Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bas.ac.uk

Seeing one of our projects picked up on other avenues online is pretty neat! www.iflscience.com/sadly-famous...

New paper published today! Led by @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social on benthic foraminifera communities offshore of #Thwaites Glacier, based on sediment cores we took offshore in 2019. jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...

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

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations.” “If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it’s basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow.” 🧪

To every student facing a cancelled REU: We see you. We stand with you. Science should be for everyone, and these attacks on research hurt all of us. #standupforscience2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Stand Up For Science protest happening on Friday, March 7. Happening in many cities across the U.S. Details: standupforscience2025.org

This is gutting.

Reminder! Call for input to influence conversations and dialogues for the PECWS 2025 are due by February 23 2025. To provide input, please fill out our “ECR Priorities” survey: https://buff.ly/3QmCRr0

Federal science agencies are under threat. AGU has made it easy to advocate for NSF, NOAA, NASA and more. Visit AGU’s Science Policy Action Center to stand up for science. fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Pell grants helped me go to college. An NSF fellowship funded my graduate research. My NOAA fellowship allows me to investigate ocean physics in novel ways. The federal government has been a colleague my whole career. Shutting these doorways is how American scientific prowess dies.

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...

We are talking about a really small amount of the annual US budget -- we spend as much on Halloween ($10B) as we do on NSF per year. 6/6

CALL YOUR REPS 5calls.org resist.bot

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative invites you to join us! During this panel, we will consider "successful" collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits of engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.

Yesteray the @cwa-tseu.bsky.social university caucus went to the state capitol and talked to our reps about our wages and academic freedom. Here we are with District 147 rep Jolanda Jones who agreed to fight for these bills.

My heart is with the amazingly dedicated folks at NSF and all of the students and researchers they fund (myself included 😢). This is so infuriating. They are trying to tear down decades of progress in a matter of days/weeks….nevermind the implications for the future of this country and planet.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Watching all-white cadres of scientists who remained silent thru the DEI-purging, but who’re suddenly freaking out because their segment of science might now *also* get threatened (“my field station!”) does little to dispel this gap. 😑 Please, scientists: try to see past the end of your own nose.

I see "anticipatory obedience" everywhere right now, and it's really key for us (also in Europe/worldwide) to plan ahead and be ready to resist, bc these trends seem to come with a few years lag after the US (think populist, fascist-friendly gov't takeovers): www.aaup.org/report/again...

It's never too late to start contacting your reps! These sites make it EASY. Letters, faxes, emails: resist.bot Phone calls: 5calls.org

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It's never too late to start contacting your reps! These sites make it EASY. Letters, faxes, emails: resist.bot Phone calls: 5calls.org

If you’re in the area, this is a good way to support science!

To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.

We are so pleased to share that our first long form multimedia article is officially live! We are honored to have worked with Unangax̂ multimedia creator Kanesia McGlashan-Price as she told the story of Shayla Alamax̂ Shaishnikoff, an Unangax̂ scientist.

Looking for physical scientists 🧪⚒️ who do fieldwork, who've had bad experiences w/ "medical screening" or "physical qualifying (PQ)" exams & restrictions. Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc. We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖

Hi everyone! My name is Asmara, and I am a PhD student at the University of Houston. I work with the ITGC's THOR team, using sedimentology and geomorphology to reveal the climate and glacial history of the Amundsen Sea. Looking forward to sharing my journey with you on this platform!