There were 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US in 2025. And we only know this because @climatecentral.org hired the NOAA employee who led this vital tracking effort, which was decommissioned by the administration last spring.

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

The Trump Administration's announced withdraw from the IPCC is disappointing, but not surprising. US scientists will continue to play key roles in the @ipcc.bsky.social. A statement from the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC:

The Southwest Chapter is offering travel assistance to students for SFS 2026. To apply for assistance, submit your answers to the questions below to Dr. Fred Govedich ([email protected]) by March 20, 2026 (1/3).

Consider joining #SFS2026 and our special session on carbon dynamics in lentic systems! Abstracts due January 16th. @sfs-src.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school. That threat does not come from immigrants. There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.

“A research university that censors Plato abandons its obligation to truth, inquiry, and the public trust — and should not be regarded as a serious institution of higher learning.” — AAUP Texas A&M @nytimes.com @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

New paper! Real-time flood inundation mapping (FIM) services are an incredibly valuable tool for emergency management and affected communities. But do their visualizations help users quickly and accurately interpret information to make decisions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

it was always gonna take all of us

This is a great opportunity for early career scientists (grad student, postdoc, assistant professor) to get jump started in state-of-the-art numerical modeling of earth-surface processes. This is a very hands-on institute where you'll put what you learn to use right away.

They are not. In 1916 the U.S. entered an agreement w/Denmark in which in exchange for taking control of the islands of St. Croix, St. John, & St. Thomas (then the “Danish West Indies”), the U.S. would pay $25 million & not object to Danish control of Greenland. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

My third PhD chapter has just been published, we assessed the impact of Himalayan balsam invasion on riverbank stability. A massive thanks to @zarahpattison.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Research taking place today has the potential to save more lives in the future. But the Trump administration also wreaked havoc this year at the frontiers of science. And future generations may suffer for it.”

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

Congress released reconciled versions of three appropriations bills that will set funding levels for key federal science agencies. Despite minor cuts, Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins (R-ME) says the bills will “spur scientific research.” cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

Early signals of water limitations begin at the root–soil interface: linking rhizosphere drying to water uptake decline Sara Di Bert, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

It's so embarrassing to be an American these days: "In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American 'protectorate.'" 🙄

We are hiring! 🚀 Tenure-track group leader #position in experimental freshwater #ecology at the IGB in #Berlin. Join us to study freshwater ecosystems in the context of global change, and develop your own research group. Apply now! karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/61714387... #ScienceJobs

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

Happy new year! Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world. 3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET Pls spread the word. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social

I'm looking for postdoc positions in freshwater biogeochemistry! Interested in any projects investigating nutrient and carbon cycling, phytoplankton coupling with dissolved organic matter cycling in human-altered landscapes, or hydrology and spatial modeling!

President Trump tells The Atlantic that the interim Venezuelan president will meet a fate worse than Maduro’s unless she complies with US wishes. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

#GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

The latest Meeting Highlight piece from the 2025 Hacking #Limnology and #DSOS Virtual Summit for #DataScience and #OpenScience went live today! Many thanks to everyone who has supported the workshops and summits over the past half DECADE! @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The EPA has announced changes to the definition of Waters of the U.S. that leave critical systems supporting drinking water, floodwater storage, and biodiversity unprotected. Public comments on the changes are open until January 5, 2026. Read SFS's response: freshwater-science.org/news/sfs-res...

Mouth of the Eel River, northern California, morning of Dec 22. Peak flow at Scotia, off this image to the south of the marker, was early on the morning of the 22nd, though it's currently rising again. Sentinel 2 image. I believe the Eel R basin still has highest measured sediment yield in the US.

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On average, Christmas Day was 15.4F above the 1991-2020 normal. Seems warm. Seems bad.

What a lovely story. I really needed this today. Thank you David

How can we not help but love the largest known land invertebrate? Also? Think of the tracks this absolute unit would've have left. (ht to @susieoftraken.bsky.social for reposting @caseystegman.com for the original post.) #FossilFriday #Invertefest

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

ICYMI - applications now open for our FREE #SciComm and #DataViz virtual workshop. Targeted towards grad students & postdocs!

Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.

Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with @jwinkfish.bsky.social. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social 👇 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very excited for this to come out just after presenting it at #AGU25. We show how fine root presence reveals deep root-regolith interactions more accurately than biomass, using root abundance data from 75 soil pits in many ecosystem types. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

The Lumbee first petitioned Congress for federal recognition in 1888. The tribe then only received partial recognition in 1956.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo

“This bill... creates an incredibly dangerous precedent far beyond the specific care at issue, criminalizing care based on ideology and placing Washington politicians between families and their doctors." -Mike Zamore, ACLU

Bees, nesting in bones! 🐝 🦴 “Since we didn’t find any of the bees’ bodies, it’s possible that they belonged to a species that’s still alive today — there’s very little known about the ecology of many of the bees on these islands." (Dr. Viñola López) 🪳🪲🧪 www.sci.news/paleontology...

Anybody pointed out that neither NCAR nor UCAR are part of the federal government?

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

There are “rules” in photography that you learn and then can break for visual effect. That is different than not knowing the rules. The former is very much what is happening here. Choices were made and they show the power of photography.

Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!