New AMS statement responds to a proposed OMB rule that would restructure federal grantmaking. The rule "would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to ... natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy." Read more: https://bit.ly/4awoYRO

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

View from the Newport cliff walk, summer 2025

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

Any photographer friends using the Foto app? I'm trying it out, I like the clean interface compared to Instagram. the.fotoapp.co/dmw.py

Seeing a "Summarize with AI" option by emails and instant messages from family members sure is bleak. Why on Earth would it be a good idea to make it a default suggestion to summarize a single paragraph of text?

Join our team! We are looking for a post doc in #Arctic #Antarctic sea ice remote sensing. For details and to apply check the Jobbnorge site, deadline to apply is 8th of May. #PostdocJobs #PostDoc

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

We're going to need to be careful moving forward as more and more junk ideas get polished up by AI agents

very cool work!

Last night was a big night for offshore wind: Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

"What books?" "There were no books."

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

The one upside of spring forward is that it's light outside later. Meaning I can bike commute without fearing for my life! #biking

Apologies to Matthew Bellamy, but “glaciers melting in the dead of night” makes me laugh every time

Newport cliff walk, last summer. Something about the assemblage of poses and the restless energy of the tourists makes me think this is a good candidate for a drawing or painting. #35mm #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography

Sure isn’t fun to write a negative review. I’d much rather help push along a study to publication, even if it takes a bunch of tries to get the author to correct issues in the paper.

Don’t mind me, just sitting in an airplane and crying to Contact (1997)

Here's a sneak peek at the output from the upcoming v1.0 release of the Ice Floe Tracker algorithm. What you're seeing is a month-long sequence of true color satellite imagery from NASA's MODIS instrument on the left, and then processed images on the right, separating out sea ice, water, and clouds.

Lucky me, I got to hold a 5-week-old puppy yesterday

When the Department of Education issued vague threats to defund schools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, we sued and now they're backing down. This is a win for students' right to a full and honest education.

But I only have an e-bike, a heat pump, and a hot-water heat pump! (All of which run off mostly renewable power.) Okay I also have some mRNA vaccines.

Recently developed a roll of film from summer 2024. Quite fond of this scene from Providence, near Moniker and Pizza J. Anyone recognize the DJs?

The Staff Art Show is a great event that Brown runs every year, highlighting artwork by staffers who don’t make art as their main 9-5. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

My toxic trait is that I accidentally write postcards on the way to the exercise bike

Started watching Fritz Lang’s “M” - such great characters and atmosphere.

Five classes from college: Abstract Algebra Medieval German Literature Natural Disasters History of Science, 18th-20th centuries Jazz Combos

Final reminder for the Arctic System Science Conference 2026: Abstracts are due January 31 at 11:59 p.m.UTC. Registration closes mid-February. The conference will take place from March 23-27 in Potsdam, Germany. Join the international Arctic science community! polarsystemscience.org/arcticsystem...

Stay hopeful, and speak out.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

Thinking about summer, the ocean, the light on the waves — certainly unrelated to how cold it is this week #filmphotography #35mm

Google search, Amazon retail, and various social media sites didn’t have to cajole users, scolding people that imagined future benefits won’t materialize unless they adopt a product that doesn’t interest them. People just, you know, used the tech. By choice.

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

Today’s the first day that Barus and Holley will be open to the general Brown community since December. Flowers and signs are still being added occasionally to the memorial.

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

Finding out that I was one of many 12 year olds in the early 2000s who ate up Dilbert comics, not knowing anything about office culture, and dropped it as Adams became more noticeably deranged. Great article.

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

Something special about when your musical heroes cover songs from your favorite bands youtu.be/Hc9oR4sd6t0?...

No, but you sent ICE here so we have to deal with it.

Going to the science museum always gets me excited to get back to the lab and learn more about the world.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech