Thank you @apnews.com for highlighting my journey to the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi, alongside other great scientists who decided (and could) leave the states. You can read more here: apnews.com/article/trum...

Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump's funding cuts and politicization of science

Many American scientists are being recruited by foreign universities holding out offers of stable funding and academic freedom.

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Excited to see @pacificfmc.bsky.social closing its X/Twitter account and using an in house notification system!

Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow here: the idea that promising students will succeed without the support of diverse, federally funded, academically independent institutions of higher ed is absurd. Science doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Thriving research universities enable scientific success.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Initial notes: There's a lot of emphasis on the GRFP (and similar funding mechanisms, such as CAREER awards) because of its ability to target high-performing individuals on the basis of merit—in contrast to institutions and diversity programs.

Washington state is ahead of the curve, you might say: Oregon and other states are set to lose their federal ocean-monitoring buoys soon. WA's were yanked out of the water back in Sept. www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...

Ocean observatories go dark off Pacific Northwest coast

The Trump administration has quietly removed an array of floating ocean observatories from waters off the Washington coast, KUOW has learned.

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Science is essential—it helps us understand change and guide decisions. But how we do science is expanding: more collaborative, more connected, more inclusive. When it starts with communities, it leads to solutions that last. My Earth Day op-ed is out www.seattletimes.com/opinion/eart...

Earth Day reminds us science is stronger when it starts with communities | Op-Ed

Science is essential. But the story of how we practice it has expanded over the decades to be more connected to real-world decisions and outcomes.

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U.S. government science safely sent a woman, a black man, a single dad, and a Canadian to the moon and back. 🤯 Upon returning to earth, they were like, "Can you tell the boats we can hear them but they can't hear us? We're gonna try a restart. Yep, we think we are pushing the right buttons." 🤣

The beauty of a failure is it can be a solution to another problem. With AI, you lose the most precious part of discovery: gaining deep understandings of failures. Incorporating them. Drawing upon them later. 12/n

Four NOAA #fisheries #stockassessment jobs opened today www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring

Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.

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Or, when you are furloughed during peak fall gardening season, you sign your hopefully-future-will-almost-certainly-get-it paycheck.

The Needling@theneedling.com · 8mo ago

Local Plant Addict Just Signs Paycheck Over Directly to Swansons Nursery: tinyurl.com/2kyst4tc

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring: Positions Coming Soon

Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.

fisheries.noaa.gov

📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...

📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

Writing grants as a federal employee: This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.

a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it .

ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it .

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Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.

4 people: spend combined dozens (100s?) of hrs getting quarto PDFs 508 compliant. (No thanks to Posit here.) Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you? Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮 If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑

@thewaroncars.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social excited to see you in Seattle on Weds! I’m attending with folks from @sngreenways.bsky.social and we’d love you to get word out about www.fixballardbridge.com Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

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If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest.

As a Ballard resident who takes Amtrak to Portland often, SDOT's refusal to make the Ballard bridge anything but absolutely miserable to bike over during repaving is increasingly glaring with the new bike path on Alaskan Way and improvements to the Elliot Bay path. #seabikes @seattlebikeblog.com

This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭

KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org · last yr.

Beyond disrupting the ocean’s food web and fisheries, the underwater heat wave, known as "The Blob," can alter weather on land thousands of miles away.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/