Betsy Farris
@betsyfarris.bsky.social
Technologist 🛰️ attempting to become a scientist 💨🌲🌎. PhD student & Engineer in Industry. Current interests: methane 🚮🐄 , AQ 😷, systems causing environmental violence (how to change them)🛢️💸📈, data sovereignty and ethics 🤝⚖️. Forever 🚲.
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Betsy Farris
@betsyfarris.bsky.social
· Apr 12
TL;DR I want to say thanks to all those NASA, NOAA and EPA people who have helped and inspired me. For those who think that cutting science is a good idea, please reconsider.
Pic of me too busy measuring O3 to get a haircut. An opportunity (DEI, education, SMD, Earth Science) that changed my life!
Pic of me too busy measuring O3 to get a haircut. An opportunity (DEI, education, SMD, Earth Science) that changed my life!
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10-8-2025
2500 good humans (and critters) said NO KINGS today in Rapid City, SD
Indivisible Rapid City 🐸🇺🇸
50501 South Dakota 🐸🇺🇸
#NoKings #SouthDakota #50501SouthDakota #indivisiblerapidcity #ibew #Antifa #indivisible
2500 good humans (and critters) said NO KINGS today in Rapid City, SD
Indivisible Rapid City 🐸🇺🇸
50501 South Dakota 🐸🇺🇸
#NoKings #SouthDakota #50501SouthDakota #indivisiblerapidcity #ibew #Antifa #indivisible
October 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
10-8-2025
2500 good humans (and critters) said NO KINGS today in Rapid City, SD
Indivisible Rapid City 🐸🇺🇸
50501 South Dakota 🐸🇺🇸
#NoKings #SouthDakota #50501SouthDakota #indivisiblerapidcity #ibew #Antifa #indivisible
2500 good humans (and critters) said NO KINGS today in Rapid City, SD
Indivisible Rapid City 🐸🇺🇸
50501 South Dakota 🐸🇺🇸
#NoKings #SouthDakota #50501SouthDakota #indivisiblerapidcity #ibew #Antifa #indivisible
Movements of resistance in red states are deeply important and should be listened to!
#SiouxFalls brought the energy today!
Over 3,000 came together; showing our communities won’t stay silent. Every sign, every chant, every step counted…and yes, every inflatable costume too!
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #WeCount #NoKingsCount #50501Movement #Indivisible #50501SouthDakota #SouthDakota
Over 3,000 came together; showing our communities won’t stay silent. Every sign, every chant, every step counted…and yes, every inflatable costume too!
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #WeCount #NoKingsCount #50501Movement #Indivisible #50501SouthDakota #SouthDakota
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Movements of resistance in red states are deeply important and should be listened to!
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The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies
jobs.colorado.edu
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Welp, once again, a grant termination has me thinking “is a PhD even worth it?”. Not sure how/if I’ll get through the program. Still feeling like I’m privileged and should be one to keep fighting for it. But also maybe science is fully dead in the US.
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Welp, once again, a grant termination has me thinking “is a PhD even worth it?”. Not sure how/if I’ll get through the program. Still feeling like I’m privileged and should be one to keep fighting for it. But also maybe science is fully dead in the US.
Who has Methane-focused favorite books? These have good chapters/sections. Gathering my materials for preliminary exams. Not pictured: Rodgers and other pdfs! I’d also take pdfs of these too! #methane #phd #atmosphericchemistry #pollution #emissions
September 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Who has Methane-focused favorite books? These have good chapters/sections. Gathering my materials for preliminary exams. Not pictured: Rodgers and other pdfs! I’d also take pdfs of these too! #methane #phd #atmosphericchemistry #pollution #emissions
The last few years have been full of bloody noses for me. I’ve been to a doctor and I don’t pick. This is my reality in Denver. #airquality #publichealth #smoke #denver
September 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The last few years have been full of bloody noses for me. I’ve been to a doctor and I don’t pick. This is my reality in Denver. #airquality #publichealth #smoke #denver
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August 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you have some spare change, consider helping a mom rebuild after the LA fire and medical hardship!
gofund.me/5d74a330
gofund.me/5d74a330
Donate to Support for Jamila & Aydin: Rebuilding and Healing, organized by erica stavros
In January, Jamila Ezzani Nash — a devoted single mother from Altaden… erica stavros needs your support for Support for Jamila & Aydin: Rebuilding and Healing
gofund.me
July 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have some spare change, consider helping a mom rebuild after the LA fire and medical hardship!
gofund.me/5d74a330
gofund.me/5d74a330
Sometimes being annoying and whiny to politicians works!
NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) is dropping his plan for a $28.5M pedestrian bridge at the State Capitol, acknowledging overwhelming public opposition to his idea. #copolitics www.9news.com/article/news...
www.9news.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Sometimes being annoying and whiny to politicians works!
Ughh I just want to feel good about chickens in my backyard but I’m afraid!!!
Good luck everyone!
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Ughh I just want to feel good about chickens in my backyard but I’m afraid!!!
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Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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🌡️ Our 24-hour high/low at the Fort Collins Weather Station was 95F/74F today, marking our highest daily mean temperature (84.5F) that's ever been recorded. Records date back to 1893. #cowx
@climate.colostate.edu
@climate.colostate.edu
July 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
🌡️ Our 24-hour high/low at the Fort Collins Weather Station was 95F/74F today, marking our highest daily mean temperature (84.5F) that's ever been recorded. Records date back to 1893. #cowx
@climate.colostate.edu
@climate.colostate.edu
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Sentinel 4 and GOSAT-GW have been successfully launched! New air pollution and climate measurements coming soon led by EU and Japan respectively
Sentinel 4: NO2, HCHO, etc. every hr over Europe
GOSAT-GW: NO2 & CO2 globally
spaceflightnow.com/2025/07/01/l...
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/gosa...
Sentinel 4: NO2, HCHO, etc. every hr over Europe
GOSAT-GW: NO2 & CO2 globally
spaceflightnow.com/2025/07/01/l...
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/gosa...
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sentinel 4 and GOSAT-GW have been successfully launched! New air pollution and climate measurements coming soon led by EU and Japan respectively
Sentinel 4: NO2, HCHO, etc. every hr over Europe
GOSAT-GW: NO2 & CO2 globally
spaceflightnow.com/2025/07/01/l...
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/gosa...
Sentinel 4: NO2, HCHO, etc. every hr over Europe
GOSAT-GW: NO2 & CO2 globally
spaceflightnow.com/2025/07/01/l...
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/gosa...
Absolutely gutted today. Hopefully there’s enough data to prove the value of high precision measurements. The instrument was exquisite. #methanesat
www.methanesat.org/project-upda...
www.methanesat.org/project-upda...
MethaneSAT Loses Contact with Satellite
www.methanesat.org
July 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Absolutely gutted today. Hopefully there’s enough data to prove the value of high precision measurements. The instrument was exquisite. #methanesat
www.methanesat.org/project-upda...
www.methanesat.org/project-upda...
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The implications of developing nuclear weaponry are dominating the news. Earth science plays a large role in understanding nuclear development and its effects. 🧵👇
June 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The implications of developing nuclear weaponry are dominating the news. Earth science plays a large role in understanding nuclear development and its effects. 🧵👇
Hard to describe the immaculate hospitality of this year’s IWGGMS. As I discovered last year, this community is an incredible intersection of all my interests. Instruments, retrievals, emissions, old friends and new friends. Air quality and greenhouse gases. This all gave me lots of hope! ありがとう
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hard to describe the immaculate hospitality of this year’s IWGGMS. As I discovered last year, this community is an incredible intersection of all my interests. Instruments, retrievals, emissions, old friends and new friends. Air quality and greenhouse gases. This all gave me lots of hope! ありがとう
I only follow sports if it’s women’s, nonbinary, or local. The Rockies being so incredibly bad is so entertaining. Coors Field has bike valet, don’t forget!
June 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I only follow sports if it’s women’s, nonbinary, or local. The Rockies being so incredibly bad is so entertaining. Coors Field has bike valet, don’t forget!
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If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up
May 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up
Just turned in my final atmospheric chemistry paper. The class (profs and students) again reassured me that I desperately want to be part of this community (due to amazing science and people). So scared for how many of us might not even get the opportunity to finish given all the cuts.
May 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just turned in my final atmospheric chemistry paper. The class (profs and students) again reassured me that I desperately want to be part of this community (due to amazing science and people). So scared for how many of us might not even get the opportunity to finish given all the cuts.
The more fucked everything gets, the more convinced I need to get this degree and not give up/in. Check in on your grad student friends y’all. Now off to dissociate over odd oxygen…
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The more fucked everything gets, the more convinced I need to get this degree and not give up/in. Check in on your grad student friends y’all. Now off to dissociate over odd oxygen…
We should be going forward. We have the technology to make better measurements. Air Quality IS weather. It’s on my weather app. (Obviously this impacts me immediately and my future career aspirations).
spacenews.com/omb-suggests...
spacenews.com/omb-suggests...
OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites
SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensiv…
spacenews.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We should be going forward. We have the technology to make better measurements. Air Quality IS weather. It’s on my weather app. (Obviously this impacts me immediately and my future career aspirations).
spacenews.com/omb-suggests...
spacenews.com/omb-suggests...
Post-finals reading list is being compiled.
@carolinelenette.bsky.social
@carolinelenette.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Post-finals reading list is being compiled.
@carolinelenette.bsky.social
@carolinelenette.bsky.social
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REPORTERS: Opportunity for media to visit NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center.
When: May 6, 2025, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT.
Details: noaa.gov/media-advisory/opportunity-for-media-to-visit-noaas-aircraft-operations-center
When: May 6, 2025, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT.
Details: noaa.gov/media-advisory/opportunity-for-media-to-visit-noaas-aircraft-operations-center
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
REPORTERS: Opportunity for media to visit NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center.
When: May 6, 2025, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT.
Details: noaa.gov/media-advisory/opportunity-for-media-to-visit-noaas-aircraft-operations-center
When: May 6, 2025, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT.
Details: noaa.gov/media-advisory/opportunity-for-media-to-visit-noaas-aircraft-operations-center
Talked to my mom about all my emotions today. She’s supporting queer kids in South Dakota. I couldn’t be more proud and fired up. Thanks Mom. 🥹
April 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Talked to my mom about all my emotions today. She’s supporting queer kids in South Dakota. I couldn’t be more proud and fired up. Thanks Mom. 🥹