I love seeing what random objects are left in seminar rooms to be used as pointers… a broken fishing rod? A toy arrow, a literal stick from a tree (still with bark)????

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

THE NSB (NSF Board) announced the existence and exploration of a pilot program to privatize the GRFP graduate fellowship (my wording). This includes branding opportunities for the companies sponsoring fellowships. This is short sighted and self-destructive, and threatens the mission of the NSF. 1/

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

I’m really uncertain what this means for future geoscience research funded by NSF.

NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation. Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.

Friendly reminder before you share articles about what's going at NSF with other non-scientists in your life - check that they're not behind a pay wall! Some of the articles put out by scientific journals are only available if you have institutional access and are inaccessible to most other people!

The President DOES NOT have the right to break laws by destroying agencies created by Congress. We need to challenge these actions in court and demand media and our representatives acknowledge the laws.

The National Science Foundation is planning to abolish dozens of divisions. eos.org/research-and...

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Hey frens! @agu.org has these great template letters you can send your representaives to ask them to support funding to NSF and NASA. Make sure to quickly personalize it with your name! agu.quorum.us/campaign/121...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles. The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

Document posted by National Science Foundation program director on LinkedIn says not only that grants are being terminated by DOGE but that they're being deleted from databases. Presumably to make it difficult or even impossible to undo DOGE's illegal actions.

Senator Maria Cantwell: “[NSF’s] 55 percent budget cut is a deliberate dismemberment of America's innovation engine by Russell Vought and DOGE. This is exactly the type of behavior you would expect from someone seeking to make America weaker and less competitive in the face of its adversaries.”

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Holy shit. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has halted the awarding of previously approved proposals to ensure compliance with presidential directives following the arrival of DOGE at the science funding agency.

🚨 New ocean sediment drilling report INSTAAR Fellow ANNE JENNINGS co-led IODP #Exp400, which collected cores off the NW Greenland glaciated margin in 2023... incl one 978m (3209ft) long! The team's (ongoing) work spans a lot of ice sheet & ocean history publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Outrage doesn’t convey how many of us feel anymore

People are running around looking for compost bags...Some scientists have bought their own soap and cleaning supplies. A snapshot of the chaos at one NOAA lab as contracts for basic services expire. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

In honor of Women's History Month observed in March, please read about the history of Women in Polar Research: www.thearcticinstitute.org/women-polar-...

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

Sharing some good news - my first, first-authored paper is out! jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...

There hasn't been a protest this year as large and widespread as the Women's March of early 2017, but there have been more protest events overall. And as this data shows, the margin compared to the start of Trump Term 1 appears to be growing. Don't let anyone tell you no Americans are protesting.

"Two months ahead of the usual annual peak of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, parts per million in air exceeded 430. Comment from Ralph Keeling, director of the @Scripps_Ocean CO2 program: "Crossing 430 ppm was...

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

America’s advantage in science made us rich, and kept us powerful. It’s why we have the most innovative companies, the most successful tech sector and the mightiest military. Why is Trump trying to slaughter the golden goose? wapo.st/41iUzAW

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Public funding is the backbone of scientific advances, and the National Science Foundation is an powerful impartial supporter of science in the USA improving quality of life, building scientific workforce and enabling discoveries. 1/6 www.axios.com/2025/02/19/n...

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

GeoSPACE, our accessible hybrid field course, has found itself in need of fundraising due to recent events. Part of being accessible is offsetting the financial burden of attending. If you can spare anything to help out, a lot of students without other options would be grateful!!! ⚒️🔭🧪

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

“The scientific community needs to speak up - not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity, and morality.” www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie... 🧪 🌊⚒️

Americans are about to discover how science agencies fund universities. In both red and blue states. Slashing science = slashing jobs. Period.

The lab crocs have gotten an upgrade!

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.

Others have said it better before, but: Doing the best science *requires* considering "DEIA principles and frameworks." Science is done by communities. Science affects communities. Communities are diverse. If you ignore that diversity, you are doing worse science than someone who includes it well.