Are folks in mainstream climate science aware of the large and growing number of VC-backed tech startups pursuing all manners of geoengineering approaches? The genie seems to be completely outside the bottle at this point.

Wow, my health insurance is legitimately going to increase by 20% next year according to the Connect For Health Colorado portal.

Watch a recording of the Brightband panel "Future of AI Weather" #NYCW2025: youtu.be/Yw8TJXt6lAU @juliangreen.bsky.social @brightband.com Mike Pritchard, NVIDIA @rabernat.bsky.social @earthmover.io Denise Pearl, Google Austin Tindle, Sorcerer MC @maeveallsup.bsky.social @latitudemedia.bsky.social

Hey folks, @brightband.com would appreciate your support for this!

Many thanks to AMS Editor's Award recipient Daniel Rothenberg for insightful and timely reviews! Learn more: bit.ly/48gR7vJ #AIforEarthSystems #PeerReviewWeek

Dumbest. Idea. Ever. I would imagine this would require Congress to repeal Bayh-Dole, but it's ridiculous that it would even be suggested out loud. Completely undermines our innovation economy. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

What's going on at the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Mesa Lab?

It's been death by a million papercuts to U.S. weather forecasts by the Trump administration, but yesterday's detailed 2026 budget feels like a deathblow. In today's @nytimes.com I ask: How far can we degrade our hurricane forecasting before people end up dead?

This is not a science budget. This is a massacre. thebridge.agu.org/2025/05/05/t...

In solidary, watching The Magic School Bus with my daughter this morning. The weather episode, of course!

Is it just me or is 90% of social media content (particularly on TikTok) about student loans? Like... I don't have student loans. No reason I should be fed this content through organic engagement. Gotta say, there's some _discontent_ out there right now...

Friendly reminder for colleagues at Harvard facing disappointing NSF news today - there's a pretty good law school across campus with an impressive alumni network. I seem to recall them also facing the ire of the current Administration. Perchance a coffee chat with a colleague to align incentives?

READ MORE: www.startengine.com/offering/acm...

I think I should start charging for prospecting calls. I respect the hustle for folks selling services to startups, but time is my single most valuable resource. If I politely reply that I don't need or want your service, please respect that - or be prepared to compensate me.

April snow showers bring May .... ?

Are sprinkles kosher for Passover? My daughter is worried her matzah+honey+sprinkles may break the rules...

Don't 👏turn on 👏 your sprinklers 👏before 👏 Mother's Day. All these front rangers watering their lawns already taunted Mother's Nature and now this? SMH.

I think the hardest challenge of working independently / leading an organization is being satisfied that you've "done enough" on any given day. It's like the early PhD phase on steroids - there's always so much to do, and priorities aren't always obvious!

Oh no, I just realized if we do end up moving to Erie I'll be 5 minutes further away from Buc-ee's :(

Words you probably never thought I'd utter in anything other than dripping sarcasm - "Great job, Harvard!"

Might need a CAPTCHA for future economics discussions with people: If on Monday the market loses 10% of its value, and on Tuesday it recovers 10% during the course of the day, then what is the net impact on the market as of Wednesday morning?

Running mate on a serious(?) Presidential ticket, folks. SMH.

nooo SNL stole my joke, I've been calling this Adminstration's trade policy a "tariff"-ic idea since it was rolled out on the campaign trail last year!

Bad Randall! This is supposed to be a classic PhD orals question! youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70?...

Had a really cool idea for a new NCAAM win probability forecast, similar to 538's, but using my own ELO-based model. Unfortunately there's a showtime bug and I doubt I'll have time to get it running this evening :( Maybe next year!

Agreeing to give an invited seminar on the first day of the NCAAM tournament may not have been my smartest move...

What is your soundtrack for the day and why is it a lo-fi/electronic re-mix of Claire de la Lune on loop?

Hmmm what was the third chapter of Half-Life called again?

I have officially survived one full week without coffee... it's probably been at least 15 years since I can say that. Not by choice mind you - post-op instructions from an oral surgery. Very much looking forward to that first pour over tomorrow morning!

This is _really_ cool. Really emphasizes the technical sophistication of @noaa.gov; we're no longer in the days where the GFS was hard-coded to run on one HPC system on a super specific schedule. This complexity rivals - if not exceeds - what many private weather companies are doing.

Thank you, @ametsoc.org, for speaking up on behalf of the entire Weather Enterprise. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Would love to chat with the folks who were looking at NOAA weather data access... can anyone hook me up with a contact?

An open letter to our fellow meteorologists and climate scientists from our Department Head, Steve Nesbitt

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Bold move laying off folks at NOAA / NWS a few days before the first major severe weather outbreak of the year...

It's hard to overstate how dramatically pixi.sh and github.com/astral-sh/uv improve Python environment management. I've nearly entirely eliminated conda/mamba from my toolkit - and on the rare occasion I need one, I can trivially generate an environment from pixi.

Wtf is going on with the algorithm on Twitter? This morning it started shoving quite a bit of vile antisemetic content into my feed. Way, way beyond the bit that creeps into the typical right wing zeitgeist.

Are we really doing birtherism again?

Seems like an awfully relevant thing that should've been disclosed...

I mean, how are we supposed to respond to shitposts from the freaking official White House Twitter account? Seriously - what is the point other than antagonizing and pissing off 30% of the country (30-31-39 D-R-N/V in '25 election)? The post-rational/post-truth era is so freaking annoying.

To the dude open-carrying at Chick-Fil-A today... like, why?

Friends in colleagues near/around Louisville, KY - the duPont Manual Regional Science Fair is still looking for judges to participate at the in-person fair on March 9. This is one of the largest regional fairs in the US and feeds directly to the ISEF. If you're in the area and can volunteer... (1/2)

Stumbled across a nice NAS report from 1999 on "A Vision for the National Weather Service" targeting 2025. Anyone interested in a reading/discussion group to review and compare with where we've landed in RL? nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6434...

I have a functional sketch of pyrcel (pyrcel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) re-written in JAX/diffrax. You can do all sorts of cool things with such an end-to-end differentiable adiabatic cloud parcel model. So I should pull an all-nighter and re-write the model core for a v1.4 or v2.0 release, right?

My favorite part about paying doctors' bills is seeing how when they screw up the insurance claim, they charge me personally between 4x-10x what they ultimately charge the insurer once it's fixed. And no, it shouldn't cost $300 for 10 mins to tell me my COVID test was (-) so I just have a cold.

Roses are red Violets are blue If you are within the yellow hatched area, there is a 10% probability of an EF-2+ tornado within 25 miles of you

I really dislike this epoch of American History where the folks in power have chosen to selectively forget what happened in the 1870's/80's and what the spoils system actually looked like in practice.

Infuriating.