Abby B (they/them)

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

01.07.2025 21:30 — 👍 476    🔁 198    💬 9    📌 10

Excerpt from the proposed 2026 NOAA Budget, showing the total funding for climate research reduced from $220 million per year to $0.

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:

Total, Climate Research: $0

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30.06.2025 23:25 — 👍 631    🔁 390    💬 24    📌 45

Trump Administration Cuts Funding and Staff for Flagship Climate Report

The National Climate Assessment sites all went dark today after the Trump administration announced in April that it would allow the main contract supporting the report to expire.

With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.

30.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 284    🔁 110    💬 6    📌 9

It's only Monday of the following week and...

❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.

30.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 85    🔁 25    💬 5    📌 0

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28.06.2025 00:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A rainbow made up of different Manitoba wildflowers. The red on the left end is a three-flowered avens (lantern-shaped flowers), orange - wood lily, yellow - goldenrod, green - green bog orchid, blue - lungwort (little blue bells), purple - iris.

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

01.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 2086    🔁 464    💬 23    📌 10

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article) More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.

“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

18.03.2025 04:38 — 👍 2831    🔁 1206    💬 135    📌 106

A divot in ice surrounded by snow

A part of a notebook, a syringe with a filter, a Fanny pack full of plastic bottles, a bag of filters, a Home Depot bucket with a box, bottles, and filters, and a purple nitrile glove, all in the snow

An eroding riverbank with some snow on top

A progressively warmer day of field work - started with ice too thick to get through, ended covered in mud

25.02.2025 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Google search results page with images of stacking tables (the furniture)

I’ve been in R for too long and forgot the real world exists (googled stack tables to remember the syntax and got this)

05.02.2025 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

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30.01.2025 23:07 — 👍 8927    🔁 3337    💬 278    📌 204

A white person with brown hair wearing a purple hat and a black jacket stands in front of a river and trees

An orange bucket full of water and some black cables on top of snow, next to a river and some brush

A very cold first field work day of 2025!

14.01.2025 01:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Moving over to bluesky from twitter/x!

I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.

In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)

06.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1