The world continues to burn and I’m sitting here reviewing 131 amazing applications to our REU program. Every single student has a strong application. So remember, if you don’t get a REU offer, it is not a reflection on you!

@hydrochrista.bsky.social @domciruzzi.bsky.social, and I asked hydrologists across the country for their syllabi so we could investigate how instructors were teaching hydrology courses and think about the future... Here’s what we found + suggestions agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

This one hurts

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

If you know an undergraduate looking for a geosciences REU program, our applications are due in one month! Focus this year on community, air, and water projects! sites.google.com/view/csaw-re...

I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul. However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events. I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪 theconversation.com/greenland-is...

Our Annual AGU First Timers Guide is live! Please share widely!! We look forward to connecting with folks at our Booth #836 with @cuahsi.bsky.social www.agu-h3s.org/post/agunola...

Applications are open to become a member of AGU H3S! See comments for links. Feel free to contact us through our website if you have any questions! www.agu-h3s.org

Born out of our WaterSciCon sessions and workshop in 2024 (thanks @cuahsi.bsky.social and @agu.org!) this was a really fun one to write! We hope it spurs thoughts and new collaborations.

CUAHSI is hosting a Community Gathering during the AGU Annual Meeting the evening of December 17th at 6pmCT! Join us at Ernst Cafe for appetizers, networking, and interactive activities with chances to win prizes! All are welcome but space is limited. Please RSVP here www.cuahsi.org/events/cuahs...

New #WOTUS rule changes, impacting the Clean Water Act & protections for our nations' waterways. This is an area of expertise in my group - I would be thrilled to engage with media, policy-makers, nonprofits, etc. to discuss. DM or email to engage -

Things at work I cannot do do far while Cloudflare is down: anything on our LMS; open stack exchange to troubleshoot R code

I'm looking to switch out the Winogradsky column lab I've been doing in my Wetlands course for something new (I never get visible diffs among treatments and I don't think students are getting much from it). What are your favorite labs for an upper level Wetlands course? Bonus if biogeochemistryish!

👀 DDHQ projects Democrats flip both PSC seats in Georgia, the first state-level Democrats in ~two decades. Now for the final margins and what the results may/may not foretell. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

How is Lasership still in business? I’ve literally never had a package handled by them that wasn’t lost or delayed by 3+ days.

CUAHSI is piloting a new Virtual Open House initiative to strengthen dialogue with our community and guide future planning. We invite you to join the first session on Wednesday, October 22 at 2pm ET. Visit our website for additional information including an agenda www.cuahsi.org/events/cuahs...

📣 📣📣 We are seeking a postdoc join our team in January 2026 to lead community-engaged flood monitoring and modeling efforts as part of a convergent research team linking flooding to health risks. Apply here: tinyurl.com/floodPostdoc Review of applications will begin Oct. 31 Please share!

We hope that everyone had a happy first day of the 2026 Water Year! Tomorrow is the first day of Catchment Cup! Check back in the morning when the first round of polling opens up for Headwater Catchments! We are so excited to share facts and research from early career researchers at these sites!

Many USGS gages across the country have stopped updating. Anyone know what’s going on? This shutdown related? They seemed to all stop 16 hours ago, at least in Georgia.

do you remember

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

The most useful and useful impactful classes I took during my PhD were at ESF. It’s an amazing school always working on a shoestring budget. Cutting more will just decimate it and the amazing work it does.

I accidentally saw the video. Do yourself a favor and don’t.

Discussions of the destruction of the CDC, HHS, etc. by RFK Jr that do not lay a hefty part of the blame on Senator Cassidy feel woefully incomplete. He could have stayed true to his principles as a medical professional and blocked RFK's confirmation. He did not and he should not be given a pass.

New paper with our community partners! We used four years of community science E. coli measurements to look at patterns in Atlanta streams. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

For my next story with @thexylom.com, I'm looking to interview researchers and science professionals who have left the U.S. for Asia due to Trump. They can be Asian nationals who returned to their home countries, or Americans who are seeking greener pastures overseas. Please email or DM me!

As a reminder, if you use dataRetrieval , @cuahsi.bsky.social is hosting a webinar tomorrow at 3 pm on the API changes! Free! www.cuahsi.org/events/chang...

Tulane’s behavior in this case is disgraceful. www.chronicle.com/article/cens...

Our first cohort of Community-Soil-Air-Water REU researchers just gave their final presentations to our community fellows, faculty, MS students, and other ecosystem members. These eight just killed it, digging into housing, soil contamination, urban heat island and energy burden, and flooding.

We've seen a 50% increase in monthly donors—but we need your help to reach our goal! Our goal is $5,000 a month in donor support. Can you chip in $5 a month and share this with five friends? Without sustainable reader donations, we can't keep holding power to account in Atlanta.

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Reminder that H3S sends out quarterly newsletters with resources, upcoming events info, and other science-related highlights! Sign up here: www.agu-h3s.org/contact

I'm recruiting via ISU's new EPSCOR Grad Training Program! If you want to write an NSF GRFP this Fall and come to ISU, let's connect. Students who get an Honorable Mention this year (or did in the last 3 years) are eligible. Program funding rates are same as GRFP! Apply: etap.nsf.gov/award/8257/o...

USGS Water Data APIs are changing! Many in the CUAHSI community rely on USGS Water Services APIs for daily research workflows. USGS is now modernizing those services. To learn more and an opportunity to ask questions, join the webinar on Aug 13, 3PM ET Register here us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

AGU H3S invites you to submit an abstract to our session at #AGU25 Thinking Outside the Box Plot: Communicating Science Beyond the Paper! The session explores creative ways to communicate research. Conveners: @adischner.bsky.social @acarneiromar.bsky.social @gescilam.bsky.social Cee Nell Emily Ellis

AGU H3S invites you to contribute to our session at #AGU25 Hydrology Student, Postdoc, and Early Career Flash Talks! This session highlights research performed by fellow Early Career Researchers within the field of Hydrology. Conveners: Matthew Preisser and Kathryn Moore

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Peak Millennial sign.

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!

Please help us in congratulating the 2025 Pathfinder Fellowship awardees, Taylor Evinger, Gabriela Tatiana Sancho Juarez, and Surabhi Upadhyay as they prepare to expand their research in new locations!

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

When editorial and reviewer comments on a manuscript conflict…that’s a new one for me.

The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable. NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️

If you benefited from past NAGT/NSF Early Career Geoscience workshops you may want to support this years participants and activities which have apparently been defunded by NSF. Contribute here: nagt.org/nagt/get_inv...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

ATTENTION!! H3S is excited to highlight upcoming opportunities through CUAHSI for students, early career researchers, and all hydrologists! See the comments for direct links. @cuahsi.bsky.social

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."