Ashley Lowe Mackenzie

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Proud to be a part of this resistance viva la NNA1!!
#NatureRecord

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

What did I learn? My favorite new animal is a meerkat that I consistently call a muskrat. It was a good year for face holes and smashed pennys #goodbye2025

We lost an amazing American troubadour way too early💔…. And all the stories I’m reading leave more questions than answers. youtu.be/qZldHLupe0Q?...

Until they pull out that contraption from men in Black I’m not gonna forget the progress that once was easily accessible to the public

You should read this for sure.

This convo happened 3 years ago… and I still think about it to this day.

I guess his face will have to suffice

Reinstate the National Climate Assessment In April, the Trump administration dismissed all authors working on the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA) and canceled funding for the US Global Change Research Program (1)—the federal agency ch...

“Elected officials and federal leadership
must safeguard US resilience by protecting the independence of
the NCA, ensuring its timely release, and fully funding its coordinate and communicate efforts”

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

Don’t worry we have one of the guys at the bottom in charge of getting to the bottom of the case.

Sure is an Interesting time…

This is the game I like to call “Guess who is Peter Thiel talking about?” I very much lost this game as a heads up.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again Botticelli chin- just wrong time period but at one time it was all the rage

After thoroughly investigating this event, I would have to agree with this conclusion 😂

The path to #aere2025 ended up being 4k miles from Oregon to New Mexico and back again. Got to see the Great Basin NP which has been on my list for years since a radiolab did a show on Prometheus the bristlecone pine

University of Hawaii was well represented at #aere2025 this year

Trip to #aere2025 was super fun. And really enjoyed the conference. Next stop Oregon!

Getting to @aereorg.bsky.social summer conference in style

Love to see the names of the AERE community on this list!

A screen shot of the declaration, called "defending the national climate assessment" with 130 signatures.

I love that over a hundred climate activists - oh no excuse me, Environmental and Natural Resource Economists! - are objecting to the "quiet cancellation of this important leadership initiative & critical public resource," calling it "as shortsighted as it is unlawful."

Read more: support-nca.org

Totally! I was soo excited to sign and see the support from my field. Some amazing researchers in that list!

Glad you were able to decipher it

Just finished Hate the Game by @hatethegamebook.com The book weaved economic thinking into major decisions many of us will face in our lives! Definitely recommend

I’m not surprised by the executive order grossly misnamed “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” but I am very saddened by it. One of the most amazing seeds ever planted in my mind was that “a book could be your passport”…
Consider showing ❤️https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

A wonderful piece to read. I definitely needed a dash of inspiration during this time of extreme efforts to rollback environmental regulation.

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish “Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.

How else will they know where to send the yellow stars?

"Trump administration texted college professors' personal phones to ask if they're Jewish."
theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

half of me loved reading this take down of Cruz identification strategy… the other half remembered that even with this well cited findings these grants are still being frozen and cut.

democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

This proposed rule would fly in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and drive many treasured species to extinction.

The glory of nature is our heritage, and when species are gone you can’t bring them back.

(No, those direwolves aren’t the real thing)

It was one thing when they cancelled the national nature assessment but the national climate assessment… There’s really no coming back from this, and it means we are all less informed about climate

https://www.pressenza.com/2025/04/trump-administration-ends-funding-for-leading-u-s-climate-program/

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.