Shawn Serbin

Too bad you can’t just share an ssh key from your PC to avoid the authentication step! 🤣

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say "There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"

Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...

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Saving science by the sea As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...

There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊

Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.

it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...

New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid.

More info ⬇️​

Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...

Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).

New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And I’ll just drop this here as well. All part of a concerted effort to hobble, diminish or destroy critical NASA expertise and capabilities and eliminate Earth science

www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

An image of the article title discussing the rapid closure of buildings and divestment of laboratory capabilities at NASA’s GSFC

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Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social:

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

The full report can be found here: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, released a new staff report revealing that OMB Director Russell Vought has...

www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-d...

Arctic research consortium closing down after Trump administration cuts funding The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, established in 1988 and credited with helping scientists and Alaska communities, is closing this month.

43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.

🦋🌱 Most people care about #biodiversity, yet we often underestimate how concerned others are about its loss. This “pluralistic ignorance” can silence people, weaken action, and make ambitious policies seem less popular.

In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾

Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐

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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

🚨Hot off the press🔥
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US

A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

IPCC SR Cities (AR7) Scientists on Bluesky Join the conversation

Here is a separate starter pack of the #IPCC scientists on bluesky involved in the SR Cities:
go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT
@dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social
(full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)

New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...
For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack!
@dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

I had the same question since effectively all of my journal articles (need to confirm) show up when I search my name. Pre and post becoming a CS but also when working at DOE.

Missed the workshop?
“Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”
No worries !
Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog:
fluxnet.org/bridging-the...

The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post.

Enjoy :)

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

Conceptual diagram illustrating how trait–environment interactions drive species distributions.

Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward

A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇

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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...

Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social

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