🌡️Have you been feeling the heat this week? Stay informed, hydrated, and safe! Dangerously hot days are on the rise across the U.S. according to this map from @cmshintani.bsky.social. This week’s extreme temperatures are part of a larger trend of climate change.

Python slithers to the top of the programming language leaderboard

AGU H3S invites you to submit an abstract to our session at #AGU25 Thinking Outside the Box Plot: Communicating Science Beyond the Paper! The session explores creative ways to communicate research. Conveners: @adischner.bsky.social @acarneiromar.bsky.social @gescilam.bsky.social Cee Nell Emily Ellis

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

#madison WI #NoKings

Doge is a failure that’s going to cost taxpayers more money in the long run. This is the study I referenced that found Doge will cost the gov $135 billion this year alone due to firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

The FBI began Pride month by asking Americans to report doctors, hospitals and clinics who offer gender-affirming surgeries to minors, claiming that those procedures amount to child mutilation.

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire. Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Very excited to share the newest (and my first!) post on the water data blog, announcing the next generation of USGS Water Data APIs: waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/api-wha...

Meanwhile, the President's budget calls for $564 million in cuts to USGS to eliminate research funding & programs that "focus on social agendas (e.g., climate change) to instead focus on achieving dominance in energy and critical minerals."

They left because they couldn't take the instability and the limits on their ability to work, and they could see the writing on the wall. Now, Trump is closing many of these USGS Water Science Centers that are essential to the safety of our nation.

Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?

For nearly 15 years the US Dept of Interior's Climate Adaptation* Science Centers have supported hundreds of scientists studying how ecosystems respond to climate change & pollution, invasive species, sustainable wildlife & wild lands management, and more. Now the admin wants to cancel them all.

Museum and Planetarium Friends, Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact. Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov). Thank you!

The current regime does not read.

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

Jazz up your ggplots! ‘Useful tricks to elevate your data viz via `ggplot` extension packages in R” Custom themes, fonts, annotations, arrows & more By the USGS waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/ggplot-... #RStats #ggplot2 #ggplot #Dataviz

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

The #scicomm group COMPASS is offering a free communication workshop on April 2 for current or former government workers - federal, state, and local levels www.compassscicomm.org/event/sharin...

Another dataset I like and have used extensively is streamflow and other river data from USGS. I don't know if another country has so much of their data online and accessible, but I've tried to get data for France in the past and it was not easy.

This one is a bummer. The Interior Department had only recently established a formal advisory committee on scientific integrity to ensure external experts were informing its scientific work.

Once again, the New York Times gives the dataviz community an opportunity to reflect on its purpose. Can everything be quantified and turned into a chart? Most important: what are the consequences of a chart? If words matter, charts matter too.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current @cp-cell.bsky.social

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

We have heard eOPF will go offline tomorrow (Mon). Take action now!

Caught up with a close friend from college today. She’s a world renowned astronomer who’s dealing with the federal funding bullshit like the rest of us. But that’s not even her main concern because as a transgender woman, her rights and safety are under assault. I hate these mofos.

From RyanZMorrodi on Masto: Plugging the #RStats {findSVI} package, which allows you to calculate CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index at various geographic levels using US Census data (which is still up, for now). Might be something we have to rely on in coming years. github.com/heli-xu/find...

For all the non-central valley folks, here’s some geographic context to highlight the absurdity of Trump’s Flows to Nowhere. Highlighted Kaweah and Tule rivers illustrate just how far removed they are from LA, w/ no connection to CA aqueduct that lifts water 1900’ over Tehachapi mtns.

Do we have enough water? water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water... #dataviz #rstats #d3js 📊

Illuminated contours of the Gulf of México. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W04 | Water Insecurity . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

Curator: @nnpereira @dslc.io welcomes you to week 4 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Water Insecurity! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-01-28 🗞️ https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/ #TidyTuesday#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Do you use the #rstats package dataRetrieval? We are looking for users to join us for usability testing. Your input will help shape the future of the package as we update functionality to serve USGS water data from new APIs. Interested? Email [email protected] github.com/DOI-USGS/dat...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Vizlab has just released a new, interactive data visualization website about the USGS National Water Availability Assessment Report and Data Companion. Explore the data and the key findings of the assessment at water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water... #DataViz #rstats #USGS

What a gorgeous, impressive array of Open Data for understanding how earth is changing! Bravo!

🌍 10 Ways to Bring Your Data to Life with 3D Maps Maps are no longer just flat visuals. With the right tools & data, you can create 3D maps that turn complex datasets into captivating stories. Here are 10 types of 3D maps you can create, the data sources you'll need, and tutorials to get started ⬇️

Earth is in flux…. see our latest #dataviz project coming from #USGSvizlab labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizatio...

Reproducible Data Science in R: Writing better functions Write functions in R that run better and are easier to understand. waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/rds-bet... #rstats #waterData

Microplastics in our waterways. labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizatio... #dataviz by #USGSvizlab

Reproducible Data Science in R: Flexible functions using tidy evaluation. Improve your functions with helpful dataframe evaluation patterns! waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/rds-fun... #rstats

come see me at poster 2328 talking at #climate #dataviz #AGU24

www.usgs.gov/programs/cli... 5k summer internship!

Explore how social vulnerability indicators—such as income, household size, and education—contribute to water insecurity in the Western U.S. 🔗: labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizatio...