Sharing again since it's quite germane to ongoing conversations about ENSO, #LaNina, CA and CO River Basin drought, and seasonal predictions. ENSO *does* matter for Western hydroclimate, but we have to look beyond simple correlations between Nino3.4 SST and precip. #CAwx #CAwater

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

For the past year, we've been working on a special project. It is nearly finished! We're announcing the pre-order info today 📕 simplecirc.com/69146167/item/… 1/🧵

BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by UAW, are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.

We're unionizing with @IBEW_89! We deeply value working with unions to confront the climate crisis, and unionizing our own staff will ensure the sustainability of this vital work. We’ve asked Climate Jobs National Resource Center management for voluntary recognition by Friday at 5pm EST. #1u

☀️My first PhD paper is out today! We investigated the extraordinary 2021 PNW heatwave🔥(+ Kai Kornhuber @kkornhuber & Mingfang Ting Mingfang ting), identifying processes that supercharged it and their relations to climate change. NatureClimate Link: nature.com/articles/s4155…

5 largest union filings in 2022: 1. 5,128 MIT grad workers MIT Graduate Student Union 2. 4,000 Yale grad workers Local 33–UNITE HERE! 3. 3,500 Northwestern grad workrs Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW) 4. 3,335 Johns Hopkins grad workrs Teachers & Researchers United (TRU-UE) 5. tie 3,000 Chicago/Boston grad workrs UChicago GSU - UE⚡ BUGWU IS ON STRIKE

It's time for AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2022 in Chicago! I'm thrilled to attend in person and share my results connecting ENSO to wildfire activity in the western US on Tuesday Dec 13th. I hope to connect with many fellow scientists! #AGU22 link: agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meeti…

i have two talks this week at #AGU22! today i’ll talk about using causal network analysis on TCs and ENSO 🌀(me & my roommate Sam Bartusek’s project for @profadamsobel’s class last spring!) then on friday i’ll present some of my PhD work on a drying trend in the Southwest🌵

I’m honored today to be a recipient of the The Story Exchange Women in Science Incentive Prize! Major thanks to my advisor Dan Westervelt, and friends at Columbia Climate School Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society Thriving Earth U.S. Consulate Kolkata and the Freshwater Accountability Project!!

❄️Today’s the day!❄️ Come learn how we can use AI to detect Antarctic iceberg rafting events over 3 million years! **time changed to 5:40pm** IODP at Texas A&M LDEO #AGU22

Only radical, bottom-up labor organizing has the power to effect material and cultural change within STEM academic workplaces. jacobin.com/2023/01/columb…

Response thread 🧵 from Paul Brown, one of the authors of the article tanzil Ally C, PhD 🧠🔬 and others have been commenting on x.com/jacobin/status…

Do you regularly get dripped on in your subway station? I’m looking for particularly leaky stations for a story. Let me know! (DMs are open)

I'm scheduled to give a talk tmrw at Columbia University LDEO about air quality (what it means, how to get info, protecting yourself and others, etc) and given the... apocalypse vibes... made it free & open to the public. Lots of info, plenty of time for questions! Register below.

General recommendations for today are 1. Don't go outside if possible 2. If you do, no strenuous exercise (no citibiking Claire Jasper) 3. Close your windows 4. Wear a N95 mask - surgical is not enough 5. Use an air purifier 6. Clean the filter of your AC DM if you have questions!

We typically think of rain as bringing cooling relief from extreme heat. But in our new article, we find that the relationship between precipitation variability during the South Asian summer monsoon and local humid heat is a bit more complex...🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1029/2023GL…

In what is likely the peak of my scientific career, we created a new variable! If you’ve ever struggled to quantify the different drivers of extreme humid heat, take a look at our new article on “stickiness” in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 🧵1/9 journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…