I am recruiting a PhD student to join my group at UC Irvine in Fall 2027 to work on the Coupled Tipping Dynamics of Ocean Circulation and Ice Sheets – details in the attachment below. Please share the position with your networks!
Savannah Ferretti, PhD
@savannahferretti.bsky.social
postdoc @uciess • climate data scientist • views my own (she/her) savannahferretti.github.io
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
Thanks to all who tuned in to my talk at #ClimateInformatics2026! Had a blast discussing the cutting edge in AI for Climate, especially in such a beautiful venue!
🚨 New preprint alert! We introduce a machine learning method that lets you see exactly which aspects of nonlocal information (nearby grid cells, past timesteps, or vertical levels) a neural network uses to make predictions, without sacrificing accuracy. Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.10305
Data-Driven Integration Kernels for Interpretable Nonlocal Operator Learning
Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While ...
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As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:
The AI-Augmented Scientist
The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist
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Thank you to everyone who came to my (first ever) talk at #AGU25! My talk “Learning Nonlocal Controls on South Asian Monsoon Rainfall”, opened up the first session of the conference this year. If you’re around NOLA this week, let’s connect!
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 12mo agoNew: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
My first lead-author paper, “Explaining South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Seasonality Using a Metric of Plume Buoyancy,” has been published in Geophysical Research Letters! 🌧️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Explaining South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Seasonality Using a Metric of Plume Buoyancy
A buoyancy-based process-oriented diagnostic (POD) describes South Asian monsoon rainfall at monthly and subregional (500–1,000 km) scales The POD predicts the sign of monsoon rainfall changes in...
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online
Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.
Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last yr.What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
It's only Monday of the following week and... ❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA. ❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.
I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...
This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.
John Morales@johnmoralestv.bsky.social · last yr.Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow! Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research! wclivestream.com
NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced. "efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
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Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States. Spread the word to drive attention and support!
Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...
Paul Voosen@voosen.me · last yr.BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Your wallet is being cleaned out by expert pickpockets. This is criminal. Literally criminal. I call for an IMMEDIATE investigation into who knew what, when, and what they did with the info. You can bet the Admin and many here in DC are considerably richer tonight than they were this morning.
When Musk tells you that he is sure there is massive fraud in government, it is more of a confession about how he operates rather than an unbiased assessment of how public servants work.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last yr.What an amazing coincidence that the chair of Wisconsin College Republicans got one of Elon Musk's $1 million checks in Musk's most-likely-illegal stunt to bribe the voters. MAGA Republicans are con artists trolling for easy marks. Don't be one, Wisconsinites.
"... how the agency's 600 layoffs could impact access to critical weather predictions." via ABC News
Former NOAA employee says layoffs could impact coverage of weather and severe storms
ABC News’ Juju Chang spoke with Zachary Labe, formerly of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, about how the agency's 600 layoffs could impact access to critical weather predictions.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
One of my favorite places to visit in Ithaca, please #savethemuseumoftheearth!
Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2y agoDetailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US). ⚒️🧪🦑 Please share widely and help if you can! ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
#agu24 participant petition calling for AGU to cut ties with genocide profiteer Lockheed Martin-can be signed anonymously if work conditions make it unsafe to be public Bit.ly/against_genocide
Earth and Space Scientists Against Genocide
December 2024 We, the undersigned members of the Earth and space science community, call on the American Geophysical Union to cancel its association with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. By accepting ...
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