As food prices surge, the Trump admin cancels a critical hunger study. “It’s the latest sign that the president and his allies are hell-bent on eliminating science and data that don’t support their political agenda.” -my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...

🌎🧪Over 1,000+ scientists joined together to defend the EPA's Endangerment Finding, and you have SIX DAYS to make your voice heard too.

This #USDA reorg plan is bad for farmers, bad for food, and bad for all of us. My colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social explains why: blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...

Industrial meat & poultry plants dump tons of pollution into our waters—our research shows how much Tyson alone released in just 5 years. Yet the Trump #EPA won’t update weak, outdated effluent rules, again putting Industrial Ag profits over your right to #cleanwater 🧪 bit.ly/4p19Lh0

Molecular biology meets visual storytelling ✨🧬🧪. This video is mesmerizing. The potential for novel flu treatment is inspiring. But realizing that potential depends on sustained investment in science. #FundNSF #FundNIH #FundAllTheScience

Always great to see states taking strong action to protect water quality—esp at a time when the fed government is determined to do the opposite (see: this morning’s EPA #PFAS announcement). Kudos to @govwesmoore.bsky.social & other MD leaders for stepping up to safeguard our health & environment! 🌊

The Trump administration has proposed “reinterpreting” which wetlands & streams are protected under the Clean Water Act. Last week I testified to EPA & urged the agency to preserve protections for these waters—and now you can too. Here’s how to weigh in & why it matters: blog.ucs.org/stacy-woods/...

NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

"This ruling is an abuse of science." 👏🦀🏳️‍⚧️

What a loss for environmental and public health science 🧪—not to mention the incredible staff, reviewers, and authors who make Environmental Health Perspectives what it is. Sincerely hoping this publication “pause” is only temporary.

Trump opened up about 84% of the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument industrial fishing That's about 1/3 of all protected waters in the entire country Here are some things you can do to express your displeasure www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

Brings new meaning to "Off to see the wizard"! 👁️✨🌈🧪

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

🧪 Wetlands help stem floods along the Mississippi River—ranked “most endangered” by @americanrivers.bsky.social due to worsening floods. Yet Trump’s #EPA is stripping protections from more wetlands. 📝 Use our guide to urge EPA to protect wetlands. Comments close 4/23! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I just don’t understand the nostalgia for the grand ole’ days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the Dust Bowl, and Love Canal.

Farmland consolidation fuels inequality and damages soil and water quality. My colleague @omanjana21.bsky.social unpacked this in a blog a few years back, and it's definitely worth a re-read: blog.ucs.org/omanjana-gos...

More cows with H1N1, just as the Trump admin plans more cuts to USDA—an agency that helps stop outbreaks AND supports farmers who lose livestock to illness. Dismantling USDA now would be a disaster—for farmers and for public health. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

The dire wolf discourse is absolutely sending me. Thank you, Science Bluesky.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

I think they need a tl;dr on storm surge vs. sea level rise. Moving your vacation home back a quarter inch won’t save it if you keep ignoring climate change and flooding...

Took the scenic route. Still arrived on time.

Incredible chart of market performance over the first 100 days of the last four presidential administrations, from @jhelvy.bsky.social: jhelvy.github.io/potus-econ-s...

We're in the midst of an early season severe weather outbreak and these are the storm reports from ONE day of this storm season. All of the warnings and responses that occurred for these events - including life threatening flooding and tornadoes - happen with data distributed through NWS sources.

Some emotional support manatees for your Friday.

On a really tough day for #publichealth, a much-needed #water win. Thank you to everyone fighting to protect our health & our environment. Your work matters.

I'm excited (and slightly terrified) to share that over 400 people have signed up to hear me talk about #wetlands on Thursday. But the best part about Zoom is that there is always room for more, so you can join us too! Register here: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-2-27-...

I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like: --Canada's cool, leave them be --Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus --We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it --Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice

Just a reminder that somewhere, a group of scientists is conducting research about our planet that will change our understanding of our home world forever. That doesn't mean we always look sane doing it, but we're out there working to advance #science for everyone.

"Our rivers were literally on fire prior to the Clean Water Act and any step back to those days, any step to limit what water sources receive protections, is a step in the wrong direction." - American Rivers President and CEO Tom Kiernan

I doubt Trump’s #EPA intended to highlight @americanrivers.bsky.social on-point response to yesterday’s disastrous WOTUS announcement in their news release, but it was refreshing to see a glimpse of environmental stewardship amid all the other nonsense. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Oof. As a DC resident, this quote hits home and my heart. No Vote = No Voice. That’s why the 679K residents of this amazing place deserve #DCstatehood NOW.

"While egg prices have received a lot of attention, let’s not forget that bird flu is first and foremost a looming public health crisis." In a blog post, my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social considers whether the Trump administration is equipped to handle it (spoiler alert: It's not.)

As long as I live, I will never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion-dollar corporations to dump poison in the water my children drink” became popular politics with half the country. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi... 🌎🧪

During today’s televised announcement of wetland protection rollbacks, #EPA Admin Lee Zeldin touted the agency’s core mission "to protect human health and the environment." This… is the opposite of that, Lee.

🚨Today Trump's #EPA issued guidance that reinterprets the Clean Water Act & puts wetlands & rural communities at risk. Backed by industrial ag, this move prioritizes corporate profit over the environment, farmers, and communities that benefit from #wetlands. 📢 Read more: www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

The public's #data belong to the public. I wrote about what’s at stake as the #TrumpAdmininstration strips information from federal websites—and our fight to protect what they don’t want you to see. Read more: blog.ucsusa.org/stacy-woods/...

Looking for rescued federal #data? Have rescued data to share? Check out the Data Rescue Project @datarescueproject.org (formerly Data Rescue 2025)

I'll just leave this here... www.ucsusa.org/resources/we...

Once again: If this doesn't scare you, you're reading it wrong. #freepress

The #datascience resistance is here and it is AMAZING. From CDC to USAID to CEQ and EPA, disappeared data is being saved and shared by folks across the country, and @datarescue2025.bsky.social is compiling this incredible work. Federal data was collected for the people, and we won’t let it go dark.

This is wild. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

As a career “left wing green,” we’ve never stopped fighting water, air, & soil pollution, and we never will. But we also know that #climatechange directly threatens the air we breathe, the water we drink, & the soil that grows our food. To care about these things means caring about the climate too.

"But although the far right is pointing out legitimate problems — which concern mainstream environmentalists, too — supporting Trump and deregulation is likely only going to make them worse." Really interesting & thorough reporting by @benjij.bsky.social

Check out @ucsusa.bsky.social "Save Science, Save Lives" letter. It's for individual signatures, but prob of interest to your sci societies members! secure.ucsusa.org/a/2024-save-...

If you or your organization has a federal grant even remotely related to climate, environmental justice, or any kind of work at all related to making the world a better place -- I want to know how you're doing and can help you tell your story in the press. Contact me securely on Signal: 3162958947

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

If this doesn't scare the shit out of you, you're reading it wrong.

Question for open data or geospatial folks: we've digitised some maps on PDFs from a govt site. We'd like to make the shapefiles available on GH. Our lawyer is trying to work out whether our ownership of the intellectual property is sufficient for that. Can anyone point to guidance that might help?

Happening now: My colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social is live...skying? the confirmation hearing of Brooke Rollins, Trump's nominee to lead #USDA

And so begins the assault on data access. Hoping this is just a brief pause—but fearing that critical data will indeed vanish from public view.