This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work.
The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Realizing the bubble I live in is not left/right but people who understand the scale and seriousness of the moment and are willing to think ambitiously and creatively about ways to address it and those that… just don’t.
a lot has already been written about the heat wave next week, including @weatherwest.bsky.social’s posts here. But it is hard to describe how truly outlandish the forecast is for next week. This is looking to be so far outside of anything that’s been observed before in March in the western US.
Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
Every day I read about events/atrocities/political developments that make me think "well, that's an unfathomable number," and yet I'm expected to go about my my life as though nothing has happened. The baseline level of dissonance we're intended to live with in the US is simply unreal to me.
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
This is what ecocide looks like.
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
Howard Thurman
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Was feeling useless today but then I read a story we're publishing tomorrow about a guy who started a local composting commercial food waste program and he said he was inspired to start the program after reading something I wrote two years ago.
Keep writing and reporting. You never know.
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
Seems like Americans are waking up.
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We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
2.2 million views already, in 15 hours. Picking up speed.
Hydrology Paper of the Day @carlietrott.bsky.social on the Capitalocene and the psychology of politics and climate change: human power, profit, and systems; spatiotemporal patterns of risk in the context of corporate behavior; climate change; governments; and human-environmental connections.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Great 🧵
Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
"Most faculty members learned about the new policy via their American Association of University Professors chapter and the local news, said Mark Peifer, a biology professor at UNC. They have not been formally notified by the university."
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...
I mean everyone I know is constantly wondering why they are so tired and there are collective realities that are exhausting and draining us.
This is the end goal of anyone who wants to eliminate "politics" from discourse where they don't deem it "appropriate."
Erasure of history, erasure of current facts.
