Jeffrey J. Early
@jeffreyearly.bsky.social
Runner, biker, dad, software developer, physicist with a PhD in oceanography.
Ubiquitous automated enforcement. It’s the only way we will get to safe streets.
Mike Bollich-Ziegler@mb-z.bsky.social · 2d agoThe City of Federal Way is proposing to turn their school zone speed cameras on 24/7. Incredible stat: During monitoring periods ranging from three days to two weeks in July, there were 21,996 instances of drivers going 11+ mph over the speed limit in the four existing school speed zones.
I built a statistical model to forecast ski conditions using seasonal climate models. Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington has the worst ski forecast in the western US this winter. Makes sense given the “El Niño on steroids” model signal. Go south for better skiing ⛷️ Try it out: where2.ski
This isn't even 5d chess, this is Hilbert Space chess. He sees moves in directions you can't even conceive.
What if I told you 40k American will die due to AI every year, but that we will accept that loss because the technology is so convenient. Crazy right? 40k Americans die from automobiles every year but we accept that loss because the technology is so convenient.
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1...
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out.
technologyreview.com
"In 2023...NSF spent $918 million on research in the directorate's three core areas—earth, oceans, and atmospheric/geospatial sciences. By comparison...$110 million to be available in 2027". Geosciences decimated. Why are we not talking about this more? www.science.org/content/arti...
Is NSF’s new call for research proposals good news? Scientists and staffers have doubts
The long-delayed 12 solicitations only cover some disciplines—and promise to give them much less money
science.org
If Washington, Oregon and California left the union they would be immediately better off and able to solve problems down to city level. King County is one of the richest places on earth in all of human history and yet…
Cascadia Journal@cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago"In 2025 Washington state paid $69.3 billion more in federal taxes than it received back in funding." My latest for #Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/as-feds-hold...
Number of launches to deep space (beyond 150000 km) versus time in 5 year bins. We're not back to Apollo levels yet...
I don't write a lot of editorials because my opinions are nothing special. But I feel the proposed OMB rule is a large enough threat that it merited one. I hope that you'll read it and act.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3mo agoThe other context here is that a historically low number of NSF grants have been awarded this fiscal year AND money has been redirected away from basic research
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
1776: taxes moved money from the colonies to England. 2026: taxes move money from blue states to red states.
This is the whole thing. Basic, wonky, weird, non-applied, whatever you want to call it, science is usually the eventual foundation of everything you know as "technology" or "medicine". It's not even a case of "if they succeed" - the investment is in the voluminous incremental advancements
John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless.... No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya wins London Marathon in world-record time, first to finish under two hours
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours. Sawe smashed the men’s world record by winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.
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USA Today also covered our recently published research! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
2 studies warn 'Day After Tomorrow' ocean current is in trouble
More bad news for the ocean current at the center of the fictional (and scientifically inaccurate) "Day After Tomorrow" climate change disaster movie.
urldefense.com
Our recent paper on using thermal imagery from geostationary satellites to infer surface currents was published! We call the method GOFLOW 🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A nice coverage by @cnn.com of our article published last week in Science Advances on the weakening on the AMOC www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...
A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find | CNN
New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.
cnn.com
Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.
The Trump administration's newest approach to block the development of offshore wind is to pay companies to walk away from lease sites they had paid for under the Biden administration.
US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
arstechnica.com
On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
open.substack.com
🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!
wenegrat.github.io
“LLL-pilled” is a great term. It feels like there are few people who remain rational about LLMs.
Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 9mo agoEx-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
Folks who aren’t in the space world won’t understand but let me say this—the magnitude of damage this administration has done to NASA and science research has set us back decades. It will take many many generations to get us back to where we were before Trump. And that’s assuming it’s funded
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot: “The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
Which floor contains the reception area, store and restaurant?
Next week's council elections in Kirkland really do deserve more regional attention. An anti-growth advocacy group is promoting a full slate of candidates who are pledging to "protect neighborhoods." The outcome could tip the city in a very reactionary direction. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/28/k...
Kirkland Council Elections Could Tip City in Reactionary Direction » The Urbanist
# In four different races, Kirkland voters face a choice between pro-growth candidates interested in fostering additional types of housing throughout the city, and candidates looking for the city to b...
theurbanist.org
