Alyssa Stansfield

I think this is correct. A PhD is not a signal of innate intelligence, but rather of perseverance and grit in the pursuit of knowledge. Conflating LLMs with PhDs is a category error.

Wildfire smoke exacerbates ozone pollution - @theU U research modeled smoke produced in epic 2020 wildfire season to demonstrate how it drives ozone formation, further degrading air quality.

New research from @utah.edu finds wildfire smoke significantly increases ozone concentrations. The research concludes wildfire smoke increases ozone concentrations by 21 parts per billion, or by roughly 20 to 30% higher on average. attheu.utah.edu/research/wil...
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Physical Scientist This position is part of the National Weather Service (NWS), National Centers for Environmental Protection (NCEP). NCEP delivers science-based environmental predictions. It produces reliable, timely, ...

The @nws.noaa.gov National Centers for Environmental Prediction/EMC has 5 #PhysicalScientist (1301) openings in #CollegePark, #Maryland.

🗓 Closes #August 22
GS-13 (3 openings):
- www.usajobs.gov/job/842909200
- www.usajobs.gov/job/842911000
GS-14 (2 openings):
- www.usajobs.gov/job/842911100

Democracy dies in bright daylight.

Portal to help support the NASEM fast-track effort to assess the EPA endangerment finding (deadline for submissions, Aug 27)

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/ant...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Call the House Appropriations subcommittee now: DEMAND NO CUTS to NSF funding in the 2026 Budget Tell the Congressional members of the House Appropriations subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: NO CUTS to NSF funding in the 2026 Budget!

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 7!

🚨URGENT🚨
Call RFK & say NO to cancelling $500m in mRNA vaccine development.

Put in your info, you will receive a call immediately after.
We’ve got a script for you to follow for your call!
#31Days
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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

That little ghoul Lee Zeldin is dismantling the EPA. Gutting the whole thing. Literally shooting the messenger.

The Endangerment Finding is the undeniable connection between atmospheric CO2 and negative impacts to heath and safety. Please speak up.

www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

New Study Shows Hurricane Hunter Flights Significantly Increase Forecast Accuracy The researchers focused on Hurricane Hunter missions conducted with NOAA’s Gulfstream IV during recent Atlantic hurricane seasons.

Hurricane track forecasts made with dropsonde data from the NOAA jet 2018-2022 were up to 24% more accurate than those without the data. Congressional testimony by former NOAA/HRD chief Frank Marks: ~50% of their staff who do dropsondes were let go this year. Will this reduce missions?

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

Great Salt Lake dust makes it all the way to Utah County Dr. Ben Abbott was out for a mountain bike ride when he took video of Saturday's storm that blew into the Provo-Orem area. Buildings were obscured in the dust being carried by strong winds.

@utah.edu's Dr. Kevin Perry says GSL dust gets as far north as Logan, so it's not unheard of to get all the way to Provo.

The problem? We don't have adequate dust monitors around the Great Salt Lake. Utah DEQ tells me it's trying to fix that: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to a Shrinking Agency Trump’s appointee to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has vowed to support the president's massive cuts.

Neil Jacobs - the weather scientist who was in charge at NOAA during "Sharpiegate" - is poised to come back.

“I’m hopeful that he’s learned how to fight within the political system," one former NOAA chief said, "because he is going to have to fight." / 1

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Yosemite employees worked for weeks with no pay before the government hired them Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable to onboard them at the start of the summer.

Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable to onboard them at the start of the summer.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

White House says it will begin construction on $200 million ballroom in September Trump for months has been promising to build a ballroom, saying the White House doesn't have enough space to hold large events.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

$200M is the entire annual budget for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

President Trump’s Handouts to Fossil Fuel Industry Will Cost Public $80 Billion Over Next Decade  US taxpayers are facing double jeopardy thanks to a reckless and inhumane budget bill that hands billions of dollars to the oil and gas industry as it worsens the impact of climate change

The budget bill steers tens of billions in tax breaks and policy favors to oil & gas, weakens clean-energy support, & is estimated to cost the public ~$80 billion over the next decade, from @ucs.org

We're subsidizing polluters to poison us.

zurl.co/hBJCD

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

If you don't like the message, why not shoot the messenger?

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im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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Why you can be confident that climate change made the Texas floods worse the importance of testing the right hypothesis

Why you can be confident that climate change made the Texas floods worse

My latest on The Climate Brink

Don't be misled by those arguing about trends in flooding.

www.theclimatebrink....

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

For comparison, the $10m it cost US taxpayers to send the President on a vacation to his gold course last week is the same amount of money the entirety of the Solar System Science research and analysis program is getting this year (a cut of 82% from last year).

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*Fantastic* news for the hurricane and sea ice crowd

Now if we could get to where we don't have to beg for every critical instrument and dataset to stay online...

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire