The Trump administration moves to strip 50,000 agency staff of civil service protections & give himself the power to fire them without just cause. This... www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

Motherfucking wind farms…

Is there also a known relationship between increasing ice/freezing rain with winter storms and a warming climate, esp on the East Coast? Warmer air aloft leads to less snow, more ice and sleet, after all Something we've been speculating here in SW VA while stuck without public school...

Seen here on BSky but I like to quote it: "Microsoft doesn't have users, they have hostages"

I agree. Working on a new report on this right now. What happened in Atlanta today is significantly worse than it even appears on the surface. I daresay I no longer hold out much hope that this fall will be anything but utter—and scary—chaos. A free and fair election increasingly feels unthinkable.

"open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcher’s willingness to expose their work to scrutiny"

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.

I developed a new workshop, "Accessible Data for Everyone," for Love Data Week 2026. It's about making data accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574

Ice storms are worse than snow storms. This is counterintuitive to people who did not grow up in cold climates but it is 100% true. Ice is more dangerous to drive on, is more likely to bring down large tree limbs and powerlines, and is more difficult to see on the roads and clear from the roads.

I'm from the Biobío region,where devastating fires happened this weekend. Although Chile has progressed in DDR,still structural constraints(urban informality) define the disasters effect on vulnerable populations.Adapting institutional structures to face these atrocious events is crucial and urgent.

Lost Science: Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

To everyone organizing a metascience/open science/research integrity event: You know you are allowed to choose your keynote speakers from a pool greater than the same five people? Give early- and mid-career scientists a chance to shine (so you don't have to listen to the same narratives forever).

Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...

if the democratic party would like to see less hostile responses to their fundraising tactics, they need to rebuild trust with their base. that starts with new national leadership and stopping the predatory tactics that scam our elderly parents

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

They've decided to withhold the TANF block grant funds to punish blue states.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Great to see a position like this advertised

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

If you still think ICE is only after illegal immigrants, I present to you this story about a middle-aged American-born white woman who was tackled, cuffed, arrested, and had her wedding band cut off. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

#Zenodo now offers greater control over deposited records, with the option to modify or delete them yourself within 30 days. After that, requests are reviewed to protect citations and research reuse. 🔗 See what's new and how to use the new process: tinyurl.com/5x3c5dxd

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 5️⃣ Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research by @tobinmagle.bsky.social & Deb McCafferey #DataLibs #DataStorage #CloudFileStorage doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

In a sophomore meteo class the prof made clear our weather forecasts would be much more accurate with more upper-air observations, but we aren't willing to spend the $$$ to launch more weather balloons to do so. Many competing priorities in a government budget...

Nice to be noticed, though it was just a small part to play!

Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science. Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible! creditsurvey.sciux.org #OpenScience #ScienceUX

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science

I mean, this seems bad

They literally ruin everything they touch

Just answered a survey about the use of agentic AIs in research, and can boil down my responses to three bullet points: 1.) I'm interested where it relieves me of the burden of meeting formats/guidelines, but not at all when it would supplant me thinking (e.g. writing) (1/2)

Make America Great Again was always a lie. This is what our government is doing to children. apnews.com/article/chic...

6 AM Tuesday morning #HurricaneMelissa approaches Jamaica. Horrifying next 24 hours says Dr. Shepherd. Pray. Been at this a long-time one of the most horrific, well-formed hurricanes I have ever seen. 175 mph winds and a direct landfall looming

worth updating immediately to speed up Google Drive performance. "use as default" was checked for me too

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Oh my god

"Data available upon request"

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Today on my blog: some thoughts on the best data management strategies for collaboration: dataabinitio.com?p=1204 What's your best data tip for collaborative research?

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you