤 Katharine Suding: Grassland ecosystems, alpine fungi & plants 👤 @drscottataylor.bsky.social: Songbird breeding, adaptation, & memory

France opens its doors to science researchers and scholars, including those fleeing the United States. anr.fr/en/latest-ne...

NSF grant termination tracker: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... The sick irony? One of the 10 grants cancelled at CU Boulder is a CAREER award about combatting censorship on the internet.

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

Boston researchers analyzed data from over 375,000 US adults and found that nearly 1 in 7 reported long COVID by late 2023. Those affected faced higher risks of unemployment, hardship, anxiety, and $218B in lost wages. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚨 HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES STUDENT SYMPOSIUM • Thu-Fri, April 10-11 • @colorado.edu SEEC S372 & online • Register by April 9 • For grads & undergrads, researchers, & faculty. Non-CU folks too! www.colorado.edu/program/hydr... Speakers incl INSTAARs D. McKnight, L. Sunberg, & @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social

The NIH-funded Haskell-KU Bridges Program was terminated. It was one of the longest running programs of its kind, placing >130 Native American students into STEM labs over the last ~25 years. So many alums spoke of this program as being the entry point to their interest, and later, careers in STEM.

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤

Good to be back in the great state of Michigan! 🌊

Wildlife contributes to human well-being and values in visible and invisible ways that are under-recognized or dominated by conflict narratives. We review these critical contributions and what research and policy is needed to protect them: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

UNDERGRAD SUMMER FIELD COURSES at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station 🌱 Vegetation 🦅 Birds 🧬 Bioinformatics 🦠 Microbes 🚣‍♀️ Lakes+streams 🌲 Forests+fire Each 2-3 wks, 3 transferable credits, 15 students/class, lodging&food included w tuition ENROLLMENT STARTS 10 MAR www.colorado.edu/mrs/student-...

🏆 Congrats to SCOTT TAYLOR for receiving a 2025 CU Boulder Faculty Excellence Award! He is recognized for Excellence in Leadership & Service by the Boulder Faculty Assembly & will receive a monetary prize + more. Thx for your hard work @drscottataylor.bsky.social 🙏🏽 www.colorado.edu/bfa/excellen...

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

Your model is your hypothesis. So, why not use multiple of them? Championed by Feldbauer & Mesman, in our fresh-off-the-press paper we highlight the performance of temperature models across the globe, and discuss the path forward to get better projections! hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...

American Fisheries Society, Society of American Foresters, Society for Range Management, and The Wildlife Society issue a public statement against the cuts to the federal workforce and how this will impact natural resource conservation in the USA. fisheries.org/2025/02/natu...

#Denver #Colorado #StandUpForScience Capitol Building Friday, March 7th 1pm-4pm

GOOD QUESTION “How many U.S. Forest Service employees have been terminated since January 20, 2025?“ Please also seek how many of those terminated employees held a “red card” qualifying them to assist in wildfire response. Leaders own their choices. Sec. Rollins should own this one, and answer.

Reporter @klburke.bsky.social dives into how these PhD researchers left the academic track to forge independent research careers in rural, small town or hometown locations and how you could do it, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spending $20M per year to protect a multibillion dollar fishery is obviously a wise investment - as is apparent to anyone whose intelligence has not been eroded by extremist political ideology. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

actual civic service

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Listen to this out of spite for the lobbyists out there trying to convince the world that cigarettes don’t cause cancer or that lead totally isn’t bad for you

fed jobs and universities are what made nearly every amenity-rich Western recreation town desirable places to live in the first place

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

If you are a federal employee then pin this post & copy the link. This living resource will help you plan for what is coming. It covers prepping for terminations, paths forward, legal actions, lawyers, reporters & news agencies, etc. bit.ly/getreadyfed

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

not quite as clean as I'd like it for sharing - needs a readme and the abbreviations for the directorates - but here you go, better than the xlsx they shared. data in the data_clean folder. github.com/embruna/cruz...

USAID, NOAA …

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that it's okay to not be okay. I'm overwhelmed by everything and very much LIVID at what's happening. Things are bad and unprecedented. Know I love you all. Science is real. Trans people deserve life and happiness. Your feelings are valid. YOU are valid.

Fight back, prepare for the worst and choose your allies with merciless scrutiny. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/pol...

watch, you'll feel better.

Keep pushing back. Hard. He blinked on tariffs. His California water stunt failed and has been ridiculed. He was forced to roll back cutting grants and govt payments. NSF support is resuming. CDC webpages are being restored. Street protests are starting. Lawsuits are being filed. Fight back.

Against anticipatory obedience. www.aaup.org/news/against...