The mesoscale assistant position is the “entry” position into SPC operations, if that’s what you’re interested in!

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

More news on AI2ES. Please help save science funding in general but also help save AI for weather! www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.

Welcome, @beeleung.bsky.social! So excited to have you join us! Not that I’m biased or anything, but our department just gets better and better.

DOE's embarrassment of a "climate science" report is 150 pages where as this response from the scientific community is 500. My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

Part of the application for currently open National Weather Service positions (since DOGE fired hundreds). They are now testing for political alignment (see question 3), despite the fact that the NWS is completely non-political. This is a job that literally deals with saving lives and property.

President Donald Trump issued an expansive executive order yesterday that would upend the process that the US government has used for decades to award research grants. go.nature.com/3UkQd9q

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking. *Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB. *"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." *Cannot "promote anti-American values" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

🚨🚨 I've independently confirmed with @NOAA that they received a late-breaking notice from @DeptofDefense that SSMIS data will continue to flow for the remainder of the lifespan of the satellites. I will be updating my reporting shortly. Here is the official NOAA statement 👇

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone from a science agency shares an unplanned (forced) early retirement or RIF. Lately it’s NASA & EPA. In spring, NOAA. I think people have no idea how deep this loss really is. I don’t know what rebuilding federal science looks like, but it won’t be simple or quick.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

faculty peeps: I'm looking for a chapter-length document that describes how extreme weather is changing; this is for my introductory climate risk class. Preferably, it should be open source. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Wow. Just wow. This is worth the read. We are fast tracking back in time so fast. Cases of mistreatment dismissed and agreements cancelled because “The OCR’s new view is that equity and diversity efforts discriminate against white students.”

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

‼️ Concern continues to grow for dangerous & life-threatening flash flooding in the same areas hit by last weekend's devastating floods, with localized rain totals >10-12" possible. WPC Discussion: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met... (Read the quoted posts for how the forecast evolved today)

The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds. It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

Not going to lie. I am very worried about what this means for our funding agencies. No matter what budget Congress decides, they could make work close to impossible for the programs they want to defund.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

No one asked, but my opinion on the Texas catastrophe is that you can issue all the right products in time but it remains very very difficult to get people to take water as seriously as tornadoes. Even more true at 4 am. Catastrophic when you’re dealing with a debris flow that’s like a tsunami.

WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.

Imagine coming from a war-torn country and you flee with your children to the US to seek asylum. You learn that you can’t get in unless you pay $100 for yourself and for each child. Whats worse is that it’s in US dollars, and your currency is worth less than the US dollar. How will you get in? 1/3

"With the proposed shuttering of AOML, HRD, and their sister cooperative institutes, we could lose all tools currently available to estimate and forecast hurricane intensity. It’s a seismic blow to the arsenal of tools forecasters rely on to confidently deliver timely and accurate predictions."

Happy Monday! The interactive ATLAS and StoryMap of the 5th National Climate Assessment can still be reached on Esri servers at nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.com and storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0c8f... NCA5 will soon be at www.ncei.noaa.gov/nca2023/ after NOAA finishes security scans 🧪

Thankfully, it cannot be fully erased from the public, for an archive of the 5th National Climate Assessment can be found here: web.archive.org/web/20250617... 🧪

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Um…what?!

Well. It happened. Today we were told that our NASA proposal was selected, but they can’t fund it due to the budget cuts. Nothing like getting a congratulations and we’re sorry in the same email. Only 4 proposals were selected in the call out of >120. Please excuse me as I go throw things.

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

And the carnage continues 😞

Pediatricians standing up for their patients. And the rest of us. Take a bow.

I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...

Glad this is getting some coverage. I've already had to send over 20 emails and several phones calls about this, with no resolution yet.

Proud of Nikhil! He’s about to be a senior in our AOS program and I’m excited to see where his passion for this field takes him.

Climate.gov being purged: The purge spared two web developers, which Di Liberto says is a concerning sign. The contractor said: “My bigger worry, long-term, is I would hate to see it turn into a propaganda website for this administration, because that’s not at all what it was.”

Today at noon!

This is grim… What is the National Academy of Sciences even doing? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I'm tearing up right now, that was incredible 😭😭 Thank you to everyone who turned up to share their science, and to our amazing team who pulled this all off in ≈6 weeks! Call your reps --> wclivestream.com/act Give feedback --> wclivestream.com/next Love you all ❤️

I suspect someone may have already done this... I took the current NASA Earth fleet chart of operating and planned Earth observing missions and crossed out those recommended for cancellation in the President's budget request. It's disturbing.

Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲

Key component of this paper is that we measure overconfidence as a general trait. Conspiracy believers aren't merely overconfident in their beliefs (that much is obvious). We argue that people who overrate their abilities in random tasks also tend to believe conspiracies (particularly fringe ones).

We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

The National Science Foundation budget proposal would be a devastating blow to American science. 240,000 fewer people would be involved in federally-funded science in fiscal year 2026, according to estimates in the document. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

An Air Quality Advisory is in place statewide tomorrow as we expect wildfire smoke from Canada to move across the state. Another Air Quality Advisory is possible on Saturday as the smoke lingers.

The livestream had to be rebooted, so there's a new video link. Please share it, it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMa7...

Happening now, please tune in whenever you have free time between now and this weekend! #climate #edusky

This is pure cruelty. Being born in China is not a crime and should not be treated as such. I am so saddened by what our country has become in its treatment of others. It has become cruel, heartless, and selfish. This is not who we are.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵