a downside of Being Good At Things is that you get assigned so many Things that you eventually reach the point that you are now Bad At Things

“There’re about a thousand of us.”

Come out this Thursday to see @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and I in conversation at @powells.bsky.social!

Really a devastating indictment of the @nytimes.com when high-quality regional journalists won't collaborate with them because they fear it would call their integrity into question.

"Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952... More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather... found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz"

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

I'm too tired to throw my two cents into the punctuation discourse today, but I will say that the Purdue OWL is a wonderful resource for learning more about various reasons behind particular approaches. For example: owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_...

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

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...

"I think it’s much more important to get in touch with what our values are and act from those values, which may or may not produce the kind of thing we think people should be producing." truthout.org/audio/burnou...

Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply

For atmospheric science students looking for a funded M.S. opportunity for Fall 2026, the esteemed @dblountwx.bsky.social has a Graduate Research Assistantship position open at Ohio University! See the original post for more details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Got up early this morning and the aurora was still going.

a downside of Being Good At Things is that you get assigned so many Things that you eventually reach the point that you are now Bad At Things

From UNL Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair, Clint Rowe, on how the community can help make the case to the Univ. of Nebraska Board of Regents as to why their department should be retained:

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Another way to put it -- in time it took to get 2️⃣ daily record lows at #KMIA, we set new record highs for more than a quarter of days in the calendar year b/w Nov 2014 to Nov 2025 (97/365 ~ 27% of all days). So yes, a remarkable cold snap, but got to put in proper context of record tends. #FLwx

They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable. If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Early online release! "Redrawing Risks: How Professional Users Interpret and Use an Iteratively Redesigned Hurricane Threats and Impacts Graphic" journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

As I say often, universal health care is disaster mitigation and preparedness. This is why.

Verdict: fighting something but *vaguely gestures at everything* certainly hasn't helped.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Understanding the nuance of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 4 dimensional chess…

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Quite a headline.

This Virginia election result is an eye-opener for me, even though I've covered the environmental and health impacts of AI and data centers for quite a while. 👀

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Excited to share that the latest paper of my PhD is now published in JGR-Atmospheres! It examines multiple stratosphere-troposphere exchange processes in tropical cyclones using an idealized simulation! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Good morning! Day 4 of the Sandwich Guy’s trial. He is finally wearing a suit (the rest of the week’s evidence suggests he seems to prefer pullovers in cooler weather). The jury has a note for the judge.

currently trying to assess whether feeling achy + lethargic + brain fogged is due to having caught something or *vaguely gestures at everything*

With ERA5 data updated through the end of October, I plotted potential intensity values averaged over the Caribbean Sea relative to Hurricane Melissa. Values area-wide were well above normal before the hurricane, producing a couple peak values (since 1981), with a sharp drop in the wake of Melissa.

BREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.

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.

"What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night’s election results." -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson

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.

I'm genuinely blown away by Mamdani's speech from last night. His delivery was authentic, reasoned, and human. His focus deliberately remained on "we" and "you" and "NYC" rather than "I" or "me." When he did talk about himself, it was in the context of connections with others and service to others.