My guess: we will end up padding budgets with more institution-required line items like “facility use fees” to cover the shortfall. The bigger problem might be the cut to overall NSF funding

Our contribution to the special issue of Ecohydrology celebrating Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe is out! If you are interested in rooting depth check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco....

Anyone want to get on zoom and be accountability buddies this afternoon? Tell me what you have been avoiding working on and I'll do the same and we can knock them out together!

The 16th Annual (not-always-Berkeley) #CatchmentScience Symposium @johnshopkins.bsky.social Bloomberg Center pre- @agu.org 2024! With James Kirchner and @theoryofciaran.bsky.social kicking it off :)

Pylustrator offers an interactive interface to find the best way to present your data in a figure for publication. Added formatting and styling can be saved by automatically generated code. https://pylustrator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ #python

A lesson on the limits of ChatGPT I tested the AI on a classic fluid mechanics exam problem - and it flunked it When asked why it messed up it gave a fascinating answer Will be sharing with my students to teach caution in using LLMs to solve problems chatgpt.com/share/674389...

The Berkeley* Catchment Science Symposium is happening this year on the Sunday before AGU in DC🎉 Registration Link is here: symposium.brownpapertickets.com Keynotes from Ellen Wohl, Pierre Gentine, Matthias Sprenger, and Nandita Basu! Plus your pop-ups and posters. More info 👇

Haven't posted on here much but just got a bunch of new followers. Hi! Also, is there a name for the feeling when a bunch of people in a room suddenly start looking in your direction and you wonder if you just sprouted an extra head?

Tragically, Hari Rajaram died last Thursday at his home in Baltimore. Hari was a well-known and beloved part of the earth science community, and he will be sorely missed

I screwed up the timezones, so this will be starting at 11am EDT / 5pm CET So, starting in just under 2 hours. DM me for the link if you want to join. All welcome!

Wednesday May 29 I'm going to host a read-along zoom session of Jim Kirchner's new Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis paper Join as we read it together and chew the gristle! All are welcome at any career stage. DM me for a link. 9am-noon EDT / 1700-2000 CET hess.copernicus.org/preprints/he...

I just got asked to review a big, tough paper by someone I really respect. I plan on going deep and trying to really get to grips with the math and the ideas they represent. Here's my question: if I livestream myself doing that, would you watch and read along with me? 🤓 (there's a preprint)

Finally, the paper documenting our powerful StorAge Selection python package is out! mesas.py is designed to be highly customizable, numerically precise, user-friendly, easily installed, and supported by documentation gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

This Turing-like pattern shows up in the grass at my in-laws place in North Carolina every Thanksgiving. What do you think causes it?

I know Myers Briggs tests are kind of passé, but this is still spookily accurate: www.16personalities.com/profiles/int...

I want to be my dog. I am.

Hi, I am 43 and have advanced degrees and I simply cannot spell the word "privilege" correctly the first time. At this point I'm resigned to simply relying on a spell-checker for the rest of my life. God help me if I ever have to hand-write a DEI statement

I guess this means I need to follow more people? Tell me who I should be following, PLEASE

My feed on here is like 80% @scalzi.com content. I guess if you follow writers you get writing 🤷

Have spent the last 3 hours trying to get travel booked and things reimbursed and I truly, deeply, hate this

This is what I'm here for

OK! so are we doing this? Who's here? What's happening?