Check out our new paper on an ML-based convection parameterization that predicts its own confidence and mixes with the traditional parameterization accordingly, work by Helge Heuer, Tom Beucler et al. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Many years ago, I wrote a blog post for @fqxi.org on my personal feelings about human spaceflight -- specifically, missions to the Moon. It's not accessible on their website now but as the author of it I feel I can share it here: web.archive.org/web/20130312...

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Watched the launch of Artemis to the Moon yesterday night. Space flight shows what we can accomplish working together, building upon our science, engineering, daring, and collaboration across borders. It gives us hope for a brighter future. Have a safe trip, Artemis II.

On the way home from the CMIP2026 Community Workshop in Kyoto. It was a very interesting week with lots of nice people. I presented our work on quantum computing for climate modeling, which was met with lots of interest.

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

"A Democratic senator involved in the negotiations...said that Trump’s attempt to break up a premier weather and climate center based in Boulder, Colo., was like a “stick of dynamite” that exploded any chance of a bipartisan breakthrough on spending." thehill.com/homenews/sen...

We are organizing the first ever session on Quantum computing for Earth observations and climate modeling at the EGU General Assembly 2026! Abstract submission is open until January 15th! Come join us! www.egu26.eu/session/56366

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

Closing this world-leading climate research centre would be a disaster for the science of climate and our understanding of climate change - which gets more important to everyone, every day. I spent a formative couple of weeks there in 2013, it was welcoming, open, classy, excellent and beautiful.

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Recently published position paper by ‪@mierksch.bsky.social‬ et al.! Opportunities and challenges of quantum computing for climate modeling 👉 https://bit.ly/4591Cyb   #climatemoedling #quantumcomputing

✨ Hello, Bluesky! ✨ We’re thrilled to join this amazing platform and connect with the scientific community in new and exciting ways. Follow us here at @qubitulm for cutting-edge physics research, inspiring collaborations, and all the latest from our institute! #Quantum

Welcome to Climate.gov & thanks for following us! Let us introduce ourselves. We provide timely & authoritative scientific data & information about climate science, adaptation, & mitigation. In short, our mission is to provide science & information for a climate-smart nation.

Hallo Bluesky! Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

Watching the fight to save Mt.Wilson Observatory. So much gratitude for the firefighting teams. This is considered the most important scientific observatory of the 20th century. #eatonfire #mountwilson

I read that the awful fires in the LA area have now reached #mountWilson. The observatory there is wonderful, it should be a world heritage site - it’s where Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe. I hope with all my heart that it survives, and that the firefighters there are safe. #

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access data from satellites like #Landsat or #Sentinel2, tune into our very first #OpenDataCube community talk next week by Caitlin Adams: how to easily load satellite data for anywhere on the planet using the #OpenSource #odcstac Python package! 🛰️🚀

If you’re at #AGU24 this week, check out this poster on Thursday by PhD student Janis Klamt in my group on Improving the boundary layer height with machine learning! agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

It is always mind boggling at how massive @agu.org is every year. This is just one session of the poster room, which changes over twice daily for the duration of the conference. #AGU24

one of my Twitter bangers from 2021, reproduced here, with minor editing: I've been collecting "lessons I've learned communicating climate on Twitter" over the last 8 years and finally thought I'd write a 🧵. This is mainly aimed at younger scientists, but others might find it useful.

On the way home from attending meetings of the DLR quantum computing initiative. Thanks to the organizers, it is exciting to see how hardware and software projects on quantum computing are progressing.

This is very cool. I’ve never seen this visualization. The magic of migrating birds - at a global scale.

It's great to see science migrating over here - @scottehensley.bsky.social posting the results on BlueSky and promoting the BlueSky post (but not the results) on X. This is the way to do it. (BlueSky thread: bsky.app/profile/scot...)

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

Would you like to work on cutting-edge science in an extremely relevant field? We’re looking for a postdoc to explore how to accelerate #climate models with #quantumComputing. The position is located at the German Aerospace Center‘s Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph. November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.

[Admin] Hier geht es ab Januar 2024 wieder mit den Real Scientists DE weiter! Folgt dem Account schon mal, damit ihr Anfang des Jahres nichts verpasst!

NEW China's CO2 is to fall in 2024 – & could be facing structural decline – after record clean energy growth reached the level needed to meet rising demand Latest analysis by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... 1/2

We announced a new postdoc position on improving climate models with quantum computers, located at the DLR Quantum Computing Innovation Center in Hamburg, Germany! Come join our team!

Welche Aufgaben hat der Deutsche Wetterdienst ? Bei #WissenschaftfürsWohnzimmer wird heute Annika Brieber, Meteorologin am Klimahaus Bremerhaven , die Ausstellung zum 70-jährigen Jubiläum unserer zentralen Wetterbehörde vorstellen. Live ab 20:30 Uhr www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxUR...

This will be my first actual post on this platform. I want to highlight the recent paper by Naughten and others, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a really important paper, but I want to mention a couple of minor caveats.

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social, could I please be added to the What's Science feed?

September 2023 was not only the warmest September on record by a staggering 0.5°C margin, but at 1.82°C (3.28°F) above the 1850-1900 preindustrial average, it also set the record for the largest monthly temperature anomaly ever recorded. This chart shows the biggest drivers. - Berkeley Earth

Very proud of my PhD student Eshita who defended her thesis on the Emergence of collective effects yesterday at the University Gießen. 🎉

Here’s a second shot of the eclipse where you can see “Baily’s beads”… the sun shining through the mountains and valleys on the moon.

Would you like to help climate scientists? If so, today we launch our latest #WeatherRescue project. Join other volunteers to transcribe lost weather observations. The mission is to recover pressure measurements taken in Oxford between 1828-1860. Visit: weatherrescue.org

Anyone sitting on invite codes? I have got a huge list of climate people wanting to come over.

We're starting to get September updates to global temperature data sets. First up is ERA5. The plot shows Septembers from 1850-2023. Not only does ERA5 break the record, it breaks it by a record amount and a huge margin. 🧵

Hi, I’m a climate scientist working at the Copernicus Climate Change Service @ECMWF leading the climate monitoring team using ERA5 and satellite based datasets. Big fan of open science, #climate #dataviz, rights for nature and ambitious climate action. #greensky #climatesky #geosky

My colleague Birgit Hassler is featured in this video (German language) about climate model evaluation by the Office for Climate Education! Check it out!

Here's a nice easy way to find the #Glaciology feed, also super handy for sharing 😉

Hello bluesky, thanks for the refuge! Hoping to find a #climate / #physics bubble here!