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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now
Award Details - NSF Award Search
Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.
www.nsf.gov
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now
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Fun fact: #Seahawks are the only team in NFL history to have a player with a sack, tackle for loss, interception, and blocked field goal in the same game.
Leonard Williams did it last year, Nick Emmanwori today.
Leonard Williams did it last year, Nick Emmanwori today.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fun fact: #Seahawks are the only team in NFL history to have a player with a sack, tackle for loss, interception, and blocked field goal in the same game.
Leonard Williams did it last year, Nick Emmanwori today.
Leonard Williams did it last year, Nick Emmanwori today.
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Another week of "our offense is a grungy mess and also we have slaughtered you" for the Seahawks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Another week of "our offense is a grungy mess and also we have slaughtered you" for the Seahawks.
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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Good morning from the shores of Lake Washington. It's a bit chilly out here, 31° I raced down here just to get a sunrise picture, I have a busy morning before we head to the Seahawks game.
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Good morning from the shores of Lake Washington. It's a bit chilly out here, 31° I raced down here just to get a sunrise picture, I have a busy morning before we head to the Seahawks game.
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IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Mars - Dust Storm on the Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2q2shzf
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Mars - Dust Storm on the Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2q2shzf
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ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
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The Subaru Telescope, awaiting the start of observations
Credit: Sebastian Egner /NAOJ
subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/f...
🔭🧪 #Maunakea
Credit: Sebastian Egner /NAOJ
subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/f...
🔭🧪 #Maunakea
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Subaru Telescope, awaiting the start of observations
Credit: Sebastian Egner /NAOJ
subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/f...
🔭🧪 #Maunakea
Credit: Sebastian Egner /NAOJ
subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/f...
🔭🧪 #Maunakea
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Avi Loeb's calculations about 3I/ATLAS are 100% wrong because he has never understood that dust in the tail(s) responds to solar radiation pressure. Solar wind shapes the ion tail. But the radiation pressure is about 1000 times larger than the solar wind ram pressure, for particles that feel it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Avi Loeb's calculations about 3I/ATLAS are 100% wrong because he has never understood that dust in the tail(s) responds to solar radiation pressure. Solar wind shapes the ion tail. But the radiation pressure is about 1000 times larger than the solar wind ram pressure, for particles that feel it.
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🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭
#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭
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#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
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"[Marine laboratories] have long nurtured generations of scientists … and precipitated discoveries that have advanced modern science. Yet they now face an uncertain future" write Susan Fitzpatrick and Jane Maienschein in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4ocWdOC
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"[Marine laboratories] have long nurtured generations of scientists … and precipitated discoveries that have advanced modern science. Yet they now face an uncertain future" write Susan Fitzpatrick and Jane Maienschein in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4ocWdOC
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Trump's not using the National Guard in Illinois to stop violent crime—he's trying to create chaos as he pulls off another authoritarian power grab. It's unconstitutional and un-American.
My colleagues and I will not be intimidated, and neither will the people of Illinois.
My colleagues and I will not be intimidated, and neither will the people of Illinois.
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trump's not using the National Guard in Illinois to stop violent crime—he's trying to create chaos as he pulls off another authoritarian power grab. It's unconstitutional and un-American.
My colleagues and I will not be intimidated, and neither will the people of Illinois.
My colleagues and I will not be intimidated, and neither will the people of Illinois.
And like, I know only 5 people in the world care, but I care!
This is in the context of finding all Italian fencing texts from ~1550 to ~1640, researching the transition of side sword to heavy-long rapier to short-light rapier. There aren't a lot of texts, and MS Lamoignon isn't independent, so I count ~25, including the 3 rapier masters, 3 from ~1640.
Utterly esoteric, but TRUE, as far as I can tell.
Said here first
The Italian, sword-centric, part of MS LAMOIGNON (c1620) www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
is a manuscript copy of the italian version of Cavalcabo (1595)
www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
context:
www.ffamhe.fr/collectionpa...
Said here first
The Italian, sword-centric, part of MS LAMOIGNON (c1620) www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
is a manuscript copy of the italian version of Cavalcabo (1595)
www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
context:
www.ffamhe.fr/collectionpa...
September 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
And like, I know only 5 people in the world care, but I care!
This is in the context of finding all Italian fencing texts from ~1550 to ~1640, researching the transition of side sword to heavy-long rapier to short-light rapier. There aren't a lot of texts, and MS Lamoignon isn't independent, so I count ~25, including the 3 rapier masters, 3 from ~1640.
Utterly esoteric, but TRUE, as far as I can tell.
Said here first
The Italian, sword-centric, part of MS LAMOIGNON (c1620) www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
is a manuscript copy of the italian version of Cavalcabo (1595)
www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
context:
www.ffamhe.fr/collectionpa...
Said here first
The Italian, sword-centric, part of MS LAMOIGNON (c1620) www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
is a manuscript copy of the italian version of Cavalcabo (1595)
www.middleages.hu/english/mart...
context:
www.ffamhe.fr/collectionpa...
Schola Artis Gladii et Armorum
www.middleages.hu
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is in the context of finding all Italian fencing texts from ~1550 to ~1640, researching the transition of side sword to heavy-long rapier to short-light rapier. There aren't a lot of texts, and MS Lamoignon isn't independent, so I count ~25, including the 3 rapier masters, 3 from ~1640.