Exploring new ways to integrate #waterpower into the energy grid: Oak Ridge Lab researchers study water resources on national and regional scales and translate science discoveries into solutions that enhance the resilience and reliability of the power grid. #NationalScienceWeek

5 yr old: “let me put on your sunscreen daddy”

Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River is now spilling over 127,000 gallons per second, supporting flood control operations at nearby Fort Loudoun Dam. The spill rate at Fort Loudoun has been reduced to allow the navigation lock to reopen for river traffic.

Available #PhDposition in my group on a new project supported by NSF on large-scale #hydrologic modeling and #water #resources #management. The application portal for Fall 2025 will open soon! 👇 galelli.cee.cornell.edu/openings/

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"As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The best use of ChatGPT, Claude etc is kids’ bedtime. “Tell me 10 facts about lions that my five year old will love” … “tell us a story from Greek mythology in a way that a five year old girl will enjoy” … etc. My kids love it and there are no bounds.

Introducing HarvestGRID, a high-resolution mapping of US harvested croplands from 1981 to 2019. HarvestGRID provides insights into crop trends over 4 decades, assisting researchers & policymakers understand how croplands have evolved in an unprecedented level of detail... 🧵1/7

Elon Musk Is there anything you consider inaccurate in that description? It's true you did the gesture (twice) and that people did compare it to a Nazi salute (many people) and it's true that you denied it had any meaning. That isn't MSM propaganda. That's fact. Every element of it.

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location

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Obviously not familiar with a technology called hydropower…

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I'm pleased to announce the release of scales 1.4.0 for #rstats. While scales mainly exists to serve #ggplot2, this release packs a bunch of improvements that is good to be aware of. Read more at tidyverse.org/blog/2025/04/s…

Google's Carbon programming language. I'm curious as to how it'll fit into a landscape with Rust. I believe first stable release is targeted for 2026. github.com/carbon-languag…

“To ignite a completely dead network again, one essential thing is needed: plants that can start in black. Spain has identified five large *hydroelectric* jumps capable of doing this… [but] 3 of those 5 groups were stopped in scheduled maintenance. Only 2 were operational.”

Super cool map showing electricity, data, and datacenter infrastructure from NREL has been updated: nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy25/…

Very nice visual. Any #rstats #tidyverse folks know how to create this with ggplot?

The latest version of #PowNet is now online. Major updates include: fixed and validated #DC-#OPF, refactored hydropower module, custom constraints via UserConstraint, full unit tests and improved docs. Check it out here: github.com/Critical-Infra…

The latest version of #PowNet is described in a new paper on JOSS: PowNet 2.0: A production cost modeling framework for large-scale #power #systems doi.org/10.21105/joss.…