How I feel as a former climate geologist, current science journalist, and presently sweating midwesterner:

This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

WIN: A court ordered the Trump-Vance admin to stop censoring science and history at national parks – and within three weeks restore any materials it altered or removed. This ruling ensures that America's largest classroom will continue to tell our country's vital stories. #OurParksOurHistory

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

Things are grim, so do what you can in your community. Today, I volunteered at a county conservation district Native plant sale. We are also fostering this sleepy doggo. Do good where you can

Mangroves cover <1% of Earth’s surface but account for a whopping 15% of global ocean carbon storage. New research by scientists @exeter.ac.uk + colleagues shows rising seas might cause mangroves to lose their grip on carbon storage. 🧪 Words by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...

This is an absolute tragedy that will haunt us for decades (a declaration I make all too often these days).

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:

Bullshit. Struggling with writing is an important part of the process. We think, try, delete, rephrase, come up with the perfect angle while taking a walk. AI is a scourge

I talked to ASCE's president Carol Haddock about her time as Houston’s acting director of public works during Hurricane Harvey. Hear how she managed emergency services from a hemisphere away, lessons learned during the storm and how they implimented new design standards: www.asce.org/publications...

Join @miscicom.org in June for a fun talk and discussion of crafting casual science communication! See deets 👇

This is one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump go.nature.com/4uCofWP

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Science journalists: Apply for the $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award! The prize recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist and includes a grant for a significant reporting project. Deadline: April 30. More information and the submission link at CASW.org

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

We figured out the monitor disaster and got people playing the game.

“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility … congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place.” - @moryan.bsky.social

Must-read reporting by @virginiagewin.bsky.social on how US federal actions are affecting science. By pairing the scale of the damage with the very human, personal stories behind the numbers, she paints a powerful and comprehensive picture of just how thoroughly US science is being hollowed out.

🧪 This is honestly heartbreaking. Over 7,800 research grants were cancelled or frozen in 2025. The Nature visualizes the scale of these terminations at the NIH and NSF, particularly those affecting infectious disease research and clinical trials. #AcademicSky

What's driving the US's Greenland obsession? Likely a combination of geopolitical location and potential resources. But the island is remote, ice-covered, and an autonomous territory- facts that should not be ignored. The BBC updated/reposted a story I wrote last year: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Happy Pie-For-Breakfast season! 🥧

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think we have all driven over a bridge that make us nervous— this “temporary’ bridge in Mass. has lingered way past t its original 4-yr lifespan (4 decades!). It’s now being replaced and will be safer, wider, and have walking/bike paths. www.asce.org/publications...

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Excuse you! If humans can reach net negative carbon emissions over the next few centuries, researchers suspect the Southern Ocean will “burp” built-up heat into the atmosphere. eos.org/research-spo...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country. Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Satellites might be able to fill in gaps in understanding about urban greenhouse gas emissions. Story by @sarahderouin.com eos.org/research-spo...

Grim findings from Georgetown scholars on SNAP funding www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

I haven’t been a field geologist for more than a decade, yet throwing out these old notebooks is proving hard. There’s a lot of work (and geography) filling these pages 🧪

The National Park Service faced a deadline this week to address signs that "inappropriately disparage" historical figures. One target is George Washington's house in Philadelphia, where he held enslaved people. n.pr/46rokSO

New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials. Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Coal production, and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, could drop sharply in the next quarter century, according to new #AGUPubs research. Story by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...

I love seeing Matt’s @retrodotcards.com games come to life. But the tributes to our beloved dog Franny makes everything he does so much sweeter.

The Edelman Fossil Park & Museum is a fantastic blend of architecture and smart engineering. Designers and engineers melded mass timber, low-carbon concrete and renewable energy to take sustainability to a new level. My latest for ASCE: www.asce.org/publications...

Tomorrow 1PM ET: My colleague @sarahderouin.com will be hosting a supportive virtual gathering for caregivers who are members of @sciencewriters.org . Join me! 
Event link: www.nasw.org/events/careg...
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Proud of @retrodotcards.com creator Matt Greer and a recent article in 404 media about his work: www.404media.co/balatro-port...

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

Cutting down trees in Brazil is causing it to rain less. New research in @aguadvances.bsky.social, words by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...

New research estimates that over the past 30 years, nearly 700,000 people died prematurely as a result of combined heat and pollution events. Eighty percent of these deaths were in the Global South. Words by @sarahderouin.com eos.org/research-spo...

The Trump administration has all but stopped enforcing environmental laws. grist.org/accountabili... #EPA #Environment #Pollution #Climate #Laws #Regulation

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Pairing firsthand knowledge with scientific data collection can help communities predict neighborhood flooding risks. How a community science effort identified flooding hazards on Little Cumberland Island, Ga. Story by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...

Official confirmation now from USDA terminating the Expanding #Agroforestry Project effective immediately Amazing they didn’t work “woke” into this disdainful press release that will hobble climate smart ag and hurt actual farmers: www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

The fate of billions of dollars in farm conservation funding that was to be spent over the next several years, including hundreds of millions of dollars in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, is in limbo as the USDA reviews its programs and grants