Bronwen Konecky
@otherrock.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, researcher of tropical climate/paleoclimate, stable isotopes, biomarkers, models, mud. Runs on geoscience & music (the 'other kind of rock'). More geoscience and less music these days, but here's hoping. she/her
Reposted by Bronwen Konecky
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.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
Ok this is excellent to know-- was mentally preparing for a sudden, late-night "all hands on deck" data rescue
April 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ok this is excellent to know-- was mentally preparing for a sudden, late-night "all hands on deck" data rescue
Reposted by Bronwen Konecky
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.
March 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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.