🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

End of semester coming up. My hazards students will have the joy of discussing wildfires in the context of 1) the unprecedented west coast heat wave 2) dumb as fuck federal land management policy that’s going to super charge wildfire conditions morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Go Artemis II!! We’re so proud of the astronauts and alllll the amazing talent of NASA and our partners that made this launch happen. This is what NASAneedshelp is fighting for: resources and funding to further push the limits of exploration and understanding in space.

Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀

Happy to share a new lab #AgrForMet paper, "Proximal measurements of microwave reflectance using GNSS-IR track semi-arid grassland vegetation dynamics during greening and browning phases," led by Dr. Charlie Devine authors.elsevier.com/c/1moi6cFXJs...

"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap.news

The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.

So the word from UCAR (NCAR’s managing entity) is, essentially, “This is news to us!” news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-... 🤔

It took a while for the centers, labs & groups bringing together scientists, researchers, and communicators on climate to realize Bluesky was a thing. But once they did, they arrived in droves. Here are the first 100 early adopters. Give ’em a follow! Day 6 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs.

The annual Arctic Report Card is now out for 2025. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts. This is the 20th anniversary edition. 20 years of rapid change. + Report arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... + Summary arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

We can now simulate the biomass of mangrove forests and its spatial distribution on a global scale agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

The same week as #AGU2025, Vought and his cronies come after one of the world’s premier weather and climate research institutions. Absolutely disgusting www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

New paper out in @science.org from the LegacyNet. Functional plant diversity and fertilization impacts on yields were compared in a network of sites across the globe. Our colleague Sebastian Meyer hosted the Freising site, allowing us to follow it closely for many years. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said 😳

Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...

There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊

it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...

New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid. More info ⬇️​

Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend). New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/govern...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.

🦋🌱 Most people care about #biodiversity, yet we often underestimate how concerned others are about its loss. This “pluralistic ignorance” can silence people, weaken action, and make ambitious policies seem less popular. In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾 Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐 📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Here is a separate starter pack of the #IPCC scientists on bluesky involved in the SR Cities: go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT @dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social (full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)

New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Missed the workshop? “Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models” No worries ! Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog: fluxnet.org/bridging-the... The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post. Enjoy :)

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

If you kept meaning to let the USDA know what you think of their reorganization plan but never got a round tuit, here's one here. #usda subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Interested in a small home solar install but my god it’s like a feeding frenzy out there as soon as you show any interest and the DOE resources put a target on your back, resulting in constant phone calls and texts. There must be an easier way to connect with local reputable companies. #solar

What are we even doing?

Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr.'s time is running out. Today, Senators Cassidy and Sanders both challenge RFK Jr's reign of (t)error at HHS. Call your Senators and Representatives. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.