Starting on Monday, I'll begin a new adventure at work. I'll be a rotating Program Officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education. I'll still be a professor at CU Denver, but I'm "on loan" to NSF under an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement.

I'm super excited about the opportunity. It's work that I've always wanted to do. It will involve *a lot* of travel back and forth but fortunately we don't have to move. Next week will be my first of many trips to DC/Alexandria VA.

Newscasters seem amazed that such a small fire can burn so many homes. Homes are often just another fuel type. When you look at the aerial footage, fire often spreads from house to house as much as from vegetation.

Start: 2/27/24 1248
Name: #PalizaFire
Acres Now: 3
Containment: 100%
Coordinates: 35.724883, -106.618633
#NMFire
🔥🔥🔥

Reminder, if you're not tired of me yet, I'm on the podcast "Live Like The World Is Dying" right now talking about amateur radio (ham radio) and disasters. https://overcast.fm/+YDtQQrRx8 #podcast #hamradio #disasters #DisasterPreparedness

Axios: Hertz dumping 20,000 of its electric vehicles #evs #hertz #automotive https://www.axios.com/2024/01/11/hertz-evs-electric-vehicles-20000

@Bewickwren it’s amazing how this has been selectively ignored in his government contracts because he’s a rich white guy, when almost anyone else would be DQd for casual pot use.

In recent years, some executives and board members at his companies and others close to the billionaire have developed a persistent concern that there is another component driving his behavior: his use of drugs.

And they fear his drug use could have major consequences.

https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1?st=41yhnt3q3ll01rz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Tesla will #recall more than two million vehicles over concerns over its Autopilot system, following a two-year probe by U.S. auto-safety regulators.

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-more-than-two-million-vehicles-over-autopilot-safety-concerns-274eb6e6?st=wkbzhv78dpj7lr5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

How does #ElNiño influence #winter #precipitation over the United States?

2015-16 and 1957-58 strong El Niños were not as wet as expected over the southern U.S. and were even dry in some locations.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/how-does-el-nino-influence-winter-precipitation-over-united-states

@ai6yr Thank you very much!

@Bewickwren Happy Hanukkah!

Celebrating light and miracles in north central Montana!

https://www.krtv.com/news/great-falls-news/congregation-aitz-chaim-celebrating-hanukkah-in-great-falls

Flight global news: airbus helicopters readies for new h145m contracts with production ramp up: https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopters/airbus-helicopters-readies-for-new-h145m-contracts-with-production-ramp-up/156079.article #airline #skynews #airlinenews #news

This also works for crypto (and I felt for it for a while)

#Musk #Twitter

@ai6yr Inside a wall?
I imagine you had pretty massive damage.

@ai6yr Wow, what happened?

@MeanwhileinCanada

“I am still in the thrall of one insatiable desire, which hitherto I have been neither able nor willing to check.” https://www.medievalists.net/2023/10/cannot-get-enough-books/ #books #booklovers

The far left has gone full Stalin.

Why the #colonialism narrative—a diaphanous veil not quite covering the ugly #antisemitism beneath it—is, and always has been, completely full of shit.

I quibble with the author on a few points but overall this is an excellent and thorough takedown of a dangerous and uninformed idea.

This article is free to read for 2 weeks from the date of this post.

#Israel #Gaza #terrorism #FreePalestineFromHamas

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/?gift=E0t5MOYa3oxylGIhiGmnaQfRLv0cWWBhUh3_tBbFYEE

#MAGA