Submit your application for the Graduate Student Conservation Research Awards by Jan 26 🏆 One or more awards totaling $1,000 to support the best graduate student research proposal(s) addressing at least one of the following criteria (1/3)

Human-made freshwaters are everywhere, let’s talk about how they function! We’re hosting a special session at #2026SFS on biogeochemical cycling in artificial aquatic ecosystems & welcome abstracts, due Jan 26. Organized by @jgerson.bsky.social, Anika Bratt, myself & @ajreisinger.bsky.social

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨 Abstracts for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, January 26. Learn more about the conference, register & submit your abstract today: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/abstracts

Most studies of groundwater microbes focus on free-floating microbes, but they make up less than 10% of an aquifer’s microbial population. Research out of @unikassel.bsky.social + @unituebingen.bsky.social in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social focuses on microbes attached to sediment. eos.org/research-spo...

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.

NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

When thinking about the news that Trump's EPA no longer views American deaths as a problem, it isn't a few lives here or there. It is hundreds of thousands.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Coastal communities in southern Alaska rely on dozens of wild food species across land and sea. A new study shows that access to diverse wild foods stabilizes harvests over time and makes food systems more resilient to species declines. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/QnwY50XUcyb

States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting

Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!

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!