#AGU25 was tough this year (presenting canceled/unfunded work) but I found little bits on inspo from different disciplines, old friends, and new-to-me communities. Excited to reset and move forward this new year.

10-8-2025 2500 good humans (and critters) said NO KINGS today in Rapid City, SD Indivisible Rapid City 🐸🇺🇸 50501 South Dakota 🐸🇺🇸 #NoKings #SouthDakota #50501SouthDakota #indivisiblerapidcity #ibew #Antifa #indivisible

Movements of resistance in red states are deeply important and should be listened to!

The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Welp, once again, a grant termination has me thinking “is a PhD even worth it?”. Not sure how/if I’ll get through the program. Still feeling like I’m privileged and should be one to keep fighting for it. But also maybe science is fully dead in the US.

Who has Methane-focused favorite books? These have good chapters/sections. Gathering my materials for preliminary exams. Not pictured: Rodgers and other pdfs! I’d also take pdfs of these too! #methane #phd #atmosphericchemistry #pollution #emissions

The last few years have been full of bloody noses for me. I’ve been to a doctor and I don’t pick. This is my reality in Denver. #airquality #publichealth #smoke #denver

Just 72° for a high in Denver today- coolest high temp since June 8 (by a long shot) #COwx

If you have some spare change, consider helping a mom rebuild after the LA fire and medical hardship! gofund.me/5d74a330

Sometimes being annoying and whiny to politicians works!

Ughh I just want to feel good about chickens in my backyard but I’m afraid!!!

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

🌡️ Our 24-hour high/low at the Fort Collins Weather Station was 95F/74F today, marking our highest daily mean temperature (84.5F) that's ever been recorded. Records date back to 1893. #cowx @climate.colostate.edu

Sentinel 4 and GOSAT-GW have been successfully launched! New air pollution and climate measurements coming soon led by EU and Japan respectively Sentinel 4: NO2, HCHO, etc. every hr over Europe GOSAT-GW: NO2 & CO2 globally spaceflightnow.com/2025/07/01/l... www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/gosa...

Absolutely gutted today. Hopefully there’s enough data to prove the value of high precision measurements. The instrument was exquisite. #methanesat www.methanesat.org/project-upda...

The implications of developing nuclear weaponry are dominating the news. Earth science plays a large role in understanding nuclear development and its effects. 🧵👇

Hard to describe the immaculate hospitality of this year’s IWGGMS. As I discovered last year, this community is an incredible intersection of all my interests. Instruments, retrievals, emissions, old friends and new friends. Air quality and greenhouse gases. This all gave me lots of hope! ありがとう

I only follow sports if it’s women’s, nonbinary, or local. The Rockies being so incredibly bad is so entertaining. Coors Field has bike valet, don’t forget!

If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

Just turned in my final atmospheric chemistry paper. The class (profs and students) again reassured me that I desperately want to be part of this community (due to amazing science and people). So scared for how many of us might not even get the opportunity to finish given all the cuts.

The more fucked everything gets, the more convinced I need to get this degree and not give up/in. Check in on your grad student friends y’all. Now off to dissociate over odd oxygen…

We should be going forward. We have the technology to make better measurements. Air Quality IS weather. It’s on my weather app. (Obviously this impacts me immediately and my future career aspirations). spacenews.com/omb-suggests...

Post-finals reading list is being compiled. @carolinelenette.bsky.social

REPORTERS: Opportunity for media to visit NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center. When: May 6, 2025, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT. Details: noaa.gov/media-advisory/opportunity-for-media-to-visit-noaas-aircraft-operations-center

Talked to my mom about all my emotions today. She’s supporting queer kids in South Dakota. I couldn’t be more proud and fired up. Thanks Mom. 🥹

TL;DR I want to say thanks to all those NASA, NOAA and EPA people who have helped and inspired me. For those who think that cutting science is a good idea, please reconsider. Pic of me too busy measuring O3 to get a haircut. An opportunity (DEI, education, SMD, Earth Science) that changed my life!

Cars ruin cities in more ways than just running people over. Paris has reduced air pollution by 50-55% over the past 20 years through policies limiting traffic and banning polluting vehicles.

@noaa.gov provides lifesaving science, service and stewardship to the nation. #SaveNOAA is a group of terminated NOAA employees fighting for reinstatement to continue to deliver Americans these critical services. #SaveNOAA #NOAAStrong #NOAA #Science #Fed #FedEmployees #Federal #Layoffs

Friends getting out + protesting with your brothers & sisters is good for the soul. Proud this was us today in #Boulder @noaa.gov Pls get out + be heard! @standupforscience.bsky.social @cprnews.bsky.social @bouldercolorado.bsky.social #federalworkersarecritical 🇺🇸🔬💪☮️

Winter bike to work day is super easy on a work from home day. Luckily my neighborhood had waffles! #denver #biketoworkday

I think I’ve decided which print newspaper to support. There is so much nuance behind why she is scary and a terrible pick, not just “South Dakota doesn’t have international borders”.

New TEMPO aerosol products available from @noaa.gov include the UV Aerosol Index, a qualitative indicator of smoke & dust aerosols in the atmosphere, with coverage over clouds. This example highlights smoke from the deadly & destructive Palisades & Eaton wildfires in southern California in January.

Wanted to give up/cry all day. Luckily I’m surrounded by some pretty amazing students. Is lunching with peers a survival strategy? Sure felt like one today.

To be clear.

“Under represented biases due to polarization from diverse backgrounds.” There. An illegal project that is only about photons. My heart aches for anyone in social science or the like, semantically. 😔

Picked a bad weather day to ride the train (lots of lifts shut down for high winds). But I brought school work and don’t have to worry about traffic! Getting to the mountain was very slick! @amtrak.com @winterparkresort.bsky.social

The Colorado winter I love— silly bike rides and too many layers! Happy to see friends and sun.

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

Grant application, chosen career shift, etc…. What an exhausting week. Stay strong y’all!

Trying again to do a bus commute to Boulder tomorrow. This time driving to a park and ride 😔. The full bus/walk commute last week was miserable (gave up and Ubered the last leg). E/W bus routes in Denver are too infrequent & the FF was FULL at 5pm. Still too scared to bike (injury nervousness).

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

My heart breaks just a little bit more with each announcement.

This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST. We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it. Here’s our unofficial but functional copy: digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...

For those concerned about environmental justice, the EJScreen tool (which provides valuable mapping and screening data) has not yet been taken down, and the database can be downloaded. Act fast… www.epa.gov/ejscreen/tec...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

So now that he signed that executive order and doesn't understand basic biology can we just all come to the conclusion that gender is a social construct and biological sex is more than male and female pls and thank you 👏👏👏

This is how China becomes the global climate leader. The convicted felon Donald Trump withdraws us from the Paris Agreement and other climate change commitments, ceases financial commitments, and revokes the US International Climate Finance Plan.

Huge! Congrats to all the activists committed to making this happen.

Free cider at Westside Books today helped me push my cold weather limits! Bookstore, bagels, and baby hangs. I love my walkable neighborhood and proximity to family! 2025 is all about community for me. #DenverNorthside #walkable