Marty Downs
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Water. Trees. Dogs. Soil. Pie. Personal account.
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Hearing from folks! I know the FS has barred employees from talking to the press. I can keep your name and identifying details out of my story—won't publish anything without explicit ok.
Seems equally important I talk to researchers working with the FS, who can talk about what we stand to lose...
Seems equally important I talk to researchers working with the FS, who can talk about what we stand to lose...
If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: [email protected]
As part of a wide-ranging reorganization and headquarters move from DC to Utah, the U.S. Forest Service is shuttering more than 57 research stations and eliminating a significant number of forestry scientists.
https://ow.ly/HE8i50YCiQl
#ForestService #NationalForests
https://ow.ly/HE8i50YCiQl
#ForestService #NationalForests
April 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Hearing from folks! I know the FS has barred employees from talking to the press. I can keep your name and identifying details out of my story—won't publish anything without explicit ok.
Seems equally important I talk to researchers working with the FS, who can talk about what we stand to lose...
Seems equally important I talk to researchers working with the FS, who can talk about what we stand to lose...
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Exactly.
Forest Service leadership is being incredibly vague in listing locations (cities) instead of the actual names of what they aim to close.
It would be helpful *and demonstrate transparency* if the Forest Service would communicate the names of the sites, and total staff affected.
Forest Service leadership is being incredibly vague in listing locations (cities) instead of the actual names of what they aim to close.
It would be helpful *and demonstrate transparency* if the Forest Service would communicate the names of the sites, and total staff affected.
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities
Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil
www.science.org
April 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Exactly.
Forest Service leadership is being incredibly vague in listing locations (cities) instead of the actual names of what they aim to close.
It would be helpful *and demonstrate transparency* if the Forest Service would communicate the names of the sites, and total staff affected.
Forest Service leadership is being incredibly vague in listing locations (cities) instead of the actual names of what they aim to close.
It would be helpful *and demonstrate transparency* if the Forest Service would communicate the names of the sites, and total staff affected.
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Friendly House leaders are looking at next steps.
Let’s be real: USFS leaders assumed quiet diligence and results would be respected.
If your work is affected by closures— send a tip to let House leaders know the work you do at your facility.
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/contact/tipl...
Let’s be real: USFS leaders assumed quiet diligence and results would be respected.
If your work is affected by closures— send a tip to let House leaders know the work you do at your facility.
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/contact/tipl...
Report Waste, Fraud and Abuse | The House Committee on Natural Resources
House Committee on Natural Resources - Democrats
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov
April 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Friendly House leaders are looking at next steps.
Let’s be real: USFS leaders assumed quiet diligence and results would be respected.
If your work is affected by closures— send a tip to let House leaders know the work you do at your facility.
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/contact/tipl...
Let’s be real: USFS leaders assumed quiet diligence and results would be respected.
If your work is affected by closures— send a tip to let House leaders know the work you do at your facility.
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/contact/tipl...
Curious to hear what the reinsurance inducstry has to say about this....
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is facing threats from the White House. https://scim.ag/4pIZfei
Trump administration moves to break up leading U.S. climate and weather center
White House budget director calls the National Center for Atmospheric Research a source of “climate alarmism”
www.science.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Curious to hear what the reinsurance inducstry has to say about this....
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To understand this thread, you have to understand that NCAR's models like CCSM and CESM are just... everywhere. There's only so many computers in the world that can run these things, and one of them is here. Where do those data show up? bsky.app/profile/davi...
Another insane move from the Trump regime.
One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.
One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
To understand this thread, you have to understand that NCAR's models like CCSM and CESM are just... everywhere. There's only so many computers in the world that can run these things, and one of them is here. Where do those data show up? bsky.app/profile/davi...
'cause if you don't know something's happening, it can't hurt you...right?
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
'cause if you don't know something's happening, it can't hurt you...right?
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Today is our 12th anniversary! We started on December 14, 2013 with the simple goal of providing free-to-access, scientifically rigorous stories of Women in STEM, little thinking it would be a decade-spanning endeavor!
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #MathSky #ChemSky #NeuroSky 🧪⚛️🧠
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #MathSky #ChemSky #NeuroSky 🧪⚛️🧠
ARCHIVE | WIS Archive
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December 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today is our 12th anniversary! We started on December 14, 2013 with the simple goal of providing free-to-access, scientifically rigorous stories of Women in STEM, little thinking it would be a decade-spanning endeavor!
www.wisarchive.com/archive
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #MathSky #ChemSky #NeuroSky 🧪⚛️🧠
www.wisarchive.com/archive
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #MathSky #ChemSky #NeuroSky 🧪⚛️🧠
My friend and former colleague, Molly Phillips, is now selling her gorgeous nature art online. If there’s a nature lover or an art lover on your holiday list. Check it out.
www.silvaris-studio.com
www.silvaris-studio.com
Silvaris Studio | Original Art and Prints for Sale
Silvaris Studio - Ecological art celebrating the biodiversity all around us. There's magic in the margins. Stop, look closer, and marvel.
www.silvaris-studio.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My friend and former colleague, Molly Phillips, is now selling her gorgeous nature art online. If there’s a nature lover or an art lover on your holiday list. Check it out.
www.silvaris-studio.com
www.silvaris-studio.com
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
an ostrich with its head in the sand and the words " we 'll be fine " above it
Alt: an ostrich with its head in the sand and the words " we 'll be fine " above it
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September 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) Final Symposium lternet.edu/events/synth...
Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) Final Symposium - LTER
May 22, 2025 @ 10:00 am-12:00 pm - Learn about the 4 synthesis projects developed in LTER's new Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course. Carbon cycling responses across spatiotemporal sca...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) Final Symposium lternet.edu/events/synth...
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This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak. We write. We do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison
December 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak. We write. We do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison