Kevin Ash

A plush Jean-Luc Picard next to a 5-pack of lightbulbs showing only four bulbs in the illustration

oh no

Yeah I've also found it's helpful for synthesizing huge volumes of text that you directly provide, like thousands of paper abstracts. But it is terrible at actual academic writing with citations and references. It can't even do basic reference formatting correctly, when given a list.

My brother and I were on the north side of this storm and missed these. We were watching another brief tornado with another storm and then were out of position for the main show.

Cool to see your great footage after 20 years!

Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research A Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u...

Looks like an academic freedom catastrophe from beginning to end: because of (real or perceived) pressure from the state, Tulane’s leadership barred a scientist from talking about her research apnews.com/article/canc...

NOAA is not just the National Weather Service Looking at the broader expanse of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

I have posted a lot recently about my worries for the NWS. However, I am also increasingly worried that the threat to NWS is distracting from the even greater threat to the rest of NOAA. Tonight I wrote about the broader agency I am so proud to have been a part of.

open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

What they are doing is aggressively accusing everyone else of insurrection in order to cover up and make everyone forget the actual insurrection & attempted coup that Trump orchestrated.

Would have drifted to near Dodge City by now...

Image is a logo that says "Great Bend Chamber of Commerce, 100 years, 1921 to 2021."

It would be a nice day to have lunch and then go sky watching in/near Great Bend, KS, if I were out that direction...which I am not.

I am in FL trying to get our new robot lawnmower to stop going in circles & getting stuck.

Also, I hope to hear a thunderous roar from OKC this afternoon.

🎉PhD student Michelle Ruiz was selected for the Disaster Research Center’s CHEER summer research program that will take place in North Carolina www.drc.udel.edu/2025-summer-...

Congratulations Marinna and Michael on graduation! And congrats Stephen, too!

Mostly German, but reviewing my French and dabbling in a few others. You?

I have enjoyed learning via Duolingo for over a year now, but recently have missed several days in a row due to being quite busy.

The aggressive, weird tone of the Duolingo reminder emails do not make me want to resume lessons. They make me want to delete the app & cancel my subscription.

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior | PNAS Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals....

Or, consider the experimental evidence. Scholars have found (over and over again) that, compared to "regular" people, those with high levels of wealth and income are more likely to lie, cheat, and steal. And they're also more likely to say that greed is good.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Opinion | A Lot About Trump Doesn’t Add Up A very petty man in a very powerful job.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Trump is engaging the full power of the presidency to settle scores,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man.”

Still finding quarter sized hailstones on the ground 45 minutes after...

A few photos...

Pretty impressive hailstorm in NW Gainesville in the past 15 minutes, a lot of dime and nickel sized, a few quarters

Had a lot of dime to nickel sized hail in NW GNV, a few quarters. Most intense hailstorm I've seen in Gainesville.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning in GNV now, could get a little rough next few minutes in our area.

This would kill all weather model development - RRFS, HAFS, and WoFS - in NOAA. These are activities that the private sector can’t support; they leverage these models to train & benchmark their own.

I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.

The Climate Risk and Storm Hazards (CRASH) Lab led by Dr. Katy Serafin and Dr. @scatterazure.bsky.social focuses on risk, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation for weather and climate hazards and environmental change geog.ufl.edu/geography-la...

FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection, Internal Memo Says An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants that help states and tribes prepare for floods, tornadoes and other disasters

*Watches as tornadoes and floods devastate towns in the mid-South.* Yeah, this seems like a totally great idea that won't lead to bigger disasters losses down the road at all.

68,845,865.

That's how many individuals in the United States speak a language other than English at home.

Everyone deserves a chance to stay safe during disasters, and I will never stop advocating for that. Thinking of all the communities that are going to be affected by this change.

Yet another move in the wrong direction.

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Oh no, this is bad. Really really bad.

M7.7 earthquake in Mynamar.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Their jobs vanished. These historians want to ensure their stories don’t. An oral history project aims to document the stories of the federal workforce cuts. The project is open to all feds and contractors — even DOGE and Musk.

I spoke with the Washington Post about why the Trump administration is so focused on US history: because authoritarian regimes rewrite history to legitimize their projects and normalize their chaotic, violent governance. Gift link: wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.

Spread it far and wide.

He's describing his boss to a T.

120 flights bound for Heathrow Airport that are going to need to go somewhere else.

London-Heathrow will be closed for ALL of Friday due to a “significant power outage” caused by a fire in an electrical substation.

There are currently 120 aircraft in the air that will be diverting to alternate airports or returning to their origins.
www.flightradar24.com/airport/lhr