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Canada and Russia are experiencing intense early wildfire activity ahead of the boreal summer. CAMS is tracking smoke transport across vast distances, impacting atmospheric conditions as far away as Europe and the Arctic. Check out the full details atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-tracks-...

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New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo

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In case you’re interested in what’s targeted for termination in the Department of Energy budget, it looks like it is the entire environmental half of Biological and Environmental Research:

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We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

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NSF budget proposal guts GRFP by 55%, kills the NRT (Research and Training Fellowship) program, and completely zeros out (yes, $0) nearly all postdoctoral fellowship programs, including Geosciences.

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The very dire and scary situation unfortunately continues for NOAA Research - including across the federal labs, cooperative institutes, and program offices...

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The village of Blatten in Switzerland is partly buried by the collapse of a glacier which melted because our greenhouse gas emissions warmed the climate. Another reminder that choosing to not invest enough today to reduce emissions means far greater costs for society in the long term.

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Ten million posts about the state of AI and they’re all just iterations on a Shel Silverstein poem written when the Atari 400 cost half as much as a used car

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Be part of our Permafrost Workshop on June 4 ❄ Learn how the ESA Climate Change Initiative's project team generates satellite data and keeps track of different #permafrost variables. Open to scientists, modellers, and students. 📅 Register by June 2: climate.esa.int/en/projects/...

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Same in Europe. If we want US researchers to move over here, it has to go hand in hand with a structural increase in base funding. Otherwise it just increases the competition over already limited funds, with early career scientists on the losing end. This is the time to fix a broken system.

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1/5 Just returned from 2 weeks at #Zackenberg Research Station @zackenberg.bsky.social (NE Greenland) to upgrade the #ICOS Ecosystem tower at the fen site GL-ZaF. Damages from polar bears had made the original structure vulnerable. Time for change.

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Min spalte om krisa i vitenskapen i USA (og Europa) er nå også tilgjengelig på nettsiden min: thissideofthearctic.org/column.php?p...

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Insightful piece on what it feels like to do science on Svalbard, including an interview with Anfisa and Clarissa from our institute!

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«Vi mangler ikke gode forskere i Europa, men vi mangler strukturell og stabil finansiering som man kan bygge karrierer på». Ny spalte i Klassekampen i dag: klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...

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✨Editor's Pick✨ A new study in Geophysical Research Letters finds that associated cooling from the 10th-century Eldgjá eruption is larger than previously predicted. 🌋 🔗 Learn more in @eos.org : buff.ly/33zhl5G #AGUPubs #Climate #Iceland #Volcano #TreeRings

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Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

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If you need land cover datasets for the Arctic-boreal region, here is one great option for you at 1-km resolution: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es.... It merges several regional products and separates dozens of key land cover types (e.g. bogs, fens, pine forest, spruce forest). 🌎🏞🏔

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The ongoing campaign appears to be heading toward a point where no researchers at Harvard will receive federal funding.

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My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

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“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”

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1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

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Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

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🚨 PhD alert. PhD opportunity studying how nutrient availability impacts the ability of ecosystems to absorb more CO2 as CO2 levels rise. With Catriona MacDonald and Ben Smith at Western Sydney University and myself here @sheffieldpps.bsky.social Sheffield www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Just some random evening sky over Oslo. 🖼️

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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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Hey frens! @agu.org has these great template letters you can send your representaives to ask them to support funding to NSF and NASA. Make sure to quickly personalize it with your name! agu.quorum.us/campaign/121...

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This is all very flashy but are they going to create new permanent positions so these scientists that come to Europe, and the ones already here, can have a life? Or are we just stomping on ECRs again? #academia 🧪

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These ‘let’s attract the hot-shot researchers’ calls ring very hollow to me. Climate science is a team sport. It takes a whole set of skills. We need to be thinking about how to keep critical -teams- integrated. Nabbing hero-model scientist types is not going to retain institutional expertise.

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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

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Important to remind everyone that this is an ILLEGAL DIRECTIVE from the Executive Branch (impoundment).

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In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.

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Only a few days left to apply to this exciting PhD position on modeling Arctic-boreal vegetation and the impacts from more variable winter weather!

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For those at #EGU25: Hope you can drop by for my talk, today at 11:20 in room 2.23!

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📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData

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“The American public needs to understand that you can’t just turn a science switch off and then turn it back on again,” said Rick Spinrad. Great reporting by @sachimulkey.bsky.social on the current dismantling of US scientific research capacity: what it means for now--and for future generations.

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Glad to be back at #EGU25! Want to know how the Arctic carbon cycle is affected by shifts in snow cover? Come see my talk this Thursday, at 11:20 in room 2.23 (session BG3.19). meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

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GISS has famously been located above the Seinfeld restaurant for decades. Reprisal against Columbia or climate -- or both? GSA cancelled the lease, not NASA, a source says. GISS does not house supercompute -- its climate models are run at NASA Goddard in Md. Still a major disruption for its staff.

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At #EGU25 next week, Editor Gil Bohrer will be available for 15-minute meetings to share advice on publishing in JGR: Biogeosciences! This is a great opportunity for #EarlyCareer researchers! 🔗Sign up here: lite.spr.ly/6006GtQG #Vienna #STEM #Biogeosciences #Publishing #EGU @egu.eu @agu.org

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Less than two weeks left to apply for this exciting PhD fellowship in Arctic-boreal vegetation modeling! Are you the person we're looking for? Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

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BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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Please help save our department, sign the petition! 💪 www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

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Norway’s new research minister has signalled that the government will axe a controversial law that requires PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from other countries to undertake mandatory Norwegian language training https://go.nature.com/3XLUBAr

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Come and work with us! @thissideofthearctic.org, Ane Vollsnes and I have a very fun PhD position available at the Univ. of Oslo, investigating the plant hydraulics of cold tolerance with models and some pretty novel experiments. :)

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PhD announcement! Want to figure out how shrubs and trees survive the extremes of winter, and to model how this affects vegetation across the Arctic-Boreal region? Come join our amazing team at the University of Oslo @uio.no. Deadline Monday May 5th. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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An excellent deep dive into the nonsensical "mathiness" of the equation that's destroying the world economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04I...

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