I started building a pre-CBS 1960’s homage Strat in the fall of 2023, and completed it this weekend.

We hear that protection of NCAR from breakup is in peril in the CJS bill - be sure to contact your representatives to ensure that they hear your support!

Good work everyone. Funding has been restored!!!

Let’s recap: Over the last two months, hundreds of probationary NOAA employees were fired, then un-fired and immediately placed on administrative leave, then fired again. This is not a way to build a sustainable workforce, nor maintain morale within the existing one. The cruelty is the point.

Shout out to Harvard for having some courage.

RIP Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) 😞 Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday. www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

“They’ll take your funding anyway.” Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.

I appreciate that you’ve held that hope in good faith, David, and I take at face value that you’ve done your best to uphold that ideal. Unfortunately, in tenure-ineligible, mid-career research-track academia, that shit would be as hilarious to believe 10 years ago as it would be today.

i’m refired!!!

A decade of the lies and false promises common to abusers is a decade too long.

This is the absolute stupidest, most asinine thing ever. These people are terrible at management. Again, NOAA and the NWS are being gutted for almost no deficit savings while costing the economy and potentially people’s lives significantly.

Sick to my stomach knowing and seeing so many wonderful, talented, and educated people like Zack going through this right now. What a loss to this country and the scientific community as a whole.

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

This is amazing!!

Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.

The staff cuts at federal science agencies aren’t just costing us low-ranking scientists, who are the seed corn of our field’s future. It’s costing us the senior ranks, the people with decades of experience, the veterans, the mentors, the advocates, the institutional memory.

As someone who regularly makes short-term (a few to several hours in advance) severe weather forecasts, I think that the greatest impact to forecast quality from this may come in that realm.

"The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models... When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found that radiosondes had the second-biggest impact on forecast quality, after satellites."

From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future. More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ

New Nature World View from @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com on the challenges that climate risk poses to the insurance sector. When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up. Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help. But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.

For those who wish to learn more about nisei Japanese translators and their crucial role in WWII, here are some resources. Read them before they disappear. storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-sup... www.nps.gov/miss/learn/h... www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Comment... www.nps.gov/articles/pat...

My grandfather was a Japanese linguist for the US Army in WWII. He translated intercepted Japanese military communications for the US military. Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵

As an 80s kid who was essentially raised by two WWII combat veterans (one in both sets of grandparents), with a grandmother who made small arms ammunition in the Lake City plant, I am INFURIATED on your behalf at this erasure of your family legacy, along with all other recent examples.

This supercell is only dangerous to your eardrums. #TexasSupercell #ScrimshawLabs #germanium #Rangemaster #pointtopoint #handmade #handbuilt #guitarpedals #vintageeffects #treblebooster #overdrive #tubeamps

For a short break from existential anxiety, my colleague Néstor Santayana (from the Uruguay Institute of Met) shared photos of a fall-season tornado in north-central Uruguay (32°S) from what appears to be an isolated supercell

If they had chosen to go with Gulf of Doom, I’d oblige.

Anyone in the weather space know if it’s possible to get all the obs from here as a .kmz file? www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/

Reproducibility will not be “good” if you only use ~5-20 shells per sample; planktic #foraminifera are unicellular organisms that have lifespans of a few weeks—much less than ~centuries-to-millennia represented by sediment samples (1/3)

Another day another louder-than-god point to point #germanium #fuzzpedal. Intentionally mismatched NOS Soviet transistors = bullet with UFO wings #guitarpedal #fuzz #pointopoint #scrimshawlabs #handwired

My take on the most underrated idiot box circuit ever, the original Dallas #Rangemaster. That brilliant shimmer on Brian May’s solos? All the cutting grit and bite on a Tony Iommi track? This is the gremlin responsible. #treblebooster #germanium #pointopoint #circuitart #scrimshawlabs #guitarpedals

#Houston funnel cloud near Telge and West Rd. earlier today (1659 UTC) #txwx #houwx

❄️ Happy solstice! ❄️

METAR xkcd.com/3024

I love science. I also love tube-amplified, louder-than-god electric guitars + designing/hand-building #analog pedals for even more loud. Like this Dead Conquistador, a raunchy, thick, #germanium #fuzzpedal commissioned by a good buddy. #guitarpedal #fuzz #pointopoint #scrimshawlabs #handwired

There's a lot of new folks around here and the AGU Fall Meeting is coming up, so I figured I should toss up my EXTREMELY-DETAILED decision tree on font use to help anybody who may be soon getting started on their talks and posters.

Interested in working on hazards and climate? I've got an opening in my group working with @ekianirad.bsky.social, focused on building tools that help translate research-focused modeling into action for the business. If you like creative problem-solving, give us a shout. Boston-based. Have a look->

Fabulous new data product - especially since it seamlessly integrates sea level projection + coastal flood frequency data in one place with nice explainers around it. Now whip up some maps of the footprints of minor/moderate/etc events and we'll be cookin sealevel.globalchange.gov/national-sea...

Current #earworm: Horses by Slomosa. An epic homage to the Kyuss/early Queens of the Stone Age sound. To me, it sounds like the (fitting) 2020s update to QOTSA’s If Only. “Don’t you know what that is It’s the sound of your horses It’s the sound of your success” 🤘🏽🤘🏽 youtu.be/P2yc_U2Chlw?...

50 years ago today was not only the nation's worst #tornado outbreak, but one of the most historically important for the innovations it spurred, the April 3-4, 1974 "Super Outbreak".

On this 50th anniversary of #SuperOutbreak1974, a reflectivity loop from the Covington, KY WSR-57 radar, showing tornadic supercells impacting Cincinnati and Xenia, OH. Though blurry, these images were used to save lives. 16 mm digital transfer from Dr. Ernie Agee’s archives. youtu.be/eCMS7jlLc54

Endorsed. Y'all definitely want to work with @kellyhereid.bsky.social !

Apply for the opening on my team working on disaster risk! I'll take my first pass through resumes early next week.