Jonathan Lilly

Oceanographers of the world! There will be an information session for my Life Skills for Young Scientists (LiSYS) mentorship program at OSM 26 in Glasgow, on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 - 5:15pm.

I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!

This is the best.

But... trebuchets are ok right?

This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

All the details on all the foreign funding opportunities for US researchers that have been announced to date

jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hi everyone,

As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened.

Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share.

jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...

Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities Research council launches 100m kroner fund as Norwegian government calls for the protection of academic freedom

Anybody want to go to Norway? (The answer is yes, you do, it's a wonderful country.)

By my count this makes three countries—France, Australia, and Norway—all investing in programs to attract to researchers that the US doesn't want. That's brain drain y'all.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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A big thanks to @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social at the University of Hamburg for the invitation to teach time analysis.

I had a great time spending two weeks working with these ~40 participants from all over Europe and beyond. The resources are open and can be found here: jmlilly.net/course/index....

The sun rising over the sea, seen from a rocky coastal bluff.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI.

View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Not a great look for our national security team

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer.

In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n

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Shameful for Columbia. Who will want to go there now?

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers

www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Like many of you, we are gravely concerned about recent Federal government actions in regard to higher education. While we recognize that the government plays an important role in addressing discrimination and ensuring good stewardship of public resources, we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression. We do not know what demands the Federal government may make of Berkeley, but do know that we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values. A Berkeley without academic freedom, without freedom of inquiry, without freedom of expression is simply not Berkeley. We recognize that some of you may find our statement too timid or too bold or deficient in some other way. That’s okay—a key to Berkeley’s excellence is our diversity of opinion and perspective. Robust debate is essential to scholarly advance. The purpose of a university is not to present us with ideas with which we are comfortable. To borrow from Clark Kerr, it is to make us safe for ideas. We don’t know what will happen. In part because we don’t know what may be demanded of us and in part because we won’t be the only decision makers. But what we do know is that we will stand up for Berkeley’s values and defend them to the very best of our ability. For 157 years, through the education it provides and the research it produces, Berkeley has produced immense economic and societal benefit to its students, California, the nation, and the world; this societal jewel needs to be preserved and defended, and we will toil tirelessly to see that it is. Fiat Lux. Rich Lyons Chancellor Ben Hermalin Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

Leadership from UC Berkeley.

"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Science with focus on Numerical Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosol Processes Department of Environmental Science  is one of the larger departments in the Faculty of Science. The department is divided into four units with about 190 researchers, teachers, doctoral students and

Post opening in Stockholm.

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View of the back deck of the research vessel Maria S. Merian, showing the A-frame and flotation for moorings.

🚨**Job advert** 🚨 We are hiring a seagoing technician in Hamburg! Interested in going to sea, handling instrumentation (ship-based, moored, glider) and logistics of research-travel to remote places? See the advert - contact me with any questions. Deadline 4 April.
eleanorfrajka.com/post/2025-03...

You're kidding, right Nature?

Anybody want to go to France?

A new program called "safe place for science" will fund 15 researchers for 3 years. If only they had room for 150,000!

And yes of course it's tragic that we are seeing the end of America's long scientific—and, eventually, techinical—dominance, all for no good reason.

MOPGA 2025: Visiting Fellowship Program for early career researchers | Campus France

Oh and France has a program to bring young reseachers over called "Make Our Planet Great Again". It was inspired by the desired to support those displaced by America's cuts to science.

www.campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2025

Humboldt Research Fellowship Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with above-average qualifications from across the globe.

Immigration to Canada is fairly easy if you get a job there. I don't know about immigration, but the Humboldt fellowships (www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...) funds postdoctoral research for anyone to go to Germany.

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

Dear NSF scientists and staff:

If you're looking to talk to a journalist about what's going on at the agency, please reach out (from a non-governmental phone/computer) via signal @jonlambert.12