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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

😭😭😭🤧 This is absolutely crushing to hear.

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I started building a pre-CBS 1960’s homage Strat in the fall of 2023, and completed it this weekend.

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Steve Nesbitt @70dbz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We hear that protection of NCAR from breakup is in peril in the CJS bill - be sure to contact your representatives to ensure that they hear your support!

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Good work everyone. Funding has been restored!!!

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Let’s recap: Over the last two months, hundreds of probationary NOAA employees were fired, then un-fired and immediately placed on administrative leave, then fired again. This is not a way to build a sustainable workforce, nor maintain morale within the existing one. The cruelty is the point.

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Shout out to Harvard for having some courage.

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

RIP Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) 😞 Many of my colleagues and friends worked on this technology. I had hoped to use it someday. www.eol.ucar.edu/airborne-pha...

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to share the difficult news that we were informed on Friday afternoon that NSF has suspended their support for the Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) through the Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure-2 program. The original $91.8 million grant was awarded to NSF NCAR in May of 2023.

We are now working with NSF on a timeline and next steps for closing the project down, and we are in the process of determining what this will mean for staff working on APAR. In the meantime, we are meeting directly with those who are being impacted to answer their questions as best we can and provide support.

While there are many questions we cannot yet answer, I felt it was important to let you all know of this NSF decision as soon as possible. As we gather more information and have a clearer picture of the future, I will share more details with you. However, I would like to briefly touch on a few important points.

First, I believe that the decision to cancel funding for APAR is based on a number of factors. These include some unanticipated cost and schedule challenges related to the project's complexity as well as a difficult federal budget outlook for science in general and science infrastructure in particular.

However, I do not believe that this decision to cut funding is a reflection of APAR’s scientific value. APAR’s potential to be a transformative tool for observing hurricanes and other severe weather remains. This is exactly the type of next-generation observational tool that our organization should be developing and deploying for community use in order to push science forward and respond to urgent societal needs.

I also want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank the APAR team. They have been working incredibly hard to make this project successful. When you set out to do something that has never been done before, there are nearly always challenges that are incredibly difficult to anticipate. Overcoming these obstacles can be hard, but taking on this kind of high-risk, fundamental research is at the heart of our mission and it is critical that we don’t shy away from these projects, as difficult as they are.

I have been impressed at every turn with the APAR team’s dedication and creativity in the face of these challenges, and I want to make clear that the inability to move forward with APAR is not related to the quality of their work. I am also grateful to our many partners and subcontractors on this project, whose work on this project has been invaluable.

Finally, I want to affirm NSF NCAR’s commitment to APAR. While this is a significant setback, and the way forward is not certain, we know from engaging with our research community that this instrument is needed. With that in mind, we plan to explore every possible path forward in the near and long term to continue to make progress.

Sincerely,
Everette

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Everette Joseph
Director
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Conceptual diagram of APAR viewed from the side and the top, showing panels on all faces.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/04/2025

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“They’ll take your funding anyway.” Exactly. It gets more and more personal for me every day.

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I appreciate that you’ve held that hope in good faith, David, and I take at face value that you’ve done your best to uphold that ideal. Unfortunately, in tenure-ineligible, mid-career research-track academia, that shit would be as hilarious to believe 10 years ago as it would be today.

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Mallory Row @mallyrow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

i’m refired!!!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A decade of the lies and false promises common to abusers is a decade too long.

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is the absolute stupidest, most asinine thing ever. These people are terrible at management. Again, NOAA and the NWS are being gutted for almost no deficit savings while costing the economy and potentially people’s lives significantly.

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Noah Brauer @noaabrauer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Sick to my stomach knowing and seeing so many wonderful, talented, and educated people like Zack going through this right now. What a loss to this country and the scientific community as a whole.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/04/2025

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

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Steve Brown @stevenslbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 08/04/2025

Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.

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Eleven Texas A&M international students might have quietly lost their ability to stay in the U.S.

The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks.

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The staff cuts at federal science agencies aren’t just costing us low-ranking scientists, who are the seed corn of our field’s future. It’s costing us the senior ranks, the people with decades of experience, the veterans, the mentors, the advocates, the institutional memory.

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Jeff Frame @vortexjeff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As someone who regularly makes short-term (a few to several hours in advance) severe weather forecasts, I think that the greatest impact to forecast quality from this may come in that realm.

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Nate Johnson @natejohnson.org · 27/03/2025

"The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models... When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found that radiosondes had the second-biggest impact on forecast quality, after satellites."

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With fewer weather balloons due to government staffing cuts, forecasts may be less accurate

At least 10 sites have suspended or limited weather balloon launches, which used to occur twice daily, because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 25/03/2025

From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future. More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ

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Science Helps You Thrive: Strong U.S. Scientific Leadership Raises Us All

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For those who wish to learn more about nisei Japanese translators and their crucial role in WWII, here are some resources. Read them before they disappear. storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-sup... www.nps.gov/miss/learn/h... www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Comment... www.nps.gov/articles/pat...

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Fort Snelling: Breaking the Code - Mississippi National River & Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My grandfather was a Japanese linguist for the US Army in WWII. He translated intercepted Japanese military communications for the US military. Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As an 80s kid who was essentially raised by two WWII combat veterans (one in both sets of grandparents), with a grandmother who made small arms ammunition in the Lake City plant, I am INFURIATED on your behalf at this erasure of your family legacy, along with all other recent examples.

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Brad Barrett @barrett-weather.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

For a short break from existential anxiety, my colleague Néstor Santayana (from the Uruguay Institute of Met) shared photos of a fall-season tornado in north-central Uruguay (32°S) from what appears to be an isolated supercell

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If they had chosen to go with Gulf of Doom, I’d oblige.

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Anyone in the weather space know if it’s possible to get all the obs from here as a .kmz file? www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/

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NWS Weather & Hazards

NWS Weather and Hazards Data Viewer

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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Reproducibility will not be “good” if you only use ~5-20 shells per sample; planktic #foraminifera are unicellular organisms that have lifespans of a few weeks—much less than ~centuries-to-millennia represented by sediment samples (1/3)

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another day another louder-than-god point to point #germanium #fuzzpedal. Intentionally mismatched NOS Soviet transistors = bullet with UFO wings #guitarpedal #fuzz #pointopoint #scrimshawlabs #handwired

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My take on the most underrated idiot box circuit ever, the original Dallas #Rangemaster. That brilliant shimmer on Brian May’s solos? All the cutting grit and bite on a Tony Iommi track? This is the gremlin responsible. #treblebooster #germanium #pointopoint #circuitart #scrimshawlabs #guitarpedals

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#Houston funnel cloud near Telge and West Rd. earlier today (1659 UTC) #txwx #houwx

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

❄️ Happy solstice! ❄️

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/12/2024

METAR xkcd.com/3024

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I love science. I also love tube-amplified, louder-than-god electric guitars + designing/hand-building #analog pedals for even more loud. Like this Dead Conquistador, a raunchy, thick, #germanium #fuzzpedal commissioned by a good buddy. #guitarpedal #fuzz #pointopoint #scrimshawlabs #handwired

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Scott St. George @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com · 15/11/2024

There's a lot of new folks around here and the AGU Fall Meeting is coming up, so I figured I should toss up my EXTREMELY-DETAILED decision tree on font use to help anybody who may be soon getting started on their talks and posters.

Simple flow chart to help you decide if you should use Comic Sans on your AGU talk poster.

Unless you are Richard Alley, never ever use Comic Sans.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Interested in working on hazards and climate? I've got an opening in my group working with @ekianirad.bsky.social, focused on building tools that help translate research-focused modeling into action for the business. If you like creative problem-solving, give us a shout. Boston-based. Have a look->

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Liberty Mutual Careers

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Fabulous new data product - especially since it seamlessly integrates sea level projection + coastal flood frequency data in one place with nice explainers around it. Now whip up some maps of the footprints of minor/moderate/etc events and we'll be cookin sealevel.globalchange.gov/national-sea...

Boston coastal flood frequency - minor flooding

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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Current #earworm: Horses by Slomosa. An epic homage to the Kyuss/early Queens of the Stone Age sound. To me, it sounds like the (fitting) 2020s update to QOTSA’s If Only. “Don’t you know what that is It’s the sound of your horses It’s the sound of your success” 🤘🏽🤘🏽 youtu.be/P2yc_U2Chlw?...

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Slomosa - Horses (official music video)

Official music video for Horses - enjoy!Thank you to Ida Rydeng and her horses, for their help and efforts in making this!Shots from Høstsabbat Festival (202...

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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

50 years ago today was not only the nation's worst #tornado outbreak, but one of the most historically important for the innovations it spurred, the April 3-4, 1974 "Super Outbreak".

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The 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak's Lessons Learned | Weather.com

It was not only a historic outbreak, but a key moment in the advancement of meteorology. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

On this 50th anniversary of #SuperOutbreak1974, a reflectivity loop from the Covington, KY WSR-57 radar, showing tornadic supercells impacting Cincinnati and Xenia, OH. Though blurry, these images were used to save lives. 16 mm digital transfer from Dr. Ernie Agee’s archives. youtu.be/eCMS7jlLc54

Photo of the 16 mm film reel and box, labeled “Radar Movie (16 mm) 3 April 1974.”

Dr Ted Fujita’s map of Super Outbreak tornado tracks. I’ve annotated the approximate coverage area of the CVG WSR-57 in blue.

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