If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

🌊 For 77 years, CalCOFI has been taking the pulse of the California Current, creating the world’s longest-running marine ecosystem monitoring program & one of science’s best ocean archives. @rosannaxia.bsky.social of LA Times shares more about the crucial program. ⤵️ https://lat.ms/4vqAw1v

By shutting off ocean observation, the United States is making itself less prepared for a climate-changed future at a time when China is doubling down on ocean monitoring, writes Erin Sikorsky.

The most helpful reminder for me, being now many years past my own emotional reckoning with climate change, is that ignoring emotions is like holding a ball underwater - it takes energy, and eventually that ball is coming up. So yes, even climate old-timers need to regularly check in and take care.

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

Our new paper on the challenges of marine CO₂ removal has a pretty figure. Please admire it. 🌊🧪

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

New mCDR policy roadmap from @carbon180.bsky.social.

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

On global temperature inching closer to body temperature: "The more the world’s conditions mimic our bodies', the more likely fungi are able to overcome this thermal barrier that’s protected us for millions of years." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Unprecedented climate reality calls for a new asset pricing toolkit": Climate change is an immediate macro-financial force that is reshaping economic growth, financial stability, asset returns, and investor behaviour for decades, warns Edhec Institute professionalparaplanner.co.uk/climate-risk...

I'm so relieved to live in a city with herd immunity to whatever this is.

The desiccation of the Great Salt Lake carries annual health costs of $1.1-2.3 billion

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... The U. of Rochester loves lasers - laser-etched black metal desalinates seawater with sunlight, minerals are directed to a passive area for collection. With doping, the panel can select for minerals like Lithium to separate, all while making clean drinking water

Tomorrow: our AI and climate roundtable at the @nationalacademies.org is hosting a webinar on "Bridging Science and Accounting: AI for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Markets" www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP...

This one hits home to the Polar Programs community.... "NSF continues to offer fellowship opportunities ...in the fields of engineering, entrepreneurial research, mathematics and physical sciences. ..postdocs in biology are available only if they involve the use of artificial intelligence." 🧪🌎🇦🇶🌊

Residents of the Bering Strait region who depend on the sea for food and culture are trying to understand the risks to traditional foods and wildlife populations in an area undergoing myriad changes. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I wrote something about creativity in science. Why would one write such a thing? That's the first question the piece addresses. There's general reasons, and then there's my current weird personal quest... deepconvection.substack.com/p/creativity...

Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/solar...

Round-the-clock renewable power is moving from theory to economics, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. www.energylivenews.com/2026/05/26/r...

CF: bsky.app/profile/volt...

Instead of trying to browbeat all the various factions & groups & interests into a single understanding of climate change, which is what the movement has been unsuccessfully doing for close to 50 years now, you need to find ways to meet people where they are, to talk about it in *their* language.

"Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website."

Bad news: Climate change could triple wildfire’s odds of destroying the carbon stored in U.S. forest offset projects. Good news: This paper has exquisitely designed figures.

"Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion." #RestoreNature for #Defence www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Even the clean energy grants & loans that the Trumpies have not illegally cancelled or blocked are not getting out the door at DOE, for the simple fact that there's no one there to manage them.

This is a pretty sad story. The rise in stressful, low pay, teaching only contracts is perhaps the worst part. Probably happens less in STEM but still there are few long term opportunities. Even if oldies like me leave to make space we won't be replaced - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

NASA has just released a call for Proposals for filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals to partner with the agency by Tuesday, June 30. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

While I have my issues with direct air capture, research into that field keeps producing interesting technologies for future CO2 scrubbers, like these reversible mineralization, which could open up longer durations underwater or in space. 🧪 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-01989-9​

Long live the Wørd. 🖊️🗡️ 👑

Huge news today as the UN General Assembly backs in the International Court of Justice findings on liability of states for transboundary climate harms. Australia supported the motion. news.un.org/en/story/202...

A couple of things that resonate, first, intro classes with writing and learning communities are opportunities to support wellbeing even more. Second, I am not surprised to see jobs rank so high, we have about 20 sustainability & farm student workers-they all hang out. www.aacu.org/research/wha...

LBL is hiring, at the Staff Scientist level, an extreme weather researcher to be the new leader of the CASCADE project! phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLDaKGef

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Join us on May 27 for a discussion of international governance of mCDR. Register at: climate.law.columbia.edu/events/mcdr-...

Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

Industrial chemicals (from engine oils to self-care products) are now widespread across Earth's oceans. 🌎 A new study reveals how they may be reshaping marine ecosystems and carbon cycles. eos.org/articles/hav...

🌊🧪🦑The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining "Here we review the many decades of environmental research in these areas with a focus on the biodiversity baseline and the results from experimental mining or disturbance tests." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Call for Applications is open for the 2026 Early Career Publication Honor! Please apply at: lnkd.in/eU-SMT6p by July 10 #ECR 🌊

Every step taken by the federal government to promote and advance scientific research in the US, which has been the mainstay of US economic growth and strength since roughly 1870, is now being reversed in order to retard or suppress scientific research. This is a conscious policy.

"The challenge is not that AI will make societies poorer. Rather, it is that it will make them richer in ways that render many citizens economically dispensable for continued economic growth." My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on why our AI future could resemble the petrostate present.

The signs now are that the hantavirus is not the next pandemic. But with 2026 predicted to be the hottest year on record, the hantavirus outbreak is a warning of what public health experts have long said: A hotter planet is a deadlier planet.

"The article concludes that the productivist philosophy of management, which denies the limits of human and natural resources, is inherently unsustainable "