Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

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@robmayeda.bsky.social any ideas why the air quality keeps getting so bad even after we have storms?

@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social any idea why the air quality in the bay area is so persistently bad recently? It cleared with the storm this morning but is getting worse again already. Seems unusual, even for winter

When you confuse the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit with the Short-form Fiction Summit