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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bas.ac.uk

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Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature Communications

Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

During this undergrad project, I became quite interested in the sea-level story surrounding the dinosaur tracks. This ultimately pushed me to consider glacial instability as a source of sea-level rise. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT. KEEP CALLING YOUR REPS. KEEP SUPPORTING YOUR STUDENTS.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 27/02/2025

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations.” “If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it’s basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow.” 🧪

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DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025

To every student facing a cancelled REU: We see you. We stand with you. Science should be for everyone, and these attacks on research hurt all of us. #standupforscience2025

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 23/02/2025

Stand Up For Science protest happening on Friday, March 7. Happening in many cities across the U.S. Details: standupforscience2025.org

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and Nationwide. Because Science is for everyone.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is gutting.

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Polar Science Early Career Community Office @polarsecco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Reminder! Call for input to influence conversations and dialogues for the PECWS 2025 are due by February 23 2025. To provide input, please fill out our “ECR Priorities” survey: buff.ly/3QmCRr0

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 19/02/2025

Federal science agencies are under threat. AGU has made it easy to advocate for NSF, NOAA, NASA and more. Visit AGU’s Science Policy Action Center to stand up for science. fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

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Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Pell grants helped me go to college. An NSF fellowship funded my graduate research. My NOAA fellowship allows me to investigate ocean physics in novel ways. The federal government has been a colleague my whole career. Shutting these doorways is how American scientific prowess dies.

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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Public funding is the backbone of scientific advances, and the National Science Foundation is an powerful impartial supporter of science in the USA improving quality of life, building scientific workforce and enabling discoveries. 1/6 www.axios.com/2025/02/19/n...

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NASA and NSF layoffs raise alarm about future of U.S. science

The cuts "will hinder innovation and threaten our nation's global competitiveness," Rep. Bill Foster said.

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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We are talking about a really small amount of the annual US budget -- we spend as much on Halloween ($10B) as we do on NSF per year. 6/6

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2025

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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Polar Impact: Minorities in Polar Research @polarimpact.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative invites you to join us! During this panel, we will consider "successful" collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits of engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.

Text laid over a snowy backdrop reads:
Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative Event Series
Meaningful Collaborations in Polar Research & Polar Communities
February 28, 2025 at 10AM EST/3PM GMT/8:30PM IST
Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Kwamboka Gordon
Dr. Laurel Miller
Hugo Guímaro
Dr. Clara J. M. Hoppe

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Despite many awful policies, Texas is my home. I hope that having that common ground of a love for Texas helps us see each other. I could tell that it helped yesterday, and our voices were heard. I hope our stories influences our reps’ actions.

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In Texas, there are many reps who oppose. But finding a way to share how important it is to maintain talent in Texas top tier Universities is one way to speak to them on these issues.

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

As a Texas university employee, we have been fighting SB17, the removal of DEI, for a long time. As we continue to fight for our academic freedom, I urge all of you to do the same in your home states. Join a union. Join lobbying day. Write to your reps. Keep calling your reps. Keep fighting✊🏽

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yesteray the @cwa-tseu.bsky.social university caucus went to the state capitol and talked to our reps about our wages and academic freedom. Here we are with District 147 rep Jolanda Jones who agreed to fight for these bills.

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Kathleen Johnson @cavesandclimate.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My heart is with the amazingly dedicated folks at NSF and all of the students and researchers they fund (myself included 😢). This is so infuriating. They are trying to tear down decades of progress in a matter of days/weeks….nevermind the implications for the future of this country and planet.

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 05/02/2025

Watching all-white cadres of scientists who remained silent thru the DEI-purging, but who’re suddenly freaking out because their segment of science might now *also* get threatened (“my field station!”) does little to dispel this gap. 😑 Please, scientists: try to see past the end of your own nose.

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I see "anticipatory obedience" everywhere right now, and it's really key for us (also in Europe/worldwide) to plan ahead and be ready to resist, bc these trends seem to come with a few years lag after the US (think populist, fascist-friendly gov't takeovers): www.aaup.org/report/again...

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Against Anticipatory Obedience

The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It's never too late to start contacting your reps! These sites make it EASY. Letters, faxes, emails: resist.bot Phone calls: 5calls.org

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It's never too late to start contacting your reps! These sites make it EASY. Letters, faxes, emails: resist.bot Phone calls: 5calls.org

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the area, this is a good way to support science!

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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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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 22/01/2025

LGBTQ+ support lines in the US:

The Trevor Project
thetrevorproject.org / (212) 695-8650

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
988lifeline.org / 988

SAGE LGBT Elder Hotline
sageusa.org / 1-877-360-LGBT (5428)

Trans Lifeline
translifeline.org / 1-877-565-8860

LGBT National Youth Talkline
Igbthotline.org / 800-246-7743

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I use Manar's (www.instagram.com/imperfecthip...) email automation instructions on her notion page to email my reps daily. imperfecthippie.notion.site/Action-Check...

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Action Checklist | Notion

Wherever you see ►, click to expand info

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Polar Impact: Minorities in Polar Research @polarimpact.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We are so pleased to share that our first long form multimedia article is officially live! We are honored to have worked with Unangax̂ multimedia creator Kanesia McGlashan-Price as she told the story of Shayla Alamax̂ Shaishnikoff, an Unangax̂ scientist.

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 07/01/2025

Looking for physical scientists 🧪⚒️ who do fieldwork, who've had bad experiences w/ "medical screening" or "physical qualifying (PQ)" exams & restrictions. Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc. We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖

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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her/hers) @asmaralehrmann.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hi everyone! My name is Asmara, and I am a PhD student at the University of Houston. I work with the ITGC's THOR team, using sedimentology and geomorphology to reveal the climate and glacial history of the Amundsen Sea. Looking forward to sharing my journey with you on this platform!

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