There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly. The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

Our newly opened faculty position now has a flyer that'll be shared at the AGU Fall Meeting next week and the AMS Annual Meeting next month. Please share with your networks! This QR code links to the position details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

The Border Patrol's enforcement surge in Charlotte, N.C. lasted just about a week. Residents picking up the pieces in its aftermath say doing so is going to take a lot longer than that.

"The 450 hires for the NWS won’t even cover the full shortfall...Also, let’s not lose sight of the fact that even if NWS could hire 450 people tomorrow...there is little chance that they would have the centuries of experience held by their predecessors."

Maybe the danger isn’t that regulating AI will slow the U.S. down, but that failing to regulate will leave us behind countries that prepare wisely and avoid preventable harm.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

How are you feeling about all this fake AI garbage stuff? What worries me as an amateur science communicator is that it'll make so many folk - maybe even most folk? - so cynical about everything they see that they assume EVERYTHING that surprises them is confected nonsense... 1/

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

It’s deep in the Daily Nebraskan article but TL:DR. Nebraska regents are idiots.

An incredibly tragic and short-sighted decision. 🤬

The decimation of science continues www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

Publication charges

🚨 New job alert! 🚨 Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences! Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”

A new study tested AI chatbots by prompting them with popular misinformation topics while varying how the prompts were framed. They found that framing mattered: prompts that were creative, closed-minded, or written from an expert’s point of view made the models less likely to issue a correction.

I dare you to find a sweeter, more amazing set of grad students than the ones I have the privilege of mentoring! Even without such thoughtful gifts, I know I'm definitely the lucky one ❤️

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Hope today feels kind to you. 😽🤍

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

JUST IN: Border Patrol is preparing to end its immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, nearly a week after the agency first deployed agents to the state’s most populated city, two officials at DHS tell NBC News.

The @dtc-community.bsky.social just released a new call for visitor program proposals targeted at early-career scientists and grad students. The focus is on advancing hierarchical system development principles for NOAA’s modeling systems (which can include MPAS)! dtcenter.org/visitor-prog...

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Why I hate writing, part 8 million: Spending most of the day "writing" and only churning out 3 sentences because my brain is fixated on crafting The Perfect Sentence™️ and Most Logical and Coherent Argument. I've tried free flow writing imperfect sentences and ideas and my brain flat out refuses 😭

Hurricane Melissa produced the fastest hurricane winds to be recorded by a dropsonde, verified by reviewing data at NSF NCAR! Hurricane Melissa’s 252 mph wind gust surpassed the previous record from Typhoon Megi over the Western Pacific in 2010, where a dropsonde measured wind gusts of 248 mph.

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

I keep thinking about this with regard to the National Weather Service. We're real accustomed to tornadoes and blizzards not hitting by surprise anymore. Don't mess with that.

What was the weather like on your birthday? Now you can find out! During the shutdown, I forced myself to stay agile in data science tech, like AWS, Google, and Open AI. I made a notebook that gets weather for the day/location of your birth, using multiple NOAA sources. github.com/jjrennie/bir...

If a judge orders you to release funds for hungry children and you continue to fight it, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate how you got there. No political leverage is worth corrupting your soul.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

ICYMI: another federal contract cancelation looks to mean the loss of weather observations from dozens of airport sites, mainly in NC and MD. As of this evening, observations from 15 of the 58 sites listed in an NWS notice of termination were no longer available. More: tinyurl.com/yp57f2ck

Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...

FWIW I have been doing data calls from the Aviation Wx Center site, and from what I can see, it looks like as of 2:30 pm CT 14 of the 58 sites listed in the NWS notice about this contract cancelation are no longer providing updated observations.

Undergraduate opportunity! 📣 The NSF SOARS program is open for applications! SOARS is an undergrad-grad bridge program focusing on promoting and supporting research, mentoring, and community. Learn more about eligibility and the app process: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...

A loss of FORTY-TWO (42!) weather stations in NC due to a contract cancellation. 🤬

Now that #Melissa is behind us as a tropical system, we need to have an honest conversation about how the federal weather enterprise is still running because of volunteers & unpaid employees, and how this "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. https://tinyurl.com/2wk36686

Halloween costumes to scare scientists (by @twisteddoodles.bsky.social) 🧪

I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.

From the Aon October 31, 2025 Review of Global Catastrophe Activity comes this rainfall image for Melissa:

Throwback to last Halloween with my scariest costume and most viral tweet (tap to see full context)