Is this the time to assert that the blue verse is better than the yellow verse?

I’m going to be doing RNA extractions from soil all day Monday while trying not to think about Michigan being a 10 point favorite in a national championship game.

Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern - High Country News In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

What Colorado’s mountain lakes can tell scientists about climate change For over 40 years, the U.S. Forest Service has been monitoring high-altitude mountain lakes in Colorado to track the environmental impacts of human-caused pollutants and climate changes in delicate…

Mountain lakes are the "canary in the coal mine" for how ecosystems respond to climate change.

That's according to the Mountain Liminology Lab's Mary Jade Farruggia, who was featured in an article from the Aspen Times earlier this month.

Cool too see this follow up the DOM paper (Ryan et al. 2024) from the same watersheds in 2024.

An open to go container contains three pastries (kolaches) two are open faced with either a yellow lemon curd or cream cheese filling while the third looks more like a roll (it’s a sausage egg and cheese kolache)

Had to settle for kolaches for the 2nd year in a row. (They’re still pretty solid)

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Finally started snowing, and got to put some nice turns in on N. Diamond.

Artificial beaver dams might help heal a mountain ecosystem after a wildfire. Here’s how It’s an unusual sight west of Fort Collins, in areas scarred by the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome wildfires: Several artificial beaver dams are helping to restore wetlands damaged by the blazes. W...

Nice radio piece from KUNC and CO-NPR with collaborators at USFS on our research on the biogeochem of process based restoration.

www.kunc.org/podcast/inth...

I seem to be able to log in alright

Wide angle shot from a chair lift with my skis and ski poles in the foreground. Bare ground, with no snow is the background.

Shot looking back off a chairlift, little to no snow visible over the forested Rocky Mountain land scape

Ok, it’s allowed to snow now.

This was good for morale

Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.

Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.

It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.

www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

Unsure if this is worse than the fact that Science Direct now has some LLM offer to summarize research articles for you when you access them

4 panel meme with a small bird and a crow. Panel 1: small bird says “it’s our first big snow of the year!” Panel 2: small bird says “I can’t wait too..” but a larger yellow speech bible says “FACETS” Panel 3: A crow on another branch is in the foreground squawking “THIS STORM IS JUST GOING TO CAUSE A LOT OF FACETS” Panel 4: tight image on the small bird, it looks annoyed. In the background there is a text bubble from the crow “YOU SHOULD HOPE IT DOESNT START SNOWING TILL DECEMBER”

Tis the season!

I have explained the eastern third of the state, to friends unfamiliar, as “Coloraska”

: Ratios of selectors preferring LLM-generated text over human-generated text for the product dataset. Values represent the ratio of preferences for LLM-generated text, with P-values indicated in parentheses. Gray backgrounds denote results that are not statistically significant (P > 0.05), while zero P-values indicate highly significant results (P < 0.0005). Using Fisher’s method (BH-corrected, α = 0.05), the combined P-value confirms a highly significant overall trend: P < 10−16.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “AI–AI bias: Large language models favor communications generated by large language models.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

A truck parked in a ditch with one wheel raised off the ground.

This parking job about summarizes how things went

Fireworks during the 3rd quarter break at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Checked Norman off the list.

Harmonica goes unbelievably hard

236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient - Scientific Data Scientific Data - 236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient

236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Panoramic image looking at a montane meadow in the high park fire burn scar.

Looking up stream at willows, grasses, and substantial sediment deposition upstream of a previously installed post assisted log structure (PAL)

Soil core with a fresh layer of organic layer overlaying newly deposited sands covering the precious O + A horizons.

Wrapped up field work for 2025 today!
Blown away by just how dramatic the impacts of restoration efforts have been already.

A map of the United States divided at the HUC-2 scale, generating 20 unique regions based on water resources.

The United States of HUC-2?

Investing in Great Lakes Science is critical for safety and prosperity Scientific research plays a crucial role in supporting the safety and prosperity of tens of millions of people who live, work, and recreate in the Lau…

I joined together with @CIGLR scientists from across the Great Lakes basin to explain the critical value of Great Lakes research and how investing in it directly impacts our health, wealth, and well-being. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did this manifest as range shifts at all or just shifts in physiological tolerance?

Snow line on Cameron Pass is nearly perfectly at 10,300ft

Selfie from on top of “The Wave” on South Diamond Peak.

Might be June, but still some good turns to be had!

Wide angle view looking at a stream in a burned forest. Wood structures span the channel at points.

Water overtopping post assisted log structures in late March.

A new flow path going over now browned grasses laterally from behind a channel spanning post assisted log structure.

Some pretty dramatic planform shifts following large wood installation. First time point for the field season in the books!

Santa Ono will NOT be the next University of Florida president after a contentious confirmation process before the Florida Board of Governors that resulted in a split vote to sign off on his hire. Story to come.