in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

The major winter storm and cold outbreak in the central & eastern U.S. this weekend will be most notable not for record cold, nor heavy snowfall, but instead for very heavy ice accumulations that will cause widespread/severe electrical infrastructure and travel disruptions.

New preprint in Earth System Dynamics: When will the northern high latitudes become a net carbon source? We evaluate using policy relevant SSP scenarios including overshoot, explicitly representing permafrost🌳❄️🔥🏔️ ➡️ doi.org/10.5194/egus... @njsteinert.bsky.social @mathisoncamilla.bsky.social

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Some of you know I've taken a PT hospice chaplain job. It means I work with a lot of geriatric patients with different kinds of decline. And as Trump's condition continues to deteriorate, I've been feeling more and more that the GOP is guilty of elder abuse for not relieving Trump of his office.

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

Federal immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

How to get into nature.

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.

The lack of affordable child care is creating significant hardships for many families, new research finds, with 1 in 5 households reporting having to cut back on coverage or resort to less desirable alternatives.

📢 New study @natgeosci.nature.com on the global impact of wildfires on soil erosion @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @unibas.ch The 1st global estimate of post-fire soil erosion, accounting for cumulative fire impacts. @panospanagos.bsky.social @pborrelli.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

hey The Everlasting ebook is on sale for $6.99 wherever ebooks are sold (in the US)! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

✨I have a vacant 3-yr postdoc position in biogeochemical Earth system model development. If you're interested in geochemical isotopes and their use as paleoceanographic proxies, please consider applying. For any questions on the position, just get in touch✨ ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Whooping Cranes Came Back From the Brink of Extinction. Now, New Threats Are Converging on Their Texas Wintering Grounds development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species’ recovery www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

New paper out in JAMES (Jan 2026): “ClimaLand: A Land Surface Model Designed to Enable Data-Driven Parameterizations” (Deck, Braghiere et al.). I’m excited to be a co-lead on this CliMA land-model milestone. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Thank you to the Nome Nugget for reporting on our Strait Science Seminar! You can view the recording online. #AlaskaSky #OceanAcidification 🧪🌊🦑 www.uaf.edu/nwc/outreach...

Senate g House Approps are out with FY26 Interior, EPA, Commerce, Science, Energy and Water Development text after four months of the fiscal year have already lapsed.

The deadline for DOE's SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) summer 2026 program is in TWO DAYS: science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Ke... Are you an undergraduate interested in STEM? Apply!

Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?

📢 New paper! Improving how models represent Arctic veg ⬆️ ability to simulate C dynamics. Using obs from towers/chambers/drones/aircraft, we found better rep of heterogeneity=better predictions, bringing models closer to obs and highlighting key gaps for scaling (shrubs!) 🔗: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Woodworking: beloved by geophysicists

A funny thing about the #AGU25 American Geophysical Union conference last week was how many scientists and other environmental scholars I talked to, who, when the conversation turned to what we were reading for pleasure, started raving about how great @emilystjams.bsky.social's _Woodworking_ is.

A Christmas present for you soccer fans. At the @ametsoc.org Annual Meeting next month, I'll be presenting a FIFA World Cup lightning risk assessment. To do this, I've taken NLDN/GLD360 lightning data during the World Cup period 2016-2025. Here are the pretty maps. ⚽🧪 (1/6)

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @teamrat.bsky.social @aaberhe.com

Job alert: #postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils, University of Lausanne (CH). Apply by 5 Jan 2026 or position open until filled. More info: buff.ly/GEtpyAG

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I have had the great privilege of being a visitor at NCAR for the past ~3 yrs & can tell you that the people there care deeply about making community-driven & useful tools and providing climate & weather info needed for US and global decision-makers, and are just genuinely good & caring people. 1/n

This looks like a cool job... www.researchgate.net/job/1034278_...

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

@ncar-ral.bsky.social President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at #AGU25 Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists

#AGU25, Day 4

#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)

Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5

The comments on this are typical. Not all AI/ML is bad!

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

This would be devastating

More of what I'm up to at #AGU25! Stop by our Tuesday AM poster session to talk wireless data networking: how can we get increasingly large data volumes from remote field sites to the computing resources & people who need them, at the speed the science needs? agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

We're excited for #AGU25! Early Career folks DM or tag us with details about your posters and talks so we can share!