Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE

Dehydrated and sore with guest complications from altitude and heat. Whooooo boy.... At least it's pretty?

That math aint mathing! www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...

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/ 🧪🔭

SCOOP UPDATE: Oregon as well as Washington lost ocean-observation stations last fall. Two of three floating stations west of Newport were quietly yanked from the water and warehoused in Corvallis. www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...

So we can all eat a tortilla, a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a parasite we'd kept at bay until Brooke Rollins was running USDA: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"22yo DOGE dipshit at a keyboard in the Ag Department office building: "lol the government is wasting money on worms in Panama. grok delete this." bsky.app/profile/thel...

Steller’s Jay! Ours have white racing stripes.

Do you work for the federal government in Washington state? KUOW wants to hear from you. (If your work involves environment/energy/climate here, *I* want to hear from you.)

It's June 1st, which means Pride month begins today. It's my 7th Pride as myself, and I find myself realizing something this year. Everything beautiful survived something to get here. I muse about Pride, picking up birding, and what we have been through. Happy Pride.

FIRST STATE RECORD CONDOR IN 120 YEARS

Vought's Scientific Method: 1) Delay legally mandated funding and unilaterally break contracts 2) Wall off American scientists from each other and the outside world 3) Mandate a limited set of allowed research topics 4) Suppress politically unacceptable results 5) Eliminate future opportunities

So this is just to remind you that anything you get done under this evil regime is a miracle. That anything you do to push back against this regime is heroic. And that anything you do to preserve your safety and security and the safety and security of your loved ones and community is also heroic.

Field pix 🌲🌾 Successful work week, and met some more wonderful folks doing their best to keep things rolling even in the midst of all this unnecessary chaos.

3) Any grant can be terminated for any reason at any time—a devastating change that makes it impossible hire personnel, plan experiments, conduct field studies, or carry out most of the day-to-day activities that constitute effective science.

Imagine spending all of this money to intimidate and traumatize federal employees when you could spend it on things Americans actually need federal agencies to do. prospect.org/2026/05/18/p...

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

fieldwork looks a little different these days… and I LOVE it 🐠

💚💚💚 (I do feel obligated to note that, though the loss of PhD scientists is a simpler metric to cite and probably proportional, the federal science workforce is a LOT more than just PhDs and our contributions are just as essential to the scientific process!)

I went to see Crater Lake before a long trip east to deal with some family issues. I wish I could have better photographed that unique Mazama blue, but I'm also glad I couldn't. Pictures shouldn't capture everything. If you ever get a chance to stand on that rim and look down, don't miss it. #oregon

1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, welcome to The War on Cars.

New pub!! check it out 🐻👇

Blue Mountains, OR

your moment of calm: a beautiful spotted ground squirrel eating a cute flower adorably

I had to schedule a meeting for tomorrow to talk thesis stuff since it's the only day where we were all available. Unfortunately I've driven 20 hours over the last 3 days and my brain feels like a soggy cracker. So I'm sure this will go well.

The 57 R&D office sites that were slated to close are all now being “reevaluated”. Why? They went into this with a complete lack of information (oops, that’s a storage facility lol), and DUE TO PUBLIC FEEDBACK. Thanks to all who called reps, write articles, posted on socials, etc!

Oregon State University has 15,000 acres of research forests spread out over the state. I've led grad-level field trips to visit active wildland fires. Beavers can also work farms through the Ag School and make use of the ocean research fleet. There is much, much more.

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

Trump’s new conditions on DEI, immigration could cut off states’ wildfire funding oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/20/r...

You know what would improve government services? Adequately staffing agencies instead of firing a bunch of people.

the entire thing is an utterly damning report from @melodyschreiber.com

Many of the rationales for my AI course policy appeal to students' self interest (say no for your own sake). But I also stress (& they find it eye-opening) that inputting anyone else's work into a chatbot is unethical because it "turns over" that work w/out consent to for-profit tech companies...

Seems appropriate that on this day 46 years after the eruption, I registered for the first classes of my master's degree researching the wildlife communities of Mount St Helens as they exist today, from the pumice fields to the mature forests that survived the blast.

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

May 17, 1980 Mount St. Helens, as seen from Coldwater II USGS Observation Post, 5.5 miles north-northwest Photograph by Harry Glicken/USGS.

your moment of calm

May 16, 1980 Graduate student Harry Glicken is one day away from departing Coldwater II. At 5:35 a.m., a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, the largest in four days, hits the mountain and the observation post 5.5 miles to the north. Into the log book, Glicken jots: "Quake—shakes bed slightly. ARISE!"

Note to self: red flags, no matter how seemingly minor, indirect, or infrequent, are still red flags and are often still reliable indicators of someone's true colors.

10 yrs after our first paper on spotted owls & “megafires”, here is the granddaddy of them all: a Wildlife Monograph. >30 yr of detection/non-detection data across >1500 territories (796 burned) and movement data from 171 GPS-tagged owls. Conclusion: big hot fire bad doi.org/10.1002/wmon...

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

Sunny and blooming

Ruffed grouse drumming

Soft background This stunning violet-green swallow finally stopped flying around like a maniac and posed for me for a bit. #BirdOfTheDay #EFGH #BlueSkyArtShow #soft #SmallBirdSaturday #EastCoastKin #ECK #ArtYear #birds #PhotographersUnited #photography #OM3

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

For all the warnings I've heard about toxic labs and advisors when it comes to grad school, I'm really glad my lab is composed of the most genuine and friendly people I've ever met

Ten seconds of calm, for any who need it. This is Plunkett Creek at Beazell Memorial Forest, Oregon. #oregon #pnw #water

It’s Amphibian Week?! Oh I am all over this!! Here’s an American Toad getting ready to do his beautiful trilling call #herps 🌿 #AmphibianWeek

HAPPY AMPHIBIAN WEEK 🐸‼️