Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation
Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
It reads like a chapter in a distopian novel... sadly it could become reality.
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
Francis Sealey
Sandra Passchier
BREAKING:
New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion".
#standupforscience
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
Stand Up for Science!
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
Journal #reviewers: your work is very much appreciated, especially your acceptance of review requests from lower-tier journals, authors you do not know, from diverse identities and countries, and from research institutions that are less well-known. Remember this:
www.science.org/content/arti...
On the day the Joides Resolution is on its way to be shredded, we also find out about NSF's removal of ocean observation arrays; here is the update that was posted before a U.S. holiday weekend oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/nsf-...
“Matthew effect” is powerful, unusually large study finds
Dear OOI Community, As many of you may now be aware, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated a major descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. The official...
Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social
as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
Bridget Wade
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social
www.nature.com
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
Today, the legendary JR begins her last journey to the shipwrecking yard.
Home to many of us, she helped to understand plate tectonics, climate, deep biosphere, earthquakes/volcanoes, and was an integral part in international science and collaboration 🫡
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