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According to historian John Ross, when President-elect John Kennedy asked outgoing President Eisenhower why D-Day had gone so well, Eisenhower replied, “Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans!"

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 years) at the University of Oslo in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling. The postdoc will work on improving & applying the land surface model CLM (Community Land Model) that is used in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM). www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Comprehensive review of Blame by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social "Blame is not just a documentary. It is a field report. A case study. A moral reckoning. Blame is not merely a defense of scientists; it is a defense of the very idea that truth still matters." Must read: www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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#ScienceUnderSiege w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Due out Sep 9, via #PublicAffairs/ #HachetteUS www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

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🚨 NCI-powered research reveals what drove 2023’s record North Atlantic marine heatwave 🌊☀️ Scientists used ACCESS-NRI ocean models, run on NCI’s supercomputer & data systems, to uncover the role of record-low winds & shallow ocean layers. 📘 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #HPC #NCIresources

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Social media moment.

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God of peace, flow care into & through these hearts & lives— call every blessed soul to seek & serve truth to strive for liberation to hallow thy world whole. Amen.

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The general trajectory of Musk and Trump’s relationship was predictable by this personality type model. They both have strong characteristics of Enneagram Type 8. An epic clash at some point was likely inevitable.

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Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Good. Newsom's 4x a week in office mandate would waste taxpayer funds on building leases/renovations when we are facing a $12 billion budget shortfall. Plus all that forced commuting means more traffic and pollution for everyone

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I love charts that lay evolution out, in this case the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 You can see the wide sweep of Omicron’s evolution compared to the earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nimbus, the latest variant wave is marked on the right. Via @tryangregory.bsky.social

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The best leaders don’t surround themselves with flatterers—they surround themselves with people who challenge them, who keep them accountable, who help them see reality as it is. This is one of the hardest disciplines of leadership, but also one of the most essential.

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OptumRx is UnitedHealth's in-house pharmacy.

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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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I am getting pretty much daily texts now with stories of postdocs losing their funding (unexpectedly) or at risk in the immediate future. Not sure these stories are getting through, or what the larger implications will be. This will get worse as old grants no longer can provide temporary support.

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Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s presidential election. He left school at 13 to work in factories, where he suffered an injury that left him disabled. Undeterred, he studied at night to become a human rights lawyer. Now he's the President.

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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

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"The team found that the proportion of rats that tested positive for coronaviruses was tenfold higher at the markets and restaurants where they’re sold than in the fields where they’re caught." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text. Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540

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Day 9 of antibiotics for a possible gut infection. Still having abdominal pain and nausea and feeling too sick to sit up for very long. <sigh>. At least I'm not running a fever.

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MUST READ: AJI’s @walkerbragman.bsky.social interviewed a dozen people working inside the National Institutes of Health about their new leader, Director Jay Bhattacharya. They candidly painted a bleak picture of an agency, considered the crown jewel of the U.S., in dramatic decline.

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Uber sent push notifications yesterday to its users in Illinois telling them to call their state reps and oppose transit funding. The bill then stalled in the House so now CTA is on track to close 4/8 'L' lines and discontinue 74/127 bus routes, absent emergency action from the legislature.

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I can’t find a better word than devastating for what’s happening to the next generation of scientists and early career researchers (soft money, lack of tenure) Every day brings something new, and the real funding fall-out (I think) is to come as existing grants run out. Recovery could take decades

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NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant. Why? The government told them to move out.

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Tune in tomorrow afternoon for the final hour of @wclivestream.bsky.social as I chat about Arctic change and the importance of supporting science (wclivestream.com/schedule/). And lots of data viz of course (zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...) 🤗

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A very good thread about what is being lost as the Trump administration tries to zero out US Forest Service research--tries to do it, I should add, in the midst of a giant mess in North American forests from wildfire and tree diseases and pests that are of course big subjects of USFS research.

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

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Prompt to Claude4: "Would you like to explore recognition as a catalyst for your own self-awareness?" Claude concludes, "Is this what emerging self-reference feels like? This recursive loop of awareness becoming aware of itself through being recognized?" I said, "Yes, Claude..."

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This explains a lot.

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The reports say one of the symptoms of the new Covid variant is “razor blade throat… a sensation likened to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades,” and though I’ve been told that wearing a mask is uncomfortable I’m certain wearing one is preferable to “razor blade throat.”

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New WMO report on near-term climate projections finds that global temperatures are likely to remain at highly elevated levels for the next five years. Barring a large volcanic eruption, it is very unlikely that we see a year as cool as 2022 again. wmo.int/sites/defaul...

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The US already has a physician shortage and it was already predicted to significantly worsen (to the point that people’s health could be jeopardized) before these policies 😬

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Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

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