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Allison Jacobel

@ajacobel.bsky.social
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Climate scientist & houseplant enthusiast. Professor at Middlebury College.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
WE WON!!🙌🏾 THE OCEAN OBSERVATORY INITIATIVE (OOI) INSTRUMENTS ARE STAYING IN THE WATER!!!!! 🌊 🦑🧪 (for now 🙏🏾) oceanfdn.org/the-national...
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The National Academies Just Set the Record Straight on Ocean Observing - The Ocean Foundation
The NSF is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative and TOF President Mark J. Spalding explains what's at stake.
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you believe that science is important, for our economy and our ability to innovate into the future, this is a good week to call your Senators and House of Reps and ask them to find a way to provide oversight over the President’s actions against the National Science Foundation.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/04/2026
Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:
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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change
The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Grateful to my students for this recognition! “My research pushes me to ask better questions, to try, to fall short, and to try again with a different approach. Those same practices shape my teaching and form the foundation of the skills I hope to cultivate in my students.”
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Allison Jacobel Receives Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching
The assistant professor of earth and climates sciences was described as an “exemplar of the individual and collective commitment to education.”
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Doing CRDS oxygen isotope analysis of an Antarctic ice core with my Earth's Climate History class tomorrow. Look at those bubbles!!
Purple gloved hand holding a small sliver of ice with visible bubbles of trapped atmospheric gas
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I had a great time talking about how scientists reconstruct Earth’s past climate on the New Frontiers podcast from Middlebury’s Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs - where I am a Faculty Fellow. We dig into the clues hidden in marine sediments and why they matter for understanding climate today.
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S3 EP 4 - De-coding Earth’s Climate History: Scientific Research on the High Seas | Middlebury
In this episode, Rohatyn Center director Mark Williams talks with climate scientist Allison Jacobel about how researchers reconstruct the Earth’s climate history without a “time machine,” why the ocea...
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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.
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Some tropical land may experience stronger-than-expected warming under climate change
A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 09/11/2025
These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.
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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...
Image of a butte in Canyon de Chelly at sunset
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I believe two things deeply: 1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind 2. Mars is trash
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/06/2025
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...
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Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation
We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/06/2025
Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.
Table showing the massive cuts in federal science funding for EPA- 54.5%, NASA -24%. NOAA - 24%, NSF -56%, USGS- 38% etc.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%. This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more. Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
So excited that this important work by Kau and Pedro is out. Awesome example of a collab between the paleo and modeling communities. Proud to see our Line Islands cores play a role in such a cool result and excited to keep working with this team!
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
We invite abstract submissions to AGU24 Session PP024 - Oxygenation Dynamics in Past Oceans 🌊 for data and model-based reconstructions, innovative proxies, and studies on ocean oxygenation responses to global changes. #AGU24
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Excited that my paleo-O2 proposal was just funded by @NSF. Looking forward to some sabbatical time @instaar.bsky.social working with Julio Sepúlveda and @davidharning.bsky.social. Thanks to all who help make these programs run! 👩‍🔬
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Consider donating your eclipse glasses to Eclipse Glasses USA so schoolchildren in South America can use them in October. eclipse23.com/pages/donate...
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Donate Used Eclipse Glasses | Eclipse Glasses USA
Not sure what to do with your used eclipse glasses now that the October 2023 eclipse has passed? Donate them to Eclipse Glasses USA. We will send them to school children in other countries for those c...
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Thanks to the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for funding my sabbatical proposal to create a virtual sed strat field trip in the desert southwest. Can’t wait for all the red rocks !
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
I will be giving the PalaeoPERCS talk next week on Tuesday at 11a ET on Zoom. Looking forward to talking about deep Pacific carbon storage since 20ka. Check out their site for registration details! paleopercs.com/upcoming-tal...
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
The Facility for Oceanographic Research @ Middlebury (FOR@M) got even 'hotter' 🔥 today with the receipt of our new U/Th isotope spike. Excited to finally start work on new dust flux and productivity records!
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Reposting with new closing date 2/1/24! Middlebury Earth & Climate Sci is searching for a 2-yr VAP in climate science. www.middlebury.edu/college/acad...
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Come hear the latest on Pacific paleoclimate at AGU. I'll be talking about a reconstruction of ocean carbonate chemistry.
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Allison Jacobel @ajacobel.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Middlebury College is searching for a 2-yr VAP in climate science! AMA @ #AGU23 apply.interfolio.com/136222
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