I’ve been thinking lately about what it means to stay open-hearted in a world that makes it so hard.

What makes a country great in the 21st century is science, and it’s really insane to purposefully destroy its science enterprise.

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Horrible legislation. Dangerous. Evil.

For a bit of context w.r.t. the Texas floods, the intensity of rainfall in this region has likely already increased in the 21st Century and will likely continue to do so:

US folks - please help protect trans healthcare access. Text SIGN PCCOMC to 50409 and letters will be sent to your representatives. 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ 🙏

Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another. Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.

Heartbreaking. The work of thousands of lifetimes, smashed to bits in months

It’s true - our ability to protect the drinking water supply from the Great Lakes has been severely compromised. Trump/DOGE randomly fired people who helped keep the drinking water safe. They slowed our funding to a trickle, harming our ability to deploy buoys for water quality.

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans

2025 Antarctic-related Fellowships for early-career researchers SCAR will offer in total four to five fellowships of up to USD $15,000 each for 2025. The deadline for the applications is 31 July 2025. scar.org/scar-news/20... Apply for the fellowship here: scar.org/awards/fello...

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

Remember: NOAA is not its social media accounts. Do not let the takeover of NOAA communications take away your support of the real NOAA and the very real scientists behind it. The administration would want nothing more than for us to stop supporting our science agencies 🧪

Happy #WorldPenguinDay!! To help celebrate, here is a picture of two Adelie penguins, which I took at the @bas.ac.uk Rothera Research Station a few years ago. I liked the yellow-tinge of sunset in the background. Enjoy 🐧 !! 🧪❄️🥼🌊🐧

Some workers at NOAA who were fired in February, rehired in March and then fired for a second time in April, say the agency has missed some salary payments during that period, and failed to have their health insurance plans restored or provide basic paperwork.

Check out our latest paper, in @naturegeosci.bsky.social - led by the awesome Tasha Lucas...! New insights from autonomous robots into how megabergs impact the ocean and the life within it... @bas.ac.uk 🧪🌊🥼❄️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/u...

Today is trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Check out this fundraising livestream: www.youtube.com/live/NUF6Atv...

🔬Science must remain free from political interference. As Editors-in-Chief of AGU Publications, we reaffirm our commitment to rigorous, independent, and inclusive Earth and space science research. A diverse scientific community strengthens discovery and solutions for society.

Looking for a climate postdoc position? Exciting long-term role at UEA to help develop the widely used climate monitoring datasets CRUTEM and CRU-TS, working with @timosbornclim.bsky.social and others. Deadline: TOMORROW (Fri 28th March). vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Just submitted my first big NSF proposal! 🥳 (I have mostly submitted proposals in the UK up to this point - UKRI, NERC) (And yes, it’s a strange moment to have submitted an NSF proposal…trying to focus on the process and not the outcome) Anyway, I hope we get to do the work🤞

NWS just announced a major reduction in upper-air (weather balloon) observations due to staffing shortages. Omaha and Rapid City losing balloon launches altogether, with launches cut in half at 6 other sites. Losing this many launches could affect severe weather forecasting and computer models.

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.

#StandUpForScience rally from Friday in Lansing Good attendance, good energy It was great to be around other defiant, pro-science people!

🚨**Job advert** 🚨 We are hiring a seagoing technician in Hamburg! Interested in going to sea, handling instrumentation (ship-based, moored, glider) and logistics of research-travel to remote places? See the advert - contact me with any questions. Deadline 4 April. eleanorfrajka.com/post/2025-03...

This is a disaster, and will be particularly bad after a weather disaster. People will die and there will be vast economic costs from this. It's not about saving taxpayers' money. It's about disassembling the government.

These people randomly fired *Zach Labe*, one of the world’s best data visualization experts and an awesome scientist?! (And a really cool guy in general) If there was ever any doubt…there is absolutely no logic to this madness. They are just out to smash everything.

The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!

Signed.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

🤿 HIRING POSTDOC 🤿 🌊 We are hiring a full time postdoc in ecological oceanography (2 yr) at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Seeking excellent candidates w/ experience in coral reef ecology & oceanography to develop research projects in Hawai'i & Okinawa, Japan. ID# 225109 www.rcuh.com/work/careers/

Corewell Health has taken action to restrict access to lifesaving, essential, evidence-based gender-affirming care for young people and their families across our great state. Read Our Letter at bit.ly/corewellletter or 🔗link in bio

Do you want a big overview of NSF, explaining things like the fact that 24% of all federally funded academic fundamental research comes from NSF? And that 94% of its budget goes out the door in grants/awards? Here you go. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Factsh...

In a new article in Reviews of Geophysics, L.G.Bennetts and colleagues explore the complex dynamics of the Southern Ocean, linking the smallest scales of ocean mixing to the global circulation and climate doi.org/10.1029/2022... @agu.org @soosocean.bsky.social #AGUPubs

I’ve started using the word ascientific to describe a lot of what is happening. For example, mandating that sex only be recorded as male and female is ascientific—intersex people exist! Acting like gender doesn’t exist is ascientific—it very much does! Erasing transgender people is also ascientific!

Another update: bsky.app/profile/harv...

Those who can’t get through to your Senators’ phones, please use ResistBot. I’ve used it for years. Text the word Resist to phone number 50409. You’ll get prompts about topics and who to contact. They create a letter and fax it to your Senators. We will be heard! #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

One of the first things Hitler did was destroy and burn trans research at the Institute of Sexology. Trump has spent the past couple weeks systematically attempting to erase any trans related information that he has power over. Just for context, you know.

💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈 Sending love to every trans person right now. You are beautiful and perfect in exactly who you are. You matter and you may not know them all, but there are so many people in community and solidarity with you right now. Trans rights are human rights. 💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈

Importantly it found just 10% of trans youth in the study had actually been allowed to access hormones, so all the terrible things you've heard about trans youth in the UK is under a system *that isn't giving them health care*

This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

This website makes it very easy to find your reps. It even gives you a script you can use when making calls: 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe... It’s a fantastic tool. They cover a wide variety of issues, too. Let your reps hear from you!

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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

I think a decade or so from now "too much screentime can make you think society is collapsing" will be so commonly known that we'll have a name for it and it will be as universally understood as "too much sun can give you a sunburn"