Dr. Melissa Scruggs

You might find Flyover Country useful! It’s so neat & works in the air OR on the ground!

flyovercountry.io

I don’t think so, but you can probably mine it from volcanoes.si.edu. Idk that it’s ever been compiled, but that would be a cool thing to visualize for sure!

I’d wager water as well. Although volcanoes helped to shape Tahoe’s geology, the closest currently-active volcano is the Lassen Volcanic Center & it’s decently monitored & fairly well-studied. 🙂

The summer fight for science. The time is now. Join the fight at standupforscience.net.

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️

🫵 WHO: You + all our friends

🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.

🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community

🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th

🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

This is data we paid for out of our taxes, just being thrown away and made unavailable.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

Live updates: Pope Francis dies at 88 Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff who ministered to poor people with a message of mercy, has died. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal and indiffer...

Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of compassion, courage, and a continuing call to protect our common home and all who share it with us.

In his 2023 exhortation, Laudato Deum, he spoke out strongly against those who reject what science tells us about climate and deny their own responsibility. 🧵

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪

This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.

"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"

What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

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We are hiring for our next Chief Communications Officer at @ucsusa.bsky.social to lead our communications across platforms and audiences to meet our mission. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants and awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to the program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime ... NSF will not make any new awards." 😞

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

"A budget allocation of just over $170 million, down from about $485 million in 2024, would hobble science as varied as early warning systems for natural disasters, science education for students in kindergarten through high school, and the study of the Arctic."

😭😭😭

It's business as unusual.

Every cut to Federal grants for mitigation, emergency management, and preparedness grants, makes it significantly more difficult to save lives and protect property and the environment during the next disaster.

This is complete chaos and it will result in worse disasters.

These historic bits are so interesting, but this one really struck me. It illustrates how important it is to clearly inform the public about the different hazards different volcanoes have, and why federal organizations like the USGS & the volcano hazards program are essential!
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#volcanoes
#geology

CONVERSE Emerging Researchers has another fantastic ECR speaker lined up for our Spring Webinar Series. Join in tomorrow afternoon at 4pm EDT to learn about the power of melt & fluid inclusions!

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HVO and AVO office leases are both on that list (I didn't see YVO or CVO when I skimmed it?). HVO is the oldest volcano observatory in the world and monitors the most persistently active volcanoes in the US. AVO monitors very high-risk volcanoes that can esp impact int'l air travel.

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

What does an earthquake look like beneath your feet? This visualization shows seismic waves in action.

We’re studying how such visuals improve public communication after major earthquakes. We'd love your input! Please take our short survey & share: ww3.unipark.de/uc/SIOseismi...

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

As a member of the Twitch community, I would like to invite you to participate in an official research study. To participate you must: be at least 18 years of age, have your own registered Twitch account, and have watched at least one VOD or livestream on Twitch featuring science content within the last six months. This study will examine how interactive live-streaming of science content on Twitch may impact attitudes and perceptions about science. The study also hopes to measure how effective Twitch is as a tool for science outreach by increasing accessibility to scientists, scientific information, and science-focused experiences. The results of this study are anticipated to be published in 2025 and will be useful in improving science outreach on Twitch and other platforms. Qualifying participants will be asked to complete an online survey that is expected to take about 15 minutes. There is no financial compensation for participating in this study. You will not be explicitly asked by any member of the research group if you have individually participated in this study, and there is no requirement to participate. Participation is 100% voluntary, and you may quit the survey at any time without your responses being recorded. If you have any questions about the study, please contact the Principal Investigator, Dr. Melissa Scruggs, at melissa.scruggs@wichita.edu. We really appreciate your time & thank you so much for your help in improving science outreach!

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If yes, please take my survey! I'm trying to understand how effective of a platform it is for scicomm & how it may impact public attitudes & perceptions about science & scientists.

Survey ends Fri 2/28 - take it at tinyurl.com/TwitchSci

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Screencap of a banner at the top of a USGS site reading "USGS is working on improvements to the map backgrounds and functionality is currently limited"

Looking to access important public information on earthquakes? Not so fast, you have to wait while fewer employees than ever frantically try to find maps with geographic names that satisfy the whims of the guys taking away your rights.

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Excited to read it!