I love how well every step is explained here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol_Q...

New York City was bracing on Friday for its biggest snowfall in more than three years. The area in and around the city was expected to get 6 to 9 inches of snow over the weekend, with up to 10 inches predicted in some areas.

maybe don't replace your office workers with LLMs, one just called me to tell me to bring "a valid photo Idaho" to my appointment tomorrow

This is pretty amazing: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... A basic language model (GPT-2 small) that runs in the browser, with all of its calculations visualized.

“He was the kind of guy who went up to the chalkboard and started writing out equations and explaining everything” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

Jumping Frog Radius xkcd.com/3181/

Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

Very moving documentary filmed over 14 years that follows three kids who grew up poor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbo...

There's some wisdom here: www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...

Nearly all weather, climate, & natural hazard research involves NCAR in some way-either directly (as is the case with countless affiliated scientists at universities or elsewhere) or indirectly (through use of NCAR's irreplaceable community datasets, predictive models, or its computing facilities).

I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Concept art by Lou Romano for The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005), created by Craig McCracken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons

We've gotten absolutely pummeled with rain in the PNW, but all that water is running right out again (through houses and farms and towns...). What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.

Here's the research: www.joinclassaction.us/post/the-use...

Me too! There's one that comes by my balcony every morning and its so cute and charming.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

adding AI hacker to my resume

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

"A squircle is a shape intermediate between a square and a circle." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle

It's today! Come to the Science Comics Carousel from 1-2PM for my visual exploration of thinking and perceiving. I do a lot of thinking about how we think about science! My comic BRAINS is a love letter to the brain and how thinking for yourself is beautiful. See you soon @massmice.bsky.social!

Why do math diagrams on wikipedia look like this? I can't imagine what the author hoped to communicate here.

They really don't write textbook introductions like they used to...

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

Top quality poetic opening

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

I am so thankful for this reporting, it has been so hard to explain to non-scientists how these changes have impacted us and this does a great job.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

@aatishb.bsky.social got me on the record. “My colleagues did an outstanding job to work their butts off to approve things.” I swear it's true. It's still true at #NIH.

The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Wanting a space that is more visually inclined but not instagram….so I’m trying Substack out! substack.com/@sharonleede...

“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter, California Regional Multiple Listing Service’s chief executive officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

I learned this folding technique yesterday, so I had to make something with it.

I have a newsletter that uses data to try to make sense of our messy, uncertain world. Let’s chart the chaos together! www.not-ship.com

"An impossible message is infinitely surprising, and therefore conveys infinite information; an inevitable message is completely unsurprising, and conveys no information at all." www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2025/11...

Some personal news: I've left my job at @upshot.nytimes.com. Grateful to have spent four and a half years learning from such brilliant and kind colleagues. I'm taking some time to read, learn, and work on my own creative projects.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

"Life is fast. Death comes so easily. If I just drift, in no time I’ll be an old man. I want to build a fun lifestyle. That’s what I thought. I want to build it." m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ylH...

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for the 2026 NYT fellowship, the Times program for early-career journalists. The Upshot is hiring a fellow, come work with some of the smartest & friendliest people in journalism. (May include ice cream walks to Bryant Park.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are. Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch... Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Enjoyed listening to this interview, highly recommend. Anil is such a clear thinker and so good at explaining ideas.

'Eagle Owl' - Yoshida Toshi, 1968. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Unlike other projects the Trump administration has canceled during the shutdown to punish Democratic-leaning places, disruption to SNAP will touch every corner of the country, including many communities that support the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

morning math: trying to understand shallow neural networks

Relates to a @rhettallain.bsky.social quote I've always liked: confusion is the sweat of learning.