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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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To our society members in the federal workforce: If you have lost access to the email address associated with your AFS account, you can contact [email protected] to set up new login information. All members are now able to provide a secondary email address.

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In my case, this is hundreds of hours of underwater video that I have no time or funding to analyze. "...like if your hobby was more working" nailed it

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Name your own Gulf! Thanks @mapquest.com gulfof.mapquest.com?name=No+Titl...

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 6 days ago • 258 comments

Whenever I see a list like this I can't help but be in awe of the scope of the US government and what $6.75T can actually buy. How much of what's happening can be explained by our individual failure to grasp just how much a trillion dollars is, or how big 335 million people actually is?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

If you really wanted to reduce the deficit, you would hire IRS agents, not fire them. If you really wanted to cut the debt, you wouldn't ask permission to add $4 trillion to it. If you really wanted to find government fraud, you'd bring accountants, not teenage coders.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific American is seeking a full time summer/fall news graphics intern (focused on dataviz). Experience w/Adobe Illustrator + the ability to work in the U.S. is required. We’re hybrid—in NYC office at least 2x a week. Apps due March 21 📊 🧪 🐡 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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Today, we share our love for federal #fisheries professionals who work tirelessly to address the myriad problems facing our nation’s fisheries. We urge the Administration to stop indiscriminate mass firings and to build and maintain a sufficient federal natural resource workforce.

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Another great paper emphasizes that we live in a world analogous to an herbivore exclusion experiment (sensu besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) By @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social @r-ejrnaes.bsky.social aes.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social g.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite thought experiments is to imagine what the Western Atlantic might look like if we still had monk seals and their predators.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Being from Southern California in the 70s it’s always funny to explain to people who grew up elsewhere what a smog alert was as a child I could tell when we were gonna have a smog alert (no playing on the playground) because my chest would hurt on the inhale

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

Curious about how long a typical private sector employee is considered "probationary"? Is this just another example of this administration not understanding how the government functions?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” please remember who the Nazi’s targeted first. They wanted to make Germany healthy and “pure” The Aktion T4 program mass murdered people with disabilities. They tested the gas chambers on us. Please do not obey in advance. Speak out. Save lives.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Good to see you @jdpye.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We’re still accepting self nominations for the FACT SC! Get your info in now and help guide the future of FACT.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Happy international day of women and girls in science! Here are two starter packs of women in ocean science for you to follow 🦑🧪 go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month. Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either. And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.

submitted 16 days ago • 341 comments

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

submitted 16 days ago • 185 comments

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

submitted 16 days ago • 203 comments

Gross. REI has a lot of problems, this won't solve any of them.

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In an actually meritocratic system, diversity is a natural outcome. Homogeneity requires enforcement.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

submitted 20 days ago • 140 comments

One of the things I keep wondering. It's not easy to get to lots of places in DC even when you're supposed to be there, and for good reason!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 21 days ago • 108 comments

We sent a probe hundreds of millions of miles across space, set it on a tiny spinning asteroid, collected samples, flew the probe back, landed the capsule with samples on time and target, analysed the samples and discovered the building blocks of life. Science rules. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bit of good news for your weekday: our species has probably passed "peak pollution" based on data from Our World in Data, so don't listen to all the (dubiously funded) doom merchants. Heck, moving to renewable energy and electric transport will be worth it for the clean air alone.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

What this story does better than any other could is clarify the purpose of government. It keeps people alive, every minute of the day. Even low information voters will see this. Trump is the reason those people are dead because shutting the government down kills people.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 27 days ago • 1272 comments

“researchers suspect [the grant review freeze] may be related to President Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts” www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 29 days ago • 81 comments

Hey science friends? I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking. But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it. And advocating for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking is not unprofessional advocacy.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

As someone with multiple proposals for federal grants currently in review, all of which included a section on DEI focused outreach because it was required by the Biden administration, this is fucking terrible news.

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Incredible stuff futurism.com/trump-admin-...

submitted 32 days ago • 335 comments

A lovely urchin in the genus Caenopedina! maybe 550 m or so? off Niihau in the Hawaiian region #echinoday

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Hey, so, if you need a quote from an expert on ocean policy regarding the area of the Gulf of Mexico bounded by the continental shelf that borders TX, LA, AL, and FL within the US EEZ which has been declared the Gulf of America, my comment is as follows: "It's not even a gulf."

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, and said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

You want to talk about what’s ’natural?’ As a marine ecologist, gender fluidity is so common in the natural world it’d be weird to me if trans people didn’t exist. 😡

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

‼️Deadline Extended‼️ We are still looking for a post-doc or graduate student to join the SECOORA and FACT Network team and examine ocean temperature regimes in the Southeast United States. Proposals are now due February 7th, 5 PM ET. Learn more: secoora.org/fact/marine-...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, post a stingray

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Just staggering to look at Southern California’s devastation and coral reefs being destroyed and saying “stopping this would be expensive” Doing nothing is very obviously far more expensive!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN.

submitted 44 days ago • 1711 comments

Periodic reminder: if someone calls you and asks to "confirm some information," then asks you to provide that information, you should hang up immediately because, more than likely, it's a scam.

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