Beth Tellman

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10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

YouTube video by UW-Madison Center for Climatic Research Floods, Forecasts, and the Future: Rethinking Risk in a Changing Climate

recording of her talk posted btw. it was very good. challenged my assumption that LULC and building in the floodplains is the whole problem- given rapid intensification of TC's and compound flooding...the climate signal has a larger impact on exposre than I thought! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqI...

A fun week hosting Toni Sebastian from UNC here in Madison. One of my favorite flood scientists in the world! Hanging out with female engineers is also a rare and delightful opportunity 👯‍♀️

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

FELLOWSHIP! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Climate Science Serving America fellowship, open to early- and mid-career scientists & engineers who work on climate solutions.

Full salary, benefits, and a research stipend. Remote anywhere in the United States.

drawdown.org/news/project...

Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships

#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining

The students stormed the court!!

Really fun lab social going to watch Wisconsin men’s bball kick Michigan state butt!! By more than 20 points!!! On Wisconsin!

I've been collaborating with the team at Google Deepmind and 12 other climate scientists to test a new tool aimed integrating AI capabilities into a collaborative scientific assessment. We have a pre-print available describing the process and results: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.0...

Share your comments on NCAR with NSF Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March

Now is the moment to speak up for NCAR.

@aguscipolicy.bsky.social has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on why NCAR matters for science, public safety, and preparedness.

Submit: buff.ly/Q0I8rs0

#SaveNCAR

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

New article in PHG! In this essay I highlight the incredible work of queer theorists on critiquing systems of gender, sexuality, and race within our built environment. Next I argue for the epistemic potential of overlooked spaces, namely the borderland, to rethink how we build our world, literally.

Survival, Not Recovery: Predatory Loans and Flooding Along the Texas-Mexico Border Policies that deny flood aid to residents who cannot afford to repair their homes have created a gap that predatory lenders have jumped to fill.

great research blog post by @lucasbelury.bsky.social regarding predatory lending and challenges for recovery in the Rio Grande Valley hazards.colorado.edu/news/researc...

This would be truly insane

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

I mean I knew amoc collapsing would be real bad but didn’t realize the flood exposure implications if it did until now…. #ams2026 intrigued to hear what my climate science colleagues have to say about this given I know the amoc collapse probability I think is hotly debated??

NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

Read every word of this thread.

I'm from the Biobío region,where devastating fires happened this weekend. Although Chile has progressed in DDR,still structural constraints(urban informality) define the disasters effect on vulnerable populations.Adapting institutional structures to face these atrocious events is crucial and urgent.

I will be there, and speaking at it! Hope to see you there too! organized by some rockstars like Hannah Kerner and @estherrolf.bsky.social so I expect it to be pretty awesome

The special theme of the workshop this year is “ML4RS: publication to practice”, focusing on bridging gaps between research and real-world applications. The submission deadline is February 06, 2026, and the call for papers is available here-> ml-for-rs.github.io/iclr2026/#ca...

Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.

Temperatures are expected to plunge to around zero degrees this weekend. Minnesotans say they will be out in the street, using the weather to their advantage.

the most Minnesota sentence you can possibly think of www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

You just saved NASA's budget Here's what Congress rejected of the draconian cuts faced by NASA in FY 2026.

In good news, your advocacy for science funding is paying off! Congress has just rejected the massive cuts to NASA's 2026 budget.

(Sadly, they didn't include a provision for saving @ncar-ucar.bsky.social but we use this win to keep fighting!)

A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens

All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Ooo didn’t know about this gonna go see if it was recorded!!!

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

ICE kills people

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...