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...

"our data centres use hardly any water!" "oh, how much do they use then?" "it's a secret" www.roanokerambler.com/google-striv...

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

431,000 households in Michigan rely on this funding to heat and cool their homes. Most of the northern part of the state also just got hit by a massive ice storm and then more snow last night. This is unconscionable. #LIHEAP

These trees are into getting shocked. Dipteryx oleifera towers above the rest of Panama’s rainforest — arboreal lightning rods. They’re more likely to survive ⚡ than their neighbors, giving them a competitive edge. Read more at: @nytscience.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/s...

Farmers- and the communities they feed- are facing devastating uncertainty after this administration’s federal funding cuts. I talked to Appalachian farmers and agroforestry groups for my latest @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/04/as-u...

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

A new study from @harvardoeb.bsky.social found that 21% of the greenhouse gases in groundwater are emitted into the air before the water integrates into streams. Words by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...

"Crowds Stand Up for Science Across the United States" by Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Emily Dieckman, Jennifer Schmidt and Grace van Deelen for @americangeo.bsky.social #Eos: eos.org/articles/cro...

Extreme weather can affect the spread of diseases like malaria, dengue fever, & cholera. New research explores how these climate patterns can interact with population immunity, affecting disease spread years after the climate event itself. Story by @sarahderouin.bsky.social. eos.org/research-spo...

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Farmers #Farms #Food #Agriculture

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Removing public data about science, health, and the environment creates dire consequences. Science journalism outlets wrote to govt agencies, urging them to restore tax payer-funded information. Read here: casw.org/news/journal...

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent two days of confirmation hearings claiming not to hold positions he's held for years, reversing statements he previously made, and denying saying things he said. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we examined some of the wilder ones: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

hi any NASA / FDA / DHHS people: i write for Popular Science, and right we all know how much that concept is getting forcibly pushed aside... unpopular pseudoscience would love to chat securely about the current situation with y'all

Hi again folks: If you're an NSF panel reviewer whose panel was canceled today -- or if you have submitted a proposal/grant application and are worried about it -- would love to chat with you today. Feel free to DM or email!

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Ventura County strawberry workers are harvesting in heavy smoke from the Hughes Fire. We remind workers their employers have to provide them with respirator masks if the AQI exceeds 150. Stay safe! #WeFeedYou

I had an interview set up for tomorrow with a scientist at Lawrence Livermore for a story... and they just cancelled because, "LLNL has been asked by the administration’s transition team to pause all media interactions for the foreseeable future." I guess this is how it's going to be. 🧪

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions