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.

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Grateful to my students for this recognition! “My research pushes me to ask better questions, to try, to fall short, and to try again with a different approach. Those same practices shape my teaching and form the foundation of the skills I hope to cultivate in my students.”

Doing CRDS oxygen isotope analysis of an Antarctic ice core with my Earth's Climate History class tomorrow. Look at those bubbles!!

I had a great time talking about how scientists reconstruct Earth’s past climate on the New Frontiers podcast from Middlebury’s Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs - where I am a Faculty Fellow. We dig into the clues hidden in marine sediments and why they matter for understanding climate today.

🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.

We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign

Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!

The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1

Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social

Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...

I believe two things deeply: 1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind 2. Mars is trash

Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%. This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more. Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.

So excited that this important work by Kau and Pedro is out. Awesome example of a collab between the paleo and modeling communities. Proud to see our Line Islands cores play a role in such a cool result and excited to keep working with this team!

We invite abstract submissions to AGU24 Session PP024 - Oxygenation Dynamics in Past Oceans 🌊 for data and model-based reconstructions, innovative proxies, and studies on ocean oxygenation responses to global changes. #AGU24

Excited that my paleo-O2 proposal was just funded by @NSF. Looking forward to some sabbatical time @instaar.bsky.social working with Julio Sepúlveda and @davidharning.bsky.social. Thanks to all who help make these programs run! 👩‍🔬

Consider donating your eclipse glasses to Eclipse Glasses USA so schoolchildren in South America can use them in October. eclipse23.com/pages/donate...

Thanks to the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for funding my sabbatical proposal to create a virtual sed strat field trip in the desert southwest. Can’t wait for all the red rocks !

I will be giving the PalaeoPERCS talk next week on Tuesday at 11a ET on Zoom. Looking forward to talking about deep Pacific carbon storage since 20ka. Check out their site for registration details! paleopercs.com/upcoming-tal...

The Facility for Oceanographic Research @ Middlebury (FOR@M) got even 'hotter' 🔥 today with the receipt of our new U/Th isotope spike. Excited to finally start work on new dust flux and productivity records!

Reposting with new closing date 2/1/24! Middlebury Earth & Climate Sci is searching for a 2-yr VAP in climate science. www.middlebury.edu/college/acad...

Come hear the latest on Pacific paleoclimate at AGU. I'll be talking about a reconstruction of ocean carbonate chemistry.

Middlebury College is searching for a 2-yr VAP in climate science! AMA @ #AGU23 apply.interfolio.com/136222