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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

US GEO folks: Want to hear directly from the NSF program directors you know & love and have live questions answered? We’ve got you. Tune in to hear from us in Oceans (Oct 5) Earth (Oct 6) and Atmos/Geospce (Oct 27): www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Atmospheric and Geospace, Earth, and Ocean Sciences Programs Virtual Office Hours

Join Program Officers across the NSF Directorate for Geosciences for office hours covering the three programs under the directorate's funding opportunity, NSF…

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Dr. Wendy Panero @mineraltoplanet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to hear from NSF program directors about the latest at NSF in Earth Sciences? Come hear updates and hear us answer your questions. October 6, 3 pm EDT. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events?f%5B0...

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happening tomorrow. If you’re used to our former Earth Science events where you hear from a pack of us, this will be a little different - it’ll only be the head of GEO. But you’ll learn stuff!

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you like maps?? I’m in a briefing where the USGS shared these amazing 3D Elevation images that are just so cool. Find your state/district, and behold this example of DC! www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation...

A 3D Elevation Program image from the USGS of the District of Columbia, depicting (in their words) “the ‘bare earth’ surface, stripping away vegetation and structures, revealing ground surface.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We grew a stupid amount of tomatoes and basil this year. Thanks Aldi for the Garlic and Onions.

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been tasked to cover data center issues at work recently and I've learned some interesting things about data centers' environmental impacts that I thought I'd share Some really unexpected stuff beyond the energy/water stuff most people know about at this point

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh goodie I won’t be working out of the mudroom of our house anymore. Back in-person with some excellent people next week!

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

US Science folks: I know there are a million questions about these new NSF solicitations and what’s happening generally through all of this [waves arms]. This might start to answer some Qs, and at the bottom please sign up for the Sept 15 Office Hours! www.nsf.gov/geo/updates/...

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A new funding opportunity for core geoscience research

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

US GEO folks: You've got NSF questions, we (hopefully) have answers. Join us for a webinar Sept 15 at 1p Eastern: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences

Join directorate leadership for updates and information.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

They are doing incredible work in elementary schools.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

US GEO folks: A few NSF POs are traveling again (!!) & several are hitting the regional GSAs. @drrocks1982.bsky.social + @llautz.bsky.social are headed to the Triple-Joint meeting in Memphis, I'll be in Hartford for the Northeastern. We are hype to see the community! Reach out if you'll be there!

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Chernobyl Miniseries alternate working title, "The Geiger Sanction".

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

US GEO folx: we’ve got one more webinar on the books (for now)! Come say hi, ask your burning questions, hear the latest about NSF/Earth Sciences. Thursday, Sept 18, 2p Eastern: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This kid’s 4000 year old wrong answer has to rank highly in the humiliation hall of fame.

Ceramic tablet showing an ancient Mesopotamian student’s “unsuccessful calculation”.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

As the old saying goes….”all’s well that ends in a well” (free water)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

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Save NSF @savensf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano joined Rep. Zoe Lofgren and AFGE National President Everett Kelley to highlight the damage being done to NSF by the Trump Administration and discuss a letter sent to Congresswomen Lofgren signed by 150 NSF employees #SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundNSF

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Has anyone done a fitness challenge this month and called it Joule-y?

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/06/2025

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

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National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos

Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...

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Live: The New Golden Age of HUD | Secretary Turner Unveils HUD’s New Building

YouTube video by HUDchannel

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Someone consult Iben Browning’s notes to see if he called this.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you're a scientist on here, you can always doom post later.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

People need to respect Stregavolcanoes.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This proposed budget is a policy statement, not an appropriation. There are still a lot of steps and potential changes ahead before it becomes one. This is not a time to sit quietly, team. Let's go.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary this week. Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it. www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...

NSF at 75 years, image of planetary shapes and starlight

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Our union has thoughts on our CMO. Spread the word.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NSF PD Raleigh Martin out with another statement on the NSF grant freezes. 🧪 ⚒️ #climatesky

(NOTE: These are my own personal views and do not reflect an official position of the federal government.)

This past Friday, my federal agency (the National Science Foundation) announced that hundreds of active scientific grants would be terminated because they are no longer aligned with NSF's priorities.

First, I am devastated to think about the hundreds of scientists (along with thousands of supporting students, researchers, and other staff) who have suddenly and arbitrarily had their grant funding yanked away. These are scientists who did everything right: undertaking years of grueling education, spending months thoughtfully preparing grant proposals (often multiple times after previous unsuccessful attempts), waiting further months for their proposals to be rigorously and competitively reviewed, diligently managing their awarded projects, submitting annual reports, and carefully adhering to NSF rules regarding allowable expenditures and grant activities. Despite following all the rules, these scientists will now be forced to throw away years of hard work, end student projects, and lay off staff, disrupting and even ending many scientific careers along the way.

Second, I am troubled by the arbitrariness of these grant termination actions which go against established law, procedure, and precedent. As a

federal agency, NSF is bound by laws enacted by Congress, as well as federal regulations regarding allowable grant activities. Specific funding opportunities are then informed by expert scientific staff closely attuned to their respective scientific fields and guided by external input including outside Advisory Committees (though these were also mostly terminated last week). All funding opportunities go through rigorous programmatic, managerial, and policy review before they are approved to ensure adherence to laws, regulations, and agency priorities. NSF priorities do change over time, and this is reflected in the evolution of funding opportunities that apply prospectively to new proposals and grants. But now is different. Now, existing NSF grants are experiencing a bait-and-switch: having been awarded based on one set of priorities, they are now being ended through a sudden and capricious change in these priorities.

And in many cases, these awards are being terminated despite doing exactly what Congress explicitly intended: expanding participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM.

Finally, I am worried for the broader scientific enterprise. Until recently, America's scientific ecosystem has been the envy of the world: supported by a stable base of public investment, open to talent from across the globe, and built on a productive ecosystem of universities, research labs, and academic-industry partnerships. Unfortunately, these pillars of American innovation seem to be quickly crumbling, causing irreversible harm to our economic success and cultural dynamism.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Science friends, I’ll be honest: We have no idea yet what any of this will mean. But I can tell you that I work alongside some of the best humans around and that we are fighters. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s Earth Day, and some of us have spent not just our careers but our whole lives loving + studying the Earth. It is not an easy time. But I hope you take a moment today to look at something beautiful, eat something delicious, squish someone you love, pet a dog, remember the nice parts. Yay Earth.

A nice part of Earth (in Canada). A flattish (glacially eroded) small island of granite sits on a still lake reflecting a blue sky dotted with clouds. Two people stand at either end, fishing.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sometimes you just need a well branded bag of cow poop.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Had a palette cleanse in the Florida Keys c/o this non-profit that rehabs injured/sick sea turtles. So far in 2025, 2 out of 3 rescues (including Lenny!) have already been returned to the ocean, where they can do awesome things like eat jellyfish! Heartening stuff: turtlehospital.org

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Getting laughs by reporting “I’m back from the dead!” at the IT desk when describing the nature of my systems access issues.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I had to make a meme for this and of course it’s you-know-what.

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 05/03/2025

AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies. These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience

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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

Yesterday, my federal agency (NSF) experienced a sudden and mass firing of over 10% of our workforce. My own Division lost 20% of its staff. In the blink of an eye, we lost many brilliant scientists, dedicated civil servants, and parents/spouses/caregivers who no longer have a paycheck. The firing was completely arbitrary, with no actual plan to achieve "efficiency" but instead just picking off anyone with the fewest job protections. I grieve for my former colleagues and extend my hand to be of help however I can.

I still have a job - not based on my abilities but simply because my status makes me harder to fire. But who knows what comes next. I'm hoping this assault on science and government is just a passing storm, but even then the damage has already been devastating - careers broken, research disrupted, and resources wasted.

Science is the goose that lays golden eggs - unleashing human ingenuity and systematic thinking toward discoveries that transform our society for the better. Public science funding creates space for research that may not have immediate applications but will yield dividends down the road. Unfortunately, right now the science goose is being strangled and those golden eggs are being lost. Our society will be poorer, sicker, and weaker as a result.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

NSF truly matters. Don’t let it be destroyed.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Genuinely moving to walk out of work with these notes as well as kind colleagues holding signs of support.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m broomscrolling! (shopping online for new cleaning supplies)

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Dr. Wendy Panero @mineraltoplanet.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The first of these sessions starts in 3 hours!

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Jackie Caplan-Auerbach @geophysichick.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Starting my first #MisconceptionMonday with a common one in seismology: do small earthquakes relieve the pressure on faults? Are small quakes a good thing? 🧵. Long 🧵. But hopefully worth it.

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Andy Andy @drrocks1982.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bad news: Your wagon has been on the Oregon Trail for almost 13 years and the American Civil War has started. Good news: As a simple dirt farmer from Illinois, you turned $400 into a meandering but well-stocked wagon somewhere past Fort Boise. oregontrail.ws/games/the-or...

Oregon Trail menu page, April 12, 1861 (the game starts in March 1848)

You're broke, but you have 15 oxen, a dozen sets of clothes, 1205 bullets, plenty of spare wagon parts, and 1994 lbs of food.

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