Dan Brown

Inside the fight to slow down WA’s roller coaster Bear Gulch fire The Bear Gulch fire sparked July 6 and has burned into the Olympic National Park. Things are heating up again.

Great coverage of Bear Gulch 🔥 in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social +excellent context RE 🔥 west of Cascades from UW's Crystal Raymond. @uw-sefs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #HarveyLab #wffrc

This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites.

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This line in the middle of a political screed is particularly precious “An investigator in the sciences has little time for writing political position papers or worse, political screeds.”

Great to see Zia Mehrabi win the Frontiers Planet Prize, along with many colleagues, including lead author Laura Vang Rasmussen. Zia will be presenting this important work at the @the-nss.bsky.social meeting in October.

It's all bad!

Yes, exactly. It does show well the radical change in budget allocation year over year. True. What I think it exaggerates, if the reader isn't careful, is the cut as a proportion of the total allocation. Both are large and could be communicated with zero on the graph.

I wish the y axes started at zero. The drops are awful, and graphically exaggerated.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

This shameful dismantling of NSF will materially affect the nation's economy, health, national security, and environment. The NSF spokesperson didn't go on the record with their name because they know it's wrong. A coward. www.science.org/content/arti...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was SO good two years ago that we are doing it again today. Thanks, Tom!

@katharinehayhoe.com @deepseadawn.bsky.social @globalecoguy.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social

Really nice summary of the status of LLMs in social science research.

Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.

#standupforscience

map of counties in Washington State, colored by intersecting shades of blue and red, depicting levels of GHG reduction achievable by improved forest management (blue) and levels of dependence on forest wages.

New paper on how potential for implementing natural climate solutions in Washington counties intersects with socio-economic vulnerability. The paper highlights how human livelihoods, esp. in rural areas, are interact with carbon management. @phillevin.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

What’s SpaceX’s overhead rate?

Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps

At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space?

[1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post-doc with the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) to work w/a team of natural and social scientists on adaptation in the Midwest in sectors that relate to the intersection of urban green infrastructure with wildlife conservation and natural resource management.

Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity, yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in interventions tha...

Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria Abandonment, when it came, crept in from the outskirts. Homes at the edge of town were first to go, then the peripheral grocery…

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?