The Minibus Appropriations bill providing funding to NSF, NASA, NOAA, DOE, and EPA among others and support for government scientific research just overwhelmingly passed the House with 397 yes votes! On to the Senate.

I make an appearance in a new Washington Post video on AI for severe weather prediction. Check it out at www.washingtonpost.com/video/techno...

I recently learned this trick for getting images out of a Google Doc, so I wanted to share in case it's useful. File -> Download -> Web Page. Then unzip, and you've got a nice folder of images!

NEW: Mandatory evacuation order for the South Pointe neighborhood in Boulder County. Wildfire at 287 and Dillion (SE of Louisville)

Vegetation fire just southwest of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, CO near 287 and NE Tollway. Link: share.watchduty.org/i/74168?ts=1...

NSF also only gets a 3% cut and there is language protecting indirect rates. NCAR doesn't get any explicit mentions, just that the administration has to give Congress 30 days notice before any drastic changes.

sorry/you're welcome channel-6.ghost.io/simple-gifts/

Even after the news last week, we are still doing great research here at NCAR. My group has released a new paper, led by John Schreck, on arxiv about an efficient method for generating calibrated AI weather ensembles with reproducible scale specific perturbations. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18815

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

A really nice two-part article series from Ken Mylne @metoffice.gov.uk on probability forecasts just published open access online in @rmets.org Weather Part 1: doi.org/10.1002/wea.... Part 2: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

President Trump is delivering on his promise of retribution against Colorado for the state's mail-in ballots and refusal to release his ally Tina Peters from prison. The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.

Uhhhh, yikes ☹️ www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

Trump's Demolition Derby Continues - From USAID to the East Wing, and Now a Fabled Colorardo Climate Research Hub @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Woody Allen filmed "Sleeper" there in 1973, but this is no joke now. revkin.substack.com/p/trumps-dem...

Based on what I have been hearing about the NCAR situation, no one knew anything until the USA Today article came out. That means there isn’t much actual organization inside the administration to pull this off and a chance to fight back. Call your congresspeople today! Especially republicans.

NCAR and UCAR have released a statement. NSF has not provided any guidance to UCAR or NCAR leadership about this whole situation. news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-...

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Oklahoma's Tate Sandell is recognized as the Lou Groza Award Winner for the nation's best kicker! #CFBPlayoff x #BoomerSooner

I wonder why the official Weather and Forecasting paper on the latest implementation of the GEFS is still in Early Online Release and not in final form even though it first appeared online in August 24, 2024(!?). See journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu

Good view from the office this evening.

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings. www.wired.com/story/it-was...

🌄Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) applications are now open! Paid, in-person internships will take place onsite in Boulder, Colorado at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social . Learn more and apply: www.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

Clearer proof that neural networks can learn human interpretable physics concepts in their latent space: arxiv.org/abs/2511.20798

Celebrating a small milestone today 🎉 Our ML tutorial paper was cited 100 times. I am glad this work is out there, being read. If you haven't seen the paper or code yet: paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... code: github.com/ai2es/WAF_ML...

Why do you line up in the shotgun on 4th and 1??

Suuuuuuper interesting. And somewhat economically/financially terrifying. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

BUMP

Cowboys just had an incomplete pass due to stadium induced sun blindness.

Don’t forget to turn your Texas Milk horns down this week.

New paper provides more in depth proof of how and why ML emulators can outperform the model or data they were trained on. The inductive bias of the architecture choice can overcome the errors introduced by coarsening and discrete numerical solvers.

OKAY OKAY FINE, GOD 🌝 submit your THANKSGIVING DISASTERS to [email protected] do NOT submit it here, we won’t see it, sorry that happened to you (or happy for you)!!

lolll Oklahoma has a horseshoe up their ass

I was today years old when I realized that the Swedish Chef is a parody of Julia Child, “The French Chef.”

Don't do any of this.

Sunrise in 16 seconds. I sort of regret not doing the sculpted wave cloud to the west instead. Also, sorry for the small jump in the middle.

I could see the Aurora Borealis at this time of day in this part of the country while being entirely localized in my kitchen.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

It's great to see the big crowd here in Boulder for the UCAR Members Meeting. I will be at the CISL booth during the reception this evening, so please come say hi and learn more about all the AI work we're doing at NSF NCAR.

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

Whistleblower report on NASA funding from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Extremely excited to announce that I am the incoming chair for the AMS AI STAC Committee! Looking forward to leading our committee alongside @zhonghuazheng.bsky.social and @tropmetpie.bsky.social We are seeking new members to join the AI STAC, including both regular and student members.

I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)