Brandon Daly ❄️

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

We are aiming to submit the letter to NSF early next week. Please reach out by Monday July 28th at 3pm Eastern if you'd like your name added.

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If there is a replacement, I imagine it would have an oil drill and ammunition. It is Trump's intent to eradicate polar research outside of O&G exploration and geopolitical influence.

The NSF just the other day declared dissent against the Trump administration. If the NSF does nothing, if we do nothing, it was all just words on paper.

If you're fearing retaliation, you are already being retaliated against.

This will end a very wide swath of Antarctic research conducted by U.S. polar researchers. We cannot let this happen.

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The way I see it: if Trump is going to eliminate science in the United States, we have absolutely nothing to gain through obedience. If he wants to step on us, he should be stepping on our quills.

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The National Science Foundation should also dissent .... just sayin'

Why recognize or acknowledge the authority of a pedophile?

I actually never got my GRFP application comments

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.

The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

I'm good now though. I have a job.

Email from a movie theater: "Hi Brandon , Thank you for taking the time to apply for the position of Theatre Team Member at ... We appreciate your interest in our organization. At this time, your application has not been reviewed due to high volume of applications. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. If you are still interested in this position or any other roles, we encourage you to apply again at...".

The job market is a disaster. I applied at a movie theater (as a backup job) months ago, and they replied this morning telling me they didn't even review my application

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For example, the Selma civil rights marches were performative. They were televised. Bloody Sunday was a turning point in the civil rights movement that exposed authorities for what they were and conjured overwhelming support from the public and national leadership.

Also, showing how little authorities care about something goes a long way for accumulating public support. They might not always show it, but republican voters do care about (some) science. If we show that GOP politicians don't, they lose votes and support.

Well it obviously shouldn't be the only thing. Nobody here is arguing that performance is all we need, just that it really does work and helps achieve recognition and goals. It just needs to be planned and targeted, which this is.

Is it supposed to tell us anything new?

Women wanting to vote wasn't new during the womens' sufferage movement. The idea of basic human rights wasn't new during the civil rights movement.

Scientists wanting scientific freedom also isn't new.

Performance is actually effective. Sometimes it's literally about sending a message.

With great power must also come great responsibility. Propaganda needs to be fought and climate scientists are the only ones who can fight it. But we've traded our audience for perceived comfort.

Matthew Wielicki uses the newest sea level curve to mislead people.

"I'm a scientist, why should I stay on Twitter?"

Is it really that hard for people to resist nazi propaganda? I've been surrounded by hateful people on that app for years. It's pretty easy to not fall for their lies... Maybe it's because I fight it?

"Here, we show that since 2015, these conditions have reversed: Surface salinity in the polar Southern Ocean has increased, upper-ocean stratification has weakened, sea ice has reached multiple record lows, and open-ocean polynyas have reemerged."

This is the closest thing I could find in the paper that suggests circulation has reversed. It sounds more like they meant *observations* have reversed since 2015.

This is going to confuse a lot of people. It even confuses me a little if I'm being honest.

Check out my latest post on Glaciers & Whatnot!
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What do you all think? Do you think authors should have more freedom in deciding the headlines for their article?

The Headline Problem Bad headlines in front of good articles are corrosive to cryosphere communication

A new post is out this evening on Glaciers & Whatnot! The press has a headline problem when it comes to sharing cryosphere and climate science. I address a few of these headlines.
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...

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From Cooling to Ice Sheets About that new attempt to sell doubt about the origin and growth of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets

A new Glaciers & Whatnot article is live! This one is in response to a very strange tweet I encountered on Twitter
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...