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Jennifer Frazier, Ph.D.
@frazierarchives.bsky.social
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Engaging people with science to foster curiosity and empower decision making
Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, UCSF
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"Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which facilitates studies of the planet’s oceans, atmosphere, climate, weather patterns and other Earth systems."
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research
The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.
www.politico.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
frazierarchives.bsky.social
If you were born in the US between 1962 and 1989, you might need a measles booster (even if you were vaccinated).

@kqedscience.bsky.social that explains why.

I got my titer checked after reading the weekly newsletter from @lizneeley.bsky.social. Thank you, Liz!

www.kqed.org/news/1176791...
Hey Gen X and Millennial Travelers: You May Need Another Measles Vaccine | KQED
Some people born in the 1970s and '80s, before current measles vaccination guidelines went into effect, may not be immune.
www.kqed.org
March 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"While a lot of data generated by agencies, like climate measurements...is required by Congress, the digital tools that allow the public to view that data are not.

“This is a campaign to remove public access,"" @jessiemahr.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/c...
Science Data May Soon Vanish From Government Websites.
Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A great piece in the New Yorker on volunteer efforts to rescue the hundreds of thousands of government datasets that have been or could be deleted, featuring the Data Rescue Project (@datarescue.bsky.social)

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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You know that graph that got the world talking about climate change? It's based on data from a NOAA observatory that's on the list for possible closure....

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...
Mauna Loa Observatory’s Lease May End Because of NOAA Cuts
NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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How do we communicate uncertainty in #dataviz? See leading viz researcher @lacepadilla.bsky.social present at #AAAS this Friday in Boston!
#scicomm #sciengage
aaas.org American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · Feb 11
Attend Lace Padilla's topical lecture to learn cutting-edge techniques in uncertainty visualization and how to communicate complex data effectively! 💡

🗓️ Feb 14 | 1 - 2 PM📍 Room 311, Hynes Convention Center #AAASmtg: https://buff.ly/3WRtwLC
Promotional graphic for a lecture titled "Seeing the Unknown: Advanced Techniques for Communicating Uncertainty in Data" by Lorne Padilla at Northeastern University. Scheduled for February 14, from 1 PM to 2 PM at Convention Center, Room 311. Part of the Science Tomorrow series during the AAAS Annual Meeting. Features concentric blue and yellow circles and an image of the speaker.
February 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM