NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Reason No. 324 why no-one should think that "AI" (artificial but certainly not intelligent) is an unmitigated Good Thing: it's mathematically inevitable that AI will hallucinate. We need far more discussion of the risks of all this and less frantic hype. I mean, really, what's the hurry?

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

New press from Bates on what my summer students were up to www.bates.edu/news/2025/09... Read all about our journey across the Maine intertidal :)

I present to you- my lab as trees. My students said we needed “more whimsy”, so we have it now. Great summer working in mussel physiology with these awesome students

We can’t even get everyone to read the syllabus 😭

I used to tell biology/forestry/ecology graduate students that being a Federal Agency Research Scientist was a great career to shoot for, but they might not even exist next year.

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere. The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

I wrote about chemtrails, Lee Zeldin, and how his EPA routinely brags about its participation in a conspiracy to let corporations poison us newrepublic.com/article/1978...

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Listen: this is obscenely important. There is a growing complacency that over-achieving solar can make up for under-achieving wind, and it is *not true*. Wind and solar generate in a complementary way. Solar might max out. Wind needs much more support!! ember-climate.org/insights/res...

New @sashamtl.bsky.social et al paper - assessing whether machine learning model developers disclose basic environmental / energy information with their models. They mostly do not!! Grim results for most of the big companies: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572 huggingface.co/spaces/sasha...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Today on Juneteenth, I am amplifying #BlackInTheIvory anecdotes that were shared by Black scientists 🧪 in summer 2020. Screenshots from Twitter presented in anonymized format 2025 is the era of the "anti-DEI crusade".

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

Super important point here-- privatizing GRFP or really anything funding science makes folks doing the work beholden or at least feel beholden to whatever special interest is funding. This drastically impact messaging, results, and even the questions that are asked.

The Invertebrate Paleontology department at the AMNH is seeking a full-time Museum Specialist. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

A list of 1753 terminated awards from the NSF. See previous post re: overall funding lost. This is a brain drain and an attack on science and knowledge. It's also NOT strategic at all and places the US at a significant international disadvantage. AND so much more...

As a conservation scientist, I am perhaps more used to the idea of “wow, a neat visualization of some fucking horrible disaster” than some of the scientists on my feed seem to be. But yeah this is a great visual

There are a lot of articles about AI going around. I strongly suggest you start here. If folks want to talk about AI in the higher Ed classroom, it’s something in thinking about a lot! Always looking for ideas and feedback- it’s hard out there

The AI jobs crisis unfolding before us is linked to the crisis in education described in the big NYMag piece on ChatGPT cheating going around. It is a great displacing of work that demands critical thought for the sake of automated content generation—in the classroom then everywhere else.

Anyone want to do something fun? Help with species ID on these! I'm not freshwater mussel expert... Found in a lake in Ohio -- man made, connected to Erie (kinda) and also to Ohio river (again, kinda) Any ideas?

🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech. From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

No, deep sea mining is not benign, it is will harm ancient ecosystems vital to the deep sea and our planet. Pillaging the earth is not NOAA's mandate. phys.org/news/2025-04...

5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EO www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

Such a cool study! Has always been a goal of mine to try this and I'm really glad that someone has. Congrats @symbiosarah.bsky.social , @verenaschoepf.bsky.social and team!

And this is why "tell the truth" must be a bedrock of any climate strategy

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Senior Lab Technician: Coral Vita - Grand Bahama Coral Farm www.coralvita.co/jobs #coralreefs #coraljobs #coralcareers #coralrestoration #reefrestoration #coralfarming #coralgardening #marinejobs #oceanjobs #marinebiology

This week in intro Env Sci is about rivers and lakes. Tomorrow I teach river restoration and the clean water act. Instead of grading, prepping next weeks lab, or research I guess I’ll spend today modifying content re: yesterdays SF vs EPA Supreme Court ruling

Being a contingent faculty member is very hard. Limitations exist for a reason but also, visiting and non TT folks carry huge instructional burden for what turns out to be little reward in many cases.

Rah! Rationalising going gradeless is finding its way into the mainstream. This is our time!

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

“The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms. Trump in recent days has declared himself to be a ‘king.’ His Self-Proclaimed Majesty announced, Louis XIV-style, that ‘we are the federal law.’”

With talks of gutting the EPA workforce by 75%, this is what the Cuyahoga River looked like before the EPA and Clean Water Act, btw.

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for* Make that part clear when you ⬇️

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Donald Trump hates the ocean www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

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.

Worth noting that current pres of @ucsusa.bsky.social @gretchentg.bsky.social once held this same position before moving to the previous admin white house. Cool job alert!

A number of my science colleagues are newly out of work, so I thought I'd share some open positions at UMaine that might be of interest. Please share with your networks! 1) Assistant Research Professor in Cryosphere and Land-Surface Modeling:

📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

The waves of resigned grief in scientific communities today is inexpressible. Yet this is also just another day in science: my friends fight to protect ecologies that no one else seems to even see let alone protect, they fight climate change, they create the evidence for the damage of pollution

I should join WSN even though I live on the east coast because this is it. Would love to see something similar from Benthic Ecology Meeting Society (BEMS), ASLO, ICRS, etc.

What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

Ya'll let me tell you -- showing up to an 8am lab to takes students out to learn how to do ecological surveys in a snowstorm was a challenge. The EOs and confirmation hearings are just so awful. It is hard to function right now.