My wonderful geography colleagues and collaborators continue to make me a geographer. New paper out in EPF. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

Repair requires more than yet another fix: Interrupting the longue durée of whiteness in greening Atlanta - Richard Milligan, Katherine Hankins, Tyler McCreary, Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Sarah H. Ledford...

Across the shifting urban regimes that have cumulatively produced the intensely unequal landscapes of Atlanta, one feature of racial capitalist governance has r...

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You have until Aug 31 to make nominations for a CUAHSI Community Award! 🏆 Do you know someone, an instructor who's made a lasting impact, a student who’s been actively involved in the community? Let's give recognition to those serving the water science community! 💦 www.cuahsi.org/community-aw...

People have been talking up the new newsletter Worse on Purpose, which exposes corporate consolidation and enshittification. It's very appealing, but as I write at Cup of Coffee today, the vibes are way off and I think people should be wary. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

For those who haven't heard of this yet, the fastest/easiest way to reduce indoor air pollution from wildfire smoke is to get a basic 20x20 box fan, and slap a single 20x20 air filter (make sure it's very high MERV) on the back. No tape or anything, it just sticks to the back of the fan.

Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.

the real question, though: why are you continuing to lionize a horrible misogynist who, by his own admission, loved to harass the women who served him at restaurants? who found it hilarious to make their jobs harder? and who thought women who wouldn't sleep with him were "worse than whores"?

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new?

I don’t have words for how awful this is.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

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Bless these folks for building and sharing this tool!!

jordan jordan jordan@jordan.matelsky.com · 3mo ago

reminder for those writing grants these days — we made a tool to fill out your NSF/NIH COA lists automatically :) bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa #academicsky

That's what I've heard, too #GApol. A vote for Ivory is a vote for a Fulton tax increase, twice over. Once for the 2025 increase Mo demanded but no other Commissioner backed. Twice for the TAD money diverted to Dickens: $50M+/ yr to fund the Jail reno & hospital that taxpayers will have to make up.

Atlanta Community Press Collective@atlpresscollective.com · 3mo ago

Russell says that Dickens is backing former Fulton County Commissioner Natalie Hall for the open Fulton District 4 seat in order to push through the TAD extension. The seat is open with current occupant Mo Ivory running for Fulton County Commission Chair. Russell says Dickens is also backing Ivory.

Marta needs to get some serious enforcement on Mitchell St if the bus lanes have any hope of being successful.

Whelp, just realized my grading scheme for one class this semester adds up to 110%

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This doesn’t cover all my thoughts on stormwater and flooding in cities, but does summarize good number of them! whenthecreeksrise.org/2026/03/24/w...

What does more proactive stormwater management look like?

An urban hydrologist walks through five fixes, from permeable pavers to mandatory standards

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Our March newsletter is LIVE - we're officially celebrating 🎉 25 years! Inside: a CEO letter marking this milestone, Fellows sharing about WaterSoftHack, a board member story, a CUAHSI college visit, an upcoming cyberseminar, application deadlines and more! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

I’m at the mid-career slump. I’m at the national research funding & infrastructure crisis. I’m at the university budget cuts. I’m at the nonsensical war. I’m at the demolition of our democracy. I’m at the combination mid-career-slump-national-research-funding-&-infrastructure-crisis-university-budge

The world continues to burn and I’m sitting here reviewing 131 amazing applications to our REU program. Every single student has a strong application. So remember, if you don’t get a REU offer, it is not a reflection on you!

@hydrochrista.bsky.social @domciruzzi.bsky.social, and I asked hydrologists across the country for their syllabi so we could investigate how instructors were teaching hydrology courses and think about the future... Here’s what we found + suggestions agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Current State of Undergraduate Hydrology Courses in North America: A Path Forward

Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

This one hurts

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

Breaking News: Catherine O’Hara, the comedian best known for her roles in “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Beetlejuice,” has died at 71.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

If you know an undergraduate looking for a geosciences REU program, our applications are due in one month! Focus this year on community, air, and water projects! sites.google.com/view/csaw-re...

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I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul. However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events. I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪 theconversation.com/greenland-is...

Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why

Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.

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Our Annual AGU First Timers Guide is live! Please share widely!! We look forward to connecting with folks at our Booth #836 with @cuahsi.bsky.social www.agu-h3s.org/post/agunola...

NOLA AGU Guide for First Time Attendees

Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! This guide was put together by members of the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee with help from the wider AGU community in hopes of maki...

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Applications are open to become a member of AGU H3S! See comments for links. Feel free to contact us through our website if you have any questions! www.agu-h3s.org

Born out of our WaterSciCon sessions and workshop in 2024 (thanks @cuahsi.bsky.social and @agu.org!) this was a really fun one to write! We hope it spurs thoughts and new collaborations.

Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉🎉NEW PAPER🎉🎉 "Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle" This is some of the work I'm most proud of to date: a new commentary co-authored with 15 amazing urban hydrology (or adjacent) folks after the 2024 WaterSciCon! Details and highlights below... 1/5 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

CUAHSI is hosting a Community Gathering during the AGU Annual Meeting the evening of December 17th at 6pmCT! Join us at Ernst Cafe for appetizers, networking, and interactive activities with chances to win prizes! All are welcome but space is limited. Please RSVP here www.cuahsi.org/events/cuahs...

New #WOTUS rule changes, impacting the Clean Water Act & protections for our nations' waterways. This is an area of expertise in my group - I would be thrilled to engage with media, policy-makers, nonprofits, etc. to discuss. DM or email to engage -

Things at work I cannot do do far while Cloudflare is down: anything on our LMS; open stack exchange to troubleshoot R code

I'm looking to switch out the Winogradsky column lab I've been doing in my Wetlands course for something new (I never get visible diffs among treatments and I don't think students are getting much from it). What are your favorite labs for an upper level Wetlands course? Bonus if biogeochemistryish!