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Shawn Serbin

@doctorjackpine.bsky.social
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Earth Scientist. Opinions my own. #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GlobalChange #EarthScience #Ecology #Ecophysiology #CarbonCycle #OpenScience #R #Python Also on Mastodon mastodon.social/@sserbin

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
End of semester coming up. My hazards students will have the joy of discussing wildfires in the context of 1) the unprecedented west coast heat wave 2) dumb as fuck federal land management policy that’s going to super charge wildfire conditions morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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nasa-needs-help.bsky.social @nasa-needs-help.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Go Artemis II!! We’re so proud of the astronauts and alllll the amazing talent of NASA and our partners that made this launch happen. This is what NASAneedshelp is fighting for: resources and funding to further push the limits of exploration and understanding in space.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 02/04/2026
Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀
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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Happy to share a new lab #AgrForMet paper, "Proximal measurements of microwave reflectance using GNSS-IR track semi-arid grassland vegetation dynamics during greening and browning phases," led by Dr. Charlie Devine authors.elsevier.com/c/1moi6cFXJs...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/03/2026
"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap.news
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A Once-in-a-4,433-Year Heat Wave Is Hitting the Western U.S.
The consequences will linger well past the high temperatures.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
So the word from UCAR (NCAR’s managing entity) is, essentially, “This is news to us!” news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-... 🤔
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UCAR statement on reports that NSF NCAR could be dismantled | NCAR & UCAR News
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 16/12/2025
It took a while for the centers, labs & groups bringing together scientists, researchers, and communicators on climate to realize Bluesky was a thing. But once they did, they arrived in droves. Here are the first 100 early adopters. Give ’em a follow! Day 6 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/12/2025
The annual Arctic Report Card is now out for 2025. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts. This is the 20th anniversary edition. 20 years of rapid change. + Report arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... + Summary arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
Infographic showing a visual of the highlights and headlines in the 2025 Arctic Report Card for all different impacts across the Earth system and society. This chart is available from https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2025/.
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Annemiek Stegehuis @annemiekstegehuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We can now simulate the biomass of mangrove forests and its spatial distribution on a global scale agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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ORCHIDEE‐MAN: Incorporating Mangrove Processes in the Global Vegetation Model of ORCHIDEE
A new mangrove module related to carbon cycle was introduced into the land surface model Parameters related to mangrove carbon cycles were calibrated and optimized using the observations collecte...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 17/12/2025
Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The same week as #AGU2025, Vought and his cronies come after one of the world’s premier weather and climate research institutions. Absolutely disgusting www.ucs.org/about/news/t...
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Trump Administration Threatens to Dismantle Leading Climate and Weather Research Center
The Trump administration is threatening to dismantle one of the U.S.’ leading weather and climate research institutions.
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Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM @terrecolgroup.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New paper out in @science.org from the LegacyNet. Functional plant diversity and fertilization impacts on yields were compared in a network of sites across the globe. Our colleague Sebastian Meyer hosted the Freising site, allowing us to follow it closely for many years. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient
High-yielding forage grasslands frequently comprise low species diversity and receive high inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. To investigate multispecies mixtures as an alternative strategy, the 26-site i...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said 😳
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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Dismantling of NASA Science Center at Goddard
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nasa-needs-help.bsky.social @nasa-needs-help.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...
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NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊
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Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...
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Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid. More info ⬇️​
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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.eu · 31/10/2025
Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend). New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications
This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.space.com/space-explor...
An image of the article title discussing the rapid closure of buildings and divestment of laboratory capabilities at NASA’s GSFC
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/govern...
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Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown
Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.
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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-d...
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New Democratic Staff Report: Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, released a new staff report revealing that OMB Director Russell Vought has...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 27/09/2025
43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)
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Arctic research consortium closing down after Trump administration cuts funding
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, established in 1988 and credited with helping scientists and Alaska communities, is closing this month.
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Timo Conradi @timoconradi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
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Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience
An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.
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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 16/09/2025
Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!
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NASA | 30 Most Iconic Companies in Internet History | The Webby Awards
Discover why NASA is one of The Webby Awards’ 30 Most Iconic Companies, making science shareable online from Mars rovers to Webb Telescope.
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Jim Randerson @jimranderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🦋🌱 Most people care about #biodiversity, yet we often underestimate how concerned others are about its loss. This “pluralistic ignorance” can silence people, weaken action, and make ambitious policies seem less popular. In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 09/09/2025
Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾 Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐 📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Here is a separate starter pack of the #IPCC scientists on bluesky involved in the SR Cities: go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT @dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social (full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)
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IPCC SR Cities (AR7) Scientists on Bluesky
Join the conversation
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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
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FLUXNET Early Career Network @fluxnetecn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Missed the workshop? “Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models” No worries ! Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog: fluxnet.org/bridging-the... The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post. Enjoy :)
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Conceptual diagram illustrating how trait–environment interactions drive species distributions.
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Lucas Cernusak @lucascernusak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 03/09/2025
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ
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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If you kept meaning to let the USDA know what you think of their reorganization plan but never got a round tuit, here's one here. #usda subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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POLITICO Pro: USDA extends reorganization plan comment period to Sept. 30
The department's proposal to spread workforce to five regional hubs has drawn bipartisan criticism.
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Interested in a small home solar install but my god it’s like a feeding frenzy out there as soon as you show any interest and the DOE resources put a target on your back, resulting in constant phone calls and texts. There must be an easier way to connect with local reputable companies. #solar
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Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-budget-...
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Where Will NASA's Departing Talent Land?
NASA's workforce faces a crossroads as budget cuts and policy shifts reshape its future. What will happen to the thousands leaving the agency?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
What are we even doing?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr.'s time is running out. Today, Senators Cassidy and Sanders both challenge RFK Jr's reign of (t)error at HHS. Call your Senators and Representatives. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.
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Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
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