Here's the current state of weather balloon launches across the contiguous United States as of Thursday.

During normal operations, weather balloons are launched twice per day.

Six sites are reducing launches to once per day.

Four sites have now nixed balloon launches altogether.

Full paper is available open access here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Driving to the hospital in labor and having to reroute around anti-mask, COVID-denying protesters at the governor’s residence, to have my baby at a hospital that was severely understaffed and panicked, Mother’s Day weekend, 2020.

I got an email on behalf of “EAB” the other day that wanted me to take a survey and I quickly lost interest after determining it was not about Emerald Ash Borer.

My toddler brought home flu A earlier this month. Many of his friends had it and were in and out of the ER with a horrible cough. Our whole family is vaccinated and it was a minor head cold for us with no cough. My spouse had no symptoms at all.

Oh god, this is great. Proportion of types of livestock to people? For some reason that’s the first thing that came to mind.

Called the pharmacist and they said you can get Novavax every 6 months, but don’t need a boost if you have had the full mRNA series previously. Now I just hope Novavax is still available in 6 months…

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No, but my position is funded entirely on a grant from NSF T_T

I keep thinking of this tweet from 2018

My 4 yo has been listening and finally asked “Why did people vote for Trump?” I told him that some people want bad things to happen to other people because they think it will make their lives better, but it won’t. That’s the only way I could think to explain it to him.

Same. I wish I could harness a fraction of the energy my son has at 9:30 pm on a Tuesday night, I’d be unstoppable.