Abigail Swann, PhD

The @nationalacademies.org launches a fast-track review of latest evidence for whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The committee has issued a request for information with a submission deadline of August 27.

www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08...

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Fun fact: modern science is in fact aware of plants and how they work

But don’t take it to India! Or any other country without checking! @billboos.bsky.social

We gave our kid a cd player (found at the goodwill). That way they can listen to music without needing a device. It’s kind of nice not needing a screen for everything.

Ugh. The smoke just showed up here today.

The Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (https://earth.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Earth Surface Dynamics, with an emphasis on near-surface geophysics. We seek a scientist whose research addresses the physical, chemical, and biological processes that shape the Earth’s surface and near-surface environments—processes that influence water resources, landscape evolution, ecosystem health, and the mitigation of natural hazards. The full-time, 9-month (academic year) tenure-track faculty appointment is at the Assistant Professor level with a target start date of August 16, 2026. We are particularly interested in candidates who use near-surface geophysical methods—such as seismic, potential field, geodetic, and/or remote sensing techniques—to investigate shallow subsurface structures and link surface processes to deep-time geological or climatic phenomena. We welcome applicants whose work integrates field-based geophysical observations with computational or mathematical modeling, and fosters interdisciplinary connections across hydrology, geomorphology, critical zone science, atmospheric sciences, and engineering. Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive. They will also advance the educational mission of the University of Illinois, a land-grant institution committed to access, education, research, and service and to addressing challenges at both local and global scales.

🚨Job Alert🚨
We're hiring in the broad area of *Earth Surface Dynamics Geophysics*

Please help me advertise this (rare) opportunity for a full-time tenure track assistant professorship.

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Good article but I feel this also goes beyond the national angle. The decline in the scientific dominance of the US won't just hurt them, it could delay global scientific progress where other states don't have the drive, resources or concentrated expertise to carry on the momentum. /1

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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Cristi…

This prompted me to play some songs for my kids! They don’t have the context yet to understand most of the songs but they thought poisoning pigeons in the park was hilarious.

Sad to hear about the legendary Tom Lehrer passing. There was a period of time when we listed to a lot of his songs in our house! And a few of you may remember this: bantha-fodder.com/bootlegs/str...

A cover of LY! bantha-fodder.com/bootlegs/str...

Promotional graphic for the AGU25 conference session titled "B008 - Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions." It announces a call for abstracts due July 30, 2025, at 23:59 EDT. The central question posed is: "How do water-energy-carbon interactions shape terrestrial biosphere responses to global change?" Key topics include coupling of water-energy-carbon cycles, bridging scales and processes, climate change sensitivities and impacts, and applications for climate resilience. The image features headshots and affiliations of invited speakers Julia Green (University of Arizona) and Gabe Kooperman (University of Georgia), and conveners YanLan Liu (Ohio State), Justin Mankin (Dartmouth), Dan Gianotti (MIT), Flavio Lehner (Cornell), and Xiangtao Xu (Cornell). The background shows a scenic natural landscape with trees.

Please consider joining our #AGU session on beautifully complex Water-Energy-Carbon interactions with a broad scope from theory to applied science.

Invited talks by Julia Green @juliakgreen.bsky.social and Gabe Kooperman.

Rafael L. Bras Symposium The 106th AMS Annual Meeting will take place from 25 to 26 January, 2026 in Houston, Texas.

If you've been influenced or inspired by the contributions of Rafael Bras to hydrology and related fields please consider contributing to the Rafael L. Bras Symposium at the @ametsoc.org meeting in Houston next January. I'm very excited to see other Bras hydrology family members and friends there!

It’s been an unmitigated disaster here. I do not wish that transition on any institution.

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For my second born in June I took unpaid leave in the summer but managed to get teaching release for the fall.

My first was due in the middle of our 10 week term. Dept chair asked me which term I wanted off from teaching. I told him I was leaving when the baby was born and not coming back for 12 weeks of fmla. He said it wasn’t fair to the last person who had a baby to give me teaching release for 2 terms.

In addition we have to file a waiver to get paid for all 12 months because the university insists that we take two weeks off *unpaid*.

Thanks for highlighting this Carl. This program has helped launch the careers of so many of the leaders in climate science. The furloughing is especially cruel.

Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)-2025 Released - NASA Science NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in

NASA ROSES-2025 released today
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Is anyone planning on attending AGU this year? It seems like a tough year for making the decision this early…

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.

It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.

No. A more appropriate metaphor would be to just set all of the computers on fire.

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

This is such a loss. I've served on the selection committee for this program for the past three years, because it has funded so many incredible people doing such important research over the years. It should be expanding to meet the new challenges of climate change, but instead is totally defunded.

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A stand at a library with books displayed including “Human Nature”.

Spotted in the library wild.

My kiddo just “discovered” Calvin and Hobbes this week. They have been non stop cackling with their noise in the book for days.