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Penn State Trustees Approve Deal to Transfer Ownership of WPSU Penn State's Board of Trustees on Monday approved a new proposal to sell WPSU to Philadelphia area public media provider WHYY in a deal that will allow

Pennsylvania NPR/PBS will be sold instead of shut down: www.statecollege.com/articles/loc...

It’s been several years since I taught, but back then, I didn’t have a textbook. We did read/reference the IPCC reports, especially the summaries for policymakers, but also sections from the WG reports. I should note that my students were more geared toward policy vs hard science.

This station serves much of Central and Northern PA (the very rural parts). I suspect both that there’s more to the story and that the good reporters at WPSU will find out the rest of the story

Penn State decision to shut down WPSU, rather than sell it, draws rebukes After Penn State trustees rejected a plan to sell WPSU to WHYY, that station's leader called the decision "a shame," and community members expressed frustration about the impending loss of a community...

My local NPR/PBS station is being shut down by a combination of federal funding cuts and a decision by Penn State to be done with public broadcasting: radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-12/p...

Why it’s the toughest time to be searching for work in America in years Tariff uncertainty, stubbornly high inflation and rising AI adoption are giving rise to labor market gridlock.

Source (gift link): wapo.st/4gc2eI8

Graph showing the change in new job postings on Indeed. Scientific Research job postings have dropped the most over the past 12 months (23% drop). Education has dropped the most over the past 3 months (13% drop). Source: Washington Post

Excuse me while I mourn scientific research and education (source Indeed/Washington Post)

Splash screen for Raspberry Pi

Today’s little project brought to you by the end of summer vacation

A lot research went into this cartoon (I once met an oceanographer)

Hmm, I may have to sue for copyright infringement — emdashes are my favorite punctuation

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Similar age, and I can count on two hands the number of my college and grad school cohort who were NOT American white males. But I still had a white male student tell me I was only allowed to be in college because I was “filling a quota.”

Red Cross 6 gallon donor icon

Evidently, I recently passed the 6-gallon milestone for donating blood

Temperature stripes showing temperature change in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

These are the #showyourstripes from a city in a similar climate zone as me. Find your own stripes at showyourstripes.info

AI-generated image of a ritual sacrifice to the A/C gods

Seems appropriate that on #showyourstripes day that we are prepping for the earliest summer heat wave in years

Congratulations!

I, for one, enjoy the kitschy boat tours. But also, there’s an art museum on the walk (Briscoe, maybe?) that’s supposed to be quite good.

The Weather & Climate Livestream is officially LIVE from now until Sunday, June 1st! Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts today: wclivestream.com/watch/

Disassembled roomba

Get a roomba, they said. It will help keep down the dog hair, they said. Yeah, but they forgot to mention that it also spreads the 💩 the dog left by the door

I referred to this dataset in a job interview recently and joked (not really) that it may not be there for long. I should get credit for good forecasting skills, sigh.

Four spring flowers from different locations along a walk

Spring walk; timeline cleanse

Securing good child care is harder than getting Taylor Swift tickets…

Screenshot of NYT Spelling Bee with “Murica” attempted with the result of “Not in word list”

I want to know how many times people tried this word today

US-based? I’ve seen several health data science opportunities on LinkedIn lately, not as much for meteorology/climate. Probably not research oriented though.

As of COB today (21 March), I am a free agent weather/climate data nerd looking for my next opportunity to apply my data/statistics/ML/modeling expertise.

I don’t understand why more private weather companies are not speaking up about the impacts of the DOGE cuts at NOAA. Degradation of the public observation network will degrade other products too. As a modeler and data nerd, observations like these are absolutely essential to models (AI included!)

YouTube video by WeatherWorld PSU Special Report: NOAA and NWS Cuts

Well done report on how cuts at NOAA/NWS can affect the public: youtu.be/eeRLVzbqy-k?...

100+ person choir with director and piano accompaniment

It has not been the best year so far, but it is nice to take a break and sing some love songs with some of the most talented musicians in my town

When it’s cold enough that no one has to ask the units 🥶

The struggle is real 🤣