The Livestream is in its second of 2 days, it has been amazing! Tune in to a continuous science-a-thon with great talks by brilliant scientists, hosted by other brilliant scientists. Plenty of audience Q&A. It's a really unique thing, actually. It'll be a document for history books.

The Weather and Climate Livestream starts today at 4pm ET, and I am the first speaker, at 4:20! I'm going to talk about my own career, how it was enabled by many great people, federal agencies, and intellectual traditions, and the public benefits of the whole enterprise. wclivestream.com

This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I wrote something about creativity in science. Why would one write such a thing? That's the first question the piece addresses. There's general reasons, and then there's my current weird personal quest... deepconvection.substack.com/p/creativity...

🚨 The Weather and Climate Livestream is back, June 1st - 3rd 2026!! We're streaming 50 hours for our future in the face of a new round of proposed budget cuts and attacks on science. Want to speak at the event? wclivestream.com/volunteer/

What is at risk without federally funded weather and climate research 🌍? Next week, join AMS President Alan Sealls and President-elect Rick Spinrad during the 2nd @wclivestream.bsky.social to Save America's Forecasts and find out. 📺 Watch live 1 June 6:20 PM ET: wclivestream.com/

My latest screed on the besieged state of U.S. science. I connect it to a broader phenomenon, namely willful blindness to the value of government-supplied public goods. deepconvection.substack.com/p/wrecking-t...

56. Administration fires National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation, presumably as part of an effort to erode the institutional structures that protect the independence of NSF

This latest entry closes out our initial survey of Sumner Crane's "Giacometti phase," his late teenage years. They depict mostly scenes from the family's bungalow colony in Woodbourne, NY, the Catskill region, but also a gritty NYC scene for contrast. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...

In this week's Sumner Files, more from the early-mid 60s, Sumner's late teenage years. He was strongly influenced by Giacometti, but these works show much more originality, maturity and intent than that. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

I began a substack newsletter mostly to write about artist and musician (and my uncle) Sumner Crane. But I felt compelled to make a political statement on No Kings Day. open.substack.com/pub/deepconv...

Sumner Crane's Giacometti phase, from about ages 16-18, interpreted in light of his later artistic influences. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

Jim O'Neill, Trump’s nominee to head the National Science Foundation, is unqualified, conflicted, and a threat to science. As a science defender, please urge your senators to require a hearing on this nomination. 🔗Take action: act.ucsusa.org/4smrGQL

The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.

What could make a scientist so obsessed with his dead artist uncle? This week, instead of writing about Sumner, I wrote about why I've been writing (and researching, and talking) about Sumner. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

In the late 70s, Sumner Crane did paintings on long pieces of wood. Their extreme abstraction mirrored the music of Mars, the legendary no wave band he was playing in then, and I argue they were influenced by Nancy Arlen, Mars' drummer & his partner in the prior decade. tinyurl.com/2kcrhjtp

This week's Sumner Files is a never-before-released interview Sumner Crane himself did, in 1980, with famous abstract expressionist painter (and his own former teacher) Milton Resnick! deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner... and audio at deep-convection.org

This picture, painted by Sumner Crane with no wave legends Connie Burg and Rudolph Grey as models, was based on a Dashiell Hammett detective novel; Sumner also painted scenes of the Irish landed gentry from the novels of J. P. Donleavy. Scenes from books, in the Sumner Files. tinyurl.com/mvc5xm8k

This week's Sumner files is an audio podcast interview with Weasel Walter! Weasel's own music merges "extreme rock forms and free jazz," but he's also a scholar who knows more about no wave than just about anyone. It was an honor and a pleasure. deep-convection.org/2026/02/15/t...

This image is detective novelist Dashiell Hammett, painted by Sumner Crane on a piece of cardboard. Portraits, in this week's Sumner Files. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

The joy of victory, the agony of defeat, and some quieter moments too. Sports scenes, painted in the early 1980s. In this week's Sumner Files, the substack newsletter I've been writing about my late uncle, the artist Sumner Crane. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

In this week's Sumner Files, two paintings of the block where #sumnercrane lived from around 1978-86. I use them as a prompt to reconstruct some of his life, relationships and art during this period, a particularly fertile one for him. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

In this week's Sumner Files: urban landscapes from lower Manhattan, painted in the early/mid 80s, the last years in which #sumnercrane lived in the borough. Diverse in light, color and perspective, by turns sweeping, intimate, and gritty. tinyurl.com/2kkknkm8

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Important opportunity to help save climate and weather science. From the fantastic group who brought you the climate livestream.

In this week's Sumner Files: zebra centaurs. tinyurl.com/j2fhhxbu #sumnercrane

A thorough investigation is being conducted of the deceased victim while the killer was exonerated by Noem before her body was cold.

EPA proposes to stop measuring benefits of environmental regulations, just industry costs. Seat belts cost car companies money. Pollution controls on coal plants cost utilities money. Water quality standards cost industry money. EPA says ignore the lives they save. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

It feels a little wrong to post about art at this time. But it's what's keeping me sane. So, here's the weekly Sumner Files, on a major #sumnercrane masterwork, dated 1989: The Shopping Centaurs. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this: #NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources

Our paper exploring the drivers of the November 2023 “Taylor Swift” heatwave in Rio de Janeiro is officially out in WCD! Take a read to learn more about the causes of this record-breaking heatwave and Rio’s emerging risk for extreme heat: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/6/1...

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar

Please write to your congressional reps about the NCAR budget cuts

Climate is simply a longer-term average of... weather. Climate change research is simply the study of changing weather patterns. NCAR has been at the forefront of weather / climate research and providing essential datasets for decades. It is one of the world's best training grounds for scientists.

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

Some perspectives from our community on what NCAR means to weather and climate researchers: "NCAR is quite literally our global mothership" @katharinehayhoe.com "I came to the US over 10 years ago for a postdoc at NCAR. It changed my life..." @climateflavors.bsky.social #SaveNCAR

Attacking NCAR is enormously self-destructive for America. NCAR is the leading centre in weather and climate research in the world. We Europeans often travel to NCAR to collaborate, discuss and learn. Hurting the centre will cause damage that is irreversible for years to decades with global impact.

Threatening to dismantle NCAR, our premier weather and climate research institute (apparently) because Colorado refuses to pardon someone accused of tampering with voting machines is a sad example of our current kakistocracy in action… www.nytimes.com/2025...

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR 12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center 1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign. More info:

This is an intellectual war crime. NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This week on the Sumner Files: the first new audio podcast episode in some months. I spoke to Arto Lindsay again, now in person, after we'd looked through the #sumnercrane archive (in which Arto is well represented, incl. drawings he did for Jack Texas) for a couple hours. tinyurl.com/4tt3f2wv

To finish up the series on #sumnercrane and childhood, a few stories on adult Sumner's interactions with the children in his life via art. tinyurl.com/3jwv3ajt

In which I show drawings of musicians by child and teenage Sumner, and consider the confluences of music and visual art in his early life. bit.ly/48dE9yB #sumnercrane

Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

In which I show some of Sumner's childhood drawings. I consider the influence of comics on his work, and the way youth and age met in it, figuratively and sometimes literally. #sumnercrane tinyurl.com/4vdaacmc