I would spend some serious quatloos to have the Metrons step in now.

From mid-December 2024 at the LilGayPub on P and 11th. And then I walked to and rode the Metro at night! And I survived!

Never before have the perils of a live demo been expressed so poetically. Great job Angus @2i2c.org and Franklin @curvenote.com! #Scipy2025

Today at SciPy 2025 we released Icechunk 1.0, an open source package and specification that enables database-style transactions against petabyte-scale array datasets using only cloud object storage as infrastructure. Read about it on our blog earthmover.io/blog/icechun..., or visit earthmover.io

🔥Lightning Talks are always a highlight at #SciPy2025 ⚡️ Thanks to everyone who took the stage and let us spice things up with props!🦞🤲

Precipitable water ranking for the June 2025. Wet, from the standpoint of water (vapor). Record values in parts of the Northeast. [Note: precipitable water is the total column water vapor if it were squeezed into a liquid state.]

Consider what a modern miracle public environmental data access is. Consider what might happen if it ever went away.

A fully-funded postdoctoral scientist position is available in the research group of Distinguished Prof. Mathias Vuille. The position is open to scientists with interest & experience in: (1) South American (paleo-)climate, (2) Andean glacier-climate interactions, or 3) regional climate modeling.

Today, students in my @ualbanydaes.bsky.social data viz class present their final projects, which wouldn't be possible without the folks at @unidata.bsky.social. The consequences of this administration's attacks on science and education just keep on hitting closer and closer to home.

Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research. Or 932 years. [And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]

Cabinet secretaries engaged in a grim game of “how many people can I kill” one-upsmanship

Broadcast meteorologists use these tools EVERY DAY to provide cool stats in your local market. Yea we have the data at NCEI and can build tools, but why reinvent the wheel?

He’s just antivaxx. And like most antivaxxers, he is fully vaccinated so he is only gambling with other people’s lives.

Archiving daily #climate data while it's still accessible with #python ...

I'm not allowed to share these kinds of scholarships though my university email anymore so am doing so here. Scholarships for members of the LGBTQ+ STEM community. ostem.org/Page/scholar...

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

If you benefited from the severe thunderstorm & tornado watches & warnings yesterday, call your Congressional reps and tell them to keep the NWS funded & staffed. Last week, NWS were informed that up to 25% of their staff may be let go - this after they were already chronically 10% *under*staffed.

22 weeks apart.

I swear I thought for a second that Clayton McCullough got murdered by that graphic. 🤣

I've just contributed to The Xylom. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! opencollective.com/thexylom

@paulythegun.bsky.social I think your next Bsky handle needs to be goat_colostrum_provider

And that "contingency" would need to involve a lot of disk storage ...

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

“A lot of people don't realize how @NOAA.gov impacts their daily lives... It's a huge public service that is truly a bargain for the American taxpayer." - Brian Tang, @ualbanydaes.bsky.social spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

so now we're not even getting the rare earths? some dealmaker

I don’t know if it’s possible to quantify how much global influence and power this administration has willfully squandered in the past four weeks. It is a national security disaster.

Growing up, my family told me for years that my passion for meteorology was something to take pride in and something that would have immense job security. 1/13

Note from coolwx.com

An open letter to our fellow meteorologists and climate scientists from our Department Head, Steve Nesbitt

The sound of Faust being dragged off to hell after regretting his deal with Mephistopheles echos across the nation

This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise! Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters? Journalists: COVER THIS!

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Difficult to stress how much it's complete psycho shit to indiscriminately fire hundreds of thousands of young poorly paid federal employees who probably uprooted their entire lives and moved to take jobs in service of their country for absolutely no reason.

The weight of today's fuckery hasn't fully sunk in for me yet, but 1) goddamn 2) I hope those affected are doing alright. I can't fathom having a whole career upended on the whim of some singular dipshit moron.

Definitely planning to spend some time on this in the next few days!

73:1 return on investment #ams2025

NSF's budget is about 10 billion but only has about 1500 employees. Cutting employees will save very little money. The goal is to cripple the US system of generating scientific research, including higher education.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

It's been a while since I took an Economics course, but removing ~$1.2T of spending might have some negative consequences?

UCAR and NSF NCAR join the ranks of other government-funded entities in closing their DEI offices. An expected but still awful event that will only hurt the atmospheric sciences and future innovation that widely benefits society. news.ucar.edu/133008/ucar-...

Do remote workers deter neighbourhood crime? Evidence finds remote working explains significant proportion of the 30% drop in burglary since 2019. www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

Great map from Ben Noll showing how much snow fell from the southern storm. Record snows in New Orleans, Lafayette, Mobile and Pensacola. More info: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

The New Yorker got a couple details wrong in this cover.

I'm sure climate change denialists are having a rage given the very cold air mass over parts of North America (blue-purple colors). But reality from a global perspective shows this is more than countered by anomalous warmth (yellow-red colors) occurring over Europe, Asia and Alaska.

Setting up for the UAlbany DAES alumni and friends reception! If you’re in New Orleans for AMS, come join us at the Crescent City Brewhouse, 7-10p!