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So, is NCEI just...gone now?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the start of a python script / notebook that starts tapping into some NCEI API's to get the data you need. The goal here is for this to become a supplement to the RCC's ACIS API, should that go away for...reasons github.com/jjrennie/nce...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Eagle rays have the cutest lil faces

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Flower break.

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear eos.org/research-and...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely dead serious: D&D nerds are exactly who you want doing this kind of work. Last year, in more optimistic times, I even wrote a little guide for DMs who want to get involved in local politics: Roll for Climate Initiative: A Dungeon Master’s Guide to Running for Local Public Office

submitted 104 days ago • 13 comments

Are you liking Bluesky, but thinking “gee, I wish there was more shark science and conservation on my feed?” I have the solution to your problem right here! 🌎🧪🦑🐠🦈 go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

Prem might be the most important journalist in America right now, the only person covering this story with the urgency it needs. Absurd that there isn't wall to wall coverage of this.

submitted 106 days ago • 91 comments

GOPs are gonna claim Ds chose a shutdown if it comes to that. False. Johnson intentionally wrote a bill filled w non-starters for Ds, a whole medicine bottle of poison pills. This is Johnsons doing. A pure MAGA bill as our @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social explains. talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5...

submitted 106 days ago • 47 comments

I'm so thankful for the judiciary branch.

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

submitted 111 days ago • 1213 comments

NEW @pbsnews.org Classroom Educator Voice — Hear from teachers on the plans to dismantle the DoE. "It will be like going back in time to the 1960s, when children with learning differences and challenging behavior were not entitled to an education at all" #EduSky #sschat bit.ly/41HYHvE

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

This NPR story, with local reporting from around the country, including from me in Seattle, paints a picture of the haphazard downsizing if not dismantling of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Fellow Washington residents who are a constituent of House Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, feel free to let her have it for being one of 10 House Dems to vote to censure Rep Al Green. gluesenkampperez.house.gov/contact

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

We pre-bunked the lies and attacks on federal workers that Trump will likely make while addressing Congress tonight. Remember: Trump's attacks are an attempt to erode the public’s faith in the federal government and the services it provides. Don't let it work! www.epi.org/blog/trump-w...

submitted 112 days ago • 17 comments

We've been here before. After Trump was elected the first time, the 2017 March For Science was huge. This time, the threat to science and scientists is even greater. It's time to Stand Up For Science. Join, or organize a pro-science demo on March 7. standupforscience2025.org

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

There are no illegal protests in a democracy. Fuck that guy.

submitted 112 days ago • 32 comments

Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

submitted 112 days ago • 34 comments

Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

submitted 112 days ago • 259 comments

While George W. Bush was president, the Coast Guard signed a contract to get admin help from a company in Virginia. It paid $144,000, and the contract was completed by June 30, 2005. Last week, Elon Musk's DOGE claimed it had just canceled the long-dead contract. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 113 days ago • 74 comments

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 113 days ago • 67 comments

Professional associations need to step up to catch what government is dropping. Here's a great example.

submitted 114 days ago • 17 comments

It's false spring in the Pacific Northwest, so this beautiful weather won't last long, but it's been so nice this week

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #nature #hummingbirds #costarica

submitted 116 days ago • 14 comments

"Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism" 🧪 #SciComm

submitted 115 days ago • 4 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 115 days ago • 419 comments

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

submitted 115 days ago • 35 comments

Dude is so DUMB

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Let 'em know, y'all. Take no shit.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a fake transcript of the Oval Office meeting today going around. Here’s a real one. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/t...

submitted 116 days ago • 229 comments

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

submitted 116 days ago • 1904 comments

Call your rep. Demand a town hall. If they’re GOP and won’t give one, invite a Dem to your district in their place. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121

submitted 116 days ago • 119 comments

I just read the transcript of this meeting. JD Vance (and Trump) is such a piece of shit. Small pp energy, honestly. I'd apologize to President Zelenskyy personally if I could. Absolutely fucking shameful.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

What YOU do in the next few weeks matters. A lot.

submitted 118 days ago • 23 comments

Trump just said "millions" have been killed by fentanyl. Not so. About 70K annually in past few years. Tragic number, indeed. But he's way off. Also claims US gave more than 3X in aid to Ukraine than Europe. Untrue. Says Soc. Sec. checks are going to people who are 200 y.o. Nope. It's a lie-a-thon.

submitted 118 days ago • 121 comments

Through the cosmic mist of night, Orion the Hunter shines with hypnotic wonder. #stars 02.25

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Things that count towards officially and usefully measuring public opposition to a policy: -Calling your elected representatives -Signing petitions/open letters from reputable orgs Things that do not count: -Posting on social media about how you wish someone else would do something.

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

ok, TL cleanse: Peggy found a very good stick at the park and carried it all the way home

submitted 121 days ago • 33 comments

THANK YOU

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

California educators: CalSTRS invests in Tesla. It's YOUR pension fund, and you have the right to demand that we divest from a co. led by a man that is trying to kill public education. The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment

submitted 122 days ago • 11 comments

Do what you can where you are with what you have. And then when you're able, you can do more.

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

Shout out to Egypt, Jordan, Maine governor Janet Mills, U. Maryland students, and everybody else who said FU to the wannabe dictator this week. Links below.

submitted 122 days ago • 11 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 123 days ago • 2468 comments

Disney just laid off the entire staff that makes National Geographic Kids books. Everyone. Gone. This hits home both as a parent and as an author of an NG kids book. Please RT if you care about these books. The CEO of Disney just received a 30% raise, bringing his pay to $41.1 million.

submitted 124 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: As legal challenges to DOGE mount, the White House claims Elon Musk is not technically in charge of the effort and has no decision-making power. That contradicts Trump/Musk's own public portrayal. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 127 days ago • 138 comments