Sarah Das

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Six Ways States Can Lead the Fight On Climate Change Right Now The Trump administration has launched an aggressive attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy, but states can fight back.

Many New England states have already enacted policies they know will improve the health of the planet, our region, and their residents. Here's how we can keep going 💪
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Why Trump can't stop states from fighting climate change The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billi...

Why Trump can’t stop states from fighting climate change
Climate progress is still happening. You just need to know where to look.

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#climate #Environment #Solar #States #Trump #Greensky

I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.

If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.

Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

Billionaires were never going to save us from the climate crisis. Real change comes from collective action, not the whims of the ultra-rich.

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A map showing the topography of Antarctica, without ice

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready?

Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

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Insurers warn that US weather agency mass firings will hit climate risk data [FREE TO READ] Reinsurance trade group appeals to US commerce secretary Lutnick to preserve data collection after thousands of jobs axed

Insurers warn that mass firings at NASA, the US Geological Survey and other science agencies could threaten the public weather and geospatial data they use to manage natural disaster risks — and could raise prices for consumers:
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

The FBI is moving to criminalize community climate workgroups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA under the Biden administration, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by writing successful funding proposals.

|| New Publication (Nature Communications)

Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this

(1/10)

Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.

The outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

#standupforscience Boston

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

YouTube video by Charlie Dean Archives Camp Century, The City Under The Ice - 1964 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage

Did you know the US Military was doing climate change research in the 1950s and 1960s?

Hard to believe when climate is such a partisan issue today!

Thank you US ARMY! for the first ice core.😅💙📚#scicomm

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🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:

We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.

Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.

[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

A good moment to remind everyone how phenomenally effective the measles vaccine is. No one should die of measles. Not in the United States. Not anywhere. Vaccines save lives.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

how to write opinion piece

Want to speak out on behalf of science and rational thought. Here's a great "cheat sheet" and "how to" to share with your community, friends, colleagues. Local is powerful. Speaking out is important.

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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

We are #hiring! Search extended through end of February for a tenure track scientific staff position in #Coastal Systems in the Geology and Geophysics Department at @whoi.edu (ad still says Feb 15, but last time we tried to change the wording we broke workday so, you know, just trust me on this!)

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.

Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — approx. $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away.

Instead, it will likely push them onto citizens.

New, from @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org

Pretty simple message! Fortunately the opposite is true, too. Slow down warming, melt less ice, saves $trillions!

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland.

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice will make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract and expensive.

From @paul-bierman.bsky.social

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Same. Committees disbanded. Positions retitled. Websites disappeared. Resources gone.

Trump Administration Moves to Fast-Track Hundreds of Fossil Fuel Projects The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new gas pipelines and other projects.

We are indeed in an "emergency." But it can't be solved with fossil fuels, since it's caused by fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/c...

So ... what's waiting in the queues?

Ah.

emp.lbl.gov/queues

(on left of image) WHAT TO SAY WHEN... everything is on fire. (on right of image, a poem by Nikita Gil. "Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things / and trying to make life worth living, / and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, / but I believe in that."

Caring about or working in science right now is all about answering questions: can we keep going? How do we keep going?

Sometimes our answers need to take the form of speeches.

Instead of certainty and details, we are being asked for direction. For comfort. For courage. For hope.

This is very cool.