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Ana Vaz, PhD | she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸🐠 Hold the Line!
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Fisheries Oceanographer | Former NOAA probie | Passionate about open science, sustainability, gardening, my kids & chickens. Exploring nature-human connections in fisheries & science-based management. FirstGen all around **Views my own**
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Ana Vaz, PhD | she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸🐠 Hold the Line! @oceanana.bsky.social · Apr 12
Update that I was fired again from NOAA Thursday evening. Apparently "retroactively" to February 27.

NOAA is being dismantled. This will affect basically any human that breaths air and lives in this world. Speak up before it's too late.
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bluedotin.bsky.social
(The Atlantic) If you have a strong stomach and patience, an excellent story to read, first-hand, of someone taken for three days by Trump's ICE. It is hard to read. What has our country become? Tragic, depressing, hard to discuss positively.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 4
If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows: * National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar). * National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar). * EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar). The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.
July 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
What makes a country great in the 21st century is science, and it’s really insane to purposefully destroy its science enterprise.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
July 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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rarohde.bsky.social
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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zacklabe.com
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS. In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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santiagomayer.com
A Democratic Mayor arrested.

A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.

A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.

A Democratic State Representative killed.

A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.

We can all see where this is going.
June 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
At midday Eastern Time, we have a crowdsourced, unofficial estimate of just over 32,000 people attending No Kings Day protests around the U.S. so far.

Please join us and add more data as more events get going.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
No Kings Day protests unofficial attendance crowdsourcing
docs.google.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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fromthelabbench.bsky.social
A beautiful story and amazing science from @oceanana.bsky.social, former fish biologist with @noaa.gov, with a stunning visual by science artist Kayla Y Lim!

Read the full story on our website! @silencedscience.bsky.social silencedsciencestories.com/f/ana-vaz-fi...

#sciencematters #scicomm
Ana Vaz, Fish Biologist
From the time she was nine years old, Ana Vaz dreamed of becoming an oceanographer. She sees everything in the ocean as interconnected. She’s passionate about understanding those connections.
silencedsciencestories.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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costasamaras.com
Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.
May 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
oceanana.bsky.social
Rest in Peace, Pepe. You are a legend, hero and example to many. I wish I had a tiny bit of your courage and resolve, but not all of us can be Mujica, and I will do my best.
Thank you for everything.

Drawing from "The World's Poorest President Speaks Out" by Kusaba Yoshimi.
Figure from the front cover of the book " The World's Poorest President Speaks Out" by Kusaba Yoshimi. It pictures Pepe Mujica holding a chicken, surrounded by other animals in his small farm.
May 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
every interview with this guy makes me tear up
Fourteen other people live in small homes dotted around the chacra, many of them elderly. He does not charge rent. “We are a bit like an old folks’ home,” he said. At heart, he is still an anarchist – or, as he puts it, a leftwing libertarian. “I am half, or even a lot, libertarian – as a dream, as a utopia. If ancient man could govern himself, then perhaps one day, in the future, men can govern themselves again.” After a lifetime of militancy, at the age of 79 he has found a way to balance his idealism with pragmatism, to the consternation of his critics on the left. “A leftwing vision of the world requires you to imagine a future utopia, but one doesn’t have the right to forget that the most important thing for every human being is the life they lead now,” he said. “The fight to make today better must become your central task.”
May 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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stormscale.io
Unidata is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software such as:

NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS

They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
unidata.bsky.social NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · May 9
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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markdoidge.bsky.social
Continuing fossil fuels doomed to fail, despite what millionaire politician paid by fossil fuel states and companies says.
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
one thing that reporting this and every other story on DOGE that cannot be overstated is the degree to which @wired.com’s reporting has been positively vital and opens doors for others when we do our own work. eternally grateful to them for the amazing body of work
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Apr 27
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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zacklabe.com
Evolution of March #Arctic sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies during the satellite-era...

A summary of last month can be found from the @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...

*SST data set (OISSTv2.1) is only available since about 1982
April 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table

Today, they are arresting judges

Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
the arrest of a judge by ICE and FBI for such bullshit reasons is a Rubicon crossing moment. not the last, but a major one.
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · Apr 25
This brings the inevitable problem that the sitting judge he just arrested has to go in front of another judge now. What that judge does in response to such a blatant abuse of power will low-key decide the future of the country.
April 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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indivisiblewv.bsky.social
(1 of 4) Event #2!! Saturday, May 3rd, 10am - noon.

We are standing united with workers and unions in a peaceful protest at the Vigo County Courthouse. Bring your signs and your spirit and let's make our voices heard!

#maydaystrong #indivisiblewv #vigocounty #terrehaute #fooddrive
April 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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renatacorrea.bsky.social
Olha qq pessoa que foi criança pobre nos anos 90 só pode estar feliz com a prisão do Collor. Quem não teve um parente que perdeu tudo para esse homem? Tenho um familiar que nunca se recuperou.
April 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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oceanana.bsky.social
Terre Haute, IN
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About 200 protestors on the steps of the Terre Haute courthouse posed for group picture during the Shred the Project 2025 protest. It's raining so participants have signs, umbrellas and rain jackets.
April 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Imagine basing so much of your public identity on your adult conversion to Catholicism, only to be publicly dismissed by the actual Catholic hierarchy.
"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. Pope Francis was absent from Vance’s conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin. However, the statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”"
April 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
oceanana.bsky.social
Indiana MAHA protest. Healthy while gutting the programs that provide health access. And gutting science.
www.thestatehousefile.com/politics/jus...
April 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Cartography done in collaboration with @oregonstate.edu geography!!! 🙌🏾
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 15
NASA SVS is the source of one of my favorite movies to show students how CO₂ moves around the atmosphere. Tell NASA how important it is to keep this and other materials accessible. 👇🏻

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30515/
April 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM