I know everything is terrible everywhere right now (thus me mostly quitting the socials), but I hope people will check out this webinar on Wednesday on how to decarbonize apartments etc: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-buzz-o...

Hey all! How’s everyone’s apocalypse going? (sigh) Just dropping in to share a couple of events coming up that may be of interest:

Happening tonight! Or register for the link to the recording!

Hey y’all. Everything continues to be a mess and I can’t really look at the news. But in the interest of local action making us feel less hopeless, maybe people are interested in our next Sustainability Speaker Series webinar about preventing pollution runoff? www.eventbrite.com/e/cleaner-st...

Our schedule is almost full 🎉, but we could still use US-based meteorologists and climate scientists to speak in the overnight period on late Friday/early Saturday and late Saturday/early Sunday. If you're a night owl, or living in Alaska or Hawaii, we'd love to have you! wclivestream.com/speakers/

The presentations & panels at the "100 Hours to Save America's Forecasts" livestream today have been truly incredible. Check it out, it will run continuously until Sunday! I'm speaking about my NSF funded PhD research 2:30 pm ET Friday. @wclivestream.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR...

Happening tonight!

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress. The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.

Ha ha so the world continues nay increases to be a fascist dumpsterfire, but regardless I am looking forward to our next Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series event this Weds, discussing work to ensure equity in access to our coastal (+other outdoor) spaces www.eventbrite.com/e/waves-of-c...

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

The world is a fascist dumpsterfire right now, but in an effort to minimize my spiraling by focusing more local, please join us at tonight’s Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series event, with @christinatoms.bsky.social, for a discussion about wetland restoration www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-...

For some reason thinking of this today, who can say why youtu.be/IFAMpW0hPNY?... Overly-simplified context: in the late 80s, after 15 years of dictatorship, Chile did a referendum vote on the dictator Pinochet; ‘yes’ = ‘you can stay a dictator forever’, ‘no’ = democratic elections again. ‘No’ won.

I regret to say that I immediately flashed to some science papers I have read recently, where the authors confusingly use $50 words when $10 words would absolutely suffice, and probably make everything clearer :x

I guess I should start a new self-quote over here: it continues to be SO WEIRD how I always get review requests in clusters!

The way I see it, it took us ~20y to even get to where we got with the Paris Accords. Even IF we understood aerosols well enough to robustly say it would help & not harm, it would take ages to set up our human systems to do albedo mod responsibly. Whereas solar/weatherization/etc are *right there*!

This is actually my nightmare. (Have they also invented AI to read and process those crap papers with their AI definitely-brains? For whomst are they “writing”??)

It’s super covidy out there folks! If you don’t want to get sick (or get others sick), now is a great time to take precautions (masks, ventilation, outdoor stuff, avoiding crowds, the usual). And for the sake of others, please stay home (or at least mask up) if you feel unwell and/or test positive!

Y’all, I’m legit excited for this (even though they have been promising it at LEAST since I moved here… almost 9y ago). SO excited for faster service and also not having to try to hold my breath when I bike over a train (plume) on that Stevens Creek overpass! www.caltrain.com/news/caltrai...

My article with The Texas Observer is now online! The title means “return to the land of many houses,” which is our (Lipan Apache) word for home. In this article, I write about the rematriation of an elder (my relative) who lived in KÍŁÁÁHÍÍ about 750 years ago. www.texasobserver.org/lipan-apache...

I seriously know about 7 unconnected people who have/had had covid the past month or so (including a couple that tested - on rapids for 2 days before +). The wastewater values are ridiculous. Please stay home if you’re sick.

PSA for whoever needs to hear it: hepatitis B can be chronic and dramatically increases your risk of liver cancer and Asian Americans are extremely disproportionately affected. So if you can, get tested so you know whether to monitor it. 34 is too damn young.

Maybe I shouldn't say this out loud but I has been extremely frustrating watching protestors show they are willing to mask up when their own safety is at risk but not when it's for the safety of the disabled and immunocompromised. And now masks are gonna be banned because of it.

Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society

YMMV by location, but many places also have boards and commissions e.g. Sustainability, Library, Bicycle and Pedestrians… we love it when people show up so it’s not just us talking to ourselves. Although we appreciate less bullying energy, more Leslie Knope “people [constructively] caring at us” :)

I guess it might finally be time for me to delete my fb account…

Sooo anyone else going to be in the Austin area in a little over a week for ECLIPSE? (come on no clouds no clouds no clouds 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 eeeeee)

Design for people's needs not to replicate fossil intensive solutions to those needs. The universe of possibilities is so much larger than is usually considered!

I posted it on The Other Place but: if you’re interested in drought and atmospheric rivers in CA, come to this talk tomorrow night at 7pm PT! Should be good for the general public, and @catswx.bsky.social is one of the speakers :) I am maybe a little biased because I set up (a lot of) this series :x

I feel I also need to do a (for once non-covid-related) PSA for attendees of #AGU23: there are online poster sessions happening the week of the 22nd! Go check them out (all listed in confex). Brought to you by someone whose virtual poster in 2021 got only 2 attendees, one because I texted them :x

Come see my #AGU23 poster 2769 tomorrow morning, about water vapor and biomass burning aerosol over the southeast Atlantic. I will be the one in the mask with science cats on it!

#AGU23 #maskup #[especially since we’re now at the incubation time for people who caught covid on their flight in]

As someone who is still masking everywhere indoors (E.Specially at #AGU23) I’m really appreciating the life hack of joining the first morning oral session online from my hotel room while I finish my coffee, and then walking over when I’m done/slightly more awake :) Maybe hybrid isn’t entirely bad??

So now that I've sent my poster to the printer 🎉🎉 for AGU next week (A41K-2769, Thurs AM, smoke and clouds over the southeast Atlantic!) ... how does this place work for conference meetups? We don't say #AGU23 here? But, let's meet up (outdoors) at my first in-person AGU since the Beforetimes!

Hello world! Now, to find all the cool peeps I was following over on Twitter (RIP)