sometimes you move to europe and you're like hang on, the easter bunny does not deliver a basket of radioactive colored candy that the kids have to sweep the premises for here?

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

the moon stuff is making me feel crazy

this too is a bad website. man social media broke in half

Graphic showing the spring leaf index anomaly for March 27, 2026 for the contiguous United States, with spread arriving very early in central and western areas and late in the southeast.

Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March.

Graphic/data from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

we live in the stupidest timeline

Are you a grad student, postdoc, or early career researcher interested in sea-level science? Apply to the WHOI+NASA Summer School in Sea-Level Science, taking place May 17-30 in Woods Hole!

Applications accepted until March 20.

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The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The missles in this video cost more than that.

what the fuck

and that grounding zones vary on kilometer scales. And that if we were to try to use the beam bending equations to infer local ice thickness in the grounding zone, we need to understand that the local effective Young's modulus varies and tells us something about how the ice-bed-ocean system acts.

...that everything overlaps in a single observable. The twelve to twenty four hourly tidal flexure.

happy Saturday! My first piece of academic work is out. What can tidal flexure tell us about ice in grounding zones? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Geosciences.

5/10

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

gen zeds genuinely can’t read clocks

of all the things i don't want a grad rat is one of them

A year ago today, 168 of my NSF colleagues were fired suddenly & illegally. Half got their jobs back after an intense legal fight, but none of this is over for our small/mighty agency. Even while there are so many things happening everywhere all at once & it’s exhausting, I’m glad to keep pushing.

The Colorado River situation is a big f*ing deal, more than most people outside the West realize.

te voet i can pas for an amsterdammer

incredible what twelve hours instruction in the language closest to yours will get you

i’d much rather be looking for bands of fracture with icesat-2 than looking for dark matter.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

We're one year in. The speed, scope and severity of what's happening to American science is beyond anything we've seen before. The reliability of the Federal science and technology enterprise and the people within it, has been shattered. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Detached beach ridge at the inactive margin of a small fan delta - the active braided part is on far side. An older dissected delta segment in the background. Large ice polygons across the delta surface. Ellesmere Island. About 600-800 m wide.

Detached beach ridge at the inactive margin of a small fan delta - the active braided part is on far side. An older dissected delta segment in the background. Large ice polygons across the delta surface. Ellesmere Island. About 600-800 m wide. ⚒️🧪🌊

www.geological-digressions.com/beach-microc...

pas fait en sucre

Fuck ICE

Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.

Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.

Another reason for Medicare for All.

this was the most jewish, least christmas christmas of my life and frankly it rocked and it still involved making at least four dozen cookies

The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution. The Colorado River faces a crisis as seven states struggle to agree on water-sharing rules.

Elites fight over the last drops of water in the American southwest before climate change takes it all away.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

the cruelty is the point, the timing is the point, etc

Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives Researchers are devising creative ways to get together as Trump’s policies curb travel to US gatherings.

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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