Beth Tellman
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Beth Tellman
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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

Environmental science 52%
Geography 15%
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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
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

great research blog post by @lucasbelury.bsky.social regarding predatory lending and challenges for recovery in the Rio Grande Valley hazards.colorado.edu/news/researc...
Survival, Not Recovery: Predatory Loans and Flooding Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Policies that deny flood aid to residents who cannot afford to repair their homes have created a gap that predatory lenders have jumped to fill.
hazards.colorado.edu

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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I mean I knew amoc collapsing would be real bad but didn’t realize the flood exposure implications if it did until now…. #ams2026 intrigued to hear what my climate science colleagues have to say about this given I know the amoc collapse probability I think is hotly debated??

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NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure
www.nsf.gov
Read every word of this thread.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org

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I'm from the Biobío region,where devastating fires happened this weekend. Although Chile has progressed in DDR,still structural constraints(urban informality) define the disasters effect on vulnerable populations.Adapting institutional structures to face these atrocious events is crucial and urgent.

I will be there, and speaking at it! Hope to see you there too! organized by some rockstars like Hannah Kerner and @estherrolf.bsky.social so I expect it to be pretty awesome

The special theme of the workshop this year is “ML4RS: publication to practice”, focusing on bridging gaps between research and real-world applications. The submission deadline is February 06, 2026, and the call for papers is available here-> ml-for-rs.github.io/iclr2026/#ca...
Machine Learning for Remote Sensing
https://ml-for-rs.github.io
ml-for-rs.github.io

Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.

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the most Minnesota sentence you can possibly think of www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
In good news, your advocacy for science funding is paying off! Congress has just rejected the massive cuts to NASA's 2026 budget.

(Sadly, they didn't include a provision for saving @ncar-ucar.bsky.social but we use this win to keep fighting!)
You just saved NASA's budget
Here's what Congress rejected of the draconian cuts faced by NASA in FY 2026.
www.planetary.org

Ooo didn’t know about this gonna go see if it was recorded!!!
Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.
Colorado senators’ bid to save NCAR funding fails as U.S. Senate passes spending bills
“In the face of unrelenting political attacks from President Trump, we are standing together to protect institutions like NCAR that are vital to our state and our economy,” Sen. John Hickenlo…
www.denverpost.com

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I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens

All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
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
Eos @eos.org · Dec 18
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...
#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)

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!!!!

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!

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

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.
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
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.