Absolutely delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 26-27 postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships at @sciencehistory.org! 📚 🎉 Details and application info on our website; questions welcome here! www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/a...

"How AIP is Giving a Name to Mrs. Scientist" -> www.aip.org/mrs-scientist Excited to see this overview of some of the reparative description work that AIP's Niels Bohr Library and Archives team is doing with our photo collections.

Deadline for comment on EPA endangerment finding extended to 22 Sept. Please send a comment. Here's a good piece with some ideas, and you don't have to be a scientist to comment. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

I know there's a lot of news rn but @eroston.bsky.social, @zhirji.bsky.social and I wrote a full accounting of the Trump administration's war on climate science and clean energy. Putting it all in one place was a lot!

Here’s the @eandhwhp.bsky.social link on new plastic bag #envhist from Nils Johansson — develops R&D, early adoption of plastic carrier bags in Sweden, adding to the impt work from Johan Hagberg, Andrea Westermann h/t @elsadevienne.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epdf/10....

And if you're looking for more on #envhist plastic bags, How to Read Plastic Bag from the @sciencehistory.org 's @rogerturner.bsky.social is fun: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/exhibi...

The NOAA budget justification doc that finally was posted today didn't contain a lot of surprises - but as the first time all of the cuts were listed in their destructive detail, it is a depressing read. I tried to distill and explain the weather part, sad as it is. substack.com/@balancedwea...

USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

I found these insights helpful in guiding a colleague’s powerful but undirected need to do something in response to… everything.

The rush for renewable energy minerals has a dark side—environmental harm & human rights abuses. Clean energy’s path must be smarter & more responsible. A Quick thread from our new mining series 🧵... #Mining #Renewables #EV #Solar #Batteries #Climate

This thread led me to this book. “The story of refugees from Nazi Europe has been told many times, but Laurel Leff’s focused, well-researched book sheds new light on part of it: how academic refugees struggled to find safety in the American university system.” www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/as-s...

Another example of the crucial public services provided by government that only government can plausibly do. So destructive to cut this, but will take a few years for the damage to manifest.

Special Balanced Weather substack article about the announced reduction to NWS upper air weather balloon flights, h/t to @coweatherman.bsky.social and @stormscale.io for the info they shared today open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

On the anniversary of my father's death, I usually try to donate to some people making trouble he would have liked. I couldn't march today, but who should I donate to to push back on these attacks on science?

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

The College Park building holds the Plume Prediction and Response Center, run by NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory. It's an emergence response node that goes into action when there's a nuclear accident or major atmospheric toxic release. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

Yup. The strain on air traffic controllers is getting attention for air safety. Deservedly. But in terms of overall danger, in general and specifically for aviation, assault on weather knowledge is worse.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

Scoop: the White House has dismissed 3 top reps at the US Global Change Research Program with climate expertise This office is critical for international climate collab including @ipcc.bsky.social. For @splinternews.bsky.social I tried assessing potential impacts: www.splinter.com/will-the-us-...

Very impressive article by @bhensonweather.bsky.social on the debate over whether climate change is causing more extreme cold events. Lots of great comments by experts, as well as me. Update: How’s U.S. winter weather changing in a warming world? yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/upda...

Very good #PublicHealth question about #PlasticWaste, #PlasticPollution and #PublicHealth When it comes to plastic, when are we going to hold the petrochemical industry accountable for this ugliness? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

Looking for a closely contested struggle tonight? Get real insight into the game from the roots of fake grass. artsandculture.google.com/story/awUxQ3...

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

For #BlackHistoryMonth in US, sharing the story of Black physicist Sam Parker who 1840-1846 was indispensable in running experiments on electromagnetic induction in Joseph Henry's (1st Secretary of Smithsonian) lab at College of NJ (Princeton). 🧪 ⚛️ slavery.princeton.edu/stories/jose...

I urge everyone to read this concise but very complete history of what's been happening at our nation's science agencies the past few years, I mean days, by @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog... TY Derek

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

More of this energy among the science community please ✨ might have to renew my AGU membership now

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.

The importance of day-to-day or infrastructural science! A useful thread.

"Infrastructural science" is a good term because the work is essential to so many everyday things we take for granted. In the US, it has historically just been there with products either free or at little cost to the public. And, produced by people following the highest ethical standards. 🧵

In the first couple of days of the second Trump administration, the EPA removed several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the EPA. envirodatagov.org/trump-target...

Everybody read this thread and follow @rogerturner.bsky.social and @emilypawley.bsky.social! #HistSTM #histsci #HistTech #sts

Maintenance and operations is boring. People and politicians like ribbon cutting and Capital projects. Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.

A thread describing how to see some sciences we depend upon as they get broken.

Apropos of nothing in particular today.

BREAKING NEWS: WA Governor Bob Ferguson just signed an executive order creating a Rapid Response Network to protect children who may be separated from their families due to Trump’s deportation policies. Supported by numerous state agencies #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy www.king5.com/article/news...

The problem is there are myriad huge negative externalities of taking this approach - not least of which is that you need to keep building massive data centers, which require the consumption of extraordinary amounts of resources. 6/

Injecting Hope - an exhibition centred around the development and rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines - opened @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social this weekend. It expands the show as it appeared @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social considerably, to include NMS collections and Scottish stories

The @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring! Details here: www.sciencehistory.org/about/join-o...

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.