Ian

Absolutely fucked up beyond all recognition.

NSF has an insanely low administrative overhead. Laying off staff saves nothing and the cost to our leadership in scientific advancement (with massive public and business implications) will be long-lived and dire.

The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only…

When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.

Also got this email. In addition to everything else, "activities related to DEI" is incredibly vague.

Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪

No idea! I see this was all halted by a judge for now so I think certainty is a ways off.

politico put up the pdf of every federal grant program currently frozen, which is many: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

Was wondering what you might have to say about this- thanks for writing it!

Got some major new toys in the lab!!! 🧪⚒️ #waterisotopes

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

I think quartz is involved

Submitted a paper today ⚒️🧪🔥

tech companies are always trying to put dumb shit in my pocket like Online Banking or The Power Of Google AI. How about put some Cool Rocks in my pocket you fucks

1/ This cool new study decoded each of the 20,000 days of this giant clam, written in the daily increments of its shell during the 53 years of its life, unlocking environmental and climatic conditions…

Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!

#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

the irl version of when @mgoblog.bsky.social talked about smiling about donovan running through the horseshoe while sitting around a post-apocalyptic campfire.

This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time.

Nearly everything.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

i dunno and the fire is horrible but

I want to drive the luxury car smashing bulldozer

Looks like about half of my followers are bots and/or weird garbage accounts.

Seems bad!

Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time

⚒️🧪#paleoclimate

Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time

⚒️🧪#paleoclimate

Best 8-5 season ever

The suffering continues

Submit the $500 as a course expense and see what happens?

I feel the pain of outcrops being way too far away.

Please put my h index on my tombstone 🪦

Stating it publicly so it happens: 2025 is the year Ian writes a bunch of papers

My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

yeah and pretty soon it'll be like August 26th

I'm dead serious: we need to communicate at like an 8th grade reading level. The words "tree equity" should never leave our lips.

#agu24 step totals. I'm going to go ahead and believe that the hiking offsets the extra liquid calories.