Yes, good point, Chris. The article starts the framing as "many meteorologists on the internet", then progresses to "the weathermen of the world" two paragraphs later. 🤪

Excellent essay on the academic sins in poor scholarship with the literature. Regarding point 6 on miscitations: One of my highly cited papers argues not to use moisture flux convergence to forecast convection initiation, but sadly you wouldn't know that from most of the citations it's received.

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

Separated at birth?

As a PhD meteorologist with over 30 years experience, I'm stunned that I had never heard of the Kentucky Meat Shower before. 🥩⛈️ Thank you for your service, sir! 🧪

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference: Things in US science are far, far worse than people know. Far worse than even other scientists know. 1/

By how much and for how long will the upcoming weather pattern--an astonishing anticyclone--be breaking March records in the west? A lot, and a long time. Here's GFS forecast 500hPa height compared to the March record. Breaking monthly records by >50m, and 2 to 5+ days in monthly record territory.

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Yesterday, I was reading a used book from 1959 I bought some years ago, and I found this bookmark, which must have been there when I bought the book. Given the age of the book and Deese at Johns Hopkins, the bookmark would be from the 1960s. Useful advice to students even now. #TimeCapsule

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

China just had their warmest winter on record. 🔥🔥🔥

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

All lined up…

AI: Hold my beer.

V. interesting Advait Palival the dipshit desi techbro behind Einstein AI has changed the text on his website (what is in the post Im quoting below is what it looked like a day ago), after giving a very defensive interview to Futurism. The truth is AI bros do not care what harm they cause.

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

It's literally like the plot of an 80's B-movie

This is the biggest act of cultural and political vandalism in the UK in recent history. It will lead to unprecedented damage. Unnecessarily but ideologically committed against one of the few sectors in which UK remained world leading. Labour have deliberately allowed this to happen.

'Roughly a third of the group’s members posted deficits last year. The University of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294. And there were 185 at the cash-strapped Cardiff University.'

Ask and ye shall receive

So this not only will enable students to cheat... it could also build a database of course lectures, potentially taking a professor's words, thoughts, voice, image and likeness for free. Some ed tech could pool enough course lectures together to create and sell AI-generated e-learning

storms like this are where CoCoRaHS observers really shine. There's truly no other way to get this density, quality, and richness of snowfall data! Browse yourself at maps.cocorahs.org?maptype=snow...

Queen Judi Dench, aka M, for York Against Cancer—a James Bond fundraiser ❤️🎗️ www.linkedin.com/posts/york-a...

Not sure the real Einstein would be out there cheating for some college kid. He probably had better things to think about.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think this is an appropriate use of the word "nationality". "Nation" or "country" would have worked better. @cnn.com

Next year Göttingen will celebrate his 250th birthday with a year full of exhibitions and events at the original sites where Gauß lived and worked. So 2027 may be a good year to consider a trip.

O'Neill was previously CEO of the Thiel Foundation, managing director at Thiel Capital, managing director of Clarium Capital, a hedge fund led by Peter Thiel, and managing director of Mithril Capital Management, a VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir. He co-founded the Thiel Fellowship

PhD studentship: Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification Use computational methods (e.g., natural language processing, computer vision) to understand how interventions play out in cultural/social imagination. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BBC bosses don't seem to care their right-wing bias is getting dangerously close to election criminality "The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England" via The National Newspaper

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

The D-Day weather forecast turned into a movie (based on the stage play): Pressure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM4...

"Countries that do not buy the product sold by the company that pays my exorbitant salary could be left behind" Published in @theguardian.com which also has a partnership with said company

That’s funny because countries that embraced George Osborne have been left behind.

I get the strong impression that many of the physical scientists on here are not paying attention to what's happening with their colleagues in the biological sciences. NIH has some unique problems at the moment, but the broader form of issues does look applicable to NSF, NASA, etc. funding.

We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

A new study led by @zhonghuazheng.bsky.social calls for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to track the movement of airborne #plasticpollution. DOI: 10.1007/s40726-025-00375-5 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Backed by Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto (MMT) research fund.

Very wet January 2026 over many UK regions with flooding & some exceptionally high river flows in eastern Scotland, Northern Ireland & southern England plus rising groundwater & reservoir stocks so elevated flood risk in @ukceh.bsky.social hydrological outlook 🌧️💦 nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

I didn't know potholes could talk

Microsoft thinks my work day is over when all the emails have gone from my inbox. That is when the good stuff starts to happen.

Actually, I preferred this version.

A new special interest group has been launched at the University! If you are a researcher or PGR with an interest in #GreenComputing then head to the CaDiR Teams space to engage with other researchers from across the University.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

Innovation and kindness in peer review: Actual screenshot from a reviewing platform during accepting/declining a review invitation. Reviewer gets to pick their own time to do the review based on their own personal situation. What a concept! 🤯

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...