The report highlights the grim state of freshwater ecosystems, degraded marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and the risk of extinction for many species. But it also emphasizes the potential for improvement through conservation, restoration, and renewed connections between people and nature.
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
I have so many thoughts that I'm trying not to share, but why can't we just say that an ICE agent shot a man? This is even without mentioning that he was already being held on the ground and being beaten by multiple ICE agents when he was shot.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Greenhouse view showing lots of blue 5 gallon buckets on tables, with plants growing inside. Plants look dead or green and alive depending on the bucket. A few undergraduate technicians are working near the tables
First day (of many) greenhouse experiment harvest. Time to harvest the ones that somehow survived this long...
Holy yikes!
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Large crowd marching with signs towards the Main Street Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Nice day for a stroll
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.”
Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...
A student stands in front of their poster at a symposium, smiling
And another since I could only upload 4 pictures
A student stands in front of their poster at a symposium, smiling
A student stands in front of their poster at a symposium, smiling
Two students stand in front of their poster at a symposium, smiling
Two students stand in front of their poster at a symposium, smiling
So proud of students in the WE ~ ECO lab, who presented their work last week at the ARISE symposium at UNF!
Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.
Motherfucking wind farms…
While I have everyone's attention, the genocide happening in Palestine -- in Gaza AND the West Bank -- is a crime against humanity.
Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.
How disruptive are stateside/federal funding cuts/freezes, you ask? It's July 10th, and half my lab hasn't been paid and they're behind on rent and at risk of eviction. That's how disruptive. F this nonsense.
A thermometer doesn't give a different number if you're red, blue--or green. Nor does a hurricane knock on your door and ask who you voted for in the last election before it destroys your home.
Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!
Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains.
And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.
This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.
Commerce's budget justification for NOAA is up on its site now, if you want to infuriated
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
A bar graph depicting temperature change globally from 1850 to 2024, relative to the average from 1961-2010. The graph shows fluctuations in temperature before the 1980s, with colors ranging from deep blue (cooler temperatures) to red (warmer temperatures), with a rapid increase in temperature in the last 40 years. #ShowYourStripes https://showyourstripes.info/
When I started grad school three decades ago, we thought climate change was a future problem. Now it’s clear that the future is here.
Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
Four smiling people standing behind a newly installed porewater well made of PVC pipe
Even got another porewater well installed and continuous water sensor deployed, so we can track water levels and salinity over time. What a great UNF crew!
Photo of a black and yellow colored swallowtail butterfly feeding on a white spherical buttonbush flower, with green leaves and sky as the background
Photo of a flowering buttonbush shrub, with three spherical white inflorescences with large green leaves as the background
Quite dry in NE Florida lately, but the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is going off! Lovely to see these shrubs loaded with swallowtails and other butterflies while doing freshwater wetlands fieldwork on a salinity intrusion project at the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas NERR
Do this today, please!
The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education.
As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.
In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:
