Junior Ranger programs are close to my heart. This censorship really pisses me off. www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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@macrogirl.bsky.social
Retired 30 year educator with a deep love of science! Dreams of being a Park Ranger! Hiker, wannabe naturalist.
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Replying to @davelevitan.bsky.social
The former oil executive/DOE official who held the all-staff meeting announcing the change repeatedly told the scientists who work on clean energy that she "hates" clean energy.
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A storm system will bring accumulating snow tonight through Thursday morning for portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Travel impacts are expected, so stay ahead of the storm by visiting weather.gov for details in your neck of the woods.
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Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the U.S. He wasn't replaced. Now, the wells are at risk of spewing planet-warming gases and contaminating groundwater.
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My friend @katharinehayhoe.com is 1 of top climate scientists in the world. She knows climate changes naturally too. Geez. BTW, grass grows naturally but when we fertilize the lawn, it grows differently. Trees fall naturally in the forest. That doesn't make a chainsaw a hoax. It
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“I was just a paediatrician, just trying to find something [with] literally no rocket science to it.” www.iflscience.com/how-headsets...
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US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers
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I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).
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In short, we need more Archaeologists again. The First Lego League squads just keep rolling in. Spread the word among Archaeologists!
I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As. We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
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Replying to @hypoautonomic.bsky.social
Many thanks for this @hypoautonomic.bsky.social ! The @resistancerangers.bsky.social are the real resistance in national parks. Find out how to make good trouble when you visit this summer. www.resistancerangers.org/goodtrouble
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A decision that will make Americans less safe, with little explanation. The article alludes to vague "cybersecurity" reasons.
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The dark dreams that haunt your nights may be leaving a deeper imprint on your life. www.iflscience.com/frequent-nig...
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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government. By @rhersher.bsky.social
'All-out assault': Trump proposes largest cuts in National Park Service history www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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“We have something that’s pure gold in terms of a robust research ecosystem that supports the lives and livelihood and wellbeing of not just people in Boulder and in Colorado, but people in the country and the world" — CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati www.rmpbs.org/blogs/scienc...
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The funny (crying funny not haha funny) thing about this is that my best friend is a toxicologist who studies air pollution and I’m an anthropologist who studies health and family/social systems . In 2025, Neither of us can do our jobs. The hits keep coming.
The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America, among other health issues, according to internal emails written by senior officials at the EPA.
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On Saturdays in Pittsburgh, we stand up and fight back! #standupforscience #50501movement @standupforscience.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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The National Science Foundation has halted all grantmaking at the directive of Elon Musk’s DOGE as it sends all recently awarded grants back to program officers to ensure they don't support research Trump deams unacceptable, like work on climate change or diversity. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Thank you @ametsoc.org and @nwas.org for your joint statement on the proposed elimination of NOAA research! The statement is at the link below and includes links to help you find your Congressional Representative and Senators. 🧪
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It's impossible to overestimate how damaging this would be for everything from routine weather forecasting, to modeling and tracking hurricanes, to preparing for climate change. Every American will be worse off if this happens. For decades to come. (Gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Trump admin eyes major cuts to climate research at @NOAA. This would affect weather forecast accuracy in many ways -- the proposal would force the closure of all NOAA weather and climate labs & cooperative institutes. Via @nick_sobczyk www.axios.com/pro/energy-p...
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This is a 5 alarm fire. In normal time, the final budget would look nothing like the WH budget after Congress goes to work. BUT THIS IS NOT NORMAL TIMES! They want to implement this immediately for the fy25 spend plan! Congress is weak! Treat this as a death knell for NOAA and raise some hell.
The Trump Administration aims to cut funding for NOAA by more than $1.6 billion relative to last year, according to an internal budget document obtained by New Scientist. The cuts would include the elimination of the agency’s office focused on climate and weather research. 🧪#NOAA
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The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.