Kate Marvel

I know it’s not that simple (you have to listen to her)

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Scientists! Avoid entangling yourself in a global child trafficking ring using this one weird trick (talking to literally any woman)
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there aren't any cookies, baked goods are a left wing hoax

honestly they're pretty good at drawing random lines on maps with sharpies

academic job ads are all like "we seek the smartest person who has ever existed, duties involve securing millions of dollars of grant money to pay senior administrators and teaching 70 classes. we will pay you one (1) dollar and give you access to the library on alternate Tuesdays

Ben no

this is not directed at program officers who are wonderful, overworked, and should fund everything I send them, but rather their politically appointed bosses

use slurm to schedule your jobs, we made a tutorial 20 years ago and forgot where we put it

to be more realistic we could rank students by interest/ability, identify the ones at the bottom, and ask the principal to put them in charge of everything

i was promised AI would do the boring stuff and I would get to generate ugly art myself

this is a good kindergarten activity, but I feel the fifth graders need something more engaging, like fixing the indentation errors in their current and pending funding table

the world is complex and ever-changing, just like the biosketch requirements

i just want them to experience the wonder and amazement of watching a journal submission system fail to compile the pdf you just uploaded as a pdf

I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it

how dare you, climate sci set

Joint probabilistic estimates of temperature and precipitation from tree ring-based reconstructions of the last millennium Abstract. An understanding of Earth's past climate can help put current and future changes into historical context. Widely used tree ring-based drought atlases generally target the Palmer Drought Seve...

are you a giant nerd who wants to know what past temperatures and precipitation totals are compatible with tree ring based drought atlases? Me too!
ascmo.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

Joint probabilistic estimates of temperature and precipitation from tree ring-based reconstructions of the last millennium Abstract. An understanding of Earth's past climate can help put current and future changes into historical context. Widely used tree ring-based drought atlases generally target the Palmer Drought Seve...

This is very cool - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social et al. 'Joint probabilistic estimates of temperature and precipitation from tree ring-based reconstructions of the last millennium' ascmo.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

Things I learned today - language in the Clean Air Act explicitly defines "air pollutant" to include anything with adverse effects on weather and climate
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Hayhoe for TX Senate 2030!

NCAR and the climate and weather services it provides are a classic example of a public good. These broadly support other sectors of the economy and will not be provided efficiently by the private sector. Critical case in point - insurance pricing

we explained all of this in the Fifth National Climate Assessment, an official document that went through exhaustive peer and National Academies review, responded to comments in a transparent process, followed all relevant federal advisory committee rules, and has now been replaced by Grok and vibes

during a Congressional hearing on better farming practices!! I love that part

But it's fascinating to look at where we are now compared to our history. And remarkable how many of those changes we completely understand.

Climate "skeptics" are indeed correct that not every extreme event is 100% attributable to climate change, and that bad things have happened in the past. Although I don't think "climate change will only be as bad as the Dust Bowl, forever" is quite as reassuring as they think it is

the trend in humidity is much clearer, for example

And this is because basic physics says that warm air can hold more water vapor, that can be dumped on us in the form of heavy rainfall

Heavier Rainfall Rates in U.S. Cities | Climate Central Climate Central bridges the scientific community and the public, providing clear information to help people make sound decisions about the climate.

but where you REALLY see the trend is in *extreme* precipitation. It may or may not be raining more on average, but when it rains it pours. The changes in heavy rainfall are very noticeable:
www.climatecentral.org/graphic/heav...

ok what about precipitation? It looks like it may be increasing, if you squint, but the upward trend is not nearly as clear as in temperature. We expect that average rainfall worldwide will increase a little with warming, with lots of regional variations

This is the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures. Nights are warming faster than days, which is 1) a smoking gun that climate change is not caused by the sun and b) bad

This is for the whole country. If you just look at the West, the 2000-2022 drought is by far the worst on record. And it's the worst in at least 1,200 years