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

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

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Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen @celialj.bsky.social · 19d

The US Army Corps of Engineers is doing a test run of an underwater dredging method right now in Kansas. This method hasn't been used on a lake before, so it's unclear whether it will work: www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...

Mud swallowed half of this Kansas lake. Engineers think they can fight back

In dry years, Tuttle Creek Lake and other reservoirs keep the Kansas River flowing strong enough to provide drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. But these manmade lakes are disappearing...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

The merchants of doubt are back

But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Aug 9

The worst part about having a paper rejected is not the rejection itself, it's knowing that you'll have to reformat the manuscript for some new online portal submission system.

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can we have a moratorium on using any variant of the word "Advance" at the start of an AGU session title? Nearly 1 in 4 Hydrology sessions begin this way. Alphabetical sorting means these sessions appear at the top - maybe the motivation? An ironic result is that they become harder to differentiate.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 30

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

This DOE report is best understood through the lens of a well-known saying: “process is product.” In other words, the final document reflects the process that created it — including, most importantly, who was selected to write it. The authors of this report are widely recognized contrarians who don’t represent the mainstream scientific consensus. If almost any other group of scientists had been chosen, the report would have been dramatically different. The only way to get this report was to pick these authors.
The report they produced should be thought of as a law brief from attorneys defending their client, carbon dioxide. Their goal is not to weigh the evidence fairly but to build the strongest possible case for CO2’s innocence. This is a fundamental departure from the norms of science.
A lawyer is expected to represent their client zealously and selectively, presenting only the information that strengthens their case and leaving it to the opposing counsel to present the other side. In fact, a lawyer who stood up in court and gave equal weight to both sides of a case would be considered professionally negligent, possibly even disbarred.
In science, the standard is the opposite. Scientists are obligated to engage with the full range of evidence, especially that which might contradict their hypotheses. Ignoring contrary data is not just bad practice, in some cases it can rise to the level of scientific misconduct.
Scientific credibility depends on a willingness to base conclusions on all of the evidence. When scientists cherry-pick data or misrepresent the balance of evidence, they are violating a core principle of the discipline.
In this report, the authors are firmly in lawyer mode. They sift through data to find the few examples that support their narrative while systematically ignoring the much larger body of evidence that contradicts it.
In conclusion, this report does not appear to be a fair assessment of the state of climate science.

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jul 23

If your journal manuscript gets this group of Pyr reviewers... god help you!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Jul 19

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

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Virginia Tech @virginiatech.bsky.social · Jun 19

In observance of #Juneteenth, Virginia Tech offices are closed today.

As we recognize Juneteenth, we also reaffirm our commitment to building a community rooted in our Principles of Community - one that rejects hate, violence, and racism.

➡️ vt.edu/principles-of-community

A blue, red, and black graphic reads: "Celebrate Juneteenth."

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Shantanu Bhide @shantanubhide.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 New in ES&T! @pubs.acs.org

Ion clusters in an urban stream reveal how salinization varies with hydrology. Storms, baseflow, and snowmelt each leave distinct chemical fingerprints.

A tool for targeting risk & smarter watershed policy: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Ion Clusters Reveal the Sources, Impacts, and Drivers of Freshwater Salinization

Population growth, land use change, climate change, and natural resource extraction are driving the salinization of freshwater resources worldwide. Reversing these trends will require data-centric app...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · May 31

I would say that it is worth it to make the most of your remaining eligibility. At a minimum it gets you thinking long-term and building for the future, regardless of how uncertain things are now. Even if not funded, you will get valuable feedback.

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · May 30

Shoutout to my students for fantastic presentations at #HydroML2025. They looked at applying deep learning to do large-scale, high-temporal resolution prediction of hydrograph separation, sediment transport, and freshwater salinization.

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George H. Allen @geoallen.bsky.social · May 19

Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation

Example of how the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite's water surface elevation measurements can be used to record flow wave propagation over space and generate a “spatial hydrograph.”

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · May 16

Playing in the mud 😀

Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · May 13

A Bosnian love ballad called "We will sing what our hearts know" 🇧🇦♥️🎶

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Mar 24

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 21

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 3

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! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

www.ucsusa.org

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · Feb 28

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Feb 16

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US

The aggregate length of flowing streams in a drainage network lengthens and shortens as landscapes become wetter and drier. However, direct measurements of stream network variability have been limited...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jan 29

Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps.
doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jan 29

Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps.
doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hi all - there are 2 days left to apply for a postdoc position with me in large-sample water quality and interpretable machine learning! Review will start on January 15th and continue until the position is filled.

Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Nov 19

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI to start next year. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Listing here careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

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Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Jan 6

Hi all - there are 10 days left to apply for a postdoc position with me in large-sample water quality and interpretable machine learning! Review will start on January 15, 2025, and continue until the position is filled.

Admin Husic @husician.bsky.social · Nov 19

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI to start next year. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Listing here careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

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