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Good work everyone. Funding has been restored!!!
The Midwestern Regional Climate Center and the High Plains Regional Climate Center are back online.
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April 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Good work everyone. Funding has been restored!!!
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Let’s recap: Over the last two months, hundreds of probationary NOAA employees were fired, then un-fired and immediately placed on administrative leave, then fired again. This is not a way to build a sustainable workforce, nor maintain morale within the existing one. The cruelty is the point.
April 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Let’s recap: Over the last two months, hundreds of probationary NOAA employees were fired, then un-fired and immediately placed on administrative leave, then fired again. This is not a way to build a sustainable workforce, nor maintain morale within the existing one. The cruelty is the point.
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Shout out to Harvard for having some courage.
April 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Shout out to Harvard for having some courage.
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RIP Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) 😞
Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday.
www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...
Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday.
www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...
April 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
RIP Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) 😞
Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday.
www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...
Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday.
www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return
"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
“They’ll take your funding anyway.”
Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.
Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.
I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
April 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“They’ll take your funding anyway.”
Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.
Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.
I appreciate that you’ve held that hope in good faith, David, and I take at face value that you’ve done your best to uphold that ideal. Unfortunately, in tenure-ineligible, mid-career research-track academia, that shit would be as hilarious to believe 10 years ago as it would be today.
One of the most disheartening experiences for me over the past 80 days has been the shattering of the illusion I harbored that academia (particularly wealthy private institutions filled with smart people) would uphold and fight for the ideas and values we cherish.
April 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I appreciate that you’ve held that hope in good faith, David, and I take at face value that you’ve done your best to uphold that ideal. Unfortunately, in tenure-ineligible, mid-career research-track academia, that shit would be as hilarious to believe 10 years ago as it would be today.
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A decade of the lies and false promises common to abusers is a decade too long.
April 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A decade of the lies and false promises common to abusers is a decade too long.
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This is the absolute stupidest, most asinine thing ever. These people are terrible at management. Again, NOAA and the NWS are being gutted for almost no deficit savings while costing the economy and potentially people’s lives significantly.
April 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is the absolute stupidest, most asinine thing ever. These people are terrible at management. Again, NOAA and the NWS are being gutted for almost no deficit savings while costing the economy and potentially people’s lives significantly.
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Sick to my stomach knowing and seeing so many wonderful, talented, and educated people like Zack going through this right now. What a loss to this country and the scientific community as a whole.
NOAA just fired us, again 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
April 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Sick to my stomach knowing and seeing so many wonderful, talented, and educated people like Zack going through this right now. What a loss to this country and the scientific community as a whole.
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NOAA just fired us, again 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
NOAA just fired us, again 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
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Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.
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yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
This is amazing!!
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April 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is amazing!!
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Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.
Eleven Texas A&M international students might have quietly lost their ability to stay in the U.S.
The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks.
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April 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.
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The staff cuts at federal science agencies aren’t just costing us low-ranking scientists, who are the seed corn of our field’s future. It’s costing us the senior ranks, the people with decades of experience, the veterans, the mentors, the advocates, the institutional memory.
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The staff cuts at federal science agencies aren’t just costing us low-ranking scientists, who are the seed corn of our field’s future. It’s costing us the senior ranks, the people with decades of experience, the veterans, the mentors, the advocates, the institutional memory.
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As someone who regularly makes short-term (a few to several hours in advance) severe weather forecasts, I think that the greatest impact to forecast quality from this may come in that realm.
"The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models... When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found that radiosondes had the second-biggest impact on forecast quality, after satellites."
With fewer weather balloons due to government staffing cuts, forecasts may be less accurate
At least 10 sites have suspended or limited weather balloon launches, which used to occur twice daily, because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.
www.nbcnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
As someone who regularly makes short-term (a few to several hours in advance) severe weather forecasts, I think that the greatest impact to forecast quality from this may come in that realm.
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"The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models... When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found that radiosondes had the second-biggest impact on forecast quality, after satellites."
With fewer weather balloons due to government staffing cuts, forecasts may be less accurate
At least 10 sites have suspended or limited weather balloon launches, which used to occur twice daily, because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.
www.nbcnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models... When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found that radiosondes had the second-biggest impact on forecast quality, after satellites."
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From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future.
More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ
More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ
Science Helps You Thrive: Strong U.S. Scientific Leadership Raises Us All
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future.
More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ
More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ
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New Nature World View from @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com on the challenges that climate risk poses to the insurance sector.
When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up.
Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help.
But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.
When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up.
Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help.
But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.
Climate change will send home insurance spiralling. Here’s how to control costs | Nature
Insurers rely on sophisticated catastrophe modelling to estimate risk exposure — and as climate risks are rising, so are the costs for protection. Insurers rely on sophisticated catastrophe modelling to estimate risk exposure — and as climate risks are rising, so are the costs for protection.
www.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New Nature World View from @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com on the challenges that climate risk poses to the insurance sector.
When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up.
Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help.
But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.
When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up.
Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help.
But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.
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For those who wish to learn more about nisei Japanese translators and their crucial role in WWII, here are some resources. Read them before they disappear.
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Fort Snelling: Breaking the Code - Mississippi National River & Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)
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March 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
For those who wish to learn more about nisei Japanese translators and their crucial role in WWII, here are some resources. Read them before they disappear.
storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-sup...
www.nps.gov/miss/learn/h...
www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Comment...
www.nps.gov/articles/pat...
storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-sup...
www.nps.gov/miss/learn/h...
www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Comment...
www.nps.gov/articles/pat...
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My grandfather was a Japanese linguist for the US Army in WWII. He translated intercepted Japanese military communications for the US military.
Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵
Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵
March 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My grandfather was a Japanese linguist for the US Army in WWII. He translated intercepted Japanese military communications for the US military.
Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵
Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵