Darren Ficklin

We’re hiring a postdoc in hydrology! Join me at IU-Bloomington and @margaretzimmer.bsky.social at UW–Madison for a postdoc. You’ll propose and develop your own research direction with mentorship/collaboration across both groups. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34649 Please share widely!

@margaretzimmer.bsky.social and I are co-advising a postdoc!

From #heatwaves to #floods and #droughts, swings between climate extremes are becoming more frequent and consequential. Researchers are investigating #HydrologicWhiplash and its impacts. Read the PNAS Core Concept explainer: https://ow.ly/EKaV50ZcVPs #ClimateChange

Just now getting around to posting about this. Nice to be part of this study with Quan Zhang and a host of others! We find that the water use efficiency from increased CO2 does not lead to higher tree growth. You can find the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs. Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!

Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations? Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

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Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

With proposed changes to NIH support, potentially life-saving research at UW–Madison would become slower and less ambitious. And the true cost would fall on those waiting for the next medical breakthrough, who would have to wait even longer.

Foundation-funded postdoc funding opportunity to work in WA state! Interested in applying to work with me on climate on land or global carbon cycle dynamics? Reach out! Info sessions in May and June, due date June 26. www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

Applications are open for the Stakeholder-Informed Spatial Modeling for Hydrologic Sciences Workshop! Dates: August 18 - 19, 2025 Location: Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA Apply by: May 16 Details at the link below: www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions! www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions! www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

Fuck droughts, we're doing pluvials now. New work w/ Park Williams, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper on how landscape evolution impacts the trajectory of life is out in @science.org! Work by two great post-docs in @iuearth.bsky.social and collaboration with the brilliant Tara Smiley of Stony Brook resulted in this. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

-Climate change challenges traditional drought assessments -Reducing the sensitivity of drought indicators to non-stationarity is essential for accurately assessing drought -Multiple drought definitions or concepts are possible, and needed, to correctly assess drought in a changing climate

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🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

Hard to imagine a more objectively evil scenario than “the richest person on the planet intentionally chooses to prevent poor children from starving to death.” if a comic book supervillain did it you’d think it was implausibly evil. The sort of thing every religion agrees results in Going To Hell

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

Past climate conditions are preserved in tree rings. Researchers, including @dustybowl.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, are using these records to understand the drivers of 21st century droughts in Eurasia. eos.org/research-spo...

Want great summer plans? Look no further! The PSInet workshop is coming to Indiana University, to re-introduce the ecophys community to PSInet, a new open-access network database of plant water potential measurements. psinetrcn.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Ugh.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The world is awful, but quick question for a minor distraction: what's your favorite font(s) to use in a presentation? Looking to change things up a bit.

AGU stands with federal scientists. Read more on fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

Check out this thread with Fact Sheets and interactive tools to learn about NSF’s impact across the US, in your state, and at universities in your community!

Absolutely insane

This issue has a nice write-up of our recent Earth's Future paper.

🤢 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

It took us more than two years but our Nature Water paper is finally published. We studied the effects of terrestrial groundwater on coastal wetlands redox potential in seven US sites. Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s44... PDF access: rdcu.be/d8qHL

We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you. Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e

it’s just kinda sad that millions of people voted for a candidate bc they thought he would press a big nonexistent button that said “make groceries less expensive” and then two weeks in he pressed a big button that says “make groceries more expensive”

Going great so far, sir!

Hey #water folks, I created a list of water science organizations now on Bluesky. @cuahsi.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social and 8 of 34 Sea Grants are there. What water science orgs am I missing? bsky.app/profile/did:...

No greater hypocrisy than yelling all day about how meritocracy has been killed by diversity programs in job hiring, then putting profoundly unqualified people in legitimately important positions

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.