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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · 7d

Friday AM for me this year!

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 16d

Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)?

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs.

Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · Aug 13

Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations?

Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Jun 28

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

NPR @npr.org · Jun 28

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30.

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Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · May 30

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · May 26

Looks like something we should defund.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · May 23

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

Senator Marsha Blackburn tweets: "We're going to build a big, beautiful Golden Dome."

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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · May 19

With proposed changes to NIH support, potentially life-saving research at UW–Madison would become slower and less ambitious. And the true cost would fall on those waiting for the next medical breakthrough, who would have to wait even longer.

The real costs of research funding cuts

UW–Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars in annual research support due to a proposed change in federal funding. But what’s really at stake? The university’s ability to advance life-saving re

news.wisc.edu

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · May 16

From the UK!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · May 16

The people telling you climate change isn’t real would also like you to believe that paying rent on an empty building saves money
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage

www.nytimes.com

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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Foundation-funded postdoc funding opportunity to work in WA state! Interested in applying to work with me on climate on land or global carbon cycle dynamics? Reach out! Info sessions in May and June, due date June 26. www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Washington Research Foundation

Fellowship Details Fellowships include three years of salary support for the postdoc at an eligible research institution in Washington state. The salary for the first year is $80,000, increasing to […...

www.wrfseattle.org

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CUAHSI @cuahsi.bsky.social · Apr 17

Applications are open for the Stakeholder-Informed Spatial Modeling for Hydrologic Sciences Workshop!
Dates: August 18 - 19, 2025
Location: Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA
Apply by: May 16
Details at the link below:
www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Apr 8

Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions!

www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Apr 8

Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions!

www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Apr 3

Might not be fun flying out either! The forecast is not looking great the next 48-72hr.

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Apr 3

Oh man, I guess you made it through these storms?

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Apr 2

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Mar 30

What ya fixing?

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fuck droughts, we're doing pluvials now. New work w/ Park Williams, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Megapluvials in Southwestern North America

Pluvials in Southwestern North America occur as often as droughts, including two 20th century megapluvials from 1905 to 1923 and 1978-1999 The 1978–1999 megapluvial was the wettest interval of th...

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geomorphyuggs.bsky.social @geomorphyuggs.bsky.social · Mar 24

Our paper on how landscape evolution impacts the trajectory of life is out in @science.org! Work by two great post-docs in @iuearth.bsky.social and collaboration with the brilliant Tara Smiley of Stony Brook resulted in this.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Direct effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversity

Biodiversity hotspots in Earth’s mountain ranges suggest a strong connection between topographic development and biological processes. However, it remains unclear whether high biodiversity in mountain...

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · Mar 7

-Climate change challenges traditional drought assessments
-Reducing the sensitivity of drought indicators to non-stationarity is essential for accurately assessing drought
-Multiple drought definitions or concepts are possible, and needed, to correctly assess drought in a changing climate

Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate

Climate change adds conceptual and quantitative challenges to traditional drought assessments Reducing the sensitivity of drought indicators to non-stationarity is essential for accurately assess...

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Darren Ficklin @dficklin.bsky.social · Mar 3

!!!!!

Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Mar 3

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Feb 28

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety.

AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it.

Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

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