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Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Prince releases his “1999” LP 43 years ago today.

Of the hit single, he said: “We were sitting around watching a [TV] special about the year 1999. .. Everyone I knew — people I thought were optimistic — were actually dreading those days. .. So I just wanted to write something that gave hope.” 🎸

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

NCAR Director Everette Joseph & projects lead Yaga Richter discuss breaking down siloes in the scientific community to improve the subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting. ⬇️

Thanks @eos.org !

Brandy would never! She’s a fine girl.

Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.

Wow. What a gorgeous read. The WaPo article he discusses is also good.

www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...

A major milestone for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social : The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX) @ncar-gdex.bsky.social transition is complete 🎉This strategic initiative unifies 3 data repositories into a single, modernized, analysis-ready research data commons. www.cisl.ucar.edu/news/geoscie...

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HEROES ASSEMBLE! 🦸

Calling all nerds to attend this year's Super Science Saturday on Saturday, November 1st at the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Mesa Lab. Become a hero for science and use your knowledge superpowers to explore our natural world at this year's event. No cape required and the event is free.

trump war

To the extent cultural literacy means anything anymore, Col. Kurtz attacked and destroyed a village in large part because he wanted to surf its beach, reveled in its destruction, took casualties and killed a bunch of civilians in the process. Also, Trump could have served in Vietnam but didn't.

Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinnison in Back to School.

I’m getting these vibes.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

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Strong research leads to thriving coastal communities & industries. As storms intensify, NSF NCAR & UCAR are advancing ocean monitoring & Earth system models to make coastal communities more resilient, support fisheries & protect coastal economies: https://researchworks.ucar.edu/coasts-fisheries/

If you have experience with what's going on at the VA -- either as a vet or insider -- please get in touch.

My contact info is eric.umansky@propublica.org and Signal Ericumansky.04.

Contact info below for my reporting colleagues @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social.

It’s a royally radiant glow up!☀️ The newly revitalized Sun-Earth Connections exhibit is back and better than ever, complete with interactive games and tactile elements that are both engaging and educational! Learn more from our friends @ucarscied.bsky.social & stop by our Visitor Center!

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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

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What has @ncar-ucar.bsky.social done for you? A public tour of the Mesa Lab is a great way to get to know our impact. Our research has been protecting lives and property across the United States since the 1960s, and we'd love to tell you about it!

Back where it started ⌚️

“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”

It's time to Free Andry!

We're heading to the steps of the Supreme Court this Friday at 5PM to get loud and mad about it with @votesaveamerica.crooked.com .

Join us! More details here: www.mobilize.us/vsa/event/79...

Happy b’day “When Doves Cry” — released 41 yrs ago today.

On his last night of mixing, Prince started removing instrument tracks, said engineer Peggy McCreary. “The last thing he did was he punched that bass out. He smiled at me and said, ‘Ain’t nobody gonna believe I’d do this.’ And he did.” 🕊️

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🎉 Happy 75th Anniversary to the National Science Foundation (NSF)!🎉 Thank you for 75 years of empowering science, discovery, and innovation! #NSF75

Bad news for Brandy.

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#EarthDay is a perfect chance to come explore the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Mesa Lab Visitor Center and appreciate the Earth science research happening in your Boulder backyard. Visitors can use our Self-Guided Tour App to explore the exhibits. scied.ucar.edu/apps/tour-ap...
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“Deported” is really the wrong word here. Normally we deport people and then they’re free in the destination country. This guy was abducted and is being held in constructive U.S. custody without trial in a foreign concentration camp.

All NWS services: data, forecasts, radar, satellite, IT infrastructure, costs each American taxpayer $4/yr. Less than a latte. And each person gets back 73 x $4 = $292 a year in value for that service.

I think that’s a pretty good deal.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.

www.watchduty.org