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Colin Sweeney, Ph.D.

@sciencecolin.bsky.social

Ecology and Remote Sensing | Former museum educator | Let's make the world a little bit better today... 🌈🌱🛰️🪿🦫(he/him) Protect trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ | Be Good

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 3w ago

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3w ago

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Colin Sweeney, Ph.D.@sciencecolin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Make sure to oppose the proposed changes to the OMB proposal TODAY. The ID for the proposed rule is: OMB-2026-0034-23120 Making a public comment is easy. You can make a public comment at either of the two links below: www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD

Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "TODAY IS THE LAST DAY" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · last mo.

This is such an important thread as we face a growing crisis in higher education. So many public universities are being taken over by people who treat them as a business and not a public good, and those are fundamentally different philosophies. And it’s destroying the road to upward mobility.

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today. To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university. The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.
Colin Sweeney, Ph.D.@sciencecolin.bsky.social · last mo.

Chenyang is an incredible researcher and an even better human! Check out his new paper that created a new fine resolution GEDI dataset!!

Chenyang Wei@chenyangwei.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share our new open-access paper in Environmental Research Communications! We fused NASA GEDI LiDAR with optical, radar & environmental data to map 11 forest structural metrics at 30 m across 1.17M km² of eastern North America. 📄Paper: doi.org/10.1088/2515... #GEDI #LiDAR #RemoteSensing

Map panels showing predicted canopy height, canopy cover, plant area index, and foliage height diversity across temperate forests of eastern North America.
michael catchen@mdcatchen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 New preprint! What happens to bumblebee pollination networks as species ranges shift due to climate change? 🐝🪻🕸️ In the Rocky Mountains, we predict these networks are becoming "vertically disassembled" as the ranges of interacting species shift upward in elevation at different rates.

Scientific figure depicting species elevational range shifts under three different climate scenarios in the top left, and bivariate plots depicting hotspots of species gain and loss in the southern rocky mountains on the right.
Moira Donovan@moiradonovan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

By teasing DNA from ancient ground squirrel poop, scientists have reconstructed the mammoth-steppe ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of years ago—a window with lessons for our current period of environmental turmoil. My story for @biographic.bsky.social with edits from @colinschultz.bsky.social

bioGraphic@biographic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology by @moiradonovan.bsky.social www.biographic.com/life-in-the-...

The Weather & Climate Livestream@wclivestream.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're starting in 20 minutes! Our opening lineup includes: @adamsobel.bsky.social Jen Kay (UC Boulder) @zacklabe.com @ametsoc.org @drjeffmasters.bsky.social @solilyquy.bsky.social Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) Abby Swann (UW) Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch

The Weather & Climate Livestream@wclivestream.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 We begin our 50-hour broadcast today at 4pm 🚨 It's a showcase of incredible people and their phenomenal work- a celebration of the scientific community 🧪, defined broadly Use this link to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you'll get notified when we're live: wclivestream.com/watch

A graphic on a blue background, with the title "Help Save Weather & Climate Science in the United States". 2 boxes beneath say "Watch the Livestream: Learn about federally funded weather and climate research + what's at risk!" and "Call Your Representatives: Share what you learned with your representatives: wclivestream.com/call". The bottom of the graphic says "50 hours for our future: Mon. Jun 1st - Wed. Jun 3rd".
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Erik Hoffner@erikhoffner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Modern conservation treats #biodiversity as a concept but the truth is that for much of our history, it was not an abstraction but was immediate, sacred & embedded in life As an admirer of ancient rock art since living in New Mexico, I enjoyed editing and publishing this new @mongabay.com analysis:

Humanity’s ancient bond with biodiversity is visible in rock art (analysis)

Across continents and cultures, one of the most striking features of ancient rock art is how often it places the natural world at its center. Whether etched into sandstone cliffs in the Sahara, painte...

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@amsbogm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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