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The Antarctic ozone hole won't disappear until ~2060-2075, but it's not growing thanks to the Montreal Protocol phasing out ozone-depleting substances. There's a chance recovering from CO₂ emissions will take a similar path but will take much much longer. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/...

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Sacramento Airport construction has made it a thunderdome situation for picking someone up there. My goodness. Utter and complete chaos

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Out today: a brief piece in @jama.com, targeted primarily toward raising awareness among clinicians, on rising incidence of #coccidioidomycosis ("valley fever" illness caused by Coccidioides fungus) in western U.S. amid a warming #climate. jamanetwork.com/jour...

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Don't feel bad to take care of yourself! Stay frosty for when the moment comes to trip a passing brownshirt

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From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

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@science.org just published this article about the Paleontological Research Institution and its importance in this time of financial crisis for the institution. Please share widely as donations in any amount can make a real difference in the short-medium term. ⚒️🧪🦑 www.science.org/content/arti...

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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THEY LOOKED LIKE THAT FIRST

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I LOVE teaching this story when I teach marine biology. No matter what you call these worms….penis worms…fat innkeepers…the entire story is hilarious to students.

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Best sample size = automatic best dinosaur

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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

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I've heard from so many friends and former students that they have been fired via email in the middle of the night. Fired from jobs protecting agriculture, protecting oceans, protecting natural resources. I'm doing my best to stay working, moving forward, and emailing congresscritters. Struggling ❤️✊

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I left my heart in the Paleozoic 💔

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various vetulicolians are up on my Youtube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzl... #Sciart #paleoart #vetulicolia #cambrianperiod #Blender3D

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Louis R. Purnell became well known as a #Tuskegee Airman during WWII, before earning his Bachelors and working at the Smithsonian as a Museum Specialist of #invertebrate #paleontology and #paleobotany #collections. siarchives.si.edu/history/feat.... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

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Bonus #fossilfriday Valentines Day post: illustration from my future book "Fossil Exlpainer" showing how heart shaped internal molds (steinkerns) form on the inside of cockle and ark clams - here showing Cucullaea. #fossilexplainer #art #sciart 🐡

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#fossilfriday Have a heart-shaped vertebra of the giant socal sea cow Hydrodamalis cuestae for this Valentines Day. Hydrodamalis cuestae reached a length of 8-10 meters (26-32 feet), a bit larger than its "modern" relative, the recently extinct Steller's sea cow. Image: Frederico & McLain 2021.

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It fills me with grief to see my friends and colleagues purged for being scientists.

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The oligarchs pillaging our public resources think they can destroy science as a going concern in America, but they are wrong. Science taps into the core of our humanity - our urge to understand the mysteries of the world. They can try to suppress that urge, but they will never kill it.

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"Cutting government personnel by one-fourth would reduce federal spending by about 1 percent" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Difficult to stress how much it's complete psycho shit to indiscriminately fire hundreds of thousands of young poorly paid federal employees who probably uprooted their entire lives and moved to take jobs in service of their country for absolutely no reason.

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"What are you buying bondage tape for?" "My sub...marine."

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I bought fencing material at Home Depot to keep my clams from rolling themselves down a hill in the Biosphere 2 ocean tank. A clam paddock.

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we live in hell

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“Sources within ⁦‪NOAA‬⁩ say that the additional administrative burden, combined with an ongoing federal hiring freeze and additional anticipated staff and budget cuts, will hamper ability of the US to maintain a functioning public weather service.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

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The @laist.com folks wrote up a nice piece about the work my former team did, the impact we had on teachers and future scientists and engineers, and what our layoffs mean to local educators. laist.com/news/educati...

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Today in orchids

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Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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