Amid the historic and ongoing record heatwave (which will continue for at least another week in this region), Colorado River Basin snowpack has unfortunately taken an unprecedented March nosedive. Given the pre-existing water crisis, this is a highly alarming trajectory.

A shocking amount of temperature records are set to be broken in Boulder over the next 8 days, including 7 daily record highs, the March monthly record, and possibly the earliest 90° reading, among others. The degree to which each will be obliterated is also astounding! 🤯 #COwx #Boulder #Colorado

The seasonal anomalousness, as well sheer spatial extent, of upcoming record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave is genuinely startling. This will be associated with, by far, the strongest ridge ever observed during (at least) any Nov-Mar month. #CAwx #AZwx #NMwx #NVwx #UTwx #COwx

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

What does it mean to govern platforms and AI in the public interest, not just for innovation narratives? Panel 4 takes a law + political economy lens. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765 #PlatformGovernance

🧵 First four Best Picture winners. Four very different films. All four in the public domain. 🎬 WINGS (1927) 🎭 THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929) 🪖 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 🌄 CIMARRON (1931) Choose your own Best Picture! 🏆 Watch them all ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 1️⃣/5️⃣ #redcarpet #Oscars

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: The table of contents from **A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency**, an incredible anthology edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social, which will be published later this year by @mitpress.bsky.social

Just published! On the Chicago School as a case of global sociology. Introduces a special issue in The American Sociologist on the Chicago School and its others. rdcu.be/e5Y0o

Data analysis lesson plan idea: the demography of $10 in coins (various denominations).

Breiger et al. in another brilliant inversion of conventional quantitative reason: regression is built from "configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases" not single variables. Open access for thirty days at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”