🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

End of semester coming up. My hazards students will have the joy of discussing wildfires in the context of 1) the unprecedented west coast heat wave 2) dumb as fuck federal land management policy that’s going to super charge wildfire conditions morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Go Artemis II!! We’re so proud of the astronauts and alllll the amazing talent of NASA and our partners that made this launch happen. This is what NASAneedshelp is fighting for: resources and funding to further push the limits of exploration and understanding in space.

Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀

Happy to share a new lab #AgrForMet paper, "Proximal measurements of microwave reflectance using GNSS-IR track semi-arid grassland vegetation dynamics during greening and browning phases," led by Dr. Charlie Devine authors.elsevier.com/c/1moi6cFXJs...

"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap.news

A Once-in-a-4,433-Year Heat Wave Is Hitting the Western U.S.

The consequences will linger well past the high temperatures.

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The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

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So the word from UCAR (NCAR’s managing entity) is, essentially, “This is news to us!” news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-... 🤔

It took a while for the centers, labs & groups bringing together scientists, researchers, and communicators on climate to realize Bluesky was a thing. But once they did, they arrived in droves. Here are the first 100 early adopters. Give ’em a follow! Day 6 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs.

The annual Arctic Report Card is now out for 2025. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts. This is the 20th anniversary edition. 20 years of rapid change. + Report arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... + Summary arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

We can now simulate the biomass of mangrove forests and its spatial distribution on a global scale agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

ORCHIDEE‐MAN: Incorporating Mangrove Processes in the Global Vegetation Model of ORCHIDEE

A new mangrove module related to carbon cycle was introduced into the land surface model Parameters related to mangrove carbon cycles were calibrated and optimized using the observations collecte...

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Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

The same week as #AGU2025, Vought and his cronies come after one of the world’s premier weather and climate research institutions. Absolutely disgusting www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

Trump Administration Threatens to Dismantle Leading Climate and Weather Research Center

The Trump administration is threatening to dismantle one of the U.S.’ leading weather and climate research institutions.

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New paper out in @science.org from the LegacyNet. Functional plant diversity and fertilization impacts on yields were compared in a network of sites across the globe. Our colleague Sebastian Meyer hosted the Freising site, allowing us to follow it closely for many years. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient

High-yielding forage grasslands frequently comprise low species diversity and receive high inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. To investigate multispecies mixtures as an alternative strategy, the 26-site i...

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Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said 😳

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

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Sign the Petition

Stop the Dismantling of NASA Science Center at Goddard

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Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say

"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"

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There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊

Saving science by the sea

As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...

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it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...

Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos

To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.

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New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid. More info ⬇️​

Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend). New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications

This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...

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An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/govern...

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

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The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science

Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, released a new staff report revealing that OMB Director Russell Vought has...

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43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)

Arctic research consortium closing down after Trump administration cuts funding

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, established in 1988 and credited with helping scientists and Alaska communities, is closing this month.

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Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience

An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.

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Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!

Christian Elliott@christianelliott.me · 11mo ago

A little blast from the past... NASA's website has come a loooong way 🖱️

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.