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This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

In the field doing everything I can to stop a single thought from forming

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 3 days ago • 933 comments

Days from Orlando

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I know I've been reposting a lot of the politics recently (not something I will apologize for nor do I plan to stop any time soon) but I have been getting a lot of forest time this week. I know my days in this job may be numbered, so I'm making the most of them by helping short-staffed coworkers.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Week 1: done

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

per my last breakdown,

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

wrote about the dream of public lands and what it means to lose it www.jamietommins.com/p/losing-the...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Oxytheca perfoliata

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

submitted 14 days ago • 296 comments

New: An Americorps grantee (someone who runs a valuable government-funded social program) has sent me a copy of "Executive Order Compliance Instructions" that Americorps sent out yesterday ordering all grantees to certify that their programs don't "promote DEI activities." (thread)

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Calochortus palmeri var palmeri (Liliaceae) Palmer's Mariposa Lily has a narrow distribution and primarily grows on the desert sode foothills of the Tranverse Ranges. I usually see them mixed in with Calochortus invenustus in higher, wetter meadows. #botany #californianativeplants

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The despair is never ending, but so are the wonders and joys of life.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Always thinking of the 23 blooms

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Email to employees from Sec. Burgum yesterday. “…to create a future driven forward by innovation vs. held back by regulation.” So much for protections for wildlife (e.g., endangered species, migratory birds).

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Spent the morning hanging with ancient trees

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Federal workers 📣 Make sure you log into the eOPF system to download copies of your official employment records and store them in a safe location. Important records include: SF-50, SF-52, offer letters, past performance evaluations, financial disclosure forms, etc.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

I think I’m a week away from just signing up for random medicine research studies so I can just afford to live in my car in the eastern Sierra mountains, as god intended

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

😵‍💫

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Sir our plan to replace the entire government with 4chan freaks has run into a few snags

submitted 33 days ago • 62 comments

Program I was going to start next month had it’s funding frozen so I guess now I gotta find a new job 🙃

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Mucronea perfiolata (Polygonaceae) The range of Perfoliate Spineflower extends from Carrizo Plane in the west, the area just north of Tecopa Hot Springs in the east, the hills west of Modesto in the north, and the northern foothills of the Transverse Mountain ranges in the south. (1/x)

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I really miss working with Pinus palustris sometimes.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments