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Sarah Das

@sarahdas.bsky.social
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Polar and climate scientist, educator, communicator, explorer. Concerned coastal resident. Going to the ends of the Earth in pursuit of a better future for all. Boston / South Shore / Cape Cod / New England based.

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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Conservation Law Foundation @theclf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Many New England states have already enacted policies they know will improve the health of the planet, our region, and their residents. Here's how we can keep going 💪 ow.ly/eBpk50VOF5N
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Six Ways States Can Lead the Fight On Climate Change Right Now
The Trump administration has launched an aggressive attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy, but states can fight back.
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Grist @grist.org · 28/04/2025
Why Trump can’t stop states from fighting climate change Climate progress is still happening. You just need to know where to look. grist.org/article/why-... #climate #Environment #Solar #States #Trump #Greensky
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Why Trump can't stop states from fighting climate change
The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billi...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today. If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming. Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Billionaires were never going to save us from the climate crisis. Real change comes from collective action, not the whims of the ultra-rich. futurism.com/bill-gates-g...
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Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change
Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 14/03/2025
We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready? Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al
A map showing the topography of Antarctica, without ice
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 14/03/2025
Insurers warn that mass firings at NASA, the US Geological Survey and other science agencies could threaten the public weather and geospatial data they use to manage natural disaster risks — and could raise prices for consumers: on.ft.com/3DI4Q1K
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Insurers warn that US weather agency mass firings will hit climate risk data
[FREE TO READ] Reinsurance trade group appeals to US commerce secretary Lutnick to preserve data collection after thousands of jobs axed
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The FBI is moving to criminalize community climate workgroups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA under the Biden administration, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by writing successful funding proposals.
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press Release www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03... Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)
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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
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Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity
A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience Boston
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Did you know the US Military was doing climate change research in the 1950s and 1960s? Hard to believe when climate is such a partisan issue today! Thank you US ARMY! for the first ice core.😅💙📚#scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5t...
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Camp Century, The City Under The Ice - 1964 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
YouTube video by Charlie Dean Archives
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 28/02/2025
@drneilstone.bsky.social
A good moment to remind everyone how phenomenally effective the measles vaccine is.  No one should die of measles.  Not in the United States.  Not anywhere.  Vaccines save lives.
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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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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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Want to speak out on behalf of science and rational thought. Here's a great "cheat sheet" and "how to" to share with your community, friends, colleagues. Local is powerful. Speaking out is important. sciencehomecoming.com
how to write opinion piece
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are #hiring! Search extended through end of February for a tenure track scientific staff position in #Coastal Systems in the Geology and Geophysics Department at @whoi.edu (ad still says Feb 15, but last time we tried to change the wording we broke workday so, you know, just trust me on this!)
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Tenure Track Scientist - Geology & Geophysics
Job Summary The Department of Geology and Geophysics (G&G) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites candidates to apply to the open full-time tenure track position on our scienti...
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — approx. $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away. Instead, it will likely push them onto citizens. New, from @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
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Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals
The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pretty simple message! Fortunately the opposite is true, too. Slow down warming, melt less ice, saves $trillions!
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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.org · 20/02/2025
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice will make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract and expensive. From @paul-bierman.bsky.social theconversation.com/greenlands-r...
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Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract
Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are indeed in an "emergency." But it can't be solved with fossil fuels, since it's caused by fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Fast-Track Hundreds of Fossil Fuel Projects
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new gas pipelines and other projects.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/02/2025
So ... what's waiting in the queues? Ah. emp.lbl.gov/queues
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Caring about or working in science right now is all about answering questions: can we keep going? How do we keep going? Sometimes our answers need to take the form of speeches. Instead of certainty and details, we are being asked for direction. For comfort. For courage. For hope.
(on left of image) WHAT TO SAY WHEN... everything is on fire. (on right of image, a poem by Nikita Gil. "Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things / and trying to make life worth living, / and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, / but I believe in that."
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is very cool.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/02/2025
in case you're wondering, yes, Ted Cruz is holding a hearing this week calling for the invasion of Greenland
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The Arctic and Greenland’s Geostrategic Importance to U.S. Interests
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Nuuk an...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“The scientific community needs to speak up - not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity, and morality.” www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie... 🧪 🌊⚒️
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What to tell your trainees, your students, your teams, and yourselves, when you feel the doubt and darkness encroaching: your work is under attack *because it matters* Keep at it.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/02/2025
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
A line graph depicting the average number of days it took to install a gigawatt of solar energy capacity worldwide from 2001 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the number of days on a logarithmic scale, spanning from 1 to 1000 days. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2001 to 2023. 

In 2004, the average time was about 1 year, which is marked on the graph. A downward trend shows significant decreases in installation time over the years. By 2010, it took under 30 days, and by 2015, just over 7 days. The most notable point is in 2023, where it dropped to about 1 day on average for installation. 

The data source is attributed to IRENA (2024), with calculation by Our World in Data, and the chart is identified as CC BY, indicating it is licensed for sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/02/2025
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces. Learn more: scim.ag/4jPYRID
Climate change in the polar regions of our warming world is threatening to transform many of its features, such as this icy tableau in the Fish Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is still much to learn about these places before we know better what those changes may be.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Check out the backstory of drilling into a big, twitchy, rapidly draining ice stream in northeast Greenland. We feel you, ice stream. We feel you. ⬇️
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 03/02/2025
New research on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously detected, which will likely speed up ice loss and global sea level rise.
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New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected - Inside Climate News
Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, increasing concerns about how quickly their melting will raise sea levels.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 03/02/2025
Great climate reporting is itself a climate solution. ✅
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Making the Climate Connection
Tips and examples to help journalists make the connection between extreme weather and climate change.
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ARE YOU AFFECTED BY WHITE HOUSE CHAOS? WILL YOU TALK TO THE PRESS? I am now working with national groups to find people to speak out about how Trump/Musk actions are affecting them. If you are interested, please contact me to be added to the list. DMs are open. Please share widely.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 31/01/2025
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
On the importance of hope in perservering (also just a very cool science story!)
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I taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives
Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/01/2025
Is your research or someone you know being impacted by the Trump funding freeze? UCS wants to hear from you! Help us show decision-makers why this freeze is harmful and how it affects everyday people. Share your story here or pass it along to someone who can:
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Share Your Story to Protect Government Science
From the air we breathe to the safety of our communities, government science plays a crucial role in our daily lives. How have federal scientists and their work impacted your life or community? Share ...
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Sarah Das @sarahdas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In times of crises and in the face of enormous challenges, it is all too easy to feel alone and helpless. Looking forward to contributing to a collective building of strength, resilience, action, and hope in this community!
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