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Woodwell Climate Research Center @woodwellclimate.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🌡️Have you been feeling the heat this week? Stay informed, hydrated, and safe! Dangerously hot days are on the rise across the U.S. according to this map from @cmshintani.bsky.social. This week’s extreme temperatures are part of a larger trend of climate change.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Python slithers to the top of the programming language leaderboard

Ranking graph showing top programming languages on GitHub by contributor count from 2014-2024. Python rises to #1, followed by JavaScript and TypeScript, with shifts in popularity of languages like Ruby, Go, and C.

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

AGU H3S invites you to submit an abstract to our session at #AGU25 Thinking Outside the Box Plot: Communicating Science Beyond the Paper! The session explores creative ways to communicate research. Conveners: @adischner.bsky.social @acarneiromar.bsky.social @gescilam.bsky.social Cee Nell Emily Ellis

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 30/06/2025

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

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Merici @merici.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Doge is a failure that’s going to cost taxpayers more money in the long run. This is the study I referenced that found Doge will cost the gov $135 billion this year alone due to firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too

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Becca Dzombak @rdzombak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire. Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

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Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program

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Mike Mahoney @mikemahoney218.com · 22/05/2025

Very excited to share the newest (and my first!) post on the water data blog, announcing the next generation of USGS Water Data APIs: waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/api-wha...

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What's new with WDFN APIs?

What to expect from modernized replacements to the WaterServices family of APIs.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Meanwhile, the President's budget calls for $564 million in cuts to USGS to eliminate research funding & programs that "focus on social agendas (e.g., climate change) to instead focus on achieving dominance in energy and critical minerals."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They left because they couldn't take the instability and the limits on their ability to work, and they could see the writing on the wall. Now, Trump is closing many of these USGS Water Science Centers that are essential to the safety of our nation.

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Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US

White House orders closure of USGS water science centers, which shares data with weather service for flood warnings

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?

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Water Science Centers and Regions

A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/04/2025

For nearly 15 years the US Dept of Interior's Climate Adaptation* Science Centers have supported hundreds of scientists studying how ecosystems respond to climate change & pollution, invasive species, sustainable wildlife & wild lands management, and more. Now the admin wants to cancel them all.

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Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research

Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

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Mark SubbaRao @marksubbarao.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Museum and Planetarium Friends, Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact. Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov). Thank you!

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Scientific Visualization Studio

The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Science ...

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 11/04/2025

The current regime does not read.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jazz up your ggplots! ‘Useful tricks to elevate your data viz via `ggplot` extension packages in R” Custom themes, fonts, annotations, arrows & more By the USGS waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/ggplot-... #RStats #ggplot2 #ggplot #Dataviz

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Jazz up your ggplots!

Useful tricks to elevate your data viz via `ggplot` extension packages in R

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Another dataset I like and have used extensively is streamflow and other river data from USGS. I don't know if another country has so much of their data online and accessible, but I've tried to get data for France in the past and it was not easy.

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USGS | National Water Dashboard

Access river level and other water information and weather conditions in your neighborhood! A map viewer showing real-time river level and water data collected at U.S. Geological Survey observation st...

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This one is a bummer. The Interior Department had only recently established a formal advisory committee on scientific integrity to ensure external experts were informing its scientific work.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 01/03/2025

Once again, the New York Times gives the dataviz community an opportunity to reflect on its purpose. Can everything be quantified and turned into a chart? Most important: what are the consequences of a chart? If words matter, charts matter too.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/02/2025

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."

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Sri Narasimhan @snarasimhan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current @cp-cell.bsky.social

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/02/2025

We have heard eOPF will go offline tomorrow (Mon). Take action now!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Caught up with a close friend from college today. She’s a world renowned astronomer who’s dealing with the federal funding bullshit like the rest of us. But that’s not even her main concern because as a transgender woman, her rights and safety are under assault. I hate these mofos.

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

From RyanZMorrodi on Masto: Plugging the #RStats {findSVI} package, which allows you to calculate CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index at various geographic levels using US Census data (which is still up, for now). Might be something we have to rely on in coming years. github.com/heli-xu/find...

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GitHub - heli-xu/findSVI: Calculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index

Calculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index. Contribute to heli-xu/findSVI development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

For all the non-central valley folks, here’s some geographic context to highlight the absurdity of Trump’s Flows to Nowhere. Highlighted Kaweah and Tule rivers illustrate just how far removed they are from LA, w/ no connection to CA aqueduct that lifts water 1900’ over Tehachapi mtns.

Map showing the Tulare Lake Basin in Central California, USA. Shaded relief data from USGS. Tule and Kaweah rivers highlighted in green.

Google earth screenshot of central and Southern California with a line the is drawn from Tulare Lake to LA… a distance of 159 straight line miles.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Illuminated contours of the Gulf of México. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the Gulf of México as illuminated contours

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W04 | Water Insecurity . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

Bar chart showing changes in U.S. county-level water insecurity from 2022 to 2023. The chart reveals that 46% of counties saw increased water insecurity, with 35.5% experiencing a major increase (>50%). 27.6% saw a major decrease, while 16.4% had a moderate decrease, and 10.4% experienced a moderate increase. 10.1% of counties had stable conditions. Annotations highlight that 44% fewer counties were affected by major decreases and 46% more counties became vulnerable to water insecurity.

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cee @ceenell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Do you use the #rstats package dataRetrieval? We are looking for users to join us for usability testing. Your input will help shape the future of the package as we update functionality to serve USGS water data from new APIs. Interested? Email comptools@usgs.gov github.com/DOI-USGS/dat...

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GitHub - DOI-USGS/dataRetrieval: This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data, and metadata directly from web services.

This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data, and metadata directly from web services. - DOI-USGS/dataRetrieval

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Althea Archer @aaarcher.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Vizlab has just released a new, interactive data visualization website about the USGS National Water Availability Assessment Report and Data Companion. Explore the data and the key findings of the assessment at water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water... #DataViz #rstats #USGS

Stylized illustration of the water cycle of the lower 48 United States, showing the fate of water that enters through precipitation. Most of the water returns to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, but much of the water ends up in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in Canada, or in the Gulf of Mexico through streamflow.

Map of water limitation in the lower 48 United States by watershed. Areas with relatively high water limitation are in the high plains, Texas, California, and the Mississippi Embayment hydrologic regions.

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Michael Meyer @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

What a gorgeous, impressive array of Open Data for understanding how earth is changing! Bravo!

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milos makes maps @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🌍 10 Ways to Bring Your Data to Life with 3D Maps Maps are no longer just flat visuals. With the right tools & data, you can create 3D maps that turn complex datasets into captivating stories. Here are 10 types of 3D maps you can create, the data sources you'll need, and tutorials to get started ⬇️

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cee @ceenell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Reproducible Data Science in R: Writing better functions Write functions in R that run better and are easier to understand. waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/rds-bet... #rstats #waterData

reproducible data science in r blog series. shows a water droplet building pipelines

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cee @ceenell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Reproducible Data Science in R: Flexible functions using tidy evaluation. Improve your functions with helpful dataframe evaluation patterns! waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/rds-fun... #rstats

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cee @ceenell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

come see me at poster 2328 talking at #climate #dataviz #AGU24

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Elmera Azadpour @eazadpour.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Explore how social vulnerability indicators—such as income, household size, and education—contribute to water insecurity in the Western U.S. 🔗: labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizatio...

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Vulnerability Indicators

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