The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...
I have had the great privilege of being a visitor at NCAR for the past ~3 yrs & can tell you that the people there care deeply about making community-driven & useful tools and providing climate & weather info needed for US and global decision-makers, and are just genuinely good & caring people.
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When my kid's teacher tells me my daughter started a Fight Club at recess but doesn't participate and just takes bets on who's gonna win
Headline from Forbes: 8 Ways The National Center For Atmospheric Research Helps You, By Marshall Shepherd
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
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Grateful to Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper for taking this critical action.
We’ll continue to support their efforts every step of the way!
President Trump thinks he can intimidate Colorado by shuttering NCAR.
It’s political retribution, Senator John Hickenlooper and I won’t stand for it. We are holding up the appropriations package to demand NCAR is fully funded.
Read our full statement here:
Shutting down NCAR is a terrible idea, but what a great timing to announce it while everyone's gathered in person at the annual meeting of @agu.org and joins together to stand up against it!
Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!
“Dismantling an institution so central to weather forecasting and climate change prediction would not only undermine scientific research, it would leave people across the nation less prepared for the dangers of a warming world,” says Carlos Martinez of @ucs.org www.latimes.com/environment/...
#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)
If it took the We Are The World of libposting to get you to understand the concept that climate change is an opposed political fight, I'm sorry to tell you that you are sort of. The worst. I'm sorry but you're the worst. There's space for you in the big tent but please don't make eye contact with me
If Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper do not bring the Senate to a complete halt over this, blocking every Trump nominee, then they should think about quitting.
Friends at NCAR, we're with you.
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.
We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
In an internal email to NSF NCAR employees, UCAR President Antonio (Tony) Busalacchi told staff:
“This story is the first we have heard of any plan to target NSF NCAR, and we have already reached out to NSF to get more information.”
UCAR released a media statement regarding the USA Today report:
Devastating and dangerous blow to the weather and climate community tonight, as 20,000 earth and space scientists meet at #AGU25.
New @ucs.org statement from @carlonimbus.bsky.social on the Trump administration plans to dismantle @ncar-ucar.bsky.social:
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Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
I am shocked to even read this. Fight back Americans. This is world class climate and weather research we expect to support with our taxes. It is non partisan. When will we stand up & repudiate him?
Damn those who are complicit with his lies, corruption, pedophilia and collusion with Russia
Thanks, Joe ❤️
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
If you are a NCAR employee impacted by the federal administration’s decision to close the facility please message me on Signal at edwardsanthonyb.81
I will be following up on this for the San Francisco Chronicle.
It's proably not hyperbolic to say that a visit to NCAR in 2015 is the basis for 95% of my career. NCAR is why I know anything about super computing or international research collaborations or atmospheric data collection or public interpretation. That visit is where it all came together for me.
These national labs are so central to Boulder. I look at NCAR every time I walk out my door in South Boulder, this is so sad.
Thanks for this, Colin. If you know someone looking for a scientist and software engineer with experience in the CESM land model, send them my way 🫠
New paper from Alexandra's PhD, where we show that warming from thicker snow depths may accelerate permafrost carbon loss in the coldest parts of the Arctic. Now out in Communications Earth & Environment, with @millerinlund.bsky.social & @samsrabin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ISIMIP
LOTS of land modelers joined #bluesky in the last 24h. @climate-dude.bsky.social,@mlague.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social @rebeccamayvarney.bsky.social @aargles.bsky.social @ryanpavlick.bsky.social @ladyfortran.bsky.social @samsrabin.bsky.social @tompugh.bsky.social @tquaife.bsky.social & many more!
