If you need some extra distraction from *gestures broadly at everything,* Kilauea is here to help. The next eruptive episode, episode 41, looks to be kicking off right now! Fountains are starting to grow in height. USGS LIVE stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

As you encounter Trump regime defenses of summarily executing a man on the streets of America because he was (supposedly) armed, I invite you to recall the Bundy Ranch standoff, and the Right’s celebration of a man who aimed a rifle at law enforcement. www.findinggravity.net/the-next-tim...

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

What kills me is that people voted for this chaos and carnage. It was all promised to them. Openly. Proudly. Maliciously.

For @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

My niece in Dallas found this hysterical, and accurate:

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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

If you're wondering why HDDs, SSDs, and RAM got REALLY expensive in the last 6 months, look no further than data centers, which are gobbling up these resources like fucking No-Face in "Spirited Away."

So, like, if people wanted to start new research institutions, the going rate for highly trained physical science PhDs appears to be what people can earn as starting pay as a Starbucks barista or an Uber/Lift driver. This is probably true for other fields, too, but I haven't seen those posted today

“The deep abyssal plain is more biodiverse than tropical rainforests, with more unique species and genetic novelty than almost any other ecosystem on the planet,” Thaler said. Mining could damage that biodiversity, he added.

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

Happy CTD Appreciation Day to those who celebrate!! We should all be singing this in a round as the rosette goes over the side. 🙃😎

Lover of the Russian Queen

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence "My market peels and seeds their squash, which is very handy as it must be done for this soup."

The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation go.nature.com/4a48Ney

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

big shout out to everyone attempting to complete basic tasks

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Uhhhhhhhh pretty sure NOAA has *zero* jurisdiction outside our EEZ just FYI. Fucking laughable. But sure, let's kill oceanography as a field while we're wrecking everything else. Who needs geology or the ocean??? 💀🤦‍♀️😬

Trump’s attack on science, research, and education is laying down a Chixulub iridium layer in the historiographies of all academic disciplines that in future years will mark the simultaneous extinction of numerous lines of American intellectual inquiry.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.

Going to see a lot of this crap from every agency....

i've modified the Pomodoro method so I work for 5 minutes and then scream into an abyss for 25 minutes, i'm not getting anything done but at least my coworkers refuse to talk to me

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I feel like at this point, we all learned enough about inflation to understand that "the budget stayed the same as it was last year" effectively means a budget cut since that money is now worth less.

Blu-ray drive/burner arriving tomorrow (an LG bc pioneers are $$$$$$ now). Just need some BDs and I can finally get the 3-2-1 backup of my science archive completed. It'll also be for ripping for a media server eventually, but archival is first on the list.

DOGE likely perpetrated the most serious, far-reaching data breaches in human history, and we will be dealing with the consequences for years. Many DOGErs should have been, and still could be, prosecuted for these crimes.

"More than 7,800 grants from the NIH and US National Science Foundation (NSF) were disrupted in 2025 — and 2,600 of those that were not reinstated total a loss of almost $1.4 billion." So... the administration has a success rate of 33% of getting away with illegal shit.

This immersive data visualization will help you comprehend the scope of historic cuts to grants and the research workforce: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... By @maxkozlov.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & @dangaristo.bsky.social, edited by @richmonastersky.bsky.social (2/n) 🧪

Short version: It's *bad*.

LOLing at Luthen putting out a slab of Orthoceras fossils in the gallery.

Just learned my old JoAnn store was turned into a Goodwill. :/

A long-running theme over the last year is that people think things were stopped/reversed. This is generally not true. Sometimes harmful things get *reduced* but they are not stopped.

Nice to have confirmation we live in the stupidest of all possible times

Btw, I'm watching "Andor" for the first time and HOBOY. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet (I'm halfway through S1)...the parallels with current events are wild.

@agu.org is member and leader of U.S. Academic Alliance for #IPCC the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - supporting USA scientists and ensuring representation in 7th #IPCC assessment fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-statemen...

So let me get this straight, #NASA can't support one of the best links to the scientific community that supports the agency's science endeavors. Talk about being shortsighted.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Another long term climate site in Alaska dies. 😡 #akwx #Climate

LOL not even close. Spent fuel rods go into the spent fuel pool (in racks). Those pools have to get re-racked every so often and there is LITERALLY A "LINE OF DEATH" the divers can't cross in the pool or else they're dead. 💀 My partner re-racked 4 nuclear plants as a commercial diver.

Meanwhile...we let ours crumble, and we're not rebuilding it.

The effort to explicitly protect NCAR during the appropriations process has, unfortunately, been unsuccessful. For now, NCAR is still operating as usual. While the future remains uncertain, and disappointingly entwined with partisan political retribution, the broader fight continues.

Oops, ebayed a base (NWT!) for the HR Team Canada jacket for like $17. It's SO ON. 😎