Beth Tellman

@socialpixel.bsky.social

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floods, satellites, maps, social justice, co-founder and chief scientist Floodbase and asst. prof University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder @umbela-org https://beth-tellman.github.io https://www.floodbase.com https://umbela.org mom. Pro-winter. .. more

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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Jul 8

Excited to share me and (part of!) the Social Pixel Lab has moved to University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Ill be joining new faculty also hired under the RISE-Earth cluster to strengthen sustainability science, ed and outreach at UW rise.wisc.edu/rise-earth/

RISE-EARTH

By investing in the next generation of faculty leaders through RISE-EARTH, UW-Madison will be well poised to make even greater contributions to sustainability research, education and problem-solving i...

rise.wisc.edu

Reposted by Adam H. Sobel, Flavio Lehner, Brian Medeiros , and 1 more Adam H. Sobel, Flavio Lehner, Brian Medeiros, Beth Tellman

Clarke Geagan @clarkegeagan.bsky.social · 3d

There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this:

#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Erle C. Ellis, John Fasullo , and 3 more Valerie M. Delmotte, Erle C. Ellis, John Fasullo, Dana R. Fisher, Beth Tellman, Peter Jacobs

Eos @eos.org · 7d

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.

One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.

Read more here:

eos.org/research-and...

In a large conference room full of people, the audience doesn't fit entirely in the frame of a photo. Nearly everyone pictured is standing.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 4 more Katharine Hayhoe, Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Christoph Bertram, Beth Tellman

Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 8d

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 8d

I really believe in the quality and value of all the science with and for society y’all are doing. We have to keep finding a way!!!!

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 8d

Filled with rage but also gratitude for friendship and colleagues. Jonathan Frame, Veda Sunkara, Khalid Osman, Heather Fischer, Jess Guo, Rohit Mukherjee, Zhijie Zhang, @lucasbelury.bsky.social , Brooke Cox, Jonathan Giezendanner, Seth Bryant… and so many more I didn’t get a selfie with!

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 8d

Just yesterday afternoon I was working with brilliant ncar colleagues to figure out how to make better flood risk maps with ai for the public. I’m sad I may not get to write and submit that proposal I think would have had a huge impact on science and society

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 8d

While I had an amazing #agu25 learning new science, sharing my own, and catching up with colleagues/students/mentors and friends I adore in fabulous New Orleans, I am so upset and unsettled by the new that ncar is at risk.

Reposted by Carlos Carroll, Beth Tellman

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote to my representatives @hirono.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social, and Ed Case to tell them to stop the dismantlement of NCAR. You can do the same with your representatives at this link.

Save NCAR from being dismantled today!

The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

agu.quorum.us

Reposted by James P. Collins, Beth Tellman

Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 9d

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9d

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 9d

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

bit.ly

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 9d

Social pixel lab past and some of present! Love hanging with these scientists! Maybe all my funding won’t get terminated this year and I’ll recover funding from the 15 grants I am writing so my full group can come to agu 2026??!? A girl can dream #alliwantforchristmas is my funding back

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 10d

and...for the correct times for our talks (last pic had wrong times!) use this for #agu25 for Social Pixel Lab talks!

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! Hope you are well! Been perma fundraising since I lost everything and a few things have come thru! Replaced 30 percent of what I’ve lost so far. Doing my best to keep folks employed and early career people at least going to one conference if I can!!!

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10d

“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits

Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

www.texastribune.org

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 11d

first agu in person since 2022 and first sans kids since 2019!!! so excited to be in NOLA presenting work from Social Pixel Lab along with Seth Bryant and Brooke Cox on flood mapping- and the latest from @floodbase.bsky.social too! see where to catch us below!

Reposted by Beth Tellman

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 11d

An important legal victory. If DOE is going to appoint a group of contrarian scientists to assist in efforts to repeal the Endangerment Finding, they must show their work to the public:
www.eenews.net/articles/jud...

Judge orders DOE to release records on climate working group

The administration said it will no longer fight a legal claim that DOE broke transparency laws to support repeal of the endangerment finding.

www.eenews.net

Reposted by Beth Tellman

NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 14d

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu

Reposted by Beth Tellman

Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 14d

🌍 Geospatial data science in 2025 still comes down to two words: foundation models. And over the past months, we’ve had the chance to put that idea into practice for global flood mapping.

Summary figures & discussion on Hugging Face:
👉 lnkd.in/euR9DXfX

Full technical preprint:
👉 lnkd.in/eYMCZd9e

Reposted by Mark Lubell, James P. Collins, Beth Tellman

Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 16d

The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Reposted by Beth Tellman

G.G. Reads 📚 Writes ✍🏾 Edits 📝 @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social · 17d

Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us.

From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe

Black-and-white photograph of a book page containing a prose-poem. The text reads: “All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones. A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair. A place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising. A place unchained. She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves. Do not thin yourself. Be vast. You do not bring the ocean to a river.’”

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Maksym Polyakov, Prakash Kashwan , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Maksym Polyakov, Prakash Kashwan, Beth Tellman, Clark Gray

Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 17d

This is pretty cool.

I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work?

interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

World's buildings mapped for the first time in high-resolution 3D map

Technical University of Munich researchers have just unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, a new 3D map that captures every building on the planet.

interestingengineering.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie Mueller, Suzanne de Cheveigné , and 2 more Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie Mueller, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Beth Tellman, Clark Gray

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17d

Climate injustice:

“…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”

Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature

Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.

www.nature.com

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Nov 25

When people ask me about the biggest challenges for ai- data centers is the answer. It’s not about some algorithm development challenge or something- all ai scientists should be freaking out that the methods we use are causing massive environmental justice issues and we gotta figure it out

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Nov 25

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Beth Tellman

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Nov 25

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today

UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More

today.umd.edu

Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Meredith Farkas, Beth Tellman

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Nov 25

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Jamie Morgan, Trevon D. Logan , and 9 more Lisa W. Fazio, Jamie Morgan, Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, Caroline T. Schroeder, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Brian Keegan, James A. Benn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Beth Tellman, Clark Gray, David Darmofal

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Nov 18

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption.
As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders.

Sincerely,
James B. Milliken
President

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Nov 18

The mural also shows the border wall along the Rio grande, the history of agricultural labor, the development of homes electricity education and other futures, the resistance and fight for better healthcare and labor conditions and wages. And so much more!

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mural outside the LUPE offices (La union del Pueblo entero) by Alexandra Ramirez and Norma Perez showing the valley’s history- you see depicted the agricultural and irrigation development- which shapes flood vulnerability today when the canals overflow www.texastribune.org/2024/09/19/l...

At this South Texas political convention, everyone has a voice, regardless of legal status - The Texas Tribune

Inspired by the work of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the biennial “cumbre” helps South Texans organize for political change.

www.texastribune.org

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Nov 18

Always wonderful to spend time in the Rio Grande Valley with @lucasbelury.bsky.social reading the landscape grateful to spend time in colonias and with community based org ARISE grounding flood dynamics we see from space with lived experiences for the March 2025 floods and role infrastructure plays

Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · Nov 13

@mirelagtulbure.bsky.social I am really excited to see your terremind results!! :)

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