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Meg Fowler

@megandevlan.bsky.social
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Climate scientist, sports enthusiast, and knitter.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/10/2026
Exclusive: In March, the White House’s budget request for fiscal year 2027 called for eliminating NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Whether Congress will approve the request is unclear, but NSF is not waiting. Learn more: scim.ag/4hC7bes
‘Complete devastation’—How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who, who could have foretold this?
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NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory @ncar-ral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👏 Congratulations to RAL scientist Cenlin He, recipient of the 2026 AGU Global Environmental Change Early Career Award! Well deserved, Cenlin! 🥳 Congratulations on this wonderful achievement and to all this year’s AGU honorees! Read more! ral.ucar.edu/news/cenlin-...
Cenlin He wins the AGU 2026 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 14/09/2026
A tremendous waste of time and effort in the service of placating an angry 80-year-old man's failing mind.
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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 11/09/2026
This position’s deadline will be extended to Sept. 18th at 11:59p MDT. Please share with anyone you know in the planetary boundary layer modeling community.
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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢 Our ASP Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications for the 2027 cohort of fellows. This program is intended for graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project w/ guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers in Boulder. bit.ly/4nBRgOG
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
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WNBA @wnba.com · 29/08/2026
1K POINTS IN A SINGLE SZN 🗣️ In last night's win against the Connecticut Sun, Kelsey Mitchell became just the second player in WNBA history with 1,000+ points and counting in a single season! She is currently sitting on 1,001 points on the szn for the Indiana Fever. #WNBASeason30
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Cameron Brink calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘stupid piece of sh*t,’ condemns ‘clickbait’
On Monday night, Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink swatted five blocks in a loss to the Atlanta Dream. Her most impressive block of the night came before the game even started. Brink, the 2024 No. 2 overall pick, spoke exclusively with Jarrod Castillo of Mirror US about the disingenuous media cloud hovering over the…
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Meg Fowler @megandevlan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Could we stop losing the best people in the country?!
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Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White: Enough Is Enough! (Clue)
ALT: Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White: Enough Is Enough! (Clue)
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NSF is touting a dozen new solicitations announced this week as evidence that basic research still rules. But that's not what's really going on. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Is NSF’s new call for research proposals good news? Scientists and staffers have doubts
The long-delayed 12 solicitations only cover some disciplines—and promise to give them much less money
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
CREDIT Generation 2 has arrived! You can now mix and match ML and physics components seamlessly with PyTorch layers to create a new generation of coupled Earth system emulators. More info: news.ucar.edu/133085/scien...
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Scientists build up CREDIT for AI research | NCAR & UCAR News
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026
We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
University)
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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026
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Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitment Announcement | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS)Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitmen...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I read through this, and it's remarkably autocratic, almost Soviet-style vision for science in the United States.
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OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/07/2026
I am a climate scientist and, same.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.
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ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says
It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Among other very bad things, the proposed and imminent rules would cause "reduced public access to weather, water, and climate information as recipients of federal funding face new restrictions on public communication of their scientific knowledge and understanding."
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Recent French national average temperatures: - impossible in a pre-industrial world, - about 1 year in 40 years in a 1.5C world - 1 in 10 years in a +2 °C world - 3 degree world - happens every other year interactive/method/maps here (également en français): benmsanderson.github.io/futureevent/
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dodgers fullfill $1 million pledge in response to ICE raids. Owners divest from prison group. Free and unlocked here: www.aol.com/sports/dodge...
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Dodgers fulfill $1-million pledge in response to ICE raids, owners divest from prison group - AOL
The Dodgers followed through on a pledge made a year ago, donating $1.1 million to two foundations supporting those impacted by immigration raids in the Southland.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Meg Fowler @megandevlan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
François was a wonderful teacher and a wonderful human. I can’t believe he was taken away like this.
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Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
After furious backlash on Capitol Hill and in the scientific community, the Trump Admin's NSF is reversing its decision to dismantle a sprawling ocean observing system. (Note: some damage has already been done, however.) www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump administration reverses plans to ditch a critical ocean monitoring system after furious bipartisan backlash | CNN
The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical system of ocean monitoring that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipa...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18/06/2026
Actual sea surface temperatures in the key Niño3.4 monitoring region are creeping to new heights, behind only 2015 for all times of the year. This is due to the long-term warming of the tropics and growing El Niño. Find graphics like this and more summaries at www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...
Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.
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GEWEX @gewex.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
⏳ Just 3 weeks to go! Have you registered for 2026 Pan-GLASS Conference yet? Preliminary program is now available at www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gla... 👉 Register www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gla... #PanGLASS2026 #GEWEX We are looking forward to seeing you at the drawing board with us!
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Meg Fowler @megandevlan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Never expected to spend my Friday night watching scaffolding be constructed on YouTube, but here we are!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/06/2026
A U.S. District Court has issued an order stopping the administration from censoring American history and science and ordering the restoration of unlawfully censored information displayed in national parks, including signs explaining the impacts of climate change.
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Court Blocks Censorship and Erasure of American History and Science at National Parks
A U.S. District Court has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from censoring American history and science at U.S. national parks.
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AMS Committee on Hydrology @amshydrology.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The countdown to the @ametsoc.org Annual Meeting in Denver is on! 🎉 Abstract submissions are now open, and we're excited to invite you to contribute to the 41st Conference on Hydrology. #AMS2027 #Hydrology #WaterResources annual.ametsoc.org/2027/program...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/06/2026
Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
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NSF imposes stricter conflict-of-interest rules for grant-review panels
Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency
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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 02/06/2026
The @ametsoc.org Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (for which I am the Commissioner) is soliciting nominations for 13 Board and Committee early-career, distinguished science or tech accomplishment, or service awards! Most deadlines are June 12th! www.ametsoc.org/stac/awards/...
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Keith Lindsay @keithlindsay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AGU has tools to help you comment on OMB’s proposed rules.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
They’re not even just leaving it in place and ignoring it, they’re paying more to actively remove it. I’d say “why”, but we all know why.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 02/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING The Trump administration's attempt to transfer NCAR's supercomputing facility was blocked in federal court today. NCAR belongs to the American people, and we will keep pushing to make sure its world-renowned programs are not dismantled, privatized, or pushed out of Colorado.
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Federal judge blocks Trump admin from dismantling Boulder weather lab, cites evidence of political retaliation against Colorado
A federal court halted the Trump administration's plan to strip NCAR of its supercomputer, finding it arbitrary and possibly retaliatory, related to Tina Peters
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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