Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

It’s a sunny day, the gang’s all here …

Grateful to MacKenzie Scott for her $38 million gift ... the largest in UC Merced's history, surpassing even her own record-setting donation to our campus in 2021. She continues to be one of the few doing billionairing right. news.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/uc...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Moose Black bear Green sea turtle Sea otter Hammerhead shark

One could write a similar piece substituting “source” with “access”…

Yeah, more fuel for @sevier.io‘s fire:

OK, looks like I can go back to work tomorrow. Also, whoever wrote the text for this email violated the Hatch Act.

Just out: more evidence for a weakening land carbon sink across the contiguous U.S. Proud to be part of this collaborative effort among (mostly) federal scientists! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Best abstract ever.

This thread encapsulates why I have zero regrets about escaping academia - the culture is just so low key toxic. I have nothing but respect for those of you inside shining a light on it and fighting to make it better (like Colin), but I had to get out.

I was on a bus in Honolulu when this alert went out. Bus driver pulled over and told us we were supposed to “take shelter” in a nearby Safeway, but we all just stood around on the sidewalk and talked story.

I’m a furloughed federal scientist. Under normal circumstances I’d be stoked so many fed agencies (finally) came over to bluesky - but these ain’t normal times. Block and move on.

Every year or so, the guys from the tire shop behind our place change the mural on the side of their building. This new one isn’t quite finished but it’s a banger so far.

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The giant blimp hangar at Moffett Field got a new skin, now it looks like something from David Lynch’s Dune movie.

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some well deserved publicity for a new kind of newsroom. Congrats @laurawenus.bsky.social, @noaharroyo.bsky.social & @daphnem.bsky.social!

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Hi everyone! I am looking for any #scientists (including grad students, post docs) that’d be willing to be interviewed about their research by my #SciComm students in October. Here is the form to fill out if interested! Our time zone is Alaska, FYI. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Local climate nerds! Claim your god damn award, you deserve it.

OK, these budget cuts have gotten ridiculous.

Just out: A new geodatabase of fuel treatments across federal lands—published in Scientific Data. Whether you’re mapping change or assessing risk, TWIG shows when and where treatments happened. Grateful to be part of a team! Paper - www.nature.com/articles/s41... TWIG - reshapewildfire.org/twig

Yup, full support here. SF has been in dire need and we finally got 33 of them this year.

My journalist friends started a newsroom! Check it out:

We have a new paper that is the result of a working group on nature-based climate solutions using forests. We identify challenges in quantifying net cooling, durability, additionality, and leakage and provide solutions and research needs for each of the challenges. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kimchi risotto. Don’t you dare judge me.

Did you know that many consider San Francisco's system of care broken? People fall through the cracks, or only get care after they've lost their jobs or housing. #sf, and the public, have an opportunity to transform that system for the better. www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-has-a-cha...

Been kinda angry jealous at everybody posting they got @kashana.bsky.social’s book in the mail these last couple days - finally got mine today!

Also, @wired.com has been kinda killing it lately.

This is so needed, and you can sjgn up to participate.

This is where you can pick up your NASA bike.

Pride, Dolores Park, SF. Love this city.

ADHDread - now I have a name for it.

Seems as though Sen. Lee has reversed his course on USFS lands. But BLM lands are still on the table. Seriously, he'd love to hear from you. In conversations with staffers, written communications carry a fair amount of weight. www.fox13now.com/news/politic...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

If you use @ameriflux.bsky.social data it is funded by DOE environmental science. Please write your Congressional reps and inform about the values of these programs to America and the world

This is what @mmasnick.bsky.social warned about with his “Chesterton’s fence” essay - it’s unwise to remove a fence until you understand why that fence was built in the first place. These people are unwise.

I just canceled my climbing gym membership & this the confirmation I got:

happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

For those with an interest in year to year changes in the global carbon cycle, the latest assessment is just out. @anuagrifood.bsky.social essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Tactful but brutally honest problem statement: “… market-based approaches to forest carbon projects have been fraught to date.”

The purpose of a system is what it does.

New pub in @aguadvances.bsky.social: "A Soil Scientist Goes to Washington: Navigating the Path to National #ScienceLeadership" #STEM Sharing my journey as DOE Office of Science Director, the challenges faced, and why inclusive excellence in STEM matters now more than ever. Read: tinyurl.com/ms2nhr4f

Argh. www.science.org/content/arti...

Much improved urban air quality because of electrifying a commuter train - great to see.

"Study estimated that covering all 4,000 miles of California’s exposed canals with solar panels could generate enough electricity to power about 2 million homes each year, conserve enough water to supply up to 2 million homes annually, and reduce land use by placing solar arrays on developed land."

Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is how you convince me to subscribe 👇

Actual research (tech) jobs! 👇

Folks, this isn't good. Planned DOI office closures include >27% of all BIA offices (!!). USGS - which relies on field offices for things like volcano, earthquake and flood monitoring - would lose 34 sites. Given return-to-office orders this seems aimed at driving resignations and hobbling programs.