John (Jack) Williams

The Top Sustainability Podcasts | Lower Street The top fintech podcasts to listen to in 2026. Add these shows to your queue if you want to stay on to of what is happening in the industry.

wow if you're looking for a new podcast on all things climate, sustainability, clean energy and beyond, here is a HUGE NEW LIST!

I'm going to recommend starting with @climateconnections.bsky.social - each episode is only a minute & a half long.

Which is your fav?

DOE climate report 'demonstrably incorrect', say scientists in new analysis A leading climate scientist has sought to set the record straight over "demonstrably incorrect" claims made in a major U.S. government report that misrepresented his work and downplayed the role of hu...

DOE climate report 'demonstrably incorrect', say scientists in new analysis

phys.org/news/2026-02...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

The AI-Augmented Scientist The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

Richard Bambach on his first day in his office at the National Museum of Natural History in 2005.

Obituary for a great paleobiologist Richard Karl Bambach (18 May 1934–20 June 2025) who infused the large-scale functional approaches to paleobiology and paleoecology.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

*The computing center, which is slated to be turned over to an unspecified third party..."

The vampires want their GPUs

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

While Zillow is removing its climate risk data from public view, the first truly open climate risk database.

Kudos, @carbonplan.org

PhD Research Fellow in Arctic paleoceanography  (295123) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Arctic paleoceanography  (295123), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, March 8, 2026

📢 PhD in arctic paleoceanography at the University of Bergen. 🌊 ⚒️

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

"Climate hushing"—the quiet trend undermining global climate action | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon

The energy transition is happening, faster than many realize. This week, I look at how clean energy is surging, where we can get it wrong, why silence on climate is spreading, and what we can do. Read the full edition for the data, the stories, and practical ways to keep the conversation going:

Whether it’s right wing billionaires turning America’s most important media institutions into outlets for right wing propaganda or the Oberlin student council condemning the use of racial slurs, both sides seem to have lost interest in free speech.

Madison is out and loud at the capitol

The @agu.org has a nice tool to help you write and submit a comment to NSF about why it's essential for the nation to keep NCAR intact. They have guidance on how to write a good comment and the specific questions NSF seeks comment on. Deadline is Mar. 13.

agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

This is beyond concerning. You won't see the damage right away, but the foundation of future US science has been badly weakened - and rebuilding could take decades, if it happens at all.
#ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #STEM

Are you a paleoecologist & ECR active on social media? Interested in a leadership role at Neotoma DB? Apply to be Neotoma’s Social Media Manager!

Contact Nick Hoffman (hoffmanick@gmail.com) by Feb 28 with interest (<500 words) + a strategy proposal (<1000 words).

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Excited to be part of this cool new theory paper exploring how lagged ecological responses at the species and community level can lead to reduced ecosystem function and often seemingly paradoxical responses at different timescales. Nice work by @mishastemkovski.bsky.social leading this one!

I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

Your regular reminder that when folks say "its cold outside where I live, what happened to global warming?" that the world is big, and weather still exists.

Eight reasons I rejected your article

www.elsevier.com/connect/8-re...

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

You may wonder why they would assault, handcuff, and arrest someone who is wearing a funny mask and doing a silly little dance. It's simple. There is nothing the cowards in the United States government fear more than a citizen who is not afraid of them.

Support for abolishing ICE is at a new high Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence

New polling from Civiqs finds support for abolishing ICE has reached a new high. Other polls have shown a decrease in the agency's approval rating, and broad anxiety about agents' use of force to accomplish Trump's agenda
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

Are Ecotonal Systems More Sensitive to Climate Change? Past Ecotonal Dynamics and Rates of Vegetation Change in Michigan Aim Ecotones are expected to be sensitive to climate change, but supporting evidence is scarce. Here we test the ecotonal sensitivity hypothesis by reconstructing past movements of a major temperatu...

Just in time for the holidays - new lab paper out by Wiles et al that presents a new mapping of climate-driven ecotonal shifts in Michigan over the last 11,000 years and assesses whether ecotonal systems are more sensitive to climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Abram: IPCC AR7 WG1 will have chapters on tipping systems, overshoot, and regional deep dives. Lots of opportunities for paleoclimate science to contribute. #AGU25