On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

📡 The NAS Earth Science Decadal Survey 2028–2037 (ESAS 2028) is underway! On a compressed 2-year timeline, the Call for Experts is now live: volunteer or nominate someone for the Steering Committee. Also, keep an eye out: an RFI for White Papers drops next week. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4afyw82e

@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social has curated elections-related resources, drawing from their signature Climate Change in the American Mind survey, to help local and national US reporters dig into voter sentiments about climate change and climate action.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Today is Red Dress day, a time for us to reflect on the fact that: -3 in 4 Indigenous women experience violence in their life, and that although we make up 2% of the population -40% of trafficking victims are Indigenous women. -murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native ♀️ #MMIW #MMIWG

The newly released Sierra Nevada Atlas is a collection of maps, geospatial datasets, and associated text that presents geologic map layers, geophysical layers, economic geology layers, neotectonic features, and geochronology for the Sierra Nevada. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

DOGE cut 13% of weather balloon launch sites. Remaining offices delayed morning launches due to staffing cuts. Kansas got 30 minutes warning before EF-2 tornadoes. For decades they've had hours. The NWS said no tornado threat then five hit NOAA says forecasting hasn't been impacted. Kansas disagrees

#WeekendReading: Tangunan et al.'s short but insightfull peice on on the uncertainties behind Earth’s timelines. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications/pages-magazines/pages-magazine/138913

Can confirm: The present administration is destroying U.S. science. The U.S. will be a diminished country because of this. A great piece by @thorbenson.bsky.social Killing the golden goose madness.ghost.io/killing-the-...

Annika Horne is making a great series of short films about the great disruption of scientific research. Here's one about the administration kicking NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies out of their building 🧪 youtu.be/RwWf1yOq2fk?...

If you believe that science is important, for our economy and our ability to innovate into the future, this is a good week to call your Senators and House of Reps and ask them to find a way to provide oversight over the President’s actions against the National Science Foundation.

Hi everyone, I'm dusting off this account to embrace my new role as a data teacher and founder of the DataSharp Academy. With DSA, I aim to help people who work with data move from messy scripts and guesswork to clear, repeatable analyses in R. More info at datasharpacademy.com

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on US science & higher ed. 🧪  Apr 24, 2026 - academic censorship in Texas - Harvard grad students strike - NSF $$ starts to flow, for some - @aaup.org & @aft.org's new Blueprint for Strengthening Higher Ed - and MUCH much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

It’s April 18th, so time to repost some of my great-grandfather’s photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Calling all geologists! 🥾⛏️ The Utah Geological Survey is hiring a Geologic Mapper. If you love fieldwork, creating detailed maps, and want to work in a geological wonderland, this is for you! Apply here: utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... 🧵 1/6

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

Amateur astronomers with telescopes equipped with video cameras are requested to look for impact flashes on the Moon tonight, to coordinate with #ArtemisII observations. Details here: www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

I’m convinced that these people just don’t have actual work to do and they just have to make stuff up to occupy themselves….

The Trump administration is making an unprecedented effort to PREVENT science from informing policy... bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Here is another link to the paper (I realize the link I provided earlier may not work): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New data drop! Our updated seafloor bathymetry compilation for southern Cascadia is out!! This 30m grid covers nearly the entire continental slope offshore of Northern California and southern Oregon. #USGS #MarineGeohazards 🧪⚒️🌊 doi.org/10.5066/P9C5...

Yeah that’s cool

Super cool #scicomm role just opened up with @climatecentral.org

The CSD Hydrology and Critical Zone Working Group has published a review in Hydrological Processes synthesizing emerging research objectives to evaluate drilling techniques, sampling strategies, downhole logging approaches, long-term monitoring, and analytical methods. dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

Just published: our comprehensive review of bacterial hopanoid & steroid biosynthesis, function, evolution, and diagenesis. We cover decades of research across multiple disciplines and highlight many remaining open questions. More context provided below👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

It’s a beautiful day to exercise your First Amendment rights!

Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy? The second chip was almost fungal. Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.

New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

URGENT: help save over two million acres of Oregon's forests! The Bureau of Land Management is considering updates to plans that guide 2.5 million acres of western Oregon lands, with a strong push toward expanded timber production by the current Administration. eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

😱 Scary and really interesting work here:

Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.

‼️New paper alert ‼️ We combined 16S amplicon sequencing and brGDGT analysis to look for correlations between microbial communities in water intubations. Our work also takes advantage of the latest studies in brGDGT producers to strengthen our findings using a bit of bioinformatics.

President Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can — and we mean everything — to somehow get their monster voter suppression bill through Congress. And no one is covering this epic fight as closely as Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Nowadays, 78 percent of scientific research conducted in the United States is funded by corporations; just four companies—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Apple—jointly exceed the U.S. government’s spending on R&D.” yalereview.org/article/dasg...

Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talarico, a Democrat running for a Senate seat in Texas, has been watched by millions on YouTube after it was banned from airing.

Friends — did you know that Jesse Jackson was a speaker at the 1st National Conference on Minority Participation in Earth Sciences? This 1972 USGS event sparked a lot of great work before R’s decided to shut it down. I was surprised when I learned of his participation-maybe you are too.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ