This morning I will be presenting the recommendations for a soon to be released editorial for the Journal of Emergency Management's Special Issue on Emergency Management Higher Education at the Emergency Management Higher Education Colloquium (that's a mouthful). Hope to see you there!

I have no sense of what is normal (perhaps it varies by discipline) but how many requests to peer-review articles are yall getting each week?

Was alerted to this today by @wesinjapan.bsky.social. Has anyone considered studying the phenomenon of people being elected mayor of New Orleans and then just immediately losing their minds. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

We are being set back decades and any opposition must be a movement to spend decades changing our trajectory.

I just learned that a man in our field just tried to pull some very sexist shit with me and a few other women collegues and y'all better pray for him.

Okay, so... I have written an analysis of the FEMA Council Report. The problem is... Are you guys up for reading 17,000 words on emergency management policy? Let me clean this up. Surely I can get this down.

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Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

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This is a nightmare. federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-reten...

It is ~weird~ that The Hill presents this request to GAO as a couple of democratic politicians asking questions rather than linking to the analysis done by E&E news that shows the exceptionally clear politicization of disaster declarations. thehill.com/policy/energ...

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.

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

Oh. Okay. Huh. I was picturing just a little boxing ring. That’s on me.

Incredible re-writing of history happening here…

I know everyone has already established this but… holy shit the ticks are bad in Maine this year. They are everywhere. 🫢🫢

I am doing a week on J6 for my Infrastructure Protection class. If you read the 800 page After Action Report and watch the hours of footage, there is no confusion about what happened and who planned it.

Asheville, and grassroots opposition to surveillance in our town, gets a lot of space in this article from @truthout.org! Including quotes from @patrickconant.bsky.social and @kimroney.bsky.social.

The way I ~screamed~ listening to this. Hamilton proves in this episode that he has no business running FEMA — he does not have emergency management experience, he’s a hot head, and has questionable ethics. The senate must adhere to PKEMRA and prevent his nomination from moving forward.

One of my students included a slide in the middle of their final class presentation on a particular disaster recovery “The Drama”. This is exactly what I expect from my students. Tell me the gossip, always. (Incidentally it genuinely was dramatic. Lawsuits abound!)

We have a new article out on looking back at what the past decade of congressional hearings indicates about how Congress thinks about FEMA. A timely article considering the recent release of the FEMA Council Report and the FEMA Reform bill in Congress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I’ve long thought that Don’t Look Up had a shockingly small cultural impact (for what you might expect a movie of that caliber and star power to have). This semester in my disaster film class only one student of 12 had seen it. They were in high school when it came out but hadn’t even heard of it.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

the fuck it will

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Why do so many people suck?

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

When people get upset with younger generations for posting videos in the middle of an emergency/ disaster I think about photos like this. You might not like it, but documenting your disaster experience is not unique to one generation -- we've always done it to the extent that technology allows.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

FEMA out of DHS and make it twenty years ago

We have a new article out on looking back at what the past decade of congressional hearings indicates about how Congress thinks about FEMA. A timely article considering the recent release of the FEMA Council Report and the FEMA Reform bill in Congress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT LET A BUNCH OF GOONS RUN YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES, GUT YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DISMANTLE YOUR INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE AGENCY.

It's genuinely surprising that Mark Wahlberg hasn't already made an Ali movie, tbh.

Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in the DRC and Uganda has been declared a PHEIC by the WHO. The highest alert lever it has. This requires swift a and multinational response. Estimated death count is already 80! No vaccine, no rapid diagnostic tests. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is so insane that it feels crazy to even talk about it. The scale is so hard to explain to people

Harris County Flood Control District is asking for extensions on flood mitigation projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars, putting their timeline (optimistically) at 10 years+ after the hurricane: communityimpact.com/houston/cypr...

Am writing out my analysis of the FEMA Review Council Report (this is a slog, it'll be a few days) and I just got to the recommendation to keep NIMS/ICS which made me laugh hysterically. Like, bitch! Yea, we better. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU PUT EVERYONE THROUGH LAST TIME. Sigh.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Unfortunately for me it’s Sharknado day in disaster film class. This movie gets worse with time, I think!! If you’re looking across the genre it really is an important piece though. So, I fear I’m stuck with it!

Despite all the AI-panic and flailing emergency management situation, my senior EM majors are pulling in some exceptional EM job offers for post-graduation. 🤘😊

This is exactly why Maine has to have ranked choice voting. It lets us all get our various protest votes out without fucking ourselves over. 10/10 recommend. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/13/o...

this is a great interview. hanage is one of the best outbreak communicators and you should be following him

My sense at the moment is that the FEMA policy situation gets really dicey really fast if we have a huge disaster before November.

Genuinely the best thing that could happen for FEMA would be to leave Bob Fenton in as acting administrator until January 2029. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A state EM director working for a Republican governor coming out swinging at the FEMA Council's recommended changes. thenevadaindependent.com/article/top-...

I’m going to shriek in the face of the next person who says to me, “yeah but at least Hamilton is better than Richardson”. WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO CHOICES FOR FEMA ADMIN!?!?!?