wray jones
@wrayjones.bsky.social
paleobotany phd student
LEAFF Climate Lab
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Always my fav chart from the GCB, and here's the 2025 update.
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Always my fav chart from the GCB, and here's the 2025 update.
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
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Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Here's my NSF GRFP OpEd. Who wants to publish it?
"Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."
"Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."
September 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Here's my NSF GRFP OpEd. Who wants to publish it?
"Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."
"Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."
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This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane.
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane.
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
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Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
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September 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
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I am recruiting MS students to join my research group at New Mexico State University starting Fall of 2026! Any students interested in late Cretaceous-early Paleogene fossil plants, terrestrial paleoclimate, Earth surface processes, or magnetostratigraphy, please reach out!
www.andrewgflynn.com
www.andrewgflynn.com
Andrew G. Flynn
www.andrewgflynn.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am recruiting MS students to join my research group at New Mexico State University starting Fall of 2026! Any students interested in late Cretaceous-early Paleogene fossil plants, terrestrial paleoclimate, Earth surface processes, or magnetostratigraphy, please reach out!
www.andrewgflynn.com
www.andrewgflynn.com
Museums matter, folks!
Really thrilled to have been featured in a recent newsletter from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's education department. They really fostered my love for science and I wouldn't be here without them :)
Really thrilled to have been featured in a recent newsletter from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's education department. They really fostered my love for science and I wouldn't be here without them :)
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Museums matter, folks!
Really thrilled to have been featured in a recent newsletter from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's education department. They really fostered my love for science and I wouldn't be here without them :)
Really thrilled to have been featured in a recent newsletter from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's education department. They really fostered my love for science and I wouldn't be here without them :)
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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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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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Scientists should say what is good science, not politicians. There's no way this doesn't end in a brain drain. Scientists will go where they can do legitimate research, not propaganda.
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration” 🧪
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration, a federal official told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Scientists should say what is good science, not politicians. There's no way this doesn't end in a brain drain. Scientists will go where they can do legitimate research, not propaganda.
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Federal grants are incredibly difficult to get because these tax-payer funded programs support the best of the best that US science has to offer (like NASA). Freezing funds will not only harm individuals & research projects, it will actively undercut American competitiveness on a global scale…
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 5:32 PM
Federal grants are incredibly difficult to get because these tax-payer funded programs support the best of the best that US science has to offer (like NASA). Freezing funds will not only harm individuals & research projects, it will actively undercut American competitiveness on a global scale…
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It is not too late to act on climate change because climate change is not pass/fail. Every faction of a degree matters and is worth fighting for.
That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.
That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.
January 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It is not too late to act on climate change because climate change is not pass/fail. Every faction of a degree matters and is worth fighting for.
That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.
That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.
Love my paleobotany pals :,)
December 14, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Love my paleobotany pals :,)