Inspired 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...

The Sumner Files: This, right near City Hall, must be the place

On history, memory, biography, real estate, and music

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New 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: https://bit.ly/4awoYRO

New Rule Would Upend Science and Rewrite Federal Grantmaking

A 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.

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In 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:

Recalibrating Risk: a simplified model for North Atlantic hurricanes in a warming climate - Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience

Abstract 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…

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The 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.

Assessing Climate Change Impacts in Hurricane Catastrophe Models Using a Frequency Aware Quantile Mapping - Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience

In 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…

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Climate types interested in risk: go join the great new climate team at USAA. Remote eligible if you're away from an office:

On 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...

Press conference following the Weather & Climate Livestream walk to DC, June 3, 2026 on Capitol Hill

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

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A 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-...

Speak out against the proposed OMB rule attacking U.S. science

A call to action following the Weather and Climate Livestream.

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Scientists 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...

Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back | CNN

Scientists 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 ...

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The 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.

The Weather & Climate Livestream@wclivestream.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're starting in 20 minutes! Our opening lineup includes: @adamsobel.bsky.social Jen Kay (UC Boulder) @zacklabe.com @ametsoc.org @drjeffmasters.bsky.social @solilyquy.bsky.social Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) Abby Swann (UW) Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch

The 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.com

The Weather & Climate Livestream

For 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...

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This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

It’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.

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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

I 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...

Creativity in science: why talk about it?

Because we usually don't, and we aren't good at teaching it either.

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🚨 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/

What 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/

My 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...

Wrecking the Foundation

Willful blindness to public goods and the Trumpist attacks on science

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56. 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

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

This 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...

The Sumner Files: Diverse views of people and landscapes, Woodbourne and NYC, 1963-1964

Including contributions from Sumner's cousins, who have been looking at three of these paintings since the 1960s.

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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...

In 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...

I 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...

I'm against it

A No Kings Day meditation.

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Sumner Crane's Giacometti phase, from about ages 16-18, interpreted in light of his later artistic influences. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

The Sumner Files: The Giacometti phase, 1963-64

In which we see Sumner inhabit another artist for the first time.

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Jim 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

The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.

What 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...

The Sumner Files: Why am I doing this?

What could make a scientist so obsessed with his dead artist uncle?

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In 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/2kcrhjtp

The Sumner Files: Works on wood and metal, late 1970s

Paintings from the Mars period that are a little like sculptures, and a photo by Julia Gorton

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This 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.org

The Sumner Files: Sumner interviews Milton Resnick, Part 1

With Rudolph Grey and Duncan Lindsay, Sumner sits down for a conversation with his former mentor, abstract expressionist Milton Resnick, in 1980.

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This 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/mvc5xm8k

The Sumner Files: Scenes from books

Friends at gunpoint, and Irish landed gentry

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This 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...