"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

Hey glacier bluesky! Can anyone help out the amazing Matthew with this?

still looking for an iceberg researcher! is that you or someone you know? 🧪

Just imagine the kind of shitty person who wants to take these down. A sign about not crushing the natural plants? About how the place has been special to people for centuries? Small, cruel people who want to make everyone live in their small, cruel world.

One of my favorite days from my planetary science for non-STEM majors class is when we mention Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin! Other than her research, my favorite facts: - Her childhood music teacher was Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets suite - She advised two notable Franks: Drake and Kameny

It's four hours long, but it's about the absolutely embarrassing new book by Krauss And Friends, so I guess this is how I'm spending my evening:

“If you’re pregnant, don’t take Tylenol” would be malpractice if anyone else said it. Maybe it’s actually bad that some people are above the law.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

It's official: me and 8,000 of my friends are astro-nots, not astronauts. 😆

The Journal of Geophysical Research universe is getting out of hand.

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

The scientific illiteracy of the White House press corps is going to get children dead.

If Jimmy Kimmel is a real one, he’ll call for solidarity with all of the academics and students under fire for their speech about Palestine and Kirk

I'm absolutely THRILLED to hear my Mars colleague, Dr. Lauren Edgar was selected for the 2025 ASCAN Class. She will be an unbelievable addition to the Astronaut Corps- representing our Mars geology community well- and joining our current Mars geology NASA Astronaut, Dr. Jessica Watkins. AD ASTRA 💫

Earthquake is our uncle

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Some of you might have felt light to moderate shaking near Berkeley, California following the M4.6 #earthquake just 5 mins ago. ⚒️ #Geology 🧪 Report here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

So, again, it's worth pointing out that one of the authors of this piece, David Keith, created and then sold the carbon removal company "Carbon Engineering" to Occidental Petroleum, who *VERY EXPLICITLY* intend to use it to expand fossil fuel extraction......... ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

It is telling that on this "SUN Day" where we celebrate the promise of renewable solar energy (www.sunday.earth), the NY Times runs fossil fuel-friendly op-ed promoting a "technofix" that would actually DISRUPT solar energy (www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...). (h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)

The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.

Just like NOAA provides weather info for communities, NOAA should provide free, credible, & actionable information about a range climate impacts. For some climate hazards, they do. But not yet for future rainfall. Our new paper provides a workaround until they do. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I spent a year at UT Austin on a H-1B. There is ZERO chance I’d have been able to afford this.

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social. More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com Nice to meet you❤️🌋

Fellow #StarTrek fans: the writers told us what to look for. We are seeing it now.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

How your email finds me:

In addition to the Nazi death cult, there's another side to this. Ignoring safety isn't just cruel, it's inefficient. Astronauts are expensive. Spaceships are expensive. It's a bad way to go to space. Who doesn't care about safety? People who don't care about going to space.

I attended the Cassini Grand Finale watch party at Caltech. We saw the DSN incoming signal graph drop down to zero on a big projector screen, and then no one really knew what to do. Awkward silence. Do we cheer for a great mission? Do we cry because it's over? We eventually settled on applause!

Not surprisingly but still unfortunately, the McNair program is under attack. I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students. coenet.org/protect-the-...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.

Devastating. Geology was one of my majors at UNL, so this department is one of my homes. Public higher education is an investment that pays huge returns for the quality of lives of Nebraskans and people around the world. Cuts like this will have a lasting negative impact on Nebraska and beyond.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This is only a "jarring contradiction" if you refuse to learn anything about how the anti-vaxx movement speaks and behaves. They do not give a shit about "chronic illness" or "combating big pharma," it's all a smokescreen for their dumb, child-killing bullshit.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Report: American politicians hurriedly clarify they only condone political violence when they fund it against harmless civilians in foreign countries

Here is the paper published by @nature.com with an accompanying News and Views article 🧪🔭 Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars ☑️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... ☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#EarthquakeReport for M 5.8 #Earthquake offshore of #Oregon #California Probably a normal (extensional) earthquake Within Gorda plate No tsunami hazard Tectonic background in 2020 report earthjay.com?p=9535 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

After nearly a decade of saying which JWST result I was most excited about, it's here: JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS! TRAPPIST-1 E!!! IT'S ... A FLAT LINE! BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!? IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!? WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

One reason I've realized the "AltGov" type disinformation accounts are able to peddle their bullshit: if you don't work with agency scientists, you don't realize that on LinkedIn, right now, there's CDC employees posting pictures of bullet holes in the windows and calling the administration fascist

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

I saw a great glory this year in the fog over Taku glacier on the Juneau Icefield! There's a faint fogbow over this one as well, and we saw 22° halos a few times, too.

I've spent long time staring at satellite imagery of landslides over the years and something just doesn't sit right about the Sudan landslide. 🧪⚒️ 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...