If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.

High temperatures and low precipitation in the American West last winter led to record-low snowpack. A study finds that such a snow drought is 4.4 times more likely in the current climate than it would have been in the pre-industrial climate. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/LKKh50ZtquX

HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️

Ooooops we did it again New all-time high melting in #Greenland 19.07.2026 #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Metacrisis

A possibly worthwhile point of clarification: the 'models' discussed here are statistical fits to the last ~100 years of data (from NOAA Atlas 14). This is inevitably backwards looking and will be an underestimate of current probabilities of rainfall intensity in a changing climate.

John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 3w ago

“There is a more structural question if these big events keep happening,” Berg said. “How far is it a statistical question, then how much is the ground shifting under our feet?” insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...

Antarctica’s first dinosaur fossil confirmed from 1985 Antarctic expedition www.bas.ac.uk/news/antarct...

This without daycare in the child's first year.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you want more efficiency at work, ask a new mom. "Sleep deprived, managing childcare, working your job & keeping a baby alive; there is no time for nonsense. Suddenly you can see the absurdity of workplace traditions we’ve accepted for years." www.fastcompany.com/91552314/wha...

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social

Journal #reviewers: your work is very much appreciated, especially your acceptance of review requests from lower-tier journals, authors you do not know, from diverse identities and countries, and from research institutions that are less well-known. Remember this: www.science.org/content/arti...

Reviewers award higher marks when a paper’s author is famous

“Matthew effect” is powerful, unusually large study finds

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Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

On the day the Joides Resolution is on its way to be shredded, we also find out about NSF's removal of ocean observation arrays; here is the update that was posted before a U.S. holiday weekend oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/nsf-...

NSF OOI Descoping Update for the Community - Ocean Observatories Initiative

Dear OOI Community, As many of you may now be aware, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated a major descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. The official...

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Today, the legendary JR begins her last journey to the shipwrecking yard. Home to many of us, she helped to understand plate tectonics, climate, deep biosphere, earthquakes/volcanoes, and was an integral part in international science and collaboration 🫡 www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/...

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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It reads like a chapter in a distopian novel... sadly it could become reality.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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✨Open PhD student position✨ I'm looking for a PhD student in biogeochemical modelling of past abrupt changes. The PhD candidate will explore interactions of rapid ocean circulation changes with marine biogeochemistry during past abrupt climate change. Apply by 31 May. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student in Earth System Modelling - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Earth System Modelling

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Study (N=3,500) finds 68% of researchers observed gift authorship (credit w/o contributing); 55% observed ghost authorship (no credit for contributing). Women researchers reported more conflicts over authorship & felt less comfortable raising concerns. theconversation.com/who-gets-cre...

Who gets credit for research? How the hidden rules of academic authorship can leave women at a disadvantage

Unclear standards combined with power dynamics can create problems for women researchers.

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On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

Come join me in Oslo in August for the SCAR Open Science Conference on Antarctic Research

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)@scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Deadline Extension for #SCAR2026! ❄️🌍 The Early Bird registration deadline for the 12th SCAR Open Science Conference has been extended to 20 May 2026 (23:59 Norwegian time). 🏨 We’ve also extended the deadline for discounted accommodation rates at our partner hotels in Oslo. www.scar2026.org

Find out what it is like to do field research in Antarctica. seamapantarctica.org

A study in Nature Sustainability shows sea-level rise is already causing population retreat in coastal Louisiana and uses geological history and demographic data to argue that early, planned relocation can guide global climate adaptation. go.nature.com/4eHOh6q 🌍🌊🧪

I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, stretching back 1.2 million years go.nature.com/4dCVK5s

Ice core reveals longest-ever continuous record of Earth’s climate

Data from Antarctica could help to solve the mystery of why ice ages were so brutal.

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"We discuss why their thinking matters, that their struggle to translate thoughts into word isn’t evidence of failure, but a sign of growth."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord

Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...

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What's the deal with the sharp contrast between the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas? #Antarctica @polarrobs.bsky.social do you know?

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 3mo ago

Lots of regional variability in terms of the sea-ice concentration anomalies across the #Antarctic region from last month. Once again, some of the largest negative departures are in the Bellingshausen Sea (along the peninsula). ➡️ More visuals of Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

Happy (belated) #dandelianday www.njconservation.org/the-lowly-da...

The lowly dandelion: Ready for a close-up? - New Jersey Conservation Foundation

by Jay Watson, Co-Executive Director Make a wish before blowing on a dandelion, some say, and the confetti of airborne seeds might give your wish liftoff. Or you might just end up with a new batch of ...

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