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Here it is, my first ever Op-Ed, everyone! I talk about why I think NSF's new Office of Metascience is a bad idea. Enjoy!

Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back | The Scientist

A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.

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The deadline to apply as the new Mammal Curator at the Natural History Museum Denmark is coming up soon (2 November 2026)!! Get your application in, or forward the ad to someone you know who dreams of being a curator in a historical and important collection! 🧪

Dr Mark D. Scherz@markscherz.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

A potential new data center in West Virginia is “almost certain to kill” 1.2 acres of American Chestnuts that have thus far managed to survive the chestnut blight and produce chestnuts, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

Data Center Threatens Rare American Chestnut Orchard In W.Va. - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

New data center developments are changing local landscapes and communities across West Virginia – and one is set to remove a very rare stand of trees.

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Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵

My mayor, @satyaformadison.bsky.social, has done so much for Madison—including when she stood up to MAGA bullies threatening to jail her in their sham "investigations" into 2020's election. She announced today she won't seek reelection next year. But her impact will far outlast her tenure.

What if Antarctica can tip before reaching its currently expected tipping point? New research suggests delayed bedrock uplift could trigger self-sustaining ice retreat in the Recovery and Aurora basins, with potentially 9–11 m of sea-level rise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Antarctic marine-based ice destabilized when warming outpaces solid-Earth feedbacks - Nature Geoscience

Delayed bedrock uplift can allow rapid warming to trigger Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat before classical instability thresholds are reached, lowering critical warming thresholds by up to 0.5 K in East A...

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Are you defending soon with a PhD in climate science / computer science / statistics (or know someone who is)? My group at Boston University is hiring! Feel free to send me a DM here or email at jlin404@bu.edu if interested 🙂 barnes-research.com/assets/pdf/p...

The United States is the world's biggest exporter of diesel oil. Trump and the Republicans want to blame Zelensky and give money to Putin. They want to import Russian diesel while we export diesel to others. If you want to decrease diesel exports, put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies.

Fascinating and disturbing story about how precarious our open source software infrastructure is.

Ruth Mottram@ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 3w ago

This deep dive on XKCD's famous comic on all modern infrastructure manages to be important, fascinating and more than a little bit scary all at the same time. Worth a scroll. And massive kudos to Germany for their sovereign tech fund, all countries should have one sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Please take a look at this well-researched & well-reasoned argument by Matt Pawa on why Dems should turn away from oil and gas. He pays close attention to polls & what voters want, and refers to work by @leahstokes.bsky.social and by me. mattpawa.substack.com/p/a-response...

A Response to Robinson Meyer. Why Democrats should reject the latest high-profile call to embrace oil and gas.

The latest in a multi-part series on why Democrats should run on climate.

mattpawa.substack.com

Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.

"🌿 We're hiring at @econovoau.bsky.social! Postdoc position forecasting how land-use change, climate shifts & rewilding will reshape European plant diversity. Biodiversa+ REDESIGN project, Aarhus Uni. 2 years. Closes 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #ecology #postdoc

Postdoctoral researcher in biodiversity forecasting, vegetation dynamics and rewilding - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Økoinformatik og biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet

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We’re bringing conservation paleobiology to Instagram with a new INCP science communication competition. This is your moment to share your conservation paleobiology work through visual storytelling— and be featured as part of our network re-launch.

The International Network for Conservation Paleobiology (INCP) is offering funding for students and early career researchers in the network to participate in events related to conservation, management, and restoration. 🧪

The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City Open access: Bush, M. B., Sales, R. K., Neill, D., Valencia, B. G., León-Yánez, S., Stanley, A., Sinkler, W., Bennett, I., Gomes, B. T., Land, K., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2025). Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the…

Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City

Open access: Bush, M. B., Sales, R. K., Neill, D., Valencia, B. G., León-Yánez, S., Stanley, A., Sinkler, W., Bennett, I., Gomes, B. T., Land, K., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2025). Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City. Nature Communications, 16(1), 7408.

ecologyofthepast.info

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Today, the USGS released a new version of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories. www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map Now Covers 50 States, U.S. Territories

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey today released Version 2.0 of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories.

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Excited to share a new paper in Scientific Data, that describes the efforts of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Open Context, and the Florida Museum's Environmental Archaeology Program to advance best practices in open data, following the FAIR and CARE Principles.  www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My department is hiring a biology lecturer to contribute to our intro bio sequence and an online summer course (applications due September 1!): fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The Trump Department of Interior is forcing out dozens of its most senior career staff, giving them two weeks to accept involuntary reassignments or leave. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and more. www.notus.org/agencies/int...

‘They Want Us All To Leave’: Interior Reassigns Dozens of Senior Staff

Around 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise.

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‼️🌎 Submit your comment by MIDNIGHT to stop the politicization of the NSF! 🌍‼️ New rules would require all grants and grantees to pass ideological tests. You deserve the truth about the weather and climate of your world, uncensored. Read more and submit your comment here: www.aps.org/initiatives/...

Proposed changes to NSF proposals

Share your feedback about concerning, proposed, updated changes to National Science Foundation funding guidance. The comment period will close on Aug. 24, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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📢 8th PAGES Open Science Meeting 2029 | Santiago de Chile & Online The 8th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place in Santiago de Chile, Chile, and online in April or May 2029. Exact dates will be confirmed later. pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/139...

In addition to the potential unfolding WUI wildfire disaster in Spokane, WA, numerous other large & fast-moving fires (existing & new) are blowing up under extremely critical fire weather conditions & severe drought conditions from eastern slopes of Cascades eastward into ID/MT.

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.