Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Great to be on Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice, talking about El Niño. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgPN...youtube.comThe Biggest El Niño in Recorded HistoryYouTube video by StarTalk 1267
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wrote an article about my uncle Sumner Crane for the Sunset Post, the (relatively new) local paper of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, where Sumner and his wife Sue lived for his last dozen years. www.sunsetpost.org/en/stories/s...sunsetpost.orgSumner Crane’s quiet years in Sunset ParkNo wave artist Sumner Crane spent his final dozen years in Sunset Park, where many neighbors better knew his wife, teacher Susan Lehman. 031
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Did this work for you? Were you into jazz before and if not did this book change that, or at least help you hear it better? Asking for a friend (or really many friends and loved ones... lifelong jazz person myself already) 101
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Inspired by a book, a walk past a building, a record just released almost 50 years after it was recorded, and conversations with some of the original people involved. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: This, right near City Hall, must be the placeOn history, memory, biography, real estate, and music 021
Reposted by Adam SobelAmerican Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 01/07/2026New AMS statement responds to a proposed OMB rule that would restructure federal grantmaking. The rule "would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to ... natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy." Read more: bit.ly/4awoYRObit.lyNew Rule Would Upend Science and Rewrite Federal GrantmakingA new AMS statement and resource page respond to an OMB rule that would restructure federal grants and give political appointees vastly more authority over grantmaking. 410660
Reposted by Adam SobelJournal of Catastrophe Risk & Resilience @journalcrr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026In this paper, authors Juner Liu, Carmen B. Steinmann, David N. Bresch, Simona Meiler, Ulrike Lohmann, and Benjamin Hohermuth present a simplified #TropicalCyclone model to estimate climate-connected landfall rate changes for North Atlantic #hurricanes:buff.lyRecalibrating Risk: a simplified model for North Atlantic hurricanes in a warming climate - Journal of Catastrophe Risk and ResilienceAbstract North Atlantic hurricanes rank among the costliest natural hazards. Their impacts have increased over recent decades and are projected to rise further with climate change. Yet catastrophe… 011
Reposted by Adam SobelJournal of Catastrophe Risk & Resilience @journalcrr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The objective of this latest research paper on JCRR is to understand the impact on insured losses of changes in the frequency-severity distribution of landfalling #hurricanes.journalofcrr.comAssessing Climate Change Impacts in Hurricane Catastrophe Models Using a Frequency Aware Quantile Mapping - Journal of Catastrophe Risk and ResilienceIn this article, authors Ruth Petrie, Dongwon Han, Ludovico Nicotina, Adam Alvarez, and Tyler Cox (Inigo) present a frequency-aware quantile mapping (FAQM) approach for assessing climate change… 121
Reposted by Adam SobelKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Climate types interested in risk: go join the great new climate team at USAA. Remote eligible if you're away from an office:usaa.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comClimate Scientist Senior – P&C Climate Risk & Exposure AnalyticsWhy USAA? At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the ... 12513
Reposted by Adam SobelThe Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 16/06/2026On June 3rd, Syl Foisy finished his NYC to DC walk by delivering your letters in support of weather & climate science to 7 representatives! Watch Syl, @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social, @vgwschutte.bsky.social, and @marc-alessi.bsky.social talk about this critical moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMaE...youtube.comPress conference following the Weather & Climate Livestream walk to DC, June 3, 2026 on Capitol HillYouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream 083
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A plea to submit comments on the new proposed OMB rule that would put all U.S. science funding totally at the whim of political appointees, framed by a recap of the Weather and Climate Livestream a couple weeks ago. deepconvection.substack.com/p/speak-out-...deepconvection.substack.comSpeak out against the proposed OMB rule attacking U.S. scienceA call to action following the Weather and Climate Livestream. 15541
Reposted by Adam SobelAndrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Scientists are sounding the alarm about a new rule that would dramatically change how the federal gov't makes grant funding decisions. The rule is extraordinarily sweeping, and could have huge impacts on health and climate research. W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...cnn.comResearchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back | CNNScientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ... 24922
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The Livestream is in its second of 2 days, it has been amazing! Tune in to a continuous science-a-thon with great talks by brilliant scientists, hosted by other brilliant scientists. Plenty of audience Q&A. It's a really unique thing, actually. It'll be a document for history books. 2178
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The Weather and Climate Livestream starts today at 4pm ET, and I am the first speaker, at 4:20! I'm going to talk about my own career, how it was enabled by many great people, federal agencies, and intellectual traditions, and the public benefits of the whole enterprise. wclivestream.comwclivestream.comThe Weather & Climate LivestreamFor 50 hours from June 1st to June 3rd 2026, scientists and science support staff from across the US will share their work and answer your questions, all with the goal of saving America's forecasts to... 02212
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026But @climatefran.bsky.social pointed out to me that there's a class at Stanford about it and a book that goes with it. www.creativityinresearch.org/classescreativityinresearch.orgClass at Stanford — Creativity in Research 140
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Thanks David! I wasn't thinking about differences from one country to the next, that's an interesting perspective. I do think US students are allowed creativity, and even rewarded for it in some contexts, but that's not the same as knowing how to teach it, which we (including myself) mostly don't. 110
Reposted by Adam SobelDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊 10276115
Reposted by Adam SobelKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction. 23980442823
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Yeah maybe I need to learn to write better headlines. But glad some of it resonated, thanks! 010
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Wow thank you Aiko! Any feedback or commentary from your students would be most welcome. 010
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I wrote something about creativity in science. Why would one write such a thing? That's the first question the piece addresses. There's general reasons, and then there's my current weird personal quest... deepconvection.substack.com/p/creativity...deepconvection.substack.comCreativity in science: why talk about it?Because we usually don't, and we aren't good at teaching it either. 46420
Reposted by Adam SobelThe Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 08/05/2026🚨 The Weather and Climate Livestream is back, June 1st - 3rd 2026!! We're streaming 50 hours for our future in the face of a new round of proposed budget cuts and attacks on science. Want to speak at the event? wclivestream.com/volunteer/ 26336
Reposted by Adam SobelAmerican Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 27/05/2026What is at risk without federally funded weather and climate research 🌍? Next week, join AMS President Alan Sealls and President-elect Rick Spinrad during the 2nd @wclivestream.bsky.social to Save America's Forecasts and find out. 📺 Watch live 1 June 6:20 PM ET: wclivestream.com/ 12317
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My latest screed on the besieged state of U.S. science. I connect it to a broader phenomenon, namely willful blindness to the value of government-supplied public goods. deepconvection.substack.com/p/wrecking-t...deepconvection.substack.comWrecking the FoundationWillful blindness to public goods and the Trumpist attacks on science 03111
Reposted by Adam SobelBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 25/04/202656. Administration fires National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation, presumably as part of an effort to erode the institutional structures that protect the independence of NSF 1209
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This latest entry closes out our initial survey of Sumner Crane's "Giacometti phase," his late teenage years. They depict mostly scenes from the family's bungalow colony in Woodbourne, NY, the Catskill region, but also a gritty NYC scene for contrast. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: Diverse views of people and landscapes, Woodbourne and NYC, 1963-1964Including contributions from Sumner's cousins, who have been looking at three of these paintings since the 1960s. 000
Reposted by Adam SobelTrita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026 Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it... 401432788
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026In this week's Sumner Files, more from the early-mid 60s, Sumner's late teenage years. He was strongly influenced by Giacometti, but these works show much more originality, maturity and intent than that. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner... 010
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I began a substack newsletter mostly to write about artist and musician (and my uncle) Sumner Crane. But I felt compelled to make a political statement on No Kings Day. open.substack.com/pub/deepconv...open.substack.comI'm against itA No Kings Day meditation. 050
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Sumner Crane's Giacometti phase, from about ages 16-18, interpreted in light of his later artistic influences. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: The Giacometti phase, 1963-64In which we see Sumner inhabit another artist for the first time. 021
Reposted by Adam SobelUnion of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/03/2026Jim O'Neill, Trump’s nominee to head the National Science Foundation, is unqualified, conflicted, and a threat to science. As a science defender, please urge your senators to require a hearing on this nomination. 🔗Take action: act.ucsusa.org/4smrGQL 56743
Reposted by Adam SobelJoe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 17/03/2026The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I. 6221128
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Thank you Kelly! That has always, in fact, been a theme of the podcast --- maybe the central theme --- your episode included! 011
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026What could make a scientist so obsessed with his dead artist uncle? This week, instead of writing about Sumner, I wrote about why I've been writing (and researching, and talking) about Sumner. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: Why am I doing this?What could make a scientist so obsessed with his dead artist uncle? 120
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In the late 70s, Sumner Crane did paintings on long pieces of wood. Their extreme abstraction mirrored the music of Mars, the legendary no wave band he was playing in then, and I argue they were influenced by Nancy Arlen, Mars' drummer & his partner in the prior decade. tinyurl.com/2kcrhjtptinyurl.comThe Sumner Files: Works on wood and metal, late 1970sPaintings from the Mars period that are a little like sculptures, and a photo by Julia Gorton 030
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This week's Sumner Files is a never-before-released interview Sumner Crane himself did, in 1980, with famous abstract expressionist painter (and his own former teacher) Milton Resnick! deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner... and audio at deep-convection.orgdeepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: Sumner interviews Milton Resnick, Part 1With Rudolph Grey and Duncan Lindsay, Sumner sits down for a conversation with his former mentor, abstract expressionist Milton Resnick, in 1980. 000
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This picture, painted by Sumner Crane with no wave legends Connie Burg and Rudolph Grey as models, was based on a Dashiell Hammett detective novel; Sumner also painted scenes of the Irish landed gentry from the novels of J. P. Donleavy. Scenes from books, in the Sumner Files. tinyurl.com/mvc5xm8ktinyurl.comThe Sumner Files: Scenes from booksFriends at gunpoint, and Irish landed gentry 041
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026This week's Sumner files is an audio podcast interview with Weasel Walter! Weasel's own music merges "extreme rock forms and free jazz," but he's also a scholar who knows more about no wave than just about anyone. It was an honor and a pleasure. deep-convection.org/2026/02/15/t...deep-convection.orgThe Sumner Files, Episode Ten: Weasel Walter 000
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026This image is detective novelist Dashiell Hammett, painted by Sumner Crane on a piece of cardboard. Portraits, in this week's Sumner Files. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: PortraitsLikenesses of celebrities, friends, and others --- but not Bukka White or Kierkegaard 010
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The joy of victory, the agony of defeat, and some quieter moments too. Sports scenes, painted in the early 1980s. In this week's Sumner Files, the substack newsletter I've been writing about my late uncle, the artist Sumner Crane. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: Sports scenes, early 1980sAthletes in motion, or static. 011
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026In this week's Sumner Files, two paintings of the block where #sumnercrane lived from around 1978-86. I use them as a prompt to reconstruct some of his life, relationships and art during this period, a particularly fertile one for him. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...deepconvection.substack.comThe Sumner Files: East 4th Street, mid-1980sTwo paintings of Sumner's block, and some stories about his place there. 000
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Thanks so much @alli-wing.bsky.social ! It's a profound honor to receive an award named for Joanne Simpson, such an important person in the history of our field. I'm very grateful to my nominators, whoever they are, and to the committee! 010
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026In this week's Sumner Files: urban landscapes from lower Manhattan, painted in the early/mid 80s, the last years in which #sumnercrane lived in the borough. Diverse in light, color and perspective, by turns sweeping, intimate, and gritty. tinyurl.com/2kkknkm8tinyurl.comThe Sumner Files: Urban landscapes, 1982-1986Scenes from Lower Manhattan, painted during the last years that Sumner lived there. 000
Reposted by Adam SobelAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN" 16034381916047
Reposted by Adam SobelAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 15/01/2026Important opportunity to help save climate and weather science. From the fantastic group who brought you the climate livestream. 0236
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026In this week's Sumner Files: zebra centaurs. tinyurl.com/j2fhhxbu #sumnercranetinyurl.comThe Sumner Files: African centaurs, 1998Zebra-supermodel hybrids. 000
Reposted by Adam SobelRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026A thorough investigation is being conducted of the deceased victim while the killer was exonerated by Noem before her body was cold. 39945591491
Reposted by Adam SobelPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026EPA proposes to stop measuring benefits of environmental regulations, just industry costs. Seat belts cost car companies money. Pollution controls on coal plants cost utilities money. Water quality standards cost industry money. EPA says ignore the lives they save. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...nytimes.comE.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution 43816
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026It feels a little wrong to post about art at this time. But it's what's keeping me sane. So, here's the weekly Sumner Files, on a major #sumnercrane masterwork, dated 1989: The Shopping Centaurs. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...open.substack.comThe Sumner Files: Shopping Centaurs, 1989A major Sumner masterwork 010
