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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're hiring a tenure-track faculty member in geochemistry & climate at Brown! apply.interfolio.com/193121

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hi everyone, In my yearlong program Life Skills For Young Scientists, we learn essential skills for a happy and productive career that grad school doesn't cover, starting with mindfulness and self-compassion. Registration for the fourth iteration is now open, details at lisys.ing. Please share!

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Oceanographers of the world! There will be an information session for my Life Skills for Young Scientists (LiSYS) mentorship program at OSM 26 in Glasgow, on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 - 5:15pm. I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

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This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

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Jen MacKinnon @jenmackinnon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

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The Weather & Climate Livestream

Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hi everyone, As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened. Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share. jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...

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Foreign opportunities for US researchers

As the Trump administration continues to slash funding for research, many of us are considering our options elsewhere. A number of initiatives have been announced by other countries to attract researc...

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Anybody want to go to Norway? (The answer is yes, you do, it's a wonderful country.) By my count this makes three countries—France, Australia, and Norway—all investing in programs to attract to researchers that the US doesn't want. That's brain drain y'all. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities

Research council launches 100m kroner fund as Norwegian government calls for the protection of academic freedom

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A big thanks to @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social at the University of Hamburg for the invitation to teach time analysis. I had a great time spending two weeks working with these ~40 participants from all over Europe and beyond. The resources are open and can be found here: jmlilly.net/course/index....

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UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI. View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044

The sun rising over the sea, seen from a rocky coastal bluff.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 22/03/2025

So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer. In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n 🌊

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Massachusetts Teachers' Oath - Wikipedia

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Shameful for Columbia. Who will want to go there now?

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

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Scientist (m/f/d) in Observational Physical Oceanography

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/03/2025

Leadership from UC Berkeley. "...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Like many of you, we are gravely concerned about recent Federal government actions in regard to higher education. While we recognize that the government plays an important role in addressing discrimination and ensuring good stewardship of public resources, we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression. We do not know what demands the Federal government may make of Berkeley, but do know that we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values. A Berkeley without academic freedom, without freedom of inquiry, without freedom of expression is simply not Berkeley.

We recognize that some of you may find our statement too timid or too bold or deficient in some other way. That’s okay—a key to Berkeley’s excellence is our diversity of opinion and perspective. Robust debate is essential to scholarly advance. The purpose of a university is not to present us with ideas with which we are comfortable. To borrow from Clark Kerr, it is to make us safe for ideas.

We don’t know what will happen. In part because we don’t know what may be demanded of us and in part because we won’t be the only decision makers. But what we do know is that we will stand up for Berkeley’s values and defend them to the very best of our ability. For 157 years, through the education it provides and the research it produces, Berkeley has produced immense economic and societal benefit to its students, California, the nation, and the world; this societal jewel needs to be preserved and defended, and we will toil tirelessly to see that it is.

Fiat Lux.

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Chancellor

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Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

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Ilaria Stendardo @ilariastendardo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism

The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Eleanor Frajka-Williams @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

🚨**Job advert** 🚨 We are hiring a seagoing technician in Hamburg! Interested in going to sea, handling instrumentation (ship-based, moored, glider) and logistics of research-travel to remote places? See the advert - contact me with any questions. Deadline 4 April. eleanorfrajka.com/post/2025-03...

View of the back deck of the research vessel Maria S. Merian, showing the A-frame and flotation for moorings.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You're kidding, right Nature?

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Anybody want to go to France? A new program called "safe place for science" will fund 15 researchers for 3 years. If only they had room for 150,000! And yes of course it's tragic that we are seeing the end of America's long scientific—and, eventually, techinical—dominance, all for no good reason.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

“You are presenting us as trophies in front of OPM,” one angry employee said in the meeting, referring to the Office of Personnel Management, according to the transcript. “I don’t want to hear anything about how you are sad, how you feel bad for everyone who’s losing their job today.”

“You screwed people, hardworking people, who trusted the word of this agency, left their careers, wherever they came from,” they added. “That’s on all of you. Take some accountability.”

An NSF official apologized to the fired workers, noting that they were “following orders” from the Trump administration.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Dear NSF scientists and staff: If you're looking to talk to a journalist about what's going on at the agency, please reach out (from a non-governmental phone/computer) via signal @jonlambert.12

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Alt WASO NPS @altwasonps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be! How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The American Bar Association standing up for what is really at stake. It's not just about government following "the will of the people". It's also about doing this in accordance with the laws and Constitution of our country. If you see this differently, then it's not democracy that you want.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hey everyone. We're in a new place and it's pretty nice so far. How about we keep it that way by making a change? How about we don't insult, belittle, curse, demean, or make fun of people whose opinions differ from our own—even if we think they are not reading. Wouldn't that be better?

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Entirely unsuprisingly, it looks like the Trump administration wants to cut the NSF budget by 2/3. I'm an NSF-funded researcher. Let's talk about what this would look like. Because there are unintended consequences you might not be aware of. 1/ www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts

Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In other news, today is something like my 10000th day in a row of not eating any animals. And yes I'm getting enough protein, thanks. I don't think people appreciate how good it feels to know you're not taking part in a system that causes so much needless suffering. Also vegetables are delicious.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This sounds like something you say if you are interested in an absolute ruler, and not the head of the executive branch whose powers are subject to the checks and balances set forth in the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’

The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Please read this tragic story from @starlord37.bsky.social‬ about how abruptly cutting DEI programs pulls the rug out from under talented researchers, who were specially encouraged to apply for these programs and not others, with potentially career-ending consequences. It's both cruel and foolish.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm a researcher funded by NSF. The indirect funds that are being slashed to 15% at NIH, and probably NSF soon, are not some kind of markup or profit. These pay for essential things like rent for a building to work in, lab space, salaries of people who manage benefits for the organization... 1/

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it. John Adams, a founding father, in 1777 www.masshist.org/digitaladams...

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Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I run a yearlong program called Life Skills for Young Scientists where we study essential skills for a happy and meaningful life. Each month I record a talk about a relevant topic. These might be useful resources: open.spotify.com/show/7GQcLJG... This month: "Staying Motivated in Difficult Times"

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Staying Motivated in Difficult Times

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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm covering changes at NOAA for @bloomberg.com. Hoping to talk with people who work w/ the agency or have in the past. Here's how to get in touch. Call or text me on the free Signal app: lgrosen.03 Email me: lrosenthal21[at]bloomberg.net Submit a tip: www.bloomberg.com/tips/

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Submit a Tip to Bloomberg

Do you have a confidential news tip? Here are ways you can get in touch with our reporters.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just going to leave this right here...

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

NSF’s cash management service is now back up and running. Seems like they responded to the court order. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

All is not lost! The MacArthur Foundation just awarded $6 million to boost climate journalism in 🇺🇸 Both my former employer, @postandcourier.bsky.social, and current employer @canarymedia.com are awardees. ✅ employ human reporters ✅ keep the lights on www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/maca...

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MacArthur announces more than $6 million in support of climate journalism - Editor and Publisher

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced more than $6 million in grants to support the growing field of climate journalism in the United States.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Among the many others affected by this, the freeze on all Federal grants and loans means that every person in the US who works on scientific research in support of our country's priorties is currently wondering when and if their next paycheck will arrive. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Orders Federal Grants Pause

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I've served on these panels. It takes a huge amount of coordination to gather a group of scientist to review proposals, who then have to arrange taking a week off of their regular responsibilties. This will delay funding cycles by probably months at the bare minimum, affecting people's livelhoods.

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Journalist wants to talk to scientists on cancelled NSF panels

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