Abby B (they/them)
@ab-is-rad.bsky.social
aquatic biogeochemistry PhD student, geographer by training.😷🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://sites.google.com/view/abby-m-beilman
https://sites.google.com/view/abby-m-beilman
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Moving over to bluesky from twitter/x!
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
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This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
Penn to ban trans athletes, ending Thomas case
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
spr.ly
July 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.
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The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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The National Climate Assessment sites all went dark today after the Trump administration announced in April that it would allow the main contract supporting the report to expire.
With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.
With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.
Trump Administration Cuts Funding and Staff for Flagship Climate Report
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The National Climate Assessment sites all went dark today after the Trump administration announced in April that it would allow the main contract supporting the report to expire.
With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.
With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.
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It's only Monday of the following week and...
❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.
❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.
June 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's only Monday of the following week and...
❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.
❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.
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The US Global Change Research Program a next target of Trump's destruction campaign. My sources report that globalchange.gov will go dark Monday. NOAA is archiving the National Climate Assessment at NCEI.
U.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.gov
globalchange.gov
June 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
A progressively warmer day of field work - started with ice too thick to get through, ended covered in mud
February 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A progressively warmer day of field work - started with ice too thick to get through, ended covered in mud
I’ve been in R for too long and forgot the real world exists (googled stack tables to remember the syntax and got this)
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’ve been in R for too long and forgot the real world exists (googled stack tables to remember the syntax and got this)
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
A very cold first field work day of 2025!
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A very cold first field work day of 2025!
Moving over to bluesky from twitter/x!
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)
January 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Moving over to bluesky from twitter/x!
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)
I'm a PhD student studying aquatic biogeochemistry, with a background in geography - my research focuses on riverine/aquatic carbon cycles and factors that influence/mediate them.
In my free time I badly play a variety of sports (latest: roller derby!)