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Isabella A. Oleksy, Ph.D.

@isabellaoleksy.bsky.social

Ecosystem scientist | Biogeochemist | Lake Dr. | Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder | 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇱 https://www.mountainlimnologylab.com/

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INSTAAR@instaar.bsky.social · last yr.

Isabella Oleksy's Mountain Limnology Lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. Their investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are changing in the Anthropocene www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025... @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social & @jbaron4.bsky.social

Air pollution and warming are changing Colorado’s remote alpine lakes

The Oleksy lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. Their investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are

colorado.edu

Isabella A. Oleksy, Ph.D.@isabellaoleksy.bsky.social · last yr.

I am proud of this piece that my lab wrote about the collaboration we began last summer with the US Forest Service in CO-- an effort to understand why remote, high elevation lakes in the Wilderness are greening. We need publicly funded science now more than ever: doi.org/10.1002/lob.... @aslo.org

The Power of Pack Mules: Harnessing Partnerships With Land Stewards for Remote Ecosystem Research

Click on the article title to read more.

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · last yr.

Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.

The World’s Most Urgent Scientific Question

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graph...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech. From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:

CHIPS and Science authorization for FY26 = $17.8B White House skinny budget = $3.9B
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last yr.

In light of the skinny budget (55.8% reduction), 6 past NSF directors and 7 NSB chairs have sent the House Committee on Appropriations a letter advising doubling the NSF budget. "We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"

Key paragraph of letter: We believe these challenges can be met, but not with the draconian budget plan and staffing reductions just released by OMB. Such a budget would thwart scientific progress, decimate the research workforce, and take a decade or more to recover. Achieving the President’s vision requires a major enhancement of the NSF budget, ideally a doubling of the FY25 level over the next few years and sufficient staff to execute this vision. In the current political climate, we know this is a bold request. We make it, nonetheless, to say -- if we truly wish to realize this vision, we must commit to a historic investment in fundamental research and education in a manner that leaves no doubt about the United States’ intentions with our international competitors. We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce? For 75 years winning that race has been the foundation of American prosperity and national security. Adopting the proposed cuts would fast-track China’s plans for technological dominance. As Senator Todd Young said in his March 25th Washington Post op-ed, “…Our policymakers should lock arms with the science-and-technology dreamers and doers across the country — from Silicon Valley to the Silicon Prairie — and recognize that basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain academia. Instead, it is a vital ingredient in our innovation future, economic and geopolitical competitiveness, and national security.”
INSTAAR@instaar.bsky.social · last yr.

👏🏽 Congrats to the faculty supporting @colorado.edu undergrads on UROP research projects, incl INSTAARs 👤 @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social: Mountain lakes & carbon cycling 👤 Katharine Suding: Grassland ecosystems, alpine fungi & plants 👤 @drscottataylor.bsky.social: Songbird breeding, adaptation, & memory

UROP, University of Colorado Boulder@cuboulderurop.bsky.social · last yr.

We're pleased to announce the recipients of this cycle's UROP Student and Faculty Grants, Mentor Awards and Savit Scholars. We invite you to celebrate these innovators with us! www.colorado.edu/urop/2025-su...

Vera Mikkilä@veramikkila.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities’ ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF’s strategy, the call wi...

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Jon Douglas@atranscendedman.bsky.social · last yr.

Boston researchers analyzed data from over 375,000 US adults and found that nearly 1 in 7 reported long COVID by late 2023. Those affected faced higher risks of unemployment, hardship, anxiety, and $218B in lost wages. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States - Communications Medicine

Kim identifies risk factors for long COVID and links long COVID to higher instances of job loss, financial hardship, and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Lost earnings due to long COVID among working-...

nature.com

Dr. Amy Burgin@burginam.bsky.social · last yr.

The NIH-funded Haskell-KU Bridges Program was terminated. It was one of the longest running programs of its kind, placing >130 Native American students into STEM labs over the last ~25 years. So many alums spoke of this program as being the entry point to their interest, and later, careers in STEM.

Office for Advancing Success in Science / University of Kansas@oasis-ku.bsky.social · last yr.

We have some very sad news. Today we received notification that our Bridges, MARC, PREP and IRACDA programs have been terminated. We are heartbroken.

INSTAAR@instaar.bsky.social · last yr.

UNDERGRAD SUMMER FIELD COURSES at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station 🌱 Vegetation 🦅 Birds 🧬 Bioinformatics 🦠 Microbes 🚣‍♀️ Lakes+streams 🌲 Forests+fire Each 2-3 wks, 3 transferable credits, 15 students/class, lodging&food included w tuition ENROLLMENT STARTS 10 MAR www.colorado.edu/mrs/student-...

Nine people, many holding butterfly nets, stand shoulder to shoulder in a grassy summer meadow surrounded by conifer trees. Accompanying text says CU Boulder Mountain Research Station summer field coursesPoster for the Summer 2025 field courses at the CU Mountain Research Station. Images of mountains, alpine flowers, birds, tundra, forests, and streams. Interested in taking a field course? Join us in the mountains next summer (near Nederland CO about 1 hour from Boulder). Housing and food are included in tuition. Classes are Field methods in vegetation ecology, Field ornithology, Bioinformatics in the mountains, Microbial ecology, Forest and fire ecology, and Lake and stream ecology
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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AU Freshwater Ecology@freshwaterau.bsky.social · last yr.

Your model is your hypothesis. So, why not use multiple of them? Championed by Feldbauer & Mesman, in our fresh-off-the-press paper we highlight the performance of temperature models across the globe, and discuss the path forward to get better projections! hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Learning from a large-scale calibration effort of multiple lake temperature models

Abstract. Process-based lake temperature models, formulated on hydrodynamic principles, are commonly used to simulate water temperature, enabling one to test different scenarios and draw conclusions a...

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Thijs Kuiken@thijskuiken.bsky.social · last yr.

American Fisheries Society, Society of American Foresters, Society for Range Management, and The Wildlife Society issue a public statement against the cuts to the federal workforce and how this will impact natural resource conservation in the USA. fisheries.org/2025/02/natu...

Natural Resource Professional Societies Issue Joint Statement on the Impacts of Federal Workforce Reduction - American Fisheries Society

Amidst the continued termination of the nations’ federal workforce, the American Fisheries Society (AFS) joined forces with the Society of American Foresters

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