Stacy Woods, PhD (she/her)
@geostatstacy.bsky.social
I do stats, make maps, and lead a research team studying water, agriculture, equity, and environmental health @ Union of Concerned Scientists. Swamps are underrated. (profile pic c/o @lucyknisley.bsky.social)
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Today, the EPA released proposed revisions to the definition of “waters of the United States”, which would further erode clean water safeguards & endanger wetlands & streams across the US. “This is a destructive and unfounded attack on clean water protections," said @geostatstacy.bsky.social.
EPA Proposes Striking Wetlands Protections, Risking Water Quality Across US
The U.S. EPA today released a revised definition of “waters of the United States, narrowing the waters protected under the Clean Water Act. Statement by Dr. Stacy Woods at the Union of Concerned Scien...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today, the EPA released proposed revisions to the definition of “waters of the United States”, which would further erode clean water safeguards & endanger wetlands & streams across the US. “This is a destructive and unfounded attack on clean water protections," said @geostatstacy.bsky.social.
As food prices surge, the Trump admin cancels a critical hunger study. “It’s the latest sign that the president and his allies are hell-bent on eliminating science and data that don’t support their political agenda.” -my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
The USDA Cancels Annual Hunger Study While Trump Policies Drive Up Food Prices
Canceling the annual Household Food Security Reports is part of a broader Trump administration effort to suppress data inconvenient to its political agenda.
blog.ucs.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As food prices surge, the Trump admin cancels a critical hunger study. “It’s the latest sign that the president and his allies are hell-bent on eliminating science and data that don’t support their political agenda.” -my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
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🌎🧪Over 1,000+ scientists joined together to defend the EPA's Endangerment Finding, and you have SIX DAYS to make your voice heard too.
Stop the EPA's Attack on Climate Science & Public Health
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to obliterate the science basis of key climate policies. Tell the EPA to protect science, our climate, and our communities.
secure.ucs.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌎🧪Over 1,000+ scientists joined together to defend the EPA's Endangerment Finding, and you have SIX DAYS to make your voice heard too.
This #USDA reorg plan is bad for farmers, bad for food, and bad for all of us. My colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social explains why: blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This #USDA reorg plan is bad for farmers, bad for food, and bad for all of us. My colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social explains why: blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
Industrial meat & poultry plants dump tons of pollution into our waters—our research shows how much Tyson alone released in just 5 years. Yet the Trump #EPA won’t update weak, outdated effluent rules, again putting Industrial Ag profits over your right to #cleanwater 🧪 bit.ly/4p19Lh0
Waste Deep
Water pollutants from Tyson Foods' meat processing plants pose a risk to both people and the environment.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Industrial meat & poultry plants dump tons of pollution into our waters—our research shows how much Tyson alone released in just 5 years. Yet the Trump #EPA won’t update weak, outdated effluent rules, again putting Industrial Ag profits over your right to #cleanwater 🧪 bit.ly/4p19Lh0
Molecular biology meets visual storytelling ✨🧬🧪. This video is mesmerizing. The potential for novel flu treatment is inspiring. But realizing that potential depends on sustained investment in science.
#FundNSF #FundNIH #FundAllTheScience
#FundNSF #FundNIH #FundAllTheScience
@science.org 🧫🧬❄️🔬 Molecular basis of influenza ribonucleoprotein complex assembly and processive RNA synthesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@yiweichang.bsky.social www.yiweichanglab.org @jiwasa.bsky.social #virology #Influenza #Cryo-EM #StructuralBiology #RNA #polymerase
@yiweichang.bsky.social www.yiweichanglab.org @jiwasa.bsky.social #virology #Influenza #Cryo-EM #StructuralBiology #RNA #polymerase
May 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Molecular biology meets visual storytelling ✨🧬🧪. This video is mesmerizing. The potential for novel flu treatment is inspiring. But realizing that potential depends on sustained investment in science.
#FundNSF #FundNIH #FundAllTheScience
#FundNSF #FundNIH #FundAllTheScience
Always great to see states taking strong action to protect water quality—esp at a time when the fed government is determined to do the opposite (see: this morning’s EPA #PFAS announcement). Kudos to @govwesmoore.bsky.social & other MD leaders for stepping up to safeguard our health & environment! 🌊
In an exciting step for clean water and the local economies it supports, yesterday MD Governor Wes Moore signed the Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act (HB506) into Maryland law. This legislation will help improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and promote economic growth across the state
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Applauds Governor Moore for Signing Bay Legacy Act
Governor Wes Moore signed the Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act (HB506) into Maryland law. The legislation will help improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and promote economic growth across the state.
www.cbf.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Always great to see states taking strong action to protect water quality—esp at a time when the fed government is determined to do the opposite (see: this morning’s EPA #PFAS announcement). Kudos to @govwesmoore.bsky.social & other MD leaders for stepping up to safeguard our health & environment! 🌊
The Trump administration has proposed “reinterpreting” which wetlands & streams are protected under the Clean Water Act. Last week I testified to EPA & urged the agency to preserve protections for these waters—and now you can too. Here’s how to weigh in & why it matters: blog.ucs.org/stacy-woods/...
Wetlands and Streams Face a New Threat from the Trump Administration
The EPA is calling for public comments on a proposal that would limit protections for millions of acres of wetlands and streams.
blog.ucs.org
May 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Trump administration has proposed “reinterpreting” which wetlands & streams are protected under the Clean Water Act. Last week I testified to EPA & urged the agency to preserve protections for these waters—and now you can too. Here’s how to weigh in & why it matters: blog.ucs.org/stacy-woods/...
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NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma.
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.eenews.net
May 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma.
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
"This ruling is an abuse of science." 👏🦀🏳️⚧️
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"This ruling is an abuse of science." 👏🦀🏳️⚧️
What a loss for environmental and public health science 🧪—not to mention the incredible staff, reviewers, and authors who make Environmental Health Perspectives what it is. Sincerely hoping this publication “pause” is only temporary.
April 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What a loss for environmental and public health science 🧪—not to mention the incredible staff, reviewers, and authors who make Environmental Health Perspectives what it is. Sincerely hoping this publication “pause” is only temporary.
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Trump opened up about 84% of the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument industrial fishing
That's about 1/3 of all protected waters in the entire country
Here are some things you can do to express your displeasure
www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
That's about 1/3 of all protected waters in the entire country
Here are some things you can do to express your displeasure
www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EO
Donald Trump opened an area of about 250 million acres of protected American waters to industrial fishing fleets on Thursday. This sets a very dangerous precedent that our public lands and wa…
www.southernfriedscience.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trump opened up about 84% of the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument industrial fishing
That's about 1/3 of all protected waters in the entire country
Here are some things you can do to express your displeasure
www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
That's about 1/3 of all protected waters in the entire country
Here are some things you can do to express your displeasure
www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
Brings new meaning to "Off to see the wizard"! 👁️✨🌈🧪
Five people have seen a color never before visible to the naked human eye, thanks to a new retinal stimulation technique called Oz.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
scim.ag
April 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Brings new meaning to "Off to see the wizard"! 👁️✨🌈🧪
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
🧪 Wetlands help stem floods along the Mississippi River—ranked “most endangered” by @americanrivers.bsky.social due to worsening floods. Yet Trump’s #EPA is stripping protections from more wetlands. 📝 Use our guide to urge EPA to protect wetlands. Comments close 4/23! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🧪 Wetlands help stem floods along the Mississippi River—ranked “most endangered” by @americanrivers.bsky.social due to worsening floods. Yet Trump’s #EPA is stripping protections from more wetlands. 📝 Use our guide to urge EPA to protect wetlands. Comments close 4/23! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I just don’t understand the nostalgia for the grand ole’ days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the Dust Bowl, and Love Canal.
“This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace."
Trump and Musk's plan to gut hundreds of federal protections will get people killed. Full stop.
Trump and Musk's plan to gut hundreds of federal protections will get people killed. Full stop.
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I just don’t understand the nostalgia for the grand ole’ days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the Dust Bowl, and Love Canal.
Farmland consolidation fuels inequality and damages soil and water quality. My colleague @omanjana21.bsky.social unpacked this in a blog a few years back, and it's definitely worth a re-read: blog.ucs.org/omanjana-gos...
The number of farms declined again while the average size of a farm continues to tick up.
Chart by USDA's Economic Research Service.
Chart by USDA's Economic Research Service.
April 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Farmland consolidation fuels inequality and damages soil and water quality. My colleague @omanjana21.bsky.social unpacked this in a blog a few years back, and it's definitely worth a re-read: blog.ucs.org/omanjana-gos...
More cows with H1N1, just as the Trump admin plans more cuts to USDA—an agency that helps stop outbreaks AND supports farmers who lose livestock to illness. Dismantling USDA now would be a disaster—for farmers and for public health. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
April 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
More cows with H1N1, just as the Trump admin plans more cuts to USDA—an agency that helps stop outbreaks AND supports farmers who lose livestock to illness. Dismantling USDA now would be a disaster—for farmers and for public health. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
The dire wolf discourse is absolutely sending me. Thank you, Science Bluesky.
Every child needs to hear these things:
I love you
I’m always here for you
Those are not direwolves
I support you
I love you
I’m always here for you
Those are not direwolves
I support you
Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:
1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤
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1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤
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April 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The dire wolf discourse is absolutely sending me. Thank you, Science Bluesky.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
I think they need a tl;dr on storm surge vs. sea level rise. Moving your vacation home back a quarter inch won’t save it if you keep ignoring climate change and flooding...
Trump and Republican elites will happily sacrifice the rest of us to a future of climate devastation if it means more waterfront property for their vacation homes
Trump: "We should've all been gone bc they gave us only a few years left on earth, right? The environment. No. What they have to worry about is the nuclear heat ... you don't have to worry about the ocean rising 1/4 of an inch within the next 600 years giving you a little more waterfront property"
April 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I think they need a tl;dr on storm surge vs. sea level rise. Moving your vacation home back a quarter inch won’t save it if you keep ignoring climate change and flooding...
Took the scenic route. Still arrived on time.
This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10
April 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Took the scenic route. Still arrived on time.
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Incredible chart of market performance over the first 100 days of the last four presidential administrations, from @jhelvy.bsky.social: jhelvy.github.io/potus-econ-s...
April 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Incredible chart of market performance over the first 100 days of the last four presidential administrations, from @jhelvy.bsky.social: jhelvy.github.io/potus-econ-s...
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We're in the midst of an early season severe weather outbreak and these are the storm reports from ONE day of this storm season. All of the warnings and responses that occurred for these events - including life threatening flooding and tornadoes - happen with data distributed through NWS sources.
April 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We're in the midst of an early season severe weather outbreak and these are the storm reports from ONE day of this storm season. All of the warnings and responses that occurred for these events - including life threatening flooding and tornadoes - happen with data distributed through NWS sources.
Some emotional support manatees for your Friday.
Whole herd of at least half a dozen manatees cruised past the Camera today. We love to see it! 🥹〰️🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #manatees #seacow #herd #seapotato #squad #welovetoseeit #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity
April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Some emotional support manatees for your Friday.