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Crowds are massive in Silver Spring, Maryland…the home of NOAA. People chanting, “Save NOAA Now!” and “We will not weather the storm.” Make your voices heard and keep it up. #NOAA #NWS Severe Weather is on its Way. And so is hurricane season. 🌀 🧪

submitted 9 hours ago • 28 comments

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. www.axios.com/2025/0...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1248 comments

New paper by Harvey etal reveals that fisheries mangmt must adapt further to climate ✅ management overlooks system complexity leading to feedback loops ✅Integrated social-ecol. data reveals hidden vulnerabilities & strategies ✅ Cross-sector engagement is crucial for success doi.org/10.1007/s111...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 307 comments

18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

"In 2023, Miller was awarded NOAA Fisheries employee of the year...and in March 2024, she was promoted. On Thursday afternoon, while on vacation in Hawaii, the federal biologist opened her work email on her personal phone to find she no longer had a job." www.kuow.org/stories/noaa...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 4 days ago • 229 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 8 days ago • 579 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

👏🏼 👏🏼 Hundreds of federal workers in SEATTLE stage an informational picket 🪧 to #SaveOurScience for today’s national day of action! #SaveOurServices #HoldTheLine

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Recent Seattle Aquarium layoffs include devastating cuts to the Beach Naturalist program that has nurtured community engagement with the Salish Sea for 25 years. There is a board meeting February 26th. Send comments in support of the satff & program to [email protected] 🧪🦑 #SciComm

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.” taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

submitted 17 days ago • 492 comments

not trying to pick on this guy. this just reminded me that the federal government does not provide coffee to workers. to drink coffee at a federal office you generally have to pay into a "coffee club" that is managed by a staffer who volunteers to collect money and purchase a monthly coffee supply.

submitted 21 days ago • 125 comments

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

The new cover of TIME.

submitted 24 days ago • 1623 comments

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 26 days ago • 2093 comments

‘Alligator Bites Never Heal’ by Doechii wins the #GRAMMYs award for Best Rap Album.

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

NSF’s cash management service is now back up and running. Seems like they responded to the court order. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 29 days ago • 145 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 31 days ago • 231 comments

the number of calls needed to make the point that a given vote will cost them is lower than we think, a powerful argument in favor of focusing our energies. you take issue A. I take B. someone else takes C. we make our weekly rounds. no one has to deal with the whole firehose at once

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Trump has signed an executive order eliminating all funding for diversity and inclusion in the federal government, sending home DEI staff who will then be laid off. The historical echo for this is when Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government in 1913. We have reached the second nadir.

submitted 40 days ago • 74 comments

The single greatest attack on the Constitution in my lifetime. Utterly and completely lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. “There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

Inspired by @mcsiple.bsky.social to use Goodreads and to post my 2024 reading list! I am not usually a memoir girl but this year "Horror Stories" by Liz Phair and "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jeannette McCurdy were faves. Also, Kelly Link's novel (I have loved her short stories for a long while!)

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Come work at NOAA! 9 jobs across the US. Job descriptions: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more... Apply: www.usajobs.gov/job/823751900

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

A new CDC report shows at least 16,000 lives were saved over a 12-month period. Experts say the U.S. is experiencing the biggest drop in fatal overdoses seen since the opioid crisis began in the 90s.

submitted 109 days ago • 47 comments

Ever since Citizens United, outside spending on elections by groups like super PACs has skyrocketed. The biggest individual donor to outside spending groups in 2024 was Timothy Mellon — heir to the Mellon banking fortune. This is how dynastic wealth corrupts our politics.

submitted 110 days ago • 34 comments

I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵

submitted 117 days ago • 34 comments