Emily Gardner

Emily Gardner

@emfurd.bsky.social

Deputy editor @eos.org. Usually worrying. Often baking cookies. Views my own. Signal: emfurd.54

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Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

"Two fewer satellites and three fewer scientific instruments are not line items in a budget. They represent a concrete, tangible weakening of America’s ability to understand the weather, the climate, and the world around us," wrote Reps Zoe Lofgren & Gabe Amo in a letter to Neil Jacobs.

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Drastic budget cuts to the next generation of NOAA satellites “could put vital weather observations at risk,” suggests a new report from the Government Accountability Office. eos.org/research-and...

eos.orgCuts to Satellite Program Add “Uncertainty” and “Risk,” Suggests GAO Report - EosLast week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report suggesting that the plan for NOAA’s next generation of geostationary satellites, called GeoXO, could “put vital observations at ...
Emily Gardner
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...it was put forth by Protect Kids CO, whose leaders "have publicly characterized state protections for interstate healthcare travel as facilitating the 'trafficking' of children." This leaves the door open to "weaponize this provision against anyone helping a minor obtain legal abortion care."

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@emfurd.bsky.social

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Monterey Bay Aquarium@montereybayaquarium.org

Wildlife of Monterey, a film fully created by the Monterey Bay Aquarium team, is now showing! Follow sea otters and humpback whales through an ocean that can recover when we protect it. Auditorium programs are included with admission, be sure to watch it on your next visit: bit.ly/3THFvNw

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

The freeze has come in Colorado and this is as far as I got with my first attempt at vegetable #gardening this summer hahaha. I showed my sweet husband these pictures and he, unironically, said, "Well that's a success! You grew something!" I'll try again next year. 😅

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

My latest for Eos: "We’re thankful the court has stopped [the agency], for now, from proceeding with a reckless plan that would threaten public benefits like SNAP, endanger public safety by hindering wildfire response, and hurt American farmers," said AFSCME president Patrick Moran.

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Yesterday, a California judge temporarily halted the USDA’s efforts to drastically restructure the agency. The proposed restructuring has been called a “RIF in disguise.” eos.org/research-and...

eos.orgJudge Stops USDA's Radical Restructuring, For Now - EosA judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture can’t move forward with its efforts to relocate thousands of employees and close U.S. Forest Service regional offices.
Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

-How someone might spell “gesundheit” if they weren’t allowed to look it up -The eighth US president if all of the letters in his name were U’s and V’s

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

- The sound a cow might make when spanked - Onomatopoeia in a Batman comic panel where he’s flipping a pancake - The sound a bee makes when flying around a flower before pronouncing the first letter of the word “flat” buff.ly/zlLH4L9

buff.lyCrossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise- The National Association of Xylophone X-Ray Zebra Paleontologists, briefly - The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage dis...
Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

So cool seeing Kelsey Young speak about her role as the Science Flight Operations Lead for #ArtemisII — and the work her team has done since the launch — at #GSAConnects2026. "Everybody everywhere connects with the Moon," she said, closing with a reminder: "We are stronger when we are united."

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He offers an outline for how to post about your research: Start with what you’ve already done (written an abstract or presented a poster, for example.) Decide what your audience is going to care about the most. De-jargonize. Proofread. Include hashtags, tags, photos, & alt text.

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@emfurd.bsky.social

Ally Pruente is next, speaking about the use of #SciComm to advance the Kansas Geological Survey's mission. Lessons learned: • Post where your audience is. • Play off social media trends. • Simple content works well! • Recycle content across platforms. • Post frequently.

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

Sonia Torres of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí talks about using recreational activities for Earth sciences outreach. "Getting to know our planet is the first step toward its care," she says.

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Emily Gardner
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Haas emphasizes the importance of helping people understand scale: Throwing around numbers like "a trillion" and assuming everyone understands can have a range of consequences. His closer is straightforward: “We do not stop horrific things by pretending they are not horrific. Full stop.”

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Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

Key takeaways from Pineda-Munoz: • Contextualize how a specific study contributes to a larger scientific question. • Help audiences understand how scientific evidence contributes to our understanding of Earth and its history. "It's not a dumbing down. It's making it accessible," she says.

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

Next up, @drdonhaas.bsky.social speaks about four focus areas to improve climate comms: strategic use of fear, increased focus on fire's central role in the climate emergency, straightforward discussions about how difficult it can be to understand scale, and connections to the local level.

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She closed by emphasizing the importance of using our voices. "To talk about climate change, you don’t have to be a scientist, an activist, an advocate," she said. "You don’t have to be a great public speaker. You just have to be a human being who lives on Earth."

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

“Worry is a necessary precursor to action, but it’s not enough," Hayhoe adds. (She's talking about science communication, but this wisdom also applies to... most things.)

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

(Tom was one of the leaders of a field trip to the Florissant Fossil Beds I participated in yesterday, and I can personally confirm that he loves and is fascinated by Earth. And that he knows a lot about it!)

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Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social

RIP to Curtis Flowers, a man who the state of Mississippi spent two decades trying to kill, and the subject of “In The Dark” S2, one of the finer works of investigative journalism I know of. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...

nytimes.comCurtis Flowers Has Died at 56. His Case Became a Symbol of Racial Bias. (Gift Article)A white district attorney tried Mr. Flowers six times for the same murder, always ensuring that few or no Black people were on the juries.
Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

I thought this was real at first and I almost threw my computer across the room. (Someone is probably unironically recording the same conversation somewhere, but in this case it's just Tim Heidecker playing it incredibly straight, phew.)

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social

We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary!

Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

The more I learn about fungi, the more it freaks me out a little bit, bc wdym the top 10 cm of soil on Earth may have enough mycorrhizal mycelium to stretch halfway across the galaxy? Still, this was a fun one to report. Thanks to Henri for answering all 7 million of my Qs! eos.org/articles/fun...

eos.orgFungi Are Holding the Food Web Together. New Research Images This Underground Network. - EosBy combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together...
Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social

“I’m not sure the least qualified FEMA administrator in the agency's history should be rewriting the definition of emergency management,” one Redditor observed.

Eos@eos.org

“If, as the memo implies, [FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton] is expecting FEMA to start operating under this definition, then everything at FEMA would change,” says @samlmontano.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...

eos.orgA Redefinition of “Emergency Management” Could Upend FEMA’s Mission - EosLast week, FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton issued a memorandum outlining the agency’s scope and essentially redefining “emergency management.”

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NPR
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The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice. n.pr/4ynOvq0

n.prThis year's MacArthur Fellows include researchers who fuse science and justiceThe MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice.

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noam
@noamchompers.bsky.social

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible