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Chris Maupin

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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Let's find out!
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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
…and standard 5-position wiring on the blade switch.
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pots are CTS 250 kΩ audio-taper with 0.1 μF Vishay orange drops for tone caps.
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I went with Fralin Vintage Hots for the pickups…
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hand-rubbed tung oil body and fretboard finish.
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Custom unfinished body from Fender-licensed Musikraft, 7.25” radius ‘62/‘63 MiM Fender replacement neck
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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 
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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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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is amazing!!
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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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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“High alert”
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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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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New Nature World View from @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com on the challenges that climate risk poses to the insurance sector. When risks go up, losses go up, prices go up. Adaptation to reduce vulnerability can help. But as long as carbon emissions continue, risk will continue to rise.
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Climate change will send home insurance spiralling. Here’s how to control costs | Nature
Insurers rely on sophisticated catastrophe modelling to estimate risk exposure — and as climate risks are rising, so are the costs for protection. Insurers rely on sophisticated catastrophe modelling to estimate risk exposure — and as climate risks are rising, so are the costs for protection.
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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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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We love y’all and we need you more than ever. That help?
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Most underrated effect of all guitar history. And César Díaz was the Rangemaster god. No one modded or built them better.
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
These are absolutely bat-bananas insane. I love it.
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Chris Maupin @chrisatx.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This supercell is only dangerous to your eardrums. #TexasSupercell #ScrimshawLabs #germanium #Rangemaster #pointtopoint #handmade #handbuilt #guitarpedals #vintageeffects #treblebooster #overdrive #tubeamps
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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 · 11/01/2025
The pots are TT electronics. Pretty much all the other non-mojo components are manufactured by Vishay and can be sourced from Mouser etc.
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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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