Allison Jacobel

Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign

Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!

The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1

Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social

Also special thanks to my BFF & fellow @macalestercollege.bsky.social geo grad Karen Jackson for her help in photographing these gorgeous landscapes!

Thanks to the Navajo Nation and NPS for photography permits; to the Thunderbird Lodge for the tour; financial support from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation and Jeanne Epp Barksdale Faculty Fellowship & thanks to the Center for Digital Learning and Inquiry at Middlebury for tech support.

Woman in a blue hat scanning a rock outcrop with an iPad

We used LiDAR & Scaniverse on the iPad Pro, a 360 camera, and a Canon D90 to capture 3D scans of outcrops, panoramas, images, and video for these trips.

Image of a butte in Canyon de Chelly at sunset

Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...

I believe two things deeply:

1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind

2. Mars is trash

Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors.
thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

The budget in that section for the CAREER is 229.55M and it is zeroed out, per the program solicitation they award 250M in CAREER grants. CAREER is not mentioned anywhere else in the budget. Happy to be wrong, but looks unlikely more than ~25 grants could remain.

It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?

The 229M that appears next to the CAREER in that section is ~all of the 250M allotted for the program overall per the solicitation.

Where do you see CAREER appear elsewhere? I did find the second GRPF reference and am 'relieved' it's only 55%.

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work:

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.

Table showing the massive cuts in federal science funding for EPA- 54.5%, NASA -24%. NOAA - 24%, NSF -56%, USGS- 38% etc.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%.

This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.

Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.

So excited that this important work by Kau and Pedro is out. Awesome example of a collab between the paleo and modeling communities. Proud to see our Line Islands cores play a role in such a cool result and excited to keep working with this team!

We invite abstract submissions to AGU24 Session PP024 - Oxygenation Dynamics in Past Oceans 🌊 for data and model-based reconstructions, innovative proxies, and studies on ocean oxygenation responses to global changes. #AGU24

Excited that my paleo-O2 proposal was just funded by @NSF. Looking forward to some sabbatical time @instaar.bsky.social working with Julio Sepúlveda and @davidharning.bsky.social. Thanks to all who help make these programs run! 👩‍🔬