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Spot on piece by David-Wallace Wells. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...

Back out on the high seas! The waves and infinite variation are mesmerizing, the ocean is so vast. And rainbows have been plentiful. The rainbow and American Flag can still go together!

It’s time for the rest of the world to start taking about boycotting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

bsky.app/profile/cris... I don’t have an opinion on your question but the content of your slide interests me. I have data suggesting wildfires along rivers use their low elev channels to draw in fresh air to support the fire. Not sure if that’s new or not, respond if interested

I know this sounds so nerdy, but I can’t stress enough how carefully protected this information is, think gold standard of data protection. If an employee so much as just confirms someone did their taxes they face fines and jail time. Now the richest man is raiding it for God knows what reasons.

Zez Vaz hit the nail on the head. Awesome!

These firings of probationary employees for “performance” are so bogus they have to be illegal. Most probationary employees I know of are getting stellar reviews and bringing great skills to their agencies. A class-action suit is due! What groups can represent them in lawsuits?

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

America is the country where I was trained to do science, and I’m proud of all that we’ve accomplished. I’m not going to let one man, who is trying to dismantle so many of our scientific institutions, claim our flag. It doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to us. 🇺🇸

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I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...

This is an existential moment for federal scientists and other public servants as they face pressures to resign. We must do everything we can to safeguard the federal science enterprise. Thoughts and recommendations from me out in @nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

aaaand now it all makes sense

Unconscionable racist scare tactic “It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared.” 🧪

It was a coup on Jan 6 and it continues. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

Paper nautilus octopus love to ride around the open ocean and stick to things, as this very lucky camera man learned the hard way (“they had to be peeled off the camera body and returned to the pod”) Listen with sound up for adorable bonks. 🧪🌊🐙🦑🌿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4J...

This shouldn't be a surprise, but according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, extreme climate events (heavy rainfall, droughts) disrupt the soil's natural purification capacity and threaten groundwater quality. www.uni-jena.de/en/295196/gr...

The abstract submission deadline for #SFS2025 has been extended to February 2nd at 11:59 PM EST. Endowment award applications are still due this Sunday the 26th at 11:59 PM EST. 🎉

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

Just add it to the pile. www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/c...

And the hits just keep on coming. First chinook, now coho are making their way up the Klamath R past the former dam sites. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024... #klamathdamremoval #hydrology

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

therevelator.org/salmon-klama... #hydrology #ecology

Ruh roh…

Checking out the Skiing feed here. Any backcountry skiers on board? Grew up riding lifts but I now save that for weekdays with big pow. Otherwise it’s the bc for me. (Also, newly rebuilt knee, so I get to ski vicariously this winter 🤔) #skiing #backcountry

Well written and unique article about Klamath Dam Removal. As a contributor to the Klamath science, I’ll defend it and its outcomes. But I get the feelings of despair of the local residents. This piece is a rare inclusion of their stories along with the removals’ successes. Lots to unpack here.

My intro: recently retired hydrologist, esp. water quality, at a federal science agcy. Still interested in rivers, water quality, geomorphology ecosystems, restoration, dam removal, and management thereof. PNW resident w/ midwest & southwest roots. Also: skiing, rafting, hiking, beauty.

A good article on the process the #Klamath #DamRemoval, how the river is finding its channel, short term negative issues and how they were anticipated along with longer term benefits anticipated. localnewsmatters.org/2024/02/15/s...