Allison Jacobel
@ajacobel.bsky.social
Climate scientist & houseplant enthusiast. Professor at Middlebury College.
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Allison Jacobel
@ajacobel.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...
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These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.
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We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...
wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign
July 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign
Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
scim.ag
July 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Keep calling, keep writing op eds - it's working!!!, but it's not over until the final vote!!
The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1
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June 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Middlebury College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is searching for a computational climate scientist to join the department on the tenure-track. More details here: apply.interfolio.com/169028 application deadline is 10/1
Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Proud to be (even just visiting) at an institution that is standing up for science and scientists! Thank you @colorado.edu and @instaar.bsky.social
Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...
June 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Excited to share one of my sabbatical side projects: virtual, interactive, field trips to Canyon de Chelly National Monument - part of the Navajo Nation. I made these for my Sed Processes & Environments course. Please let me know if you find them useful! www.ajacobel.com/virtual-fiel...
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I believe two things deeply:
1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind
2. Mars is trash
1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind
2. Mars is trash
The Curiosity rover is sending back some jaw-droppingly gorgeous views from Mars right now... Well done everyone on the camera teams|! Just look at this glorious detail and lighting...! Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson
June 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I believe two things deeply:
1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind
2. Mars is trash
1. Sending a rover to Mars reflects the best of humanity: thousands of brilliant minds working together to peacefully explore the cosmos and share what they've learned for the benefit of all humankind
2. Mars is trash
Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms
Thought this would be a great thread, so let's start one😁- what are your science autocorrect woes?
I'll start with neontologist =/= neonatolologist
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I'll start with neontologist =/= neonatolologist
🧪🦑⚒️
Dear iPad Autocorrect,
Please stop autocorrecting postyzygapophyses to postyzyapophysis. Postzygapophyses is the plural of postyzygapophysis.
Thanks,
Skye
Please stop autocorrecting postyzygapophyses to postyzyapophysis. Postzygapophyses is the plural of postyzygapophysis.
Thanks,
Skye
June 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Infaunal forams autocorrects to infernal forms
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I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors.
thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...
thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...
Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation
We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...
thebulletin.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors.
thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...
thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...
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Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
June 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!
June 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
To support NSF funding I've called both of my VT senators (where I work), the senators from MN (where I grew up), the senators from CO (where I live), and Senator Moran - Chair of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Appropriations Committee (KS). It's easy, join me & support the NSF!
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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.
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It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?
May 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?
Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work:
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Aaaand our worst nightmare just moved one step closer to reality. This is apocalyptic for the GEO community and our work:
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.
Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.
*GASP* 😮
We know, it's a big goal.
If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
*GASP* 😮
We know, it's a big goal.
If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
May 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If you aren't using your platform/position to stand up for science you should be! Don't let these cuts happen without a fight.
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This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.
May 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.
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5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
To reiterate another way: grants pay for people’s jobs. This has a direct link to our economy.
So excited that this important work by Kau and Pedro is out. Awesome example of a collab between the paleo and modeling communities. Proud to see our Line Islands cores play a role in such a cool result and excited to keep working with this team!
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We have a new paper on how increasing atm. CO₂ & warming global temperatures will "prime" the tropical Pacific #Ocean for more *frequent* extreme El Niño events! Our simulation is validated using Ice Age data when El Niño variability was weaker than today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We have a new paper on how increasing atm. CO₂ & warming global temperatures will "prime" the tropical Pacific #Ocean for more *frequent* extreme El Niño events! Our simulation is validated using Ice Age data when El Niño variability was weaker than today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Future increase in extreme El Niño supported by past glacial changes - Nature
A combination of palaeoclimate proxies and simulations shows that a common mechanism controls El Niño variation in cold and warm states, which supports expectations of more extreme El Niño occurr...
www.nature.com
September 26, 2024 at 12:24 AM
So excited that this important work by Kau and Pedro is out. Awesome example of a collab between the paleo and modeling communities. Proud to see our Line Islands cores play a role in such a cool result and excited to keep working with this team!
We invite abstract submissions to AGU24 Session PP024 - Oxygenation Dynamics in Past Oceans 🌊 for data and model-based reconstructions, innovative proxies, and studies on ocean oxygenation responses to global changes. #AGU24
July 1, 2024 at 6:50 PM
We invite abstract submissions to AGU24 Session PP024 - Oxygenation Dynamics in Past Oceans 🌊 for data and model-based reconstructions, innovative proxies, and studies on ocean oxygenation responses to global changes. #AGU24