Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Glaciologists are "kind of like one of those crime shows…‘Who Killed the Ice Shelf?’" A record-breaking glacial casualty gets unraveled today in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

October issue: Crop water footprint, Africa’s nutrient gaps, renewable-fueled plant factories, drought resistance in Korea, impacts of the China-Brazil soybean trade, environmental footprint of aquaculture feeds… and more! www.nature.com/natfood/volu...

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Realized that finding a gap in the literature is sometimes kinda like matchmaking. Like here's Researchers A and B doing their own thing, not talking to each other b/c they prolly have separate niches. Still, you see the potential in marrying their amazing ideas, so you basically have to play cupid.

a third moment of calm is essential today

I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS. We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement. hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine

After about one year in review, the dataset paper for the Caravan-GRDC extension was finally published. See: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/... I am so happy that GRDC was open for this effort and made some of their data freely available through Caravan.

Do forest recovery + higher soil organic C elevate production of dissolved inorganic C? No, because cooling soils + lower moisture reduce soil respiration. On the other hand, drier climate does diminish carbonate weathering + reduce DIC export agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

An unpredictable season, a crazy bunch of Faithfuls, and a well-deserved win. 👌#AzArulok

My cat as a ball tucked into my T-shirt stretched over my knees

State terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the defendant in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive last year, were dismissed on Tuesday, including one that had accused him of first-degree murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...

A stand-up comedian, a punk rock star, and a dancer walked into a bar. Sorry to other Traitors, but they’re maybe the best trio of Traitors across all international versions. They were always a step ahead, took risks, played their parts perfectly, and trusted each other above all else. #DeVerraders

Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future! We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought. Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

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After scouring Reddit forums, finally found a download link to The Traitors (France) S02 subtitles. Loaded a subtitle, and realized I got the link to FR rather than EN subtitles. HAAAALP.

New article! What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

⚒️ Article: Widespread changes to regional flood response were observed worldwide following three large explosive eruptions at tropical latitudes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

super excited to share that my first dissertation chapter is out in WRR! here, we operationalize the river corridor of a headwater Coastal Plain network into hydrogeomorphic features to characterize hydrologic connectivity across dimensions check it out here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

📢 Hot off the press: our new study in Nature, led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social, shows how climate change is redefining what it means to live an "unprecedented life"—facing climate extremes that would have been nearly impossible without human influence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from our #watermanagement and #hydrology group at #TUDelft just published in HESS: On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance. 🧵 -> 1/4 hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/...

Jia Tolentino writes some really funny lines. " On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

Why is the global hydrologic cycle accelerating, with increases in both wet & dry extremes like heavy downpours & flash droughts? Blame the increased water vapor-holding (and water vapor-evaporating) capacity of the "expanding atmospheric sponge."

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

Today I was looking for economic data in several places and came across #WDI. #WorldBank data in #R that allows users to search and download data from over 40 datasets hosted by the World Bank, WDI, Debt, #HCI , and Sub-national #Poverty indicators. Just install.packages('WDI') #Rstats

The moment that weather forecasting began climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-storm-...

Mama, Jason Derulo behind you

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Apparently some Excel users hate that the default text-wrapping setting is "overflow" instead of "wrap". I can actually live with that. But I always, always, always hate that Excel changes the YYYY-MM-DD date format in my CSVs. @microsoft.com

This thoughtful and beautifully illustrated book is about creating good scientific visualizations with Python & Matplotlib github.com/rougier/scie...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @jofhistgeog.bsky.social on how Spain utilized and designed water infrastructure as a colonial instrument of control: hydrosocial landscapes and state-making in the context of push and pull factors; religious communities, dams, and irrigation; and land use and agriculture.

Yes, he loves his box

earth science at NASA includes improving hurricane and wildfire prediction, just so you know

Gaza Strip: 98.5% of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms Food production cannot be reactivated without a significant shift in accessibility, safety, investments and support for local communities and livelihoods www.fao.org/newsroom/det...

Kinda hating myself for not checking the compiled PDF of the manuscript before submission (I know, I know). The portal messed up the resolution of the figures a bit when it converted the Word doc (cause it just wouldn't accept PDF). Hays.

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📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

Hydrology Paper of the Day @iainamalcolm.bsky.social on how instrumentation biases and sampling frequencies affect measurements: river temperature data from the Girnock Burn catchment, Scotland; mechanical and digital dataloggers; trends and resolutions; and seasonal and decadal errors in context.

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Another village wiped out by a flash flood/debris flow! 😱 View of meandering Bhagirathi river at Dharali village this afternoon, with a newly-formed delta by Khera Gad river ! 😲 🎥@shubhamtorres09

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