When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

If you want to give us the Denmark vaccine schedule, you also need to give us the 6+ month parental leave the Danes get, so that new babies can avoid picking up germs at daycare, and you need to give us universal healthcare.

Another brief clip from yesterday's rapid response livestream regarding what's at stake with the potential loss of NCAR, and what we can do about it: "What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot."

1005mb to 983mb in 24 hours. Well within the criteria for a bomb cyclone. That's this morning's European model simulation for the central pressure of a rapidly-deepening cyclone off the California coast next Tuesday. Strong winds expected across NorCal and the PNW into Christmas Eve. #CAwx

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Impromptu meeting at AGU2025. Write congresspeople, show up to town halls, and make your voice heard as much as possible that this is a complete unforced error with no benefit at all and that weust #SaveNCAR #AGU2025

Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo

Psst: Notice where this wind/weather data is coming from. It's coming from NCAR. One tiny blip of the kajillion things NCAR does to improve/advance weather forecasting. #COwx

Cold, details later.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

At #AGU25 and concerned about news of NCAR dismantling? Join us today 4pm CT. We'll cover independent science action and discuss the key science functions we need the government for--like the critical functions that NCAR provides on weather and climate research. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

🚀 LASP at #AGU on Wed., Dec. 17: 🌍 Retention of Habitable Atmospheres (RHAPS) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall 🌎 Probing the MLT w/ Solar Soft X-ray Occultations (CubeSats) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall ☀️ DKIST Flare Spectral Variability (Impulsive Phase) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Good set of #AGU25 talks this AM on establishing trust in an age of mistrust. Among the tips: Be transparent Be ethical Acknowledge failures Open data & methods to scrutiny Separate assessments from policy "Work must be visible, relatable & accessible to the people it serves" - Janice Lachance

#PlanetaryScience at #AGU25 fam, did they stick us at the top floor southern end again? Am I gonna have to walk 15 minutes inside a giant building to get to my sessions again? 😫

From the #AGU25 app. A program called SafeWalk. Please use it if you can find a buddy!

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I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

Why we could be saying goodbye to the Dark Horse sooner than later: www.axios.com/local/boulde...

📣 Hey folks, it's time to vote on your favourite #planetaryScience image of 2025! 🧪⚛️🚀🛰️☄️🪐🌔 Follow this 🧵 not to miss a vote! We'll have 4 quarter-finals to determine the semi-finalists, from which we'll decide the finalists and, ultimately, the winner.

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how did I miss this happening. this is fucking awful

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

🧪 Some serious carbon accounting finds that projects to offset CO2, (eg carbon credits, CO2 removal) are a “fatally flawed” approach and distort carbon pricing. “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels.” Tough love. Deal with it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️ Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread

Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket? If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.

Pretty exciting news, a long-thought possibly - that dry dust storms produce enough static energy to create little lighting bolts - has been kind of observed on Mars!! 🧪🔭 #planetsci doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

At Lake Fryxell Camp in Taylor valley we get our drinking water by collecting then melting "glacier berries". About a 2 km ATV ride from the camp to the berry patch at the edge of Canada Glacier #scicomm 🧪 #antarctica

The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years. Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25 #astronomy #astrophotography

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

buddha in the japanese maple

In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Came across Klingon Bluegrass music and now you get to hear it if you want to. youtu.be/cSwHobtSijA?...

HiPOD: Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730 #Mars #science #NASA

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.

ACTUALLY CANJOT DEALNWITH THIS

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

As SNAP benefits are foreseen to be cut on 10/31, we are frustrated and disappointed that the basic human right for everyone to access food resources is being threatened. Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...

Rain in Monument Valley. #EastCoastKin #Scape #Photography #WestCoastKin #RoadTrip #LandscapePhotography #StormyWeather #BlackandWhite #Art

The University of Arizona says, "No!" www.kvoa.com/news/top-sto...

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...