It’s high-high tide this morning uptown. This used to be a creek bed, and the “reclaimed” land is washing back out to sea. https://myinwood.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Inwood-Hill-Park-1932-map-by-Reginald-Pelham-Bolton.jpg

Conferees on Defense bill asked to jettison House language that would end US collaborations with Chinese scientists and former students back in China www.science.org/content/arti...

If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

In case you missed our conversation on the Gates climate memo yesterday, the recording is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAX...

Texas has a special election for Sylvester Turner's seat (TX-18), a full seven months after he died, because Abbott capriciously delayed it. A simple, long overdue reform would be for Congress to mandate by federal law how soon after a vacancy special elections have to happen.

I ❤️ #NYC And it’s open data. This #CUNY interactive map to explore the election results is so cool. https://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncompare2025/#NYC

My family is in Houston & those in TX18 have had *NO* representation in congress since Sylvester Turner died back in February. Looks like Christian Menefee,D, and TX Harris (Houston) county attorney will win. I’m so glad that my brother will have representation in congress after so long without.

More nyc voters hit polls otd than any other in my life! Earlier I saw a-man whining that bc folx don’t know ‘they don’t get to vote in the nyc mayoral election’ they shouldn’t vote at all. BS Wasted air Dude: let shame cow you Inspiration to vote is the heady stuff of the free—patriots celebrate

When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close? When do the polls close?

Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it? No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

NASA Goddard Union Pushes Back nasawatch.com/personnel-ne... GESTA: “Throughout there has been a complete breakdown in communication from NASA agency and Center leadership where decisions are rarely communicated, almost always only verbally, and not directly by the decision makers.” #NASA

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

American brain drain

let's celebrate Halloween by scaring the oligarchs

#NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown www.space.com/space-explor... NASA Goddard #GSFC

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

It's that time of year #Halloween

Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay. Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...

Really sad. Following on from the senate report last month, https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/B1CC17F2-50CE-4C0B-89C9-B713FE76E146 Reporting today about nasa is devastating.

Moments ago at the White House DOT Secretary Sean Duffy expressed concerns over DOT employees not being paid, how they're suffering. He is also Acting #NASA Administrator but says *nothing* here or anywhere about NASA folks. If you can't do both jobs then pick one than you CAN do Sean.

Congratulations to #IPCC Bureau Member, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social on the German Environmental Award from German Federal Environmental Foundation - the first Swiss national to win the prestigious €500K Award. A powerful recognition of her global impact in land-climate science. 🌍👏 #ETHZurich

Totally needed the rain today in NYC. And It is really coming down hard. Band with 42.1 mm/hour !!! The average drainage capacity of the NYC streets/sewer is 1.75 inches/hour— perilously close!

Meow! It’s #NationalCatDay. Behold a black cat of a different kind: this melanistic serval (Leptailurus serval). Also known as the “giraffe cat,” servals have the longest legs in proportion to their body size of any feline. Photo: Stan Rullman, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

We still have some significant precipitation deficits for 2025 in many areas of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with values over 10 inches below normal in a few locations. The good news is there will be an opportunity for rain through Halloween as a storm system moves through the region.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

I usually can't listen to my voice in a recording, but it was worth it to hear this segment that @askpossibly.bsky.social put together on what the R/V Endeavor has meant to @urigso.bsky.social and oceanography. 🌊

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure). bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

Why did we self sabotage?

Did my civic duty #nyc 👀 look Fancy new stickers. https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special: $̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY. #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca #fingerlakes www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

Do you think they meant to say “wack” not “whack”? Falling down the etymology hill https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc

I’m in my way there now in nyc… https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Don't let Halloween distract you from your civic duties! Early voting in Boston ends on Friday, Oct. 31. Election Day is right around the corner.

I’d like to further confess that my southern respect folks “Hate it when kids call adults by their first name” — And when that met the less southern sensibilities of their friends who were transplants and didn’t want formal Mr(s)… I called all close family friends my folks’ age “Aunt” and “Uncle”

I confess that I call my second cousins — my parents’ first cousins who are my parents’ age and who grew up with my folks almost as if they were siblings. — “Aunt” and “Uncle” I thought it was just a southern thing to show respect. Apparently, it’s an international sign of respect.

A 10am EDT update from the National Hurricane Center now puts Melissa's sustained winds at 185 mph. Full text: www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...?

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

5pm EDT Oct 27th Key Messages for Category 5 #Hurricane #Melissa: #Jamaica: Remain in your safe shelter & do not venture outside. Catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding & numerous landslides through Tuesday as Melissa's core moves ashore. hurricanes.gov

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action. 40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website. www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

As major hurricane #Melissa passes over #Jamaica - moving painfully slow - it will dump biblical rainfall on the island, super-charged by both the rugged mountains and coincidentally the hottest water in all the Carbbean right now (88-89F) focused specifically around the island… 1/

I always have my students and postdocs put first. In my field: The PI(s) of the project who dreams up how to do it, writes grants (which support postdoc or students) for maybe years to fund work then directs junior folks on how to be a scientist typically takes SECOND+ author. Not last.

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #NCKF25

Getting in longer dog walks during day 22 of the US government shutdown during which I am on furlough. Usually my dogs are itching to make friends with squirrels 🐿️ 🐕 😋 But today the park was curiously absent our mini furry friends. 🦅 a #CoopersHawk Was perched low on a branch & keeping watch

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GREAT news!!! Big ups to Adam Smith and the whole @climatecentral.org team for resurrecting the NOAA billion dollar disaster dataset in its new home.