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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."

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

So lucky to work with such amazing students. Everything is awful but we’ve got some wonderful ones in the world to help us all try and fix it.

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

And the first grant termination hits.

Any geoscience/hydrology-oriented scientific illustrators out there? I have funding to help me build water resources educational content for the citizens of New Mexico! DM me if interested!

CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection. www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...

Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.

Congratulations to Therese Kelly on successfully defending her MS thesis on “the metrics of organized abandonment: a critical examination of regulatory failure and the production of water pollution in the South River”. Who’d’ve thunk I’d be overseeing a critical geography thesis, but Therese made

Who has moved labs before? How do you find specialized movers who are qualified to move analytical equipment?

Your job today is to come up with a plan for what you will personally do if ICE shows up at your workplace, school, or place of worship, and tries to disappear someone. Talk about it with friends and coworkers. Write down phone numbers you’ll need. Role-play scenarios. Practice what you will say.

The list of things to be cut in the new CR is staggering to consider—and highly detrimental for environmental programs in rural states & areas. This is from the Dems Fact Sheet, linked from Liz Neely’s newsletter here democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/fact-sh...

I want everyone to how rapidly a euphemistic language of acquiescence has been codified among the administrative class, insulating the perpetrators of this chaos from blame.

Join us for our first Community-Soil-Air-Water symposium on Friday, April 4, 2025 in Atlanta! Free registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Can we please spring forward four years instead of one hour?

The USGS office that monitors all metro Atlanta rivers (and much more) is set to close at the end of August.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory