Scott Winton
@rswamper.bsky.social
Swamp lover, birder, dad, Assistant professor in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz
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Scott Winton
@rswamper.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombia’s lowland peatlands — ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. 🌍🌿
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Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
July 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
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I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
July 8, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
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I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated.
And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.
And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.
I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule.
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
May 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated.
And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.
And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.
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From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
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Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Nice brief from @pewresearch.org about the ecological and economic importance of peatlands in the US.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
Peatlands Play a Vital Ecological and Economic Role in the U.S.
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that store more carbon than any other natural habitat. By removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trapping carbon from dead organic matter in waterlogged condi...
www.pew.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Nice brief from @pewresearch.org about the ecological and economic importance of peatlands in the US.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
Happy world peatlands day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw...
Venice Agreement Poem Read by Peatland Guardians Around the Globe
YouTube video by The Venice Agreement
www.youtube.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy world peatlands day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw...
My article is trending at Environmental Research Letters!
Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My article is trending at Environmental Research Letters!
Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
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Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...
Just went to an amazing seminar by @weatherwest.bsky.social at @ucscscicomm.bsky.social . This guy is a national treasure. Be sure to give him a follow if you experience weather and climate in the US west
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just went to an amazing seminar by @weatherwest.bsky.social at @ucscscicomm.bsky.social . This guy is a national treasure. Be sure to give him a follow if you experience weather and climate in the US west
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombia’s lowland peatlands — ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. 🌍🌿
🧵👇
🧵👇
April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombia’s lowland peatlands — ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. 🌍🌿
🧵👇
🧵👇