Thank goodness weβve given over our entire economy and all of our science funding to this valuable tool
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Thank goodness weβve given over our entire economy and all of our science funding to this valuable tool
Archaeological excavation at the Birds of Paradise site, showing the tops of preserved wood posts. CREDIT: Timothy Beach
A Maya settlement in todayβs northwestern Belize persisted past the abandonment of many contemporaneous Classic Period urban centers. The community used raised earthen, stone, and wood structures to access the rich resources of the wetland. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/JKA250Yq7n2
Hmmmph. Fine, I guess.
I know everyone is very excited, but
A small update to my long and unjustifiably profane blog post on the rollercoaster that is global temperature and the interpretations of its wrigglin' innards.
ENSO is coming
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Would have liked to see some more outside reporting on these surface temp acceleration stories. Like discussion of the shortwave rise, the uncertainty if a cloud feedback is at play, whether you can remove the triple-dip La Nina to El Nino combo like a normal ENSO signal...
Does this include a free set of flying monkeys?
Fair - just seen a number of blown forecasts in my days
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It was the worst of times, it was the⦠yeah, no, it was just the worst of times.
Fortran and MATLAB (my first two languages) are 1-indexed, so it was (is) a particularly difficult transition
Zero-indexing is the Devilβs work though
Graph showing the NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center's forecasts of April to July inflows to Lake Powell from 1991 to 2026, with colored lines showing how each season's forecast evolved from January through July. The latest Forecast, March 2026, is the lowest outlook for this time of year since at least 1991, at 36% of average inflows.
NOAA CBRFC's Mar 1st official forecast for Lake Powell April-July inflows is out, so here's an update of my "spaghetti" plot.
Despite better snowfall in February, the most-probable forecast remains bleak at 36% of average. Even an unusually wet Mar-May would only get us to ~65% of average.
Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the Worldβs Best Violins www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
The amount of misogyny is academia remains horrific -- and even worse, it is not going away with the older generation as one might have hoped. It is being recapitulated in a new generation.
Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...
A small Connecticut the size of a large Connecticut
Open Postdoctoral Researcher position in our research group at the University of HawaiΚ»i (Honolulu). The position focuses on ML/AI model development and analysis for tropical-extratropical weather and climate research. Deadline: March 20. Apply here: tinyurl.com/hrx87fnf
Maya Postclassic persistence in the Birds of Paradise Wetland Fields, Belize www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"...a warmer atmosphere pulls more moisture from soils, vegetation and snowpack. Snow melts earlier, soils dry out faster and plants lose water more quickly. In practical terms, precipitation totals alone no longer tell the water story in the Southwest." π§ͺ
'After 30 years, is the West's drought still a drought?' - Arizona Republic's long piece on aridification and its consequences for Arizona, featuring the LTRR's Dr. Margaret Evans and her research on rising temperatures and changing forest dynamics www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
'As AI might ask: Would you like me to expand on the theme of what happens to social stability when the relationship between social classes changes rapidly and the young find their labor superfluous to the needs of capital?' www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
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A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Geosciences.
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Congratulations to Trang Tran (from the @leafwax.bsky.social lab along with @paleolipidrr.bsky.social) - Biomarker Constraints on Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Temperature During the Late Pleistocene: The Role of Orbital Forcing agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
Nice piece of the @nytimes.com covering the paper 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium' π
Tree rings tell you about the past! π²π
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...
In our latest coverage of the Trump administration and federal science budgets, @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social & I wrote about how the White House is stalling the release of monies approved by Congress. TLDR: it's not how things normally work. π§ͺ
www.nature.com/articles/d41...