Initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data by @watershedlab.bsky.social & @kristencook.bsky.social suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the flash flood disaster in Nepal www.newscientist.com/article/2586...

A glacier collapse is most likely cause of the Nepal disaster | New Scientist

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below

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The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 4w ago

There has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️

The School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at UIowa is hiring at the Assistant/Associate Professor level in the area of Climate Governance and Policy. Please share this job ad!

Oh my gosh. As someone who looked at the interaction of microbes and hydrogen peroxide for her thesis work, I am laughing myself silly over this.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tired: They're painting the roses red Wired: They're pouring hydrogen peroxide in the reflecting pool at a rate far far far too low to actually kill all that algae in there

Helped kick off @freshwaterscience.bsky.social Annual Meeting with a workshop on Git and version control. Here's a link to the workshop website: jakehosen.github.io/git-workshop/

Want to learn about collecting sensor data with drones or setting up sensor networks with LoRaWAN technology? We have the short course (field camp) for you. The best part is, there is funding to attend. Apply soon! Let me know if you have questions!

Pretty extraordinary that the U.S. is experiencing its worst March drought on record, worse even than the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Drought is the most dangerous threat of climate change.

Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just how bad is this spring’s drought?? The worst in US History, going all the way back to the 1890s, even worse than Dust Bowl springs. And #Florida is among the worst in the nation… 1/

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Is there a version of the chart follow the dollar-value of the grants? Is it fewer-bigger grants or simply - as I would guess - straight up less money going out the door?

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

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That's about 306,500 cubic kilometers.

Report: 13 Great Lakes’ Worth of Water Underlies the Contiguous United States - Eos

Researchers used 1 million data points and a machine learning algorithm to estimate groundwater stores with higher resolution than ever before.

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PhD opportunity Back to the roots! Can plants avoid water stress by moving water uptake to deeper soil? Find out in this IMPRS PhD project, coop with @chriswernerlab.bsky.social, @bernhardschuldt.bsky.social and a whole consortium investigating plant hydraulics 👉 More info: shorturl.at/66nBa

Had great company in the story! @profsecchi.bsky.social provided some powerful insights about "sustainable" aviation fuel. A condensed version of the story was also in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?

Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

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New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊 Slides + exercises here: 🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out... #rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · last yr.

The First GPS Observation of a Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck | doi.org/10.1675/063.... | Waterbirds | #ornithology 🪶

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n

Venezuelan Troupial looking around for a good arthropod to munch on!

The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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🧪 Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades! Call your reps, especially if they are Republicans! We must #resist #StandUpForScience www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

nytimes.com

Back to work at @freshwaterscience.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting. Happy to share a great lineup of talks from the lab! #mussels #GPP #SFS2025

What lies beneath: microbial quality of rural groundwater explored by shotgun metagenomics link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs

What lies beneath: microbial quality of rural groundwater explored by shotgun metagenomics - Annals of Microbiology

Background Groundwater is a vital freshwater resource, especially in rural areas; however, its microbial communities remain largely unexplored beyond traditional culture-dependent strategies. This stu...

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Save NSF. Share your story and get kits to take action. www.savensf.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Glad to share this recently published article in @animalecology.bsky.social led by Nick Corline on how "(wood frog) #tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in (geographically isolated) #wetland ecosystems": besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 💧🧪🌎🐸 #DelmarvaDisco

Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems

This research demonstrates that tadpoles can create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems and has important ramifications for our understanding of the functional role of animal species in nut....

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The Dark Ages Are Back

Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.

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Tales from the Hill

Contributed by Dan Bolnick On April 30 2025 (the same day NSF froze all funding actions), about 20 colleagues and I were crisscrossing Capit...

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TODAY's news at NSF: 3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... This highly illegal statement was cute: "This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."

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USGS Water Data Centers May Soon Close, Threatening States’ Water Management - Inside Climate News

The Trump administration has terminated the leases of 25 U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers, which inform the water decisions of local and state governments across the country.

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