Heads up for the locals and anyone visiting, the Lebanese Festival is now the third biggest festival in #Miami and is an absolute blast with dancing and food and liquor (including arak of course) and you should go if you are here the last weekend of the month.

All the parsley in Miami drying for tabouli this weekend for the Miami Lebanese festival

School now closed through at least Thursday as local officials await the invention of salt

One other thing about the NOAA probationary staff firings—they were locked out of all systems one hour after the announcement from on high. No smooth transition of data or responsibilities. Remaining staff had to scramble to figure it out. Boats could not get safety inspection reports, etc.

For context, this is the graph for the long and short term loss of staff for NOAA southeast fisheries. We had already been losing staff gradually over time due to budgets not keeping up with inflation.

There were far more opportunities in the government than academia, at least in over the last ten to fifteen years, and a much brighter future as well, with enrollment decline.

I quickly learned two things when I came to NOAA. The first was that everyone younger than me was using R so I had free help if I needed it. The second was that if I avoided SAS, I couldn’t get stuck running legacy code.

Of all the departures this past year at NOAA—via the fork offer, retirements, etc.— the one that stung the most was the firing of people in their probationary first year. They have more modern skills than those of us who received their PhDs in the 90s and 00s. My whole department is in its 50s now.

PhD marine biologist turned artist. 40 years of T-shirts funding shark research. Guy Harvey's documentary premieres Feb 28 as FLIFF's closing night film. 🎬🦈 sevenseasmedia.org/guy-harvey-documentary-fort-lauderdale-film-festival-premiere-2026/

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Startling fact of the day: “Experts estimate that people who drink only bottled water may be ingesting an additional 90,000 microplastics every year compared to around 4,000 extra particles for people who rely solely on tap water.” wapo.st/4t0zc4s (Gift link)

Why does one of the Arizona basketball players have nicotine patches all over him

I’m gonna say this for people in the back row and I know it’s not gonna be a popular view, but I have been a federal employee for 16 years and I have seen a number of shutdowns and not once, ever, ever, as the party that instigated the shutdown gotten a single thing, but pain. Ever.

Do not care for this new what’s up thing in the top on the app If I want to post, I have a big old button to mash on the bottom right

I have noticed before that there are few places more enjoyable to watch Republicans get slammed than in the comment section of the WSJ

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ok shout out to FreeGeek in Portland (of course) for this newish Latitude with an screaming fast i7 and Linux Mint, I have a functional personal laptop again, the last machine was dying

We just submitted a journal article and our lead author died during the writing (he is still the lead) and it’s a great piece but this just sucks at the same time We miss you, man

OMG, are people really litigating this again, of course you can hate your country for the dumb bad shit that it does and also love it at the same time, this is literally the relationship that most people have with other members of their family

This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.

For context, this is the graph for the long and short term loss of staff for NOAA southeast fisheries. We had already been losing staff gradually over time due to budgets not keeping up with inflation.

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are they not monsters?

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Me when the announcers say that you should go for it here on fourth down and I said there’s no way Mario will ever do that and then Mario sends out the field goal unit and they miss

We had our holiday party last week because there were building issues in December and I’m hanging around the grill with a bunch of UM grads and I predicted that they were gonna probably lose by 14 or so and this was not a popular opinion

A sign of aging is getting overly excited about a fullback touchdown. It's me I'm aging.

Canes fans

man the problem with trying to explain to people why address level flood scores are so fraught is that i feel like i get backed into a corner where i have to start with like well what is knowledge really

Fire is harder - some states have readily searchable maps, like CA. Others, notably Oregon, are famously opposed. Have heard a rumor of an impressive new public US fire map hypothetically dropping next month though 🤞

The best set of tools for flood is from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. The fact that there are 30 is sort of the problem though.

Thanks for sharing, made a thread some month ago about this discussion: bsky.app/profile/nikl...

Companies projecting property climate risks don't agree on future, let alone historical risks. Limited (or fundamentally unavailable) validation data, different defensible assumptions, etc., This is exactly the kind of problem we offer a vision to overcome here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Economists will tell you that it is a tough time for people entering the job market. They can relate: It is the worst market young economists have faced in memory.

The Acrobats, by Alexander Calder, 1944, 📸 by @Bessex_Joshua

Like I think they give out the pass interference calls way too often nowadays but by current standards that is totally

Award winning photo "Carlos's shadow hits a ball" by Edgar Su www.skysports.com/tennis/story...

Theme of today’s NFL playoffs is “ former quarterback announcers who I cannot stand listening to”

I love grocery shopping on Saturday morning The store is basically a mix of staff, firefighters shopping for the department, and old men with their pants hitched up to their nipples

It is 54° in Miami and there’s a woman running around her yard in a bikini and how

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Heads up for the locals and anyone visiting, the Lebanese Festival is now the third biggest festival in #Miami and is an absolute blast with dancing and food and liquor (including arak of course) and you should go if you are here the last weekend of the month.

Same expression the Jets had when hearing this news. Anyway, welcome back Dante. #GoDucks always.

Do not unlock except for emergency exit egrets

What are the most aesthetically pleasing candy bar wrapper designs of all time?