This will destroy public research universities in Oklahoma if this bill passes and signed into law. www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...

NWC overlords have returned

5/10

This is a graph of the death of US science.

Great progress…now get it all the way through Congress this time

Some highlights: -Authorizes appropriations for five years for OAR’s weather labs and cooperative institutes, plus related weather research efforts. -Renews and authorizes appropriations for five years for VORTEX-USA. -Furthers HFIP, with a renewed emphasis on social sciences. (1/n)

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I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

@rschumacher.cloud on a state call this morning, talking about the crazy warmth we've been experiencing. The number of days Fort Collins has passed 60°F this winter, far surpasses any other winter!

The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors. We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.

storms like this are where CoCoRaHS observers really shine. There's truly no other way to get this density, quality, and richness of snowfall data! Browse yourself at maps.cocorahs.org?maptype=snow...

This photo is epic

Beautiful 5on3 kill

You can avoid Google's AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I’m seeing this a lot in different areas too (eg committee applications).

What a goal #USAhockey

REQUEST: I am looking to speak to an avalanche expert for a story about the Castle Peak avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada. I am located a few miles from the incident location and am hoping to get some background information about avalanche danger. Any recommendations appreciated!

Heading to the UK (mainly Scotland) in June for a fun trip - accepting any and all recommendations of places to visit and things to see!!

This bromeliad plant has been growing for what has to be two years. It is FINALLY starting to bloom a beautiful flower that will likely last for a year itself. What a fun plant to watch grow

The NCAR supercomputer facility transfer was announced a month before the NSF deadline to reply to a Dear Colleague Letter concerning, among other things, potential transfer of the same facility. The DCL is no more than a vacuous, performative gesture to make us feel like we have a say. #SaveNCAR

It has now been 31 days since the rain started here in Reading, and it has rained every single day since; the previous record of 23 consecutive days has long been smashed, with daily rainfall records going back to 1908.

me, interacting with every tech product I must use daily now:

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

That should about do it! #GoHawks

Soo…kicker for MVP yeah?

Nobody is even TRYING to get into the end zone

i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert. the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

MLB TV will remain $150 a season but look at this BS they’re trying to pull. You cannot “buy” MLB TV without buying ESPN Unlimited, but they give you a one month free trial, and then the hope is you forget to cancel since you don’t need ESPN to have MLB TV, only to initially purchase.

5/9

We know many of you are waiting for the application cycle to open for #SPOTTR 2026. We’re working out some last-minute adjustments to the budget and instrument suite (all good!). When applications open, you’ll read it here first! Watch this space!

AGU has an easy-to-use toolkit set for public feedback to proposed government actions. Now is a great time to respond to NSF’s proposed shuttering of NCAR. agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

outside and inside snowstorms courtesy of The AI #AMS2026

Packed house for the NCAR and Federal Appropriations Town Hall at #AMS2026.

Dana Carlis (NSSL dir) asked what Universities can do. Busalacchi suggested that all the 129 member institutions respond to the DCL. #AMS2026

Inspired by #AMS2026 severe weather talks? Don't forget to submit an abstract for the 32nd SLS Conference!

Join us this (Tuesday) afternoon at 4:30pm in 381A for what will most certainly be an excellent panel discussion on the future of the public-private partnership! We're really excited to have such an amazing group of panelists! 😃

We are releasing extreme weather bench today!! Come see our pair of talks on it. #AMS2026 Check out: ExtremeWeatherBench 1.0: A Flexible Evaluation Framework for Extreme Weather Events @ 106th AMS Annual Meeting ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...

Great turnout at the #AMS2026 AI and Tech mixer!

Weather nerds unite! 👊🦸‍♀️⚡️ We're so thrilled to be in Houston for #AMS2026. We hope you'll swing by our booth during the Exhibit Hall Opening Reception tonight and say hi! We can't wait to see you. Check out our events and presentations: https://bit.ly/4a9S0Xn

Prelim results of the GS-1340 survey (n=146) from #AMS2026 town hall. Respondents were asked how important it is for federal mets to have coursework in ___ (on a 5-pt scale). This interactive page breaks down answers by sector. gs1340update.org/GS1340_Surve... Spoiler alert: Synoptic won!

Standing room only for our FIG #AMS2026 town hall on AI and Data Assimilation (although admittedly we were given a small room…)

Love this summary by Paul Markowski of Roger Wakimoto’s legacy of mesoscale observations - “observing the atmosphere with purpose” #AMS2026

@nws.noaa.gov Director Ken Graham presented on NOAA’s modeling grand challenge at #AMS2026 this morning. He announced that the NWS is moving to MPAS as its modeling dynamical core, with his #1 moonshot goal being a global, fully coupled 3-km Earth prediction system using MPAS.

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

DO THIS!

Excited to see some familiar folks and meet some new ones in Houston this week!

...the dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. NSF is requesting proposals for "reorganizing NCAR's critical weather infrastructure," but nothing related to NCAR's climate portfolio. NSF appears ready to abide by the regime's plans. balancedweather.substack.com/p/breaking-p...

Signed into law today: appropriations for most federal science organizations including NOAA, NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the US Geological Survey, and the EPA. The bill passed without explicit language protecting NCAR. So, also today NSF wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter signaling...

What warm nose? Less than zero C up through the inversion here at OU for our CUSP-ARR radiosonde launch