Friends and foes: I have emerged from dissertation jail with a defense date: May 21, 12pm ET. It's about #weather influencers, livestreams, live chat, and the very weird/interesting/important work of making sense of tornado threats as they unfold. It's PUBLIC. Pls come! DM 4 link #wx #wxsky

Been in a dissertation writing HOLE. What did I miss? 🍭

NYC #Blizzard: People currently out walking their dogs, strolling the kids around, normal early spring Saturday. #WinterStormFern? Trader Joes fully looted. Why?

One last hurrah. Why not! 😭

The Farmer’s Almanac will cease production after 2026, having been fully replaced by Ted Cruz, America’s leading cold-weather skedaddler and #1 Worst Canadian Ever.

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

"...transfer stewardship of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer to an appropriate operator..." And who could that appropriate operator be? Certainly not the universities cutting ATMOS programs? Who could ever want a fuck ton of weather data and why is it Peter Thiel? www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

I need a linguistic perspective on the Epstein emails. Where are the threads on this? Why do they all "talk" like that?

1) I recently spoke with Business Insider about what the potential sale of TikTok could mean for the *magic* For You Page: 👇🧵 www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-insid...

Super excited to present at #TSRCONF at @stanfordcyber.bsky.social this Thursday! My poster, Weathering Trust: Credibility Formation in YouTube’s Weather Info Ecosystem, explores how “weather influencers” have become critical—yet largely unregulated—sources of safety information. Come say hi!! 🌪️⛈️

A straggler thought after yesterday's #NWAS25 digital-first sessions and this morning's #helene content: post-disaster misinfo is out of control. we have elected reps actively theorizing weather-control machines (wouldn't that be nice?). Question is: How do we push back? Esp. online?

Bluesky will break today. 😭

Like I said, September is *busy* but I am VERY excited to attend #NWAS25 (remotely) this upcoming week. Looking forward to the digital meteorology panel tomorrow as this topic is pretty squarely my dissertation project (from an HCI, influencer, and platform policy angle). 🌦️🌪️☔ Fuck yeah, weather!

September is starting off crazy busy/chaotic. But not as chaotic as #SpiderJesus💥 Today at 1:30PT/4:30ET I'm presenting (remotely) a preliminary work on #AIJesusSlop at #4S2025. Dive deep into observer theories and how this slop is so much more than #spam. See ya there! 🙏

Exhausted by the news cycle. Here is System of a Down on the first day of their tour at MetLife Stadium. #soad

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

Fantastic read. "There's no social media equivalent of a WEA alert that's sent out to all mobile phones within radius."

NEW: After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

I'm not a meteorologist, I'm a social scientist (studying #wx comms). A few things can be simultaneously true re: #tx #floods: - trump admin should have never defunded NOAA, but - NWS was staffed & issued watches/warnings just fine - Ppl don't check the weather at 3am! - we cant predict everything

Sometimes the newsday demands a timeline cleanse. 😮‍💨

I feel like they're missing a few other totally mysterious cases that are not at all related to helium or hydrogen 🙃

Very concerned by “Y’all Watches” on weatherwise… the idea that these are areas that the weather service may be considering warnings is not OK. There is a substantial risk for confusion with weather service products. Add that our watches are not short fuse polygon products. That is warnings.

I'm at #CHI2025 this week presenting my paper with Sourojit Ghosh on controlling unwanted content on TikTok's FYP: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13895. This paper was ~3 years in the making and I'm excited it finally found the (right) home!

This feels a lot like propaganda, folks!

Someone made a lot of money. The SEC shall investigate! Oh wait, no... it won't (forgot about that Feb 18 executive order for a moment).

For those of you on the edge of #wxsky: I'm a PhD student studying human-computer interaction <> weather. I'm recruiting for a study on weather presentation formats and what you find trustworthy/credible. Doing 1hr interviews + survey. Pays $17! Screener: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

“it’s one big club etc, etc”

You know, the French would have brought out their guillotines by now.

Sunday morning coffee by the fire…it’s too damn cold to go outside (for those wondering, it’s 21°)

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

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

So AI is going to create threat profiles for people who criticize ICE—and then cross reference that with the personal identity data the Musk Rats were allowed to steal—to monitor us IRL (using facial recognition to track us) based on what we say online. I wish I was making *any* part of that up. 😬

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Great! This is Yuki. She is a shiba-jindo mix and very fucking against DOGE.🖕

Something else to thank EM for. "The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day." @planet4589.bsky.social #astronomy

In all seriousness, maybe just arrest the DOGE script kiddies if it's unlawful to access SS numbers without proper clearance? IDK just throwing out ideas.

Folks, can I pause your doomscrolling for just a second? What are the best papers/syllabi you have on newsfluencers? (I know, I know, but I need to write a little thing only semi-related to the doomscrolling)

🚨I was too wrapped up in the TikTok ban to share the news, but my short paper with Sourojit Ghosh titled '"They’ve Over-Emphasized That One Search”: Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's For You Page' was accepted at #CHI2025. Weird timing! See you all at the Cup Noodles Museum?

Is there a Bsky cat/dog/animal pic starter pack? I need some timeline cleansers.

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

Todays's lab meeting conclusion: you've all been very bad. go unplug the internet, grab a snack, and take a little walkie around the blockie. #meta #elmo #apocalypse2025

Thing I did not have on my 2024 Bingo Card: Weather-related mass delusions. Y'all, I promise, fog has *always* looked like little water droplets 😭

An Act Of Violence is out 1/20/2025! Hear the single "Cis Death Squad" and pre-order here: cocainemitch.bandcamp.com CD will be available via Haul Of Horror soon!!

The absolute *irony* that Trump will be the one to save us from the TikTok ban. 🫠

The NJ/NY drone discourse is really something. On one hand, so fun to talk about UFOs again. Feels nice and innocuous. On the other hand, the livestreams, police scanner monitoring, and threats to shoot them out of the sky + vague statements from the pentagon make me nervous. And not for the aliens🛸

Starter packs are good, starter packs are wise. Here's a starter pack I created for UW HCDE PhDs: go.bsky.app/KQcAHEA