Scott F. Jones, PhD
@ecophiliajones.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of North Florida | Coastal Resilience, Plant Ecology, Blue Carbon, Climate Change | Views my own | he/him/his
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Fieldwork brings me joy and a mental break from
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!
Nice day for a stroll
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Nice day for a stroll
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
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“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.”
Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
arstechnica.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.”
Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...
Steal this (updated) syllabus for Scientific Writing
I’ve just finished the 3rd go-around of my Scientific Writing course. When I first signed up to teach it, I was very scared, but now that I’ve been through it a few times, I’m quite pleased with h…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...
So proud of students in the WE ~ ECO lab, who presented their work last week at the ARISE symposium at UNF!
Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.
Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.
July 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
So proud of students in the WE ~ ECO lab, who presented their work last week at the ARISE symposium at UNF!
Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.
Very lucky to work with such kind, hard-working students.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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While I have everyone's attention, the genocide happening in Palestine -- in Gaza AND the West Bank -- is a crime against humanity.
Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.
Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
While I have everyone's attention, the genocide happening in Palestine -- in Gaza AND the West Bank -- is a crime against humanity.
Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.
Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.
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How disruptive are stateside/federal funding cuts/freezes, you ask? It's July 10th, and half my lab hasn't been paid and they're behind on rent and at risk of eviction. That's how disruptive. F this nonsense.
a cartoon dog wearing a purple hat is sitting in front of a fire .
ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a purple hat is sitting in front of a fire .
media.tenor.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How disruptive are stateside/federal funding cuts/freezes, you ask? It's July 10th, and half my lab hasn't been paid and they're behind on rent and at risk of eviction. That's how disruptive. F this nonsense.
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A thermometer doesn't give a different number if you're red, blue--or green. Nor does a hurricane knock on your door and ask who you voted for in the last election before it destroys your home.
Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!
Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!
Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A thermometer doesn't give a different number if you're red, blue--or green. Nor does a hurricane knock on your door and ask who you voted for in the last election before it destroys your home.
Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!
Experts agree: it's real, it's us, it's serious and there are solutions. We just need to implement them!
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Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
Support Sea Grant Funding – Sea Grant Association
sga.seagrant.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
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I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains.
And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.
And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.
By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains.
And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.
And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.
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This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.
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Commerce's budget justification for NOAA is up on its site now, if you want to infuriated
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Commerce's budget justification for NOAA is up on its site now, if you want to infuriated
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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When I started grad school three decades ago, we thought climate change was a future problem. Now it’s clear that the future is here.
Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.
Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.
June 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When I started grad school three decades ago, we thought climate change was a future problem. Now it’s clear that the future is here.
Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.
Even if people don’t care that those who’ve contributed the least to causing climate change suffer the most from it, they should care about fixing it for themselves.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
Quite dry in NE Florida lately, but the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is going off! Lovely to see these shrubs loaded with swallowtails and other butterflies while doing freshwater wetlands fieldwork on a salinity intrusion project at the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas NERR
June 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Quite dry in NE Florida lately, but the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is going off! Lovely to see these shrubs loaded with swallowtails and other butterflies while doing freshwater wetlands fieldwork on a salinity intrusion project at the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas NERR
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Do this today, please!
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Do this today, please!
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The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education.
As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.
In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:
As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.
In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:
Silenced Science Stories
Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.
silencedsciencestories.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education.
As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.
In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:
As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.
In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:
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RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.
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 6:44 AM
RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.
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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
Fieldwork brings me joy and a mental break from
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!
May 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fieldwork brings me joy and a mental break from
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!
Checked up on the northern most black, red, and white #mangroves in US yesterday and was reminded how little we know and how many folks are doing good work to explore our world!