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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I don't know what's going on here but HOLY COW. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

The estimated wait time for Canadian work permits for people from Argentina is 10 weeks

The estimated wait time for Canadian work permits for people from the UK is 17 weeks

The estimated wait time for Canadian work permits for people from Uzbekistan is 7 weeks

The estimated wait time for Canadian work permits for people from the USA is 81 weeks

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 06/04/2025

Funny how crowd estimates were ~2.5 million across the country for yesterday's protests but all the news agencies say "thousands"

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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Trust me...I was NOT PAID to protest in the rain at a windy 40F. I was there because I care about democracy and our country and human rights.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Pretty big crowd today in Bangor, Maine!

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

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NOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · 21/03/2025

Today’s featured piece from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Jillian Pelto’s watercolor and colored pencil work reflecting coastal wetland restoration and changes in fishing behavior in the Gulf of Maine. www.climate.gov/news-feature...

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today, Esker learned that candle ice is not for walking on.

A dog very excited to got for a trot on some solid ice.

A wet dog shaking after falling through the ice.

Wet dog looks at the icy aftermath. A hole on the candle ice.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

March 2023, Tierra del Fuego. Our feathered field assistant kept wondering why were weren't dead yet. #condor #thismealistakingforever

This horizontal photo is split in half. The bottom half is a grey bedrock with green and tan grass on it. The upper half is a background of snow covered mountain. Along the bedrock ridge, splitting the white from the green, is an andean condor facing the camera at a distance.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It has been an emotional rollercoaster following the USDA freeze earlier this week. Staff feared layoffs; grad students wondered if they’ll make rent. We just learned that USDA funds will be restored. This is a win for Maine’s farmers, growers, and kids, too! www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...

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Donald Trump’s USDA reverses freeze on funding to Maine’s public universities

It was an abrupt reversal of the funding freeze that was announced in a Monday notice to the University of Maine System.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Flashback to an early rise during summer '22 fieldwork in South Dakota. Unzipped the door of my tent to find out I was under investigation by this herd of curious horses.

A herd of eight horses on the prairie as the sun was rising. The sky is a deep lilac color and on the horizon is typical badlands topography. Most of the horses are a chestnut or dark brown, but there is one palimino and one buckskin in the center of the herd.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I have learned that #shelfie is a thing. It brings me joy.

Photo of a bookshelf with shells and old books.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...

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Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University

The administration said the cuts were made because of "the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,"

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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“‘This notice is devastating for our team and countless partners, the University of Maine and the entire state,’ Maine Sea Grant Director Gayle Zydlewski said in a written statement.” www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...

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Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program

The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This warm spell has reminded me of Tierra del Fuego. Maybe it's the humidity? The smell of melting snow? The chilly breeze? Here's a whale vertebra, part of a nearly intact skeleton that served as a landmark while conducting fieldwork on Isla Navarino in early March, 2024.

A whale vertebra partially submerged in the tide, with raindrops visible on the water surface.

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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Oh, really? So, like, the entire federal government after Trump’s EO’s? “President Trump has made it abundantly clear: taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a news release.

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USDA announces Title IX investigation into UMaine

The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Like sharks, Cookie Monsters have existed for tens of millions of years with little major evolutionary change. Being a soft-bodied organism, it's rare to get a fossil with such clarity of preservation as this one; what a lucky find!

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

“Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so."

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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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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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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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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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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Confirmed bsky.app/profile/jonl...

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Throwback to a beautiful drift limit lapping up onto a cinder cone in Antarctica. Koettlitz Glacier in the middle, Walcott and Howchin glaciers in the background.

A deposit of grey cobbles laps up onto a hill of bright red volcanic rocks. In the middle is a large, wide, glacier. In the background is a mountain range with smaller glaciers emerging from it.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Metabolizing cortisol in a winter wonderland.

Cross county ski tracks through a snowy pine forest. The sun peeks through the trees, lighting up the ski tracks.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🎶”…you may not share our intellect / which might explain your disrespect / for all the natural wonders that / grow around you / so long, so long and thanks / for all the fish!”🎶 Two happy Peale’s dolphins putting on a show in the Beagle Channel, 2024.

Two small dolphins leap out of the water in the center of the photo.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2025

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Really pleased to announce a new section of AntarcticGlaciers: ComicCorner! With comics produced by the talented Domino Jones www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and... And featuring @lizbagshaw.bsky.social David Sugden and Rachel Carr's fieldwork adventures!

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Comic Corner - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Comic Corner presents a series of comics drawn by Domino Jones, featuring both educational resources and fun stories. These are aimed at young adults and adults. Domino Jones is a PhD researcher at th...

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Wizard level ice core science

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"The criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for “broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, & “...illegal DEI”. “To see ‘women’ & ‘woman’ & ‘people of colour’ showing up... that was a gut punch,” says one NSF employee."

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

‘Diversity’ is not to blame for the world’s problems. It is part of the solution. If you'd like to add your name below, let me know. We write in solidarity. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

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Polar science needs diversity - AntarcticGlaciers.org

We write in solidarity with our colleagues in the USA and internationally, who are suffering as efforts to increase equality, diversity and inclusion are systematically eroded and destroyed. It is imp...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

PUSHING BACK HELPS. NSF appears to be restoring payment on active grants after first acquiescing to the illegal Trump demand to stop all grants, payments. 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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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The moon and Venus are looking pretty good tonight.

Sunset on a cross country ski trail with a forest to the right. The crescent moon and nearby Venus are at the top of the photo.

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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

An absolutely travesty for such a critical program for our field to lose funding

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 30/01/2025

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Update: A memo has just been sent to institutions mandating a review and potential reallocation of federal awards, grants and financial assistance programs to make sure they meet the new Administration’s specific policy agenda.

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