Hi academic Bluesky, it’s been a while. #incarcerateTrump.
Dan Holstein, PhD
@drdanholstein.bsky.social
Marine ecologist, coral reefs, PI of the Seascape Ecology Lab. Doodles, sculpture, and dogs, too. www.seascapelab.com
They’re just trying the hasten the end times, right?
Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX@kortizart.bsky.social · last yr.Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...
Honest question - is calling red state senators doing anything at all?
Nektonic’s “After the Reef” lays it bare: coral scientists are sounding the alarm on climate change. Governments are not acting fast enough if at all. The clock is ticking. If you want reefs to survive, here’s where your time, money, and voice must go. #OceanOptimism #ClimateAction
Dan Holstein, PhD@drdanholstein.bsky.social · last yr.#coral #coralreef #climate #science open.substack.com/pub/nektonic...
It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do. The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts. 24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded. 6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals. >20 is catastrophic. coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...
Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future *legal* RIFs - remember that this was a victory.
I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.
It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.
Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2y agoUtterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.
Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.
Scott Dance@byscottdance.com · 2y agoNew: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.
Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.
A3@aythree.bsky.social · 2y agoAn underrated point. Republicans didn't have to pass a spending bill, they could shut the government down all on their own if they wanted. They voted for this because it achieves their goals. Schumer is helping Republicans achieve their goals.
Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 2y agoWow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
This wild press release from the EPA is… something. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
NOAA Climate.gov@climate.noaa.gov · 2y agoPredicting El Niño and La Niña is tough, but new research analyzing 20+ years of forecasts finds dynamical models outperform statistical ones, especially for El Niño. La Niña onset? That's been much harder. Read more in our new ENSO blog post! www.climate.gov/news-feature...
This is a sad day in ocean and marine science. @noaa.gov
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
New: Layoffs underway of probationary employees at @noaa.gov Unclear so far how many were exempted for public safety reasons at the Nat'l Weather Service, NOAA Satellites and other units. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...
Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA
The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.
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Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...