The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

The plan from the government to use politics to pick winners in R&D affects way more than just science. I talked about the way it affects environmental research, and how it would stop our understanding of how vulnerable communities are affected by pollution: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Easy to miss this in all the other bad news for climate and science this week. Can't even report on GHGs in the US, let alone regulate them apparently. apnews.com/article/sec-...

Environmental damage: global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world apnews.com/article/ai-d...

Scientists live-streaming for 50 hours to highlight the importance of science to society and warning that cutting funds for research has dangerous consequences: www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

If this OMB rule goes through, it is not hyperbole to say that US scientific research on climate change (of which the federal government has been largest funder) will come to a screeching halt. Political appointees will be able to cancel ANY grant on disfavored topics www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Rutgers has played a key role in the OOI since inception-horrible to see such a fundamental monitoring system being demolished for no reason. Perhaps Congress might like to weigh in on the waste of money if we tear down something we already built? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Biodiversity chapter of Fifth National Climate Assessment that I led noted North Atlantic Right Whales as key species already vulnerable & further endangered by #climatechange Glad to see so many working on saving these amazing creatures- another example of why we need federal investment in science!

Calling all scientists! If you are interested in action against the proposed OMB rule that would politicize all federal science grants, please join the Stand up for Science call this week! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

"Knowledge, once learned, cannot be taken away," Federal funds may completely disappear… but "it's not going to take away the truth, and we have that knowledge now, and we will continue on our path to protect what's out there." www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n... Via @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s newsletter.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

“Food is going to become less affordable.” Economists warn El Niño and the Iran war haven’t yet fully hit US food prices, which were already rising www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On this Memorial Day, as we remember our military sacrifices, here's a way nature can potentially help prevent conflicts: in Europe, peatland restoration on borderlands provides a defense against Russian tanks www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/c...

WTH? The political interference with science to no clear aim other than chaos continues....

🌿 The challenge is big, but we are not starting from zero. The evidence is here. The tools exist. The next step is action to support stronger action for biodiversity, climate, food, water, health and sustainable development. 🔊 Hear from @pammcelwee.bsky.social at the #BESPINtrialogue in Skopje. ⬇️

Massive fuel tanker 🔥 in central NJ this am sent black smoke over sport fields where our local kids had season championships for lacrosse and softball 😡😷😡 Remind me when the last time a solar panel or wind turbine sent pollution and caused injuries like this? www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/l...

Climate change always intersects with other drivers - here, deforestation plus climate change creates greater and earlier risks for tipping points in the Amazon system www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

The NEH lawsuit win is featured in the Atlantic, including this great quote from the judge in the case 😀 I am very much looking forward to being able to access my grant funds again to continue work on my book on the environmental legacies of the Vietnam War (also not DEI).

The best news and birthday present- winning this case and hopefully will get my grant reinstated soon!

I know in the firestorm of problems this is very minor, but if you've ever worked in DC in the Eisenhauer EOB (as I have) or just admired it from outside, please make a comment against this dumb proposal to paint it white (you can guess who wants it) Comments due by Wed! www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

I have made this point multiple times in relation to the Vietnam War 50+ years ago - we weren't monitoring impacts and so we don't have baselines to understand what war did to the Vietnam environment. Now we have satellite data & other advances and should use them www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today is the 51st anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This piece I wrote last year is still very much true: theconversation.com/50-years-lat...

The US paid $750 million to WHO in 2024, and about $7 million to support UNFCCC for climate. Trump's ballroom and arch are estimated to be $400+ million. My head hurts.

The Consortium of Social Science Associations is collecting information from social & behavioral science community on how recent Executive Actions affect research and the scientific workforce, including proposed elimination of SBE at NSF Please share your stories! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s shocking what has happened to EPA’s Office of Research and Development. I used to be on the external science advisory board to ORD helping provide ideas and feedback to an amazing collection of scientists. Now they’ve been fired or relocated and ORD is no more 😡 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

Zero surprise ASU did this to their professors www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

The latest chapter of the GOP war on science: House science committee leaders—who've taken nearly $550K from #fossilfuel interests—are accusing the nation's premier science org of bias and conflicts of interest for fast-tracking its report on #climate science. insideclimatenews.org/news/2404202...

2023 @IPBES.net invasive alien species assessment stressed the damage these opportunistic organisms can wreak on native vegetation. NJ taking action to limit sales and spread of some invasives that gardeners may have been using yet unaware of their ecosystem costs www.nj.com/politics/202...

Well if you start from the Franco-Vietnam war before the US got deeply involved… 30 years. That what he’s proposing?

A team of academics looked into the environmental & climate claims of the meat & dairy industry from 2021-2024, to try to determine what percentage of those claims qualified as "greenwashing." The good news: it wasn't 100%! The bad news: it was, uh, 98%.

Our Earth is amazing. Let's not let big tech companies show us pretty pictures but work to undermine our life support systems #EarthDay

On this #EarthDay, let's remember that when we protect the environment, we also protect our health and wellbeing. Right now the US administration is doing the opposite www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Some needed good news: Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ www.carbonbrief.org/clean-energy...

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

Vietnam farmers facing impossible fertilizer costs for rice. Factories in Bangladesh can’t churn out fast fashion due to polyester shortages. Cancelled air flights and steep declines in tourism. All due to dependence on fossil fuels and current skyrocketing costs www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

Asia is reeling from the Iran war in terms of government and consumer responses to reduce fuel use. While this is helping to relieve short-term pain, all of these countries need long-term solutions like 100% renewables and electrificaiton www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

As someone who used to be on the Board of Scientific Counselors providing outside science advice to EPA’s ORD, this is excruciating. No more ORD, no more independent advice, no more scientific discovery that doesn’t fit with political appointees views.

A must read. Blocking climate policy was the instigation for the birth of the Supreme Court shadow docket. Let’s be very clear that ‘vote for the climate candidate’ is hollow advice when 1) our courts don’t understand climate science 2) rightwing justices change procedures to prevent climate action

Would be great if we could get the term #climate-flation into US discourse as well, because there is no doubt that some commodities are rising in price due to climate impacts (eg chocolate), as well as the impacts of war, trade disruptions, and tariffs weadapt.org/knowledge-ba...

Please raise your voice to oppose the dissolution of the SBE directorate at #NSF, and with it, elimination of support for all social science research. Check out the action opportunities at cossa.org/action-cente...

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

Check out this new paper - but also let's be clear that we are not doing the things we need to be doing to stop the next pandemic! USAID funded many projects aimed at both reductions in wildlife trade and disease surveillance - and now it is gone 🥺 We need a new governance and funding strategy, stat

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don’t miss this piece by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social on #climate science being dismantled at NASA even as we celebrate Artemis II www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

"Where does your food come from? The supermarket or a local farm, you might think, or maybe you even grow your own. But really the answer is fossil fuels – and thanks to the ongoing Iran war, you are going to start noticing that." www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

A problem we warned about in 5th National Climate Assessment: changes in timing of plants and animals can have major economic and cultural impacts. Flower festivals depend on having flowers - what happens when timing, location and quality changes? 🧪 #climatechange www.science.org/content/arti...