Jonathan Lilly

At the invitation of @EleanorFrajka, I'll be teaching this two-week graduate course in person: Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis Univ. of Hamburg 17-28 March 2025 If you are based elsewhere, you can still come, at no cost. Details and application: conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/560

“This is the first time I’ve seen fires in Canada survive two winters and I’ve been watching fires closely since the 1970s. A number of these fires started in 2023, burned through the winter … continued to grow in 2024 and then survived this winter." thestar.com/opinion/contri…

As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been cut or threatened. Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share. jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05/2…

How it feels to tank the global stock market for no reason whatsoever

Really, every American should read this thread. It's how our closest allies see us now. Isn't it time to look in the mirror?

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career... 1/🧵

This is perhaps the most outrageous thing I've ever captured. A moonbow (rainbow made from moonlight rather than sunlight), with snow (rather than rain) with the northern lights behind it. A Polar Lunar Snowbow?

I am deeply ashamed of the childish, deceitful, and cruel behaviors of America's leaders.

Completely unsurprisingly, words related to climate change are the next target.

Hey!!

Please read this tragic story from @trajan317 about how abruptly cutting DEI programs pulls the rug out from under talented researchers, with potentially career-ending consequences. Then, read the many shocking comments that can only be described as hateful. This is now America.

If you're following me here, please find me at @jmlilly.bsky.social instead. It's a better place.

Carrying on NOAA operations, including ships at sea in international waters, without communicating with foreign nationals? Including foreign nationals who are legally in the US for research, or even working for the government? Even temporarily, this is pretty much impossible.

For Oceanographer friends who aren't on Bluesky Guardian reporter seeks NOAA contacts bsky.app/profile/justca…

Among the many others affected by this, the freeze on all Federal grants and loans means that every person in the US who works on scientific research in support of our country's priorties is currently wondering when and if their next paycheck will arrive. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

I've served on these panels. It takes a huge amount of coordination to gather scientists to review proposals, who have to arrange taking a week off of their regular responsibilties. This will delay funding cycles by probably months, affecting people's livelhoods.

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

This place has really gone downhill lately, so I'll be over at @jmlilly.bsky.social seeing if we can make that a better place.

If you're interested in time series analysis, my course in March at U. Hamburg still has a few slots still open. From a former student: "If I had taken this course at the beginning of my PhD, I could have accomplished everything I did in the first year in four months.”

Really sorry. This is the closest I can get to a halloween spirit