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Amongst other findings here, a(nother) new age for the Atitlan/Los Chocoyos eruption at 79.5 ± 3.4 ka - 'Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact' www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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How will changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation impact fire activity in Canada’s Northwest Territories? Ryzhkova et al. developed the longest reconstruction of forest fire activity in the North American boreal subarctic to find out! Read more: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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Just incredibly pathetic stuff. Government by adolescent vandals.

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Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only:

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Thought this was a smart, if tragic, point on @nijhuism.bsky.social's newsletter this morning: Obviously firing probationary employees is a blunt, convenient tool, but, for the agency-haters, it also serves the purpose of knee-capping future leaders. conservationworks.substack.com/p/the-admini...

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Great article from @dventon.bsky.social on the impacts of federal layoffs on the wildland fire situation. Good discussion of how non-fire roles impact fire outcomes. Interesting that the Congressional Reps who serve the impacted areas have no comment. www.kqed.org/news/1202791...

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www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/n...

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In the midst of all of this (hands waving frantically) chaos, not sure we are talking enough about this. CA is set to slash their state funding of UCs and CSUs by 8-10%. Impacts will be huge, and widely felt, for students, staff, and faculty. calmatters.org/education/hi...

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Different than Trump first term when they pulled out of Paris but did not interrupt US contribution to climate science.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Worried about wildfires this year? You should be. Preparedness is the absolutely most effective way to mitigate disasters, and the firing of thousands of employees and hiring freeze means that there is almost no one to prepare. WHEN wildfires start (not if), suppression will be a mess.

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Arguing about the source(s) of Meltwater Pulse 1A - new paper today (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) vs. one from 2021

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Yesterday was the darkest day of my professional life so far. Many of NSF’s best and brightest people fired indiscriminately. The terms of their firing cruel. My colleagues matter, they are valued and they make a difference. I have no words. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

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Trump and Elon have single-handedly ruined the scientific culture in the U.S. with devastating consequences.

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NOAA scientists need to get clearance before talking with Canadian scientists. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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The NSF Director did not attend the hybrid meeting this morning where they summarily fired 168 public servants without cause - giving them 3hrs to clear out.

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The US scientific enterprise is the envy of the entire world, and it’s being destroyed by a death cult.

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I'm reposting this, because so far we had no applicant! We currently have 2 years of funded salary for a postdoc to work with us on Eocene climate simulations on an exciting topic: understanding how primates dispersed over 1000's of km and across two oceans!

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The National Science Foundation tells Science that this morning it fired 168 probationary employees. That is roughly 10% of its workforce. An NSF spokesperson said the dismissals were made “to ensure compliance” with a 11 February presidential executive order on a “workforce optimization."

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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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Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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When El Niño or La Niña doesn’t yield the west coast precip pattern you expected, look to the atmospheric rivers. They play by other “rules”…actually no rules yet. today.ucsd.edu/story/atmosp...

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And how many experienced firefighters did we just lose in the muskrat cuts??

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Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

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This is why I can’t stand the normative discourse about academic and scientific “leadership.” It’s all about status without the part that involves doing hard things. And it now means the wrong people are “leading.”

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It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

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There is just 1 month to nominate a colleague for the Nanne Weber Early Career Award, that recognizes significant contributions to paleoceanography and paleoclimatology research from honorees within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D. Find out more and nominate here: https://www.agu.org/honors/weber

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There is 1 month left to nominate someone for the Willi Dansgaard Award, recognizing significant contributions to the fields of paleoceanography or paleoclimatology from a mid-career scientist within 8 to 20 years of receiving their Ph.D. Read more here: https://www.agu.org/honors/dansgaard

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Ted Cruz’s “woke” science list contains a lot of basic, fundamental research that got flagged for simply addressing broader impacts (as Congress requires). As absurd as the list seems, it’s making scientists uneasy. My latest: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly. Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.

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why was wildfire so widespread in North America in the year 1748? (see www.nature.com/articles/s41...) - probably 'cause it was wicked dry - and not only in the west, but also the northeast (data from Cook et al. North American Drought Atlas)

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Who wants to go hunting for ancient forests with me in the Canadian Rockies? 🧪⚒️https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ancient-forest-melting-ice-1.7443094

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And in another new paper out today, lead author Cari Leland shows how tree-ring proxies and wood anatomy track a transient synoptic scale cold snap across northwestern North American in the late summer (late July to early August) of 1959 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Congratulations to @kiradharris.bsky.social who leads a new paper in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology on last millennium SSTs in the Gulf of California and leaf wax evidence for North American Monsoon variability agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I've been lucky to mentor an amazing group of women over the years and they are each and every one of them fantastic, creative, and brilliant scientists

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Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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We'll throw in Arizona for free! www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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