We are hiring! Williams College Geosciences is looking for a 3-year Visiting Assistant Prof. in climate, oceanography, or geomorphology (broadly). Williamstown is a small and lovely place to live in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Application link below ↓ 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ apply.interfolio.com/166059

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Our second protest of the day- hundreds lining the square in Pittsfield, MA.

Lá infheictheachta do dhaoine trasinscneacha sona daoibh! ✨🏳️‍⚧️✨

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

Good reason to bump this from last year on the benefits of automated traffic enforcement. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I stand with Sarah Inama.

A lot of people are reasonably very concerned that a well-liked comedian might be hurt by angry online comments, but are unconcerned that already piled-on and sometimes destitute immigrants might be hurt by false and alarmist online comments because they see the former as a person but not the latter

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

"The idea that scientists can keep... [incorporating] DEI...while adjusting terms to fit the demands of bigoted autocrats bent on hobbling science is to whistle loudly past a graveyard of avoidable error, continued financial cuts and censorship." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I remember having to work with NOAA/NCEP forecasts some years ago: they were open access even though ECMWF winds were a bit better (but badly underestimated storms). Now that ECMWF winds are getting even better they are also becoming open access!! Very proud to be European.

STRESS KILLS. 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.   The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich. We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Super excited that this amazing book is finally available for preorder. It was written by over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world and contains stories, poetry, and critical thought pieces on how TEK is used and extracted from our communities and what folks are doing to protect it.

Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

The WilliamsMystic Coastal & Ocean Studies Program @williamsmystic.bsky.social is a phenomenal interdisciplinary semester—science, history, literature, policy—for undergraduates from any major, anywhere. Lots of travel & original research & close mentoring. Tell your students/kids/friends! 🧪⚒️🌊 🌎

Trump accuses Ireland of stealing US companies in meeting with taoiseach

Misty morning view of Small Skellig, showcasing Ireland's rugged charm and circling seabirds. Want to bring this home? https://petercox.ie/products/irl-ky-129-small-skellig #Ireland #DiscoverKerry #WildAtlanticWay

French solidarity with #standupforscience2025. What a crowd! Photo from IUEM (Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer/European Institute For Marine Studies) in Brittany sent by Serge Suanez. ❤️Merci à tous 🧪🌎 ⚒️🌊

New research reveals the surprising ways atmospheric winds influence ocean eddies, shaping the ocean’s weather patterns in more complex ways than previously believed. Read about this new theory by @urochester.bsky.social scientists: bit.ly/3QxMm6V

This #InternationalWomensDay EGU also recognise the way that diversity in science includes many marginalised identities, which often intersect with & compound the barriers to science for women & people across the gender spectrum. Read more: www.egu.eu/7C8COX/

A glossy Shag on the lookout at Banneg Island, Brittany. #birds #oiseaux 🐦🪶 Also, Armorican granite, very nice ⚒️

Local rally in Williamstown MA on the Williams College campus (Science quad) at noon! Google Maps location code: PQ6V+RRV 🧪⚒️🌊 🌎 #standupforscience2025 ‪@standupforscience.bsky.social‬

Standing up and speaking truth

The Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs are a wonderful way for young people to develop professional science skills through hands-on immersion, developing the cutting-edge researchers of the future. Cutting them is bad news. 🧪🌊 ⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...

Damn. If only there were a way to prevent measles AND rubella at the same time

Fun story about people throwing money into the ocean.

All those lovely soggy boggy areas in the west of Ireland. Get me my wellies, I want to go tussock hopping. 🧪 ⚒️ eos.org/articles/whe...

So glad to see this, @geosociety.bsky.social ! 🧪 ⚒️

Dear manager: 1: I went to the doctor 2: I went to the mountains 3: I looked to the children 4: I drank from the fountains 5: There's more than one answer to these questions

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m OK with people using “gulf of whatever” like the english call “the Channel” what we and the spanish call La Manche or the spanish and english call the “Bay of Biscay” what we call “Golfe de Gascogne”. But everybody knows where the “Gulf of Mexico” is and this should be our guiding principle. 🌊

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.

Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

Sign our pledge! We call on all scientists to join us in declaring unwavering support for evidence-based policy-making, human rights, advocacy for the scientific enterprise, and for one another. As women and gender minorities in STEMM, we accept this challenge. 500womenscientists.org/join-us-2024

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nearly 11% of the NSF workforce was fired today. this WILL slow scientific progress. this is hurting families. we need to educate folks about all the GOOD that the gov't can do! To help @500womensci.bsky.social has made social media cards for what #NSF funds in each state: bit.ly/NSF_bystate

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

More from the "famous people and their pet birds" calendar by @markbrandriss.bsky.social. February is Lincoln's Sparrow (beside a Lincoln's Sparrow from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social's Project FeederWatch). 🙂 Birds and humour help keep light in the world for me right now. #birds 🪶

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

Rubies are red, sapphires are blue, because Al3+ substitutes for Ti4+ and Fe2+ #GeoValentine

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. ~Bill Bullard

My shop is back! (and everything is 15% off for a couple more days) I've been meaning to move my shop out of Etsy (and into my website) for a while...but just can't seem to find the time. So, for now, it is back where it was, and open for business :) #SciArt #EarthScientists