The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous: climate change green decarbonization emissions energy transition sustainability sustainable clean energy dirty energy carbon footprint CO₂ footprint tax breaks tax credits subsidies

EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Congress is considering a budget request that proposes slashing the federal science agencies by up to 50%. These cuts would devastate @UCSanDiego & Scripps Oceanography by cutting off funding for critical research and innovation. Tell Congress to invest in science! #SpeakUp4Science

My group at NOAA/Miami is hiring a postdoc to lead a marine eDNA biodiversity effort (Bio-GO-SHIP). You'll develop and deploy high-throughput metabarcoding assays for ocean DNA. Help make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring! t.co/p53s7E0YiL

How are we not talking more about his history of abusing women to the point where his former wife committed suicide? Everyone should read “Ask Not: The Kennedy Men and the Women they Destroyed” to learn more.

National Guard doing landscaping in McPherson Square. Washington, DC

In this increasingly dark time, find some empathy with the permanent dwellers of the deep, beautifully portrayed in this @npr.org comic with the help of my wonderful @noaa.gov colleague Noelle Bowlin! www.npr.org/2025/07/21/g...

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

This piece by @clauswilke.com on LLMs as the graduate student from hell is one of the funniest (and truest) things I've read this year. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

New Paper: We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Proud to be part of this paper discussing the all the benefits of oceangoing vessels for advancing research, not only in oceanography but biology, climate science, and so many other fields! doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

🤔How does defunding #oceanscience jeopardize US ntl security? Hear from #WHOI's @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @scrippsocean.bsky.social Dir. Margaret Leinen + Ret. Admiral John Richardson in @washingtonpost.com: go.whoi.edu/ocean-science-national-security #TogetherforScience @savensf.bsky.social

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Excited to share my new study comparing shotgun metagenomes with metabarcoding for detecting eukaryotes in the ocean! Out today in @mbmg.pensoft.net mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1449...

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that...the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%...'It’s a nightmare,' Simon says. 'I really fear for the future of science.'" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Senate Republicans just passed the worst environmental law in U.S. history. Oil CEOs will start cracking open the champagne on their yachts. The rest of us will have higher prices, fewer jobs, more heat waves, and worse climate disasters. Here are the details ➡️

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. (Published April)

I was having lunch with an NSF program manager when her cell phone lit up, all with messages about the overhead rate. We won! The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts said NSF can't reduce the overhead rate to 15% for universities! 🥳 cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Brutally accurate description of the destruction NOAA, and what it means for US science and the environment . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Key snow and ice datasets from @nsidc.bsky.social may no longer be maintained or updated after a loss of support from NOAA. eos.org/research-and...

Great piece about the valuable work NOAA does!

#metabarcoding resources support #eDNA applications

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

Two undergrads in my lab were URISE scholars. One is graduating, but the other was counting on the funds to support her tuition next year (as well as a paycheck). Accepting any recommendations for fellowships she can apply for. She is hispanic if that helps and interested in viral ecology.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

President Trump and Elon Musk have already laid off about 10% of NOAA’s staff, and no one knows how far DOGE plans to go. These cuts have immediate and rippling effects on our ability to understand, manage, and respond to environmental crises. 🧵👇

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

I will rally in North County San Diego tomorrow against this fascist regime. Join me or find another rally near you! #standupforscience #handsoff

Thanks @scrippsocean.bsky.social Comms Team for their nice writeup of our reference barcoding how-to guide! Very proud of our West Coast @obon-ocean.bsky.social team (+ a few friends). We hope this work will help others interested in improving our #eDNA databases. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gui...

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Great to feel the rage and energy today in San Diego #standupforscience

A new study by Hakai Institute and @ubcoceans.bsky.social contributes to the growing evidence that environmental DNA (eDNA) is an effective tool to study complex marine zooplankton communities, challenging the view that eDNA is imprecise or unreliable. Full paper 🔗https://tinyurl.com/34nffdk4

HEY SOCAL & LA FRIENDS! We’ve gotten a TON of questions about how to get involved in SoCal/LA—and here’s the answer! ☀️🌎⬇️ Spread the word & tag someone in LA that should check it out!

🧪 🌊 🧬 Environmental DNA is a powerful tool that can transform monitoring of ocean health. MBARI technology to collect the genetic fingerprints of marine life is central to the new National Aquatic eDNA Strategy released by @WHOSTP. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-t...

Excited to share West Coast OBON’s Introduction to Developing #DNA Reference Barcode Sequences! This collaborative work provides a step-by-step approach to collecting and processing specimens, as well as generating and reporting the resulting nucleotide sequence data. 🧪🌊🧬🦀 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

This week was devastating for federal science. By terminating the most recent hires, we are losing the most talented, hungry, and passionate group of employees who were advancing government science in incredible ways. 1/N