Meade Krosby

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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For those who may not be following this as closely, note that NCA5 isn't back online on a US federal website - this is the good work of the folks at @climate.us, a site run by former climate.gov staff.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Yeah neither of my boys would do this (or anything) on command. They are very much...cats. Impressed with your effort tho (and sorry about losing your little guy 🤍).

We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636

Agreed. Nobody would be safe.

I'm also quite sure the harassment would go well beyond the humanities - these compacts are an existential threat to academic freedom and would put a broad swath of individuals and disciplines at risk at participating universities, not to mention the harm they'd do to institutions that resist.

More importantly, what are you going to do about it.

A short-haired cream cat (Mango) stands up with his paws on the window sill to look outside. #caturday

Mango having a meerkat moment. #caturday

Agreed - what a gorgeous bed!

Thanks for covering this, especially on behalf of all the furloughed USGS scientists who may or may not have a job to come back to.

The Attacks on Science Continue—This Time at the USGS From sea level rise to bee populations, the agency’s wildlife and climate programs shed light on the world around us.

USGS scientists tell us about the effects of invasive species & climate change. Yet their fate, like many other federal employees who work in science & the environment, is unknown. My latest for @nrdc.org. Thank you to @meadekrosby.bsky.social, John Organ, Ed Arnett, and others for speaking with me.

Adding this to my affirmations for positive aging.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

This is lovely. "For scientists, however, it’s the young Jane Goodall who followed wild chimpanzees for weeks at a time who endures as an icon. 'There will always only be one Jane Goodall.'”

Photo of a young Jane Goodall (white woman with a blonde ponytail) holding a pair of binoculars.

I know I wasn't the only little girl who wanted to BE Jane Goodall when I grew up. Thank you for your ground-breaking research and tireless advocacy for animals and nature. Rest easy, Dr. Goodall.

Instead of calling it a "Hatch Act Violation", call it what it is: "illegal federal corruption"

And there it is. Hang in there, everybody.

National parks to remain partially open during government shutdown Open-air sites will remain open to the public, but buildings that require staffing, such as visitor centers or attractions like the Washington Monument, will be closed.

They're furloughing about 64% of National Park Service staff but "contingency plans specify that park roads, lookouts, trails and open-air memorials will stay open but emergency services will be limited."

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

Yes. I was rolling all that in but good to make the distinction.

Also: the "dudes in dresses" comment - along with the ban of trans people from military service - is abhorrent.

The US military was a *very* early adopter of climate adaptation for a reason: they rightly recognized it as a threat multiplier for national security.

Fab role at Greater London Authority heading up their climate change team - very impactful job with a decent salary too!

#ClimateJobs #ClimateChange #CarbonJobs

www.london.gov.uk/head-climate...

Thinking of all my federal colleagues today, holding our government together by a thread while preparing for a potential shutdown from which they may or may not return. You all deserve so much better, and so do we.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.