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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM

@marhon.bsky.social
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Geoscientist and resilience policy wonk. NOAA and White House OSTP45 & OSTP46 alum. Mama to 2 great kiddos. Part of my heart lives in the red dirt of S. Utah. Personal account - views mine.

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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hold on to your butts…
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I served on detail in two WHs, the first Trump Admin and then Biden. This is worse than any remarks from his first term — need not even compare to other Presidents. Americans should see this for themselves and judge. Unfortunately, the vast majority will not.
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The newsrooms reviewed nearly 60 years of legislation and identified over five dozen flood safety bills rejected by lawmakers. Must read reporting from Lexi Churchill, Emily Foxhall and Pratheek Rebala. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods
Dozens of bills were rejected over nearly 60 years, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. The most consequential measures could have saved lives by prohibiting youth camps and new construction in ar...
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
First, I didn’t say I like/dislike anyone. The topic was R’s who did/didn’t bend the knee, or maybe I misread. Second, “basically Trump?” Do you live in Md? I do. Chosen twice as governor of a blue state. Everything great in his 8 yrs? No, but he didn’t foment an insurrection, for starters.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Compelling rebuttal.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Larry Hogan
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Had all the feels and cried the tears as the vehicle climbed and climbed…. safely.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I had my kids (13, 11) with us to watch Artemis launch. As the vehicle started to climb and arc, I held my breath and then started to cry. Explained what it was like to watch Challenger in my 7th grade science class. They understood those astronauts are so, so brave — some of the best among us.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is not good.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Brb. Gonna fill up my car on memories of the Dow.
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Eos @eos.org · 13/03/2026
In 1896, Florence Bascom became the first woman to work for USGS! She was also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from @jhu.edu (in 1893) and created the geology program at Bryn Mawr College. She retired at age 74. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Florence Bascom, Trailblazer of the U.S. Geological Survey
Each March, Women’s History Month commemorates the trailblazers, visionaries and notable women who have forever changed the world.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Finally
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The brain drain has been massive, no doubt, but I’m more devastated by the ‘heart’ drain. So many ppl who were passionately devoted to the mission ultimately forced to leave. Especially true for FEMA — working for survivors is a calling for many.
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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Spring 1978, my mom knew I could read because I was laughing at the WaPo Sunday comics. I’ve been a print subscriber my whole life. Until last week.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There are so, so many.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is boilerplate language inserted in every executive order (at least every one I’ve seen in the last couple decades).
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
PMF and all the others — AAAS S&T fellows, Knauss Sea Grant, state-level programs (Idaho’s a great example). Gov post-docs like USGS Mendenhall program, adding some Fed hiring preference across agencies. There’s a lot to leverage.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Congratulations!
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And particularly funny given the gas-powered blower ban (and associated controversy) here in NOAA HQ’s physical home (MoCo, MD).
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Please read this entire thread. Read NPR’s visuals thread. Do not let anyone rewrite history and shirk responsibility for these shameful events.
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Carlos Martinez, PhD @carlonimbus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@ucs.org has released a letter you can write to your Congressperson to save @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Share your voice on the significant value of this bedrock climate and weather insitution. Your story matters! secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...
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Protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Write today and urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Your message to Congress will help protect NC...
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why was NOAA’s predecessor agency created by Thomas Jefferson in 1807? Why is NOAA in the Dept of Commerce? This. Observations and predictions that support maritime ops and commerce. IOOS is essential data infrastructure. This is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why was NOAA’s predecessor agency created by Thomas Jefferson in 1807? Why is NOAA in the Dept of Commerce? This. Observations and predictions that support maritime ops and commerce. IOOS is essential data infrastructure. Maddening.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
99% probability that if there’s something posted about McRib, @costasamaras.com is involved. Take it to the bank.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 01/11/2025
NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska
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NOAA cancels longstanding funding for seismic data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems
The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer fund the contract.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As a young child, my mom knew I could read when she heard me laugh at the Washington Post comics one Sunday morning. This has been my hometown paper for half a century. But what Grossman says is painfully true.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Having served as a detailee (not political) in the 45 and 46 admins, I drew strength from those halls and rooms to help me do good things. Knowing others faced challenges helped me persevere, especially in the pandemic. That some halls have been torn down… that pains me. But others remain.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
From EEOB trick or treating in ‘19. The WH is the People’s House. It’s our collective heritage. All of us who walk its halls and meet in its rooms are but passing through — temporary stewards, with responsibility for respecting the past, serving the present, and preserving it for the future.
Two children in Halloween costumes and their father look out a window of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building toward the White House.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Oif.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I know we say this a lot, but seriously, what is wrong with people???
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I know your comments were in the context of earthquakes, but this quote from Gilbert White more than 80 years ago will always resonate: "Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man."
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
NOAA provides an array of products & services to help local-level officials understand and act to prevent adverse impacts of climate change. The precip data are moving fwd (so far). We also need to protect other things. Reauth of Digital Coast Act can help. Get the word out and support that!
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This one really hurts. I’m sorry.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I have no words. Just tears. Jail or euthanasia for the homeless?
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Extraction is the new conservation…because it conserves the positive inflow of money into the bank accounts of those doing the extracting. Didn’t you get the memo?
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“[O]ne of the worst moments in recent American history…” What?!? If your history spans the lifespan of a fruit fly, maybe. Delete your account.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It’s remarkable how many times per day I say, “I really don’t care. Next.”
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#NOS and #OAR #SeaGrant. Zero budgeting OAR doesn’t kill just climate research! It hampers some of the most effective local-level extension agents who advise on many issues, including #CoastalHazards. They’ve earned the trust of the communities they serve.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#NOS and #OAR #SeaGrant. Zero budgeting OAR doesn’t kill just climate research! It hampers some of the most effective local-level extension agents who advise on many issues, including #CoastalHazards. They’ve earned the trust of the communities they serve.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If located in the 1%-annual-chance (100-year) floodplain… Which in most cases is a 1% floodplain determined looking only in the rearview mirror, not anticipating development (increased impervious surface), erosion/channel change, or climate impacts on rainfall and sea level.
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Still lots of friends on the inside across many LOs, especially NOS and NESDIS. Many others extorted into retirement. Tough for all — thanks for hanging in there. Will always show up for y’all.
Photo of protestors holding signs outside of NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, with a large banner stating, “Save NOAA!”
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Maria Honeycutt, PhD, CFM @marhon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
14 yrs formally paid by NOAA, always a NOAA-ite. Resisted from within last time, and supporting from outside now. #science #service #stewardship
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