I would spend some serious quatloos to have the Metrons step in now.

Gul Dukat@realguldukat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This war with the Gorn Hegemony will not be an endless war. I only expect it to last about 4 weeks. #StarTrek #Sisko197

From mid-December 2024 at the LilGayPub on P and 11th. And then I walked to and rode the Metro at night! And I survived!

Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · last yr.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

Never before have the perils of a live demo been expressed so poetically. Great job Angus @2i2c.org and Franklin @curvenote.com! #Scipy2025

Today at SciPy 2025 we released Icechunk 1.0, an open source package and specification that enables database-style transactions against petabyte-scale array datasets using only cloud object storage as infrastructure. Read about it on our blog earthmover.io/blog/icechun..., or visit earthmover.io

Icechunk 1.0: Production-Grade Cloud-Native Array Storage Is Here - Earthmover

A year ago, we made an important internal decision which set Earthmover on a new course—we decided to refactor and open source our core technology for storing array-based data in the cloud. This took ...

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🔥Lightning Talks are always a highlight at #SciPy2025 ⚡️ Thanks to everyone who took the stage and let us spice things up with props!🦞🤲

Precipitable water ranking for the June 2025. Wet, from the standpoint of water (vapor). Record values in parts of the Northeast. [Note: precipitable water is the total column water vapor if it were squeezed into a liquid state.]

Consider what a modern miracle public environmental data access is. Consider what might happen if it ever went away.

Alan Gerard@wxmanms1.bsky.social · last yr.

So I was able to do a 15 month plot of data from the Rio Ruidoso gage at Hollywood on the USGS site and found that the river did hit about a 16' crest with the debris flow flash flood last year, but it blew 4' past that today. 😱

A fully-funded postdoctoral scientist position is available in the research group of Distinguished Prof. Mathias Vuille. The position is open to scientists with interest & experience in: (1) South American (paleo-)climate, (2) Andean glacier-climate interactions, or 3) regional climate modeling.

Today, students in my @ualbanydaes.bsky.social data viz class present their final projects, which wouldn't be possible without the folks at @unidata.bsky.social. The consequences of this administration's attacks on science and education just keep on hitting closer and closer to home.

David John Gagne II@djgagnedos.bsky.social · last yr.

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research. Or 932 years. [And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · last yr.

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Cabinet secretaries engaged in a grim game of “how many people can I kill” one-upsmanship

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

Broadcast meteorologists use these tools EVERY DAY to provide cool stats in your local market. Yea we have the data at NCEI and can build tools, but why reinvent the wheel?

He’s just antivaxx. And like most antivaxxers, he is fully vaccinated so he is only gambling with other people’s lives.

Jay Stooksberry@jaystooksberry.bsky.social · last yr.

Stop calling this moron a "vaccine skeptic." Skeptics still manage to change their minds when the evidence points them in a different direction. Denialists see the same contrary evidence and dig their ideological heels in deeper.

Archiving daily #climate data while it's still accessible with #python ...

I'm not allowed to share these kinds of scholarships though my university email anymore so am doing so here. Scholarships for members of the LGBTQ+ STEM community. ostem.org/Page/scholar...

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last yr.

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

If you benefited from the severe thunderstorm & tornado watches & warnings yesterday, call your Congressional reps and tell them to keep the NWS funded & staffed. Last week, NWS were informed that up to 25% of their staff may be let go - this after they were already chronically 10% *under*staffed.

Lauren Rosenthal@laurenthal.bsky.social · last yr.

National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000. With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

22 weeks apart.

I swear I thought for a second that Clayton McCullough got murdered by that graphic. 🤣

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@paulythegun.bsky.social I think your next Bsky handle needs to be goat_colostrum_provider

Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · last yr.

"if you can't get your hands on chimpanzee milk"

And that "contingency" would need to involve a lot of disk storage ...

Matt Lanza@mattlanza.bsky.social · last yr.

Apropos of nothing, thinking of NOAA's PSL site, which if for some reason were to get punted offline because of <waves hands and gestures generally> would be a devastating loss for atmospheric science, and I sure hope that someone more skilled than I has a contingency to try to replicate this stuff.

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

“A lot of people don't realize how @NOAA.gov impacts their daily lives... It's a huge public service that is truly a bargain for the American taxpayer." - Brian Tang, @ualbanydaes.bsky.social spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

NOAA layoffs could have widespread impacts in New York

Here's how the cuts could affect New Yorkers.

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so now we're not even getting the rare earths? some dealmaker

I don’t know if it’s possible to quantify how much global influence and power this administration has willfully squandered in the past four weeks. It is a national security disaster.