Just saw this ad for AI "aided" figures. If our students have to read our diagrams, so should Reviewer #2.

"SFA Season 2: ABET Accreditation."

I'm in.

We totally need a dynamically downscaled WRF RCM battery over this area, like our former State Climatologist, Dennis Todey, wanted to do.

Wow, they proposed this?!? I have to wonder if CU's, UW's & OU's member reps were looped in? Sorry, this proposal is dishonest and violates the spirit of NCAR being run by a genuine consortium of schools from small PUIs & MSIs to R1s. We *ALL* are UCAR.

"Governor Noem praised for avoiding conflicts of interest by sending open-bid contract IP developed by SD-based firms to out-of-state companies with no links to the state."

Same way as the rest of the weather & climate science community did. (It was this ☟ or the Mayflower)

The disinformation campaign continues: "The Strategy Group," Kristi Noem's crony company she's sent money through, has never been located in or affiliated with South Dakota. Stop spreading misinformation designed to drive a wedge between town and country Blue. /1

Scientifically proven, even! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Another colorful Wet Flash Day for the pan. And while I'm here, our on-campus weather outreach display (we used to call'em map walls before they removed the fumes) is of course made possible from a grant by "NSF's" UCAR/NCAR's @unidata.bsky.social program, which is under attack by the Trump admin.

THIS! 👇. The same people who shrug off mitigation in favor of adaptation “all too often” ignore that adaptation is more than not building new stuff on a now-very-obsolete flood plain. They aren’t serious about either.

And now the Daycare Center Left begins looking for reasons to not vote for… uh… AOC. Can we stop pretending that we should court them to vote in school board elections, let alone mid-terms and presidential.

Next, our ground forces will be required to prop up the buggywhip industry to protect it from the unfair automotive lobby.

Climate Denialiats. “Intelligent” Designers. And Election Conspiracy Nuts. WHY is it always Chemical Engineers. #notMOSTChemEs

I think we now know why they wear masks.

Five. Little. Words. to 42 U.S. Code § 1983. That's all it takes. That and a Congress willing to pass it and overrule any vetoes: Just stick ‘‘of the United States or’’ before ‘‘of any State’’

I came home from #AMS2026 to a reminder of what our weather-ready campus will look like without NCAR.

This has been a difficult #AMS2026 meeting this cycle. But when I look at our students, I couldn't be prouder.

“WE are UCAR.” #AMS2026

If you throw in all the legos I can store in someone else's basement, you have a deal. I'll even stop complaining about HIRLAM's rotated coordinate framework.

Wow. It still works.

First day of 2025 vs last day of 2025.

“It’s only a model”

Tiny Tim never returned home.

NCAR is vital to our national economy, infrastructure, and security.

*THIS* is what the administration is trying to wreck by closing NSF-NCAR. NSF-NCAR is a unique organization: a national laboratory run not by a single university system or a private contractor, but by a consortium of universities, big and small (including mine). researchworks.ucar.edu

We knew they were morons but reallly. I’m pretty sure Congress will something to say about this even if it’s Jr High levels of “don’t tell anyone I voted against closure.” UCAR/NCAR has messaged its impacts on the US weather & climate enterprise VERY effectively to Capitol Hill every year.

When people insisted that voter ID was free & readily accessible to all citizens was shown to be a lie, it was clear that it was never about proving who you are at the voting box. So how is anyone shocked at how they don’t even want to use to ensure they don’t “accidentally” deport US citizens.

I comply with our university font policy like Veronica Lake surrendered to the Japanese. And then when management complains injustice laugh because they’re cheap and use Palatino. #OpenSans #MatrixIIExrraBold #002554

After @aaas.org’s gross “Citrus Oil” Science cover (seriously. ew.), they have redeemed themselves with a cover with which so many of us can identify!

Two survivors. In the water. Trying to flip a boat. That is also loaded with drugs. While flipped over. And still able to continue to the US. I totally want to see that beautiful bean footage. I bet they also knew how to perfectly fold a fitted sheet with a hangover and a stubbed toe.

For those of us facing the challenge of our students being too reliant on ChatGPT, CoPilot, LLMs, Clippy, etc., there's a new interesting paper by engineering creativity expert, David Cropley at Univ South Australia: There's an upper limit to LLM creativity, and it's... mediocre at best.

They'll never get rid of the dane.

Can confirm.

Nice to know that Black Hills Energy has its priorities right. #SouthDakota #PowerOutage #CascadingFailure #StillDark

I’ve tried dealing with with nuclear war anxiety by mainlining the facts since I was a cold war high school kid in the 80s. Threads, Failsafe, War Game, Day After, Dawns Early Light, and the lot, even Special Bulletin. This is probably the most intense of them all. Absolutely gripping and well done!

Lame achievement unlocked.

Yup. CJ woulf have said it better, anyway. Jeeze why do people believe everything on the internet.

Samizdat is now available!

Come and play with us! South Dakota Mines Department of Civil & Envir. Engineering is seeking a tenure-track faculty member for our program’s Environmental Engineering leg. We don't do silos, empires or boundaries; just lots of surprising avenues to collaborate! yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45345

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

I'm doing the traditional 2-layer Earth's radiation budget model in Stella, for my systems modeling class, where I break out my REAL climate doomer textbook from grad school! Back then, global warming was the BEST-case scenario. And all my students can say is "he hand-drew all these graphs!?"

Want to come work for the National Hurricane Center, #NHC? There are two new job postings that were just announced yesterday. The 1st opportunity is a position within the #Hurricane Specialist Unit, #HSU: GS-13 Hurricane Specialist Position -- www.usajobs.gov/job/845559000

Climate change is indeed a national security hazard.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

They’re attacking grants at my own engineering-focused university. It isn’t about “woke”“Humanagonies.” It’s about any method that endeavors to critically sees things as they are and can be. Dowsing the Comp Lit dept in honey & throwing it to over your shoulder to distract the bear won’t work.

Best. Emergency. Management. Film. EVER!!!! Finally coming to a big screen near me!! gkids.com/films/shin-g...

Never say we’re not already paying a Carbon Tax.

About damned time. This is NOT how people should be treated and the correction and build back is long over due.

Nothing like a big talker talking down to the state he wants to lead.