A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

You guys SUBSIDIES DON'T SHAPE OUR DIET. (mostly) Subsidies generally FOLLOW farmer preferences, rather than create them. And farmers grow what people will buy. Here's @hannahritchie.bsky.social on how subsidies affect me at prices: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/meat-subsi...

Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?

A little, but not much. Certainly not enough to make them cheaper than meat substitutes.

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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Environmental Research: Food Systems @iopp-environment.bsky.social is now indexed in Scopus! 👩‍🌾 Huge thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editorial team – this will help food systems research reach an even wider audience.

Many people feel overwhelmed with the number of potential climate solutions, and are not quite sure what to focus on. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social has always been at helping people navigate the minefield. Their new explorer is really cool, and helps to make things clearer: drawdown.org/explorer

Drawdown® Explorer

We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

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Under-prediction of past high temperature extremes suggests climate models are underpredicting future high temperature extremes. sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/publications New open-access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... New research brief: drive.google.com/file/d/1tvJ5...

Selected Publications

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American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada? Here’s a good opportunity!

Dr. Julia K. Baum@baumlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn... You: world class scholar, looking to make a move Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy Pls share widely!

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

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for those who missed the CLIVAR climate risk webinar, it's now online. great talks by @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang. youtu.be/sktn8mu98UQ?...

Usable Climate Risk Science: Webinar One

YouTube video by US CLIVAR

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There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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If you’re wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah they’re freaking out.

If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Our opening is about to close while we read applications, but here's another catastrophe R&D role with a great team at Trans Re, with Maryam Haji who runs one of the sharpest shops in reinsurance.

Research Analyst | Maryam Haji

Are you passionate about research and analytics? Do you thrive in a dynamic and diverse workplace? TransRe is excited to announce that we are seeking a talented Research Analyst to join our research t...

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Kelly Hereid@kellyhereid.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi all, we're hiring an early career catastrophe research role in our group! Master's or PhD, flexible on area of specialization, experience in cat modeling not required. US only but remote is available, we've got a hybrid team in Boston, London, and scattered across US and UK.

Feed cleanse: Colorado blue skies (and wildflowers)

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Good cover @economist.com

I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

UC Cooperative Extension Specialist - Computational Data Science for Agriculture and Natural Resource Technologies Located at the University of California, San Diego (25-17)

University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources is hiring. Apply now!

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We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

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The article includes this beautiful photo of the baby looking up at one of the doctors who saved his life. This extraordinary, life saving research is exactly how I want my tax dollars spent. “KJ is now well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him from the hospital and live at home”

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last yr.

“KJ’s treatment — which built on decades of federally funded research — offers a new path for companies to develop personalized treatments without going through years of expensive development… [this method] eventually could also be used for more common genetic disorders like sickle cell disease”

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:

Yep. People have started to appreciate (and question) the fact that we use 30-40% of our US corn supply for ethanol, but it flies under the radar that we now use 40-50% of our US soybean oil supply for biodiesel. BTW all this supplies only like 5% of US transport fuel. Inefficient resource use.

John Smillie@johnsmillie42.bsky.social · last yr.

A lot of people are on to ethanol, but what's often missed is that we are using more than another 25M acres for soy biodiesel.

Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another. Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.

NSF Unidata@unidata.bsky.social · last yr.

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

USDA officially canceled $500 million in additional funding for food banks. The department pointed to other sources of new funding for the program but food banks told me it's not enough at a time of record-setting need. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: USDA officially cancels $500 million for emergency food program

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