Karina J Nielsen, Ph.D.
@karinanielsen.bsky.social
Marine ecologist, ocean climate science, coastal ecosystems, policy, community engagement, always learning. Personal account, views my own.
Dark times.
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Dark times.
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For those who asked: this article is now temporarily open access for everyone.
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
For those who asked: this article is now temporarily open access for everyone.
An insightful article on NOAA's work in the PNW and the people who rely on it. columbiainsight.org/heres-what-w...
Here’s what we stand to lose from NOAA funding cuts - Columbia Insight
Lower catch limits for fish and compromised maritime safety are just some ways Trump’s proposed budget could weaken the Pacific Northwest
columbiainsight.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
An insightful article on NOAA's work in the PNW and the people who rely on it. columbiainsight.org/heres-what-w...
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After 239 days and 6,300 miles at sea, a mini-boat built by Lincoln County high schoolers through the Oregon Coast STEM Hub made landfall on a remote atoll in Palau. It was recovered by a local team in impressive condition! Read about its journey here.
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#OregonCoast #Oceanography
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#OregonCoast #Oceanography
Mini-research boat built by Lincoln County high school students lands 239 days later on Palau island atoll • Lincoln Chronicle
Mini-research boat built by Lincoln County high school students lands 239 days later on Palau island atoll
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May 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
After 239 days and 6,300 miles at sea, a mini-boat built by Lincoln County high schoolers through the Oregon Coast STEM Hub made landfall on a remote atoll in Palau. It was recovered by a local team in impressive condition! Read about its journey here.
bit.ly/43F2wmf
#OregonCoast #Oceanography
bit.ly/43F2wmf
#OregonCoast #Oceanography
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It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril
Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scary AF
To summarize, the AG’s position is that officers can enter someone’s home to arrest them, without judicial oversight, based on minimal evidence, and send them without trial or any form of due process on a one way trip to an inhuman gulag overseas from which there is no return.
What have we become?
What have we become?
April 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Scary AF
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Our weekend recommendation: Write, write, write! ✍️
The RCC writing competition "Tell the Untold!" is still ongoing and we are excited to read your submissions!
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
The RCC writing competition "Tell the Untold!" is still ongoing and we are excited to read your submissions!
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
April 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our weekend recommendation: Write, write, write! ✍️
The RCC writing competition "Tell the Untold!" is still ongoing and we are excited to read your submissions!
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
The RCC writing competition "Tell the Untold!" is still ongoing and we are excited to read your submissions!
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
April 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
“The oceans and atmosphere have no political affiliation, they belong to and serve all of us. What are these people thinking?”
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/04/19/g...
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/04/19/g...
Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | The destruction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
“NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research which is responsible for research on the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, climate and weather patterns, would be eliminated under the proposed pl…
www.santacruzsentinel.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“The oceans and atmosphere have no political affiliation, they belong to and serve all of us. What are these people thinking?”
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/04/19/g...
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/04/19/g...
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BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.
NSF scraps most outside advisory panels
Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.
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The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US
Here they go again:
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
April 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Here they go again:
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
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This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
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If you want to know how the dismantlement of the US government is going, there’s a website for that.
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
April 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
If you want to know how the dismantlement of the US government is going, there’s a website for that.
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
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NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down.
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down.
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
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We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569
If you can contribute, please consider doing so.
#noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569
If you can contribute, please consider doing so.
#noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather
NOAA all services (URGENT)
Services for NOAA will be going offline as soon as tomorrow night. (april 4th) Things affected to include: Claimed: research.noaa.gov epic.noaa.gov adp.noaa.gov ci.noaa.gov oeab.noaa.gov orta.research.noaa.gov testbeds.noaa.gov qosao.noaa.gov oss.research.noaa.gov eeo.oar.noaa.gov globalocean.noaa.gov cpo.noaa.gov seagrant.noaa.gov researchprojects.noaa.gov pier.seagrant.noaa.gov drought.gov noaa’s internet proving groundviz.pmel.noaa.gov global systems laboratory’s DESI 3....
forum.safeguar.de
April 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569
If you can contribute, please consider doing so.
#noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569
If you can contribute, please consider doing so.
#noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather
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Bill Burr is a self-professed "dancing clown"
Dear journalists / news media:
Get your balls back.
Dear journalists / news media:
Get your balls back.
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
April 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Bill Burr is a self-professed "dancing clown"
Dear journalists / news media:
Get your balls back.
Dear journalists / news media:
Get your balls back.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
When the government becomes a police state, no one is safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
When the government becomes a police state, no one is safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI.
View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
March 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI.
View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044