#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

A point I haven’t seen mentioned in these articles is that the Mesa Lab is (most days) open to the public, and the ground floor is a mini science museum that educates tons of people each year about the science of weather forecasting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

There’s a lot going on these days - don’t forget to consider applying to SPEC School 2026 and/or sharing with the grad students and postdocs you know!

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center Any such plan "would set back our nation’s ability to predict, prepare for, and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters,” said Antonio Busalacchi, who oversees the center: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Another insane move from the Trump regime. One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

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.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

I was part of this program in 2023 and would highly recommend it for anyone interested in remote sensing and ecology. Happy to chat about it too if you want more info!

Applications are open for the Spectral Ecology Summer School (www.specschool.org) a program introducing graduate students and postdocs to hyperspectral and lidar remote sensing using NEON data. This year's application and info is here: forms.gle/ohkeGYvmGQ9C... Applications close December 23, 2025.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Voters across the country have chosen freedom over fascism - and sent a critical blow to this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires. May these wins strengthen our resolve, power our resistance, and turbo charge our defiance.

Zohran Mamdani wins! He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win. Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Turns out the tent was "FUCK NAZIS" all along

Bad news abounds - www.space.com/space-explor...

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

It's day 15 of the shutdown and our first missed paycheck. For feds 👇 🍽️Too good to go app (surplus food from local eateries/stores at a ⬇️ prices) 🗺️https://myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-assistance-map/ 💵https://www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-for-federal-workers/ 🧑‍🏫https://wearewellfed.com/

Two open faculty positions at CSU! Topic areas: 1) climate dynamics and 2) applications of AI to atmospheric science. Deadline: 1 December 2025.

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

An Open Letter To MacKenzie Scott's Friends And/Or Other Rich People Who Don't Totally Suck www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le... By Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

The final frontier that you can look up to see but is sold to the highest bidder:

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Climate scientists are actively compiling comments on the DOE climate report - communicators you can sign up here to get more info on what we are producing!

The International Court of Justice said countries must protect people from climate change, an urgent, existential threat. Failure to act is an internationally wrongful act; environmental protection is key to human rights. Though non-binding, the opinion could impact global climate cases and talks.

"Nearly 300 current & former #NASA employees including astronauts, engineers and scientists have signed the #VoyagerDeclaration, a formal statement protesting recent actions...[that] threaten the agency's scientific integrity & mission safety." Sign your Support here: zurl.co/Amwgp zurl.co/fifue

🌦️🌳🖥️ #PostDoc Alert! #PhD in #climatology or #EnvironmentalScience? Expertise in climate modeling and #Python? Our #Research Group Dynamic Macroecology is looking for a PostDoc in regional climate downscaling! apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/... #ClimateModels #ScienceJobs

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

If the Trump administration actually cared about the people of Texas, they wouldn't be firing climate scientists and shutting down the NOAA labs that make our weather forecasts possible.

There are ways to mitigate and adapt to extreme events, like stopping the burning of fossil fuels and building early warning systems (or not firing people who make forecasts and coordinate with local officials), but prayer is not one of them.

More about the ongoing cuts at NASA #SaveNASA dcmediagroup.us/2025/07/02/n...

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

Earth and space science includes climate science. NASA is one of the main sources we have of climate data and the impacts of climate change. I'd love to see US climate organizations band together to fight these attacks on science.

"Institutions must support transgender and gender nonconforming and other marginalized scientists by securing their safety and privacy; their access to legal aid and health care; and their opportunities in education, employment, and society," argues a new #LetterToScience. scim.ag/4kQCMtr

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!

More bad news for sea ice monitoring (key satellite observations for tracking for sea ice) "The Defense Department has informed National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) that they will reduce the priority of processing the SSMIS data, resulting in likely daily data gaps" nsidc.org/data/user-re...

“The irony is that Trump is attacking the institutions and foundation of US science that literally made America great.”