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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Congratulations to the new class of Packard Fellows!

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 30/07/2025

Honestly, this 8.8-mag quake and tsunami seems a fabulous demonstration of the capabilities that the US, Japan, and others have marshalled to protect their citizens. This doesn't just exist. It has to be built and maintained.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/06/2025

NOAA is essential to the health, welfare, and safety of all Americans. Dismantling climate.gov makes us all less safe. Here’s an article we wrote about the value of NOAA to the American public: bsky.app/profile/cost...

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Haley Thiem @haleythiemwx.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager. Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

and many of these swaths of the USA are not prone to wildfires locally, so folks do not have a habit in place of checking the AQI (which is second nature in, e.g., the west)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Diana Olick @dianaolick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

One of the most fascinating interviews I've ever done. Seriously. On the eve of #hurricane season, #tornadoes moving across the South and Canadian #wildfire smoke descending on the upper Midwest, there is no more important time to focus on #climate impact on #finance #economy. @climate.noaa.gov

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JPMorgan hired NOAA's chief scientist to advise clients on navigating climate change

Last year, JPMorgan hired Sarah Kapnick as the bank's chief climate scientist. She's now advising clients on how climate change will impact their investments.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

2 weeks ago, an EF3 tornado tore through my neighborhood and others in STL city. Relief efforts are almost entirely grassroots, which on the one hand is beautiful, and on the other hand is so depressing. Houses' roofs and brick walls are torn wide open like dollhouses and yet, no one is coming.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The marathon livestream of weather & climate scientists talking about their research, and its importance, continues. Drop in anytime through the weekend for learning opportunities. I just heard a discussion about what everyone's favorite cloud is! #wx 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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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/04/2025

The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial. There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it. Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.

A screen capture of the text of the link below, explaining why they will no longer support cooperative modeling of the earth’s climate system.

Another screen capture explaining why they no longer support sub seasonal to seasonal predictability research. That’s weather, folks. They don’t support weather research.

A third screen capture explaining why a regional coupled model project is being canceled, as it includes alleged changes to precipitation patterns and sea level rise.

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Paleo folks: Does anyone know if NOAA/NCEI's Paleoclimatology database is part of NOAA's Amazon Web Services contract? Does the US paleo community need to start archiving datasets at Pangaea now too? FAIR data principles don't really work if the website can disappear with little notice.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I worry all the competitive rhetoric over the years has brainwashed everyone to think that there is stable global demand for science and if the jobs aren’t here they will move somewhere else. No, there will just be less science.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Should you need a gift link…

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Happy omega day to those who celebrate. The March equinox is our reference point for the ever-changing position of perihelion relative to the solstices. Seasons, stars, time itself, they’re always changing. So find yourself a good reference point. A little mindfulness from #paleoclimatology 🤓

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"[T]he entire system felt rigged, designed to make it nearly impossible for anyone to get out. The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." This story is beyond insane ...

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Hey #StLouis, the air quality outside is extremely dangerous. Stay indoors. It’s WILD that we got 1,000,000 tornado alerts last night but have gotten NO alerts about the wildfire smoke & dust borne by that same weather system! Did the air quality alert folks at #NOAA / #NWS get fired or something?

Screen shot showing hazardous air quality levels

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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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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's happening again. Stillwater (MN) Area Public Schools are restricting access to my book "Call Me Max," citing bogus concerns about "the age and maturity of the intended audience." You can read my full letter to them here: www.kylelukoff.com/blog-1/2025/.... I'll also post the highlights below.

The cover of the book "Call Me Max," a smiling white transgender boy in overall, with a dog.

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International Association for Great Lakes Research @iaglr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

IAGLR and dozens of other scientific societies have united on a call to action urging Congress to prioritize the integrity and funding of scientific research. By investing in science, lawmakers can help safeguard our future and foster an informed citizenry. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/03/2025

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting

Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

Webpage for NOAA's external affairs team. At top is pink salmon colored box with text that says all external affairs people were fired.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Update: according to a now-former NOAA Great Lakes lab employee, it seems like the entire communications team was cut - the group that was responsible for relaying info to the public about things like harmful algal blooms, waves/currents, and lake-effect snow www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

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Former employee: 20% of Ann Arbor NOAA office cut, community to feel impacts

Nicole Rice had been with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 10 years before being abruptly fired Thursday.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

A screenshot of a Facebook post from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/02/2025

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

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Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting

The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Science funding = people. This point is too often lost. It's the majority of where my grants go. Quick math on 4 of my recent #NSF awards: Of $525,058 in direct costs over 6 yrs, 87% is for people (6 ppl). Salary/stipends 78%, fringe benefits 9%. Lab analyses 8%, travel 4%, fieldwork 1%, other <1%.

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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

US academics, *please read* this excellent thread on how you can help the remaining PO's at NSF.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Inside the lobby at NSF…

A table of books with a sign that says “each one of these books represents critical knowledge lost that would have driven US innovation and bolstered American security. 168 books and counting.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"I don't know what NSF is going to be now, but it's not more efficient. It's just a mess." My story on today's firings and their impact. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is how almost everyone who works on climate feels almost all the time. 🤷‍♀️

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The biggest US bank, which has financed nearly $400 billion in fossil-fuel projects since the Paris Agreement, launches an important and credible climate advisory note for clients, who apparently have been clamoring for such a thing. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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JPMorgan Launches Climate Note by Ex-NOAA Science Chief

“There is a demand for understanding how to strategically think about climate issues,” said Sarah Kapnick, now the bank’s top climate adviser.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities. That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.

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