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floods, satellites, maps, social justice, co-founder and chief scientist Floodbase and asst. prof University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder @umbela-org https://beth-tellman.github.io https://www.floodbase.com https://umbela.org mom. Pro-winter.
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
The Inspector General for NSF must launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to sell-off parts of NCAR — immediately!
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The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.
Retired: the terawatt hour (TWh)
Wired: Strait Of Hormuz (SOh)
Usage:
“Last year the world added an entire Strait of Hormuz worth of new solar power generation.”
#energysky
Timely!
bsky.app/profile/omfi...
Important commentary here regarding water use of data centers.
Data Centers Water Footprint: The Need for More Transparency - Privette - 2026 - AGU Advances - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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...
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
I am anti-war,Anti-ice. Pro mitigating ghg and adaptation. Pro educating, feeding people, universal healthcare. Should I be not surprised to see lack of protest against a war with Iran? In 2003 the protests against the Iraq war were massive! I protested often! Why are we not in the streets?
lol the chatbot one. I’ve done a few flood versions of the fine tune one lolol
A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV
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.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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she really is
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch
Her in the library
DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
recording of her talk posted btw. it was very good. challenged my assumption that LULC and building in the floodplains is the whole problem- given rapid intensification of TC's and compound flooding...the climate signal has a larger impact on exposre than I thought! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqI...
A fun week hosting Toni Sebastian from UNC here in Madison. One of my favorite flood scientists in the world! Hanging out with female engineers is also a rare and delightful opportunity 👯♀️
FELLOWSHIP! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Climate Science Serving America fellowship, open to early- and mid-career scientists & engineers who work on climate solutions.
Full salary, benefits, and a research stipend. Remote anywhere in the United States.
drawdown.org/news/project...
Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.
Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships
#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining
The students stormed the court!!
Really fun lab social going to watch Wisconsin men’s bball kick Michigan state butt!! By more than 20 points!!! On Wisconsin!
I've been collaborating with the team at Google Deepmind and 12 other climate scientists to test a new tool aimed integrating AI capabilities into a collaborative scientific assessment. We have a pre-print available describing the process and results: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.0...
Now is the moment to speak up for NCAR.
@aguscipolicy.bsky.social has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on why NCAR matters for science, public safety, and preparedness.
Submit: buff.ly/Q0I8rs0
#SaveNCAR
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
New article in PHG! In this essay I highlight the incredible work of queer theorists on critiquing systems of gender, sexuality, and race within our built environment. Next I argue for the epistemic potential of overlooked spaces, namely the borderland, to rethink how we build our world, literally.
great research blog post by @lucasbelury.bsky.social regarding predatory lending and challenges for recovery in the Rio Grande Valley hazards.colorado.edu/news/researc...
This would be truly insane
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
I mean I knew amoc collapsing would be real bad but didn’t realize the flood exposure implications if it did until now…. #ams2026 intrigued to hear what my climate science colleagues have to say about this given I know the amoc collapse probability I think is hotly debated??
NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
