iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Nepal flood disaster continues to evolve. The drainage of the lower landslide-dammed lake last week undercut riverbanks, resulting in further small landslides. The huge volumes of sediment mobilized and redeposited during this event will remain unstable for many years to come. @planet.com 🧪⚒️

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/09/2026

Based on their results, the USGS researchers estimate between one-third and half of the nutrients in streams came from “lagged, non-point sources.” This means it took longer than one season for nitrogen or phosphorus to move from soil or groundwater into a waterway.

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Excess nutrients can lie dormant in soil for years before polluting rivers, study finds

U.S. Geological Survey researchers developed models to better understand the timing and sources contributing to nutrient pollution in streams and rivers. They say their findings can help guide efforts...

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More people should know how integral @akrherz.bsky.social is to U.S. climate data analysis.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Over on Linked in, CNRS researcher @sgascoin.bsky.social has done analysis showing that the water flowed 2.5 kilometers UP HILL into the Trishuli Valley. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Green roofs work, y'all. Heres the one on my building, in action a few minutes ago. youtu.be/9NbZjKiycLU?...

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Aiken Green Roof in action- July 2026

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

'Historical trends (1950–2023) ... reveal statistically significant increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme fire weather in regions such as the Iberian Peninsula ...' esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...

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Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

⚒️ And the falls makes a 90 degree turn due to faulting!

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

⚒️ We were in New Hampshire last weekend and discovered this gem: Sabbaday Falls cuts down through a basaltic dike intruded into the surrounding granite. A highly effective visual demonstration of these rocks' relative hardness!

View up a narrow stream running down a straight slot canyon, about 1m wide. At the end of the canyon, a waterfall can be seen plunging into a deep blue pool which extends almost to where the picture is taken from, at which point it shallows and runs over a dark black rock, which is very distinct from the white-pink rock that surround the canyon. This black rock can be seen on the right inner wall of the canyon jn front of the waterfall, and also behind the waterfall (if you squint). The waterfall is clearly eroding through a basaltic dike that intrudes the surrounding basalt. Part of another dark basaltic dike can be seen intruding the granite in the right foreground.

View from above the waterfall seen in the first picture. Water is cascading down a granite face into a clear into the linear gash formed by erosion of the basalt dike, which can be seen clearly in its uneroded form, with a granite stringer, on the back wall on the right of the picture.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those. Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social my family is having a vigorous dinner time debate over this sticker's taxonomy? One Patreon post IDed it as a snail fish, but another IDed as a cusk eel. We've looked at images of each, but we are not marine biologists. Help us settle the debate with a definitive ID!

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The National Science Board was created in 1950 with staggered 6 terms so that scientific research priorities would outlast any single administration. The statute says members must be chosen "solely on the basis of established records of distinguished service." www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

...then fund extension agencies.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

MIT Sea Grant is hiring a Research Coordinator. If enabling research that serves coastal communities floats your boat, check out: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Research Program Administrator

MIT - Research Program Administrator - Cambridge MA 02139

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is about twice NOAA’s annual budget.

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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

CAMERA DOWN, MAN. CAMERA DOWN.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

At least Kilauea is pretty. The V1 camera gets knocked (down but not out) by tephra at 11:13: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Another own goal by the Administration. Rolling back the GHG endangerment means the federal government isn't regulating them, so their argument against Climate Superfund laws is invalid. Plus, the laws are about past emissions not future ones. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits

Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump’s DoJ

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Why is Devils Lake, ND always flooding? Last night I went down a rabbit hole. 🧵 below:

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Tonight, I was looking at water.noaa.gov to see where the US is flooding. My 11-year old pointed to the ongoing major flooding in North Dakota, and I said "Oh, that's Devils Lake. It's always flooding there." They asked "Why?" and a rabbit hole yawned before me.

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National Water Prediction Service - NOAA

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

In person meeting over and an hour until I have to be on zoom. Nicest weather we've had since I arrived in DC, and I found a swing by the river. A few days of vacation starts very soon!

Docks in the Anacostia River, with blue skies and white clouds

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I spent four weeks camping on the High Arctic tundra in grad school. I'm going to be able to make some nice charitable donations.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

There is a lot of uncertainty with this storm. That's what this map shows. What this map doesn't show is what snowfall has the highest probability of occurring. For the sake of my trip tomorrow, I'm hoping for the lower end of the range in DC.

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A new report, DepaveLA, finds that 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312k acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks and parking, and could be converted to greener cooler cover and habitat. www.latimes.com/environment/... acceleratela.org/depavela/

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Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds

Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Eos @eos.org · 06/02/2026

Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

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Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos

Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Devastated to learn that a recent UVM RSENR graduate was the NOAA Fisheries Observer on this vessel. All these lives lost are a tragedy, but I will especially mourn the loss of this member of the RSENR community whose adult life and professional career was just beginning.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This scene will never not be funny.

Fold in the cheese meme:
"what does create resilient communities mean"
"you make them resilient"
"here's what you do, you just make it resilient"
"If you say resilient one more time..."
"It says make them resilient"
"you make them resilient then!"

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"the EPA announced it would no longer calculate the economic benefits of lives saved when setting limits [on pollution]...From now on, the agency will only tally the costs to industry. The benefits to human beings? Too uncertain to count, according to the EPA."

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 24/01/2026

As always, my strong advice is not to watch a person be violently murdered. You will learn nothing by watching a video that you could not understand by reading a description. And it will scar your heart. It will not make you tougher or a better activist.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Getting ready to teach Watershed Hydrology in the age of AI. Thank goodness I have copilot to help me generate good quality content for the first day of class, right?

AI version of a water cycle diagram with natural and human processes. Note that this doesn't make a cycle and the numbers are totally made up.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A bit of extra space in the box from REI today. Was trying to do the sustainable thing by patching my coat & avoiding driving to the store to get the materials (since delivery trucks are in my neighborhood daily anyway). But now I'm curious about weight vs volume for carbon emissions during shipping

A cardboard box holds a package of mini patches. The patches are about 2% of the box volume.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

On making syrup from the PNW's big leaf maple trees

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New paper! Real-time flood inundation mapping (FIM) services are an incredibly valuable tool for emergency management and affected communities. But do their visualizations help users quickly and accurately interpret information to make decisions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Comparing Flood Inundation Map Features and Diagnosing Decision Support Design Challenges

Using visualisation typologies, we developed a diagnostic evaluation method for eight user-controlled ensemble FIM visualisations. Key design challenges include unclear messaging, non-accessible and ...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'll take it 😎

Funding deal rejects Trump’s push for major science cuts
Congressional appropriators released a “minibus” of three bipartisan spending bills today that would pare back the budgets of some science agencies but largely reject Trump’s request for steep cuts. The minibus consists of the Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior-Environment bills, which cover a substantial portion of federal research funding for fiscal year 2026.
The package includes:
$24.4 billion for NASA, a 1.6% cut (including $7.25 billion for NASA Science, a 1.1% cut);
$8.75 billion for the National Science Foundation, a 3.4% cut;
$8.4 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a 1.9% increase;
$6.17 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, roughly flat funding;
$1.42 billion for the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.0% cut; and
$1.18 billion to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a 2.3% increase

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Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

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Li Li (李黎) @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy new year! Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world. 3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET Pls spread the word. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Have I mentioned how much I love Forest Shuffle? Playing it is so calming, almost meditative. And I don't care if I win or lose, because I crafted a beautiful forest along the way. It's a perfect antidote for this moment in time.

View of a brown wood table with forest cards organized on it, along with other detritus

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"The world produced 450 million tons of plastics in 2025, and that number is only expected to climb. ...the planet will be facing one of the most prolific forms of pollution ever — and one that we know very little about. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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What we learned about microplastics in 2025

The year has been full of scary details about the tiny particles. Here’s what we know now.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

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These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵

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