WE WON!!🙌🏾 THE OCEAN OBSERVATORY INITIATIVE (OOI) INSTRUMENTS ARE STAYING IN THE WATER!!!!! 🌊 🦑🧪 (for now 🙏🏾) oceanfdn.org/the-national...

The National Academies Just Set the Record Straight on Ocean Observing - The Ocean Foundation

The NSF is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative and TOF President Mark J. Spalding explains what's at stake.

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If you believe that science is important, for our economy and our ability to innovate into the future, this is a good week to call your Senators and House of Reps and ask them to find a way to provide oversight over the President’s actions against the National Science Foundation.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

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NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

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Grateful to my students for this recognition! “My research pushes me to ask better questions, to try, to fall short, and to try again with a different approach. Those same practices shape my teaching and form the foundation of the skills I hope to cultivate in my students.”

Allison Jacobel Receives Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching

The assistant professor of earth and climates sciences was described as an “exemplar of the individual and collective commitment to education.”

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Doing CRDS oxygen isotope analysis of an Antarctic ice core with my Earth's Climate History class tomorrow. Look at those bubbles!!

I had a great time talking about how scientists reconstruct Earth’s past climate on the New Frontiers podcast from Middlebury’s Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs - where I am a Faculty Fellow. We dig into the clues hidden in marine sediments and why they matter for understanding climate today.

S3 EP 4 - De-coding Earth’s Climate History: Scientific Research on the High Seas | Middlebury

In this episode, Rohatyn Center director Mark Williams talks with climate scientist Allison Jacobel about how researchers reconstruct the Earth’s climate history without a “time machine,” why the ocea...

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🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.

Some tropical land may experience stronger-than-expected warming under climate change

A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s.

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.

We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...

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Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign

Paul Voosen@voosen.me · last yr.

The Senate just posted the report language of its FY26 science appropriations bill. This text lays out what they want done and carries the force of law if it is included in the final spending bill. It's a line-by-line refutation of Trump's proposed budget for NASA and NOAA.

Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1

Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social

Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...

I believe two things deeply: 1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind 2. Mars is trash

Stuart Atkinson@stuartatkinson.bsky.social · last yr.

The Curiosity rover is sending back some jaw-droppingly gorgeous views from Mars right now... Well done everyone on the camera teams|! Just look at this glorious detail and lighting...! Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms

Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · last yr.

Thought this would be a great thread, so let's start one😁- what are your science autocorrect woes? I'll start with neontologist =/= neonatolologist 🧪🦑⚒️

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · last yr.

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation

We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

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Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.