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Austin
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Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:
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Texas Tech Geosciences is hiring two open-rank Atmospheric Science faculty positions in Precipitation Hazards, and in Data Science; part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Atmospheric Hazards Strategic Hire. See the details for the
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I have been wondering what is the driving philosophy of the present political moment. Focus here is placed on a particular philosophy of apocalyptic thinking, not the politics of WWII Germany.
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Good read on an advancement in the fundamental mathematical physics that we use to quantify the atmosphere. Fun to imagine how the result might also apply to improved statistical representations of cloud and precipitation particle interactions.
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Andrew Dessler
3 months ago
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
https://forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxAFeiQ8L8
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
3 months ago
“If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. … Science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state. An American abdication will only hurt America.”
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Sam Gardner
3 months ago
Passed my
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Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today! Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor,
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, looking at lightning with phased array radars
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Kelcy Brunner
4 months ago
Hi All - We are convening a session at AGU this December, please share with your groups and consider submitting to our session!
@ltgbug.bsky.social
#lightning
#AGU2025
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Marcin Wichary
4 months ago
This is
@persistent.info
’s post with some more technical details – and some further twists like using an LLM to a control an old computer!
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Infinite Mac Construction Set
https://blog.persistent.info/2025/07/infinite-mac-embedding.html
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Marcin Wichary
4 months ago
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
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Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference
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Come for the UI history, stay for the fully usable and complete app and game nostalgia. Really remarkable.
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kottke.org
4 months ago
From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing.
[aresluna.org]
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Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/
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Meredith Plays Horn
4 months ago
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
To make reiterate for others: the Big Murder Bill that *just* passed is completely separate from next year's budget for NSF, NOAA, and NASA (set via separate appropriations). Will take a little bit longer to hear more about science agency budgets (were originally supposed to hear more next week):
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Bob Henson
4 months ago
Excellent piece from
@zoeschlanger.bsky.social
on what Schlanger aptly calls the "miserable cascade of losses for the American hurricane-safety apparatus." Quoted:
@drkimwood.bsky.social
,
@michaelrlowry.bsky.social
,
@franklinjamesl.bsky.social
+ Andy Hazelton.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/hurricane-science-noaa-cuts/683398/?gift=-64obP71HbJD4Y8_mZAHlY1IeCgUIU6sIMKjvQY8pWw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Alan Gerard
4 months ago
We are losing access to key weather satellite data important for hurricane forecasting. But remember when we said that computer models were less reliant on balloons because they now use satellite data? Well, this is some of that satellite data and we're losing it.
open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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Critical meteorological satellite data terminated
Meanwhile, Eastern heat dome slowly shrinks
https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/critical-meteorological-satellite?r=5aph6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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See, it is possible to love linear algebra!
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kottke.org
4 months ago
Today’s weather report styled like The Weather Channel in the 90s: WeatherStar 4000+.
[weatherstar.netbymatt.com]
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WeatherStar 4000+
Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!
https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
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Tombmas Spooks
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The moon in crepuscular rays illuminating a supercell
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A quadrilateral of supercells emerges.
#quadrilateralsupercellconspiracy
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A yin-yang of lightning channel density from the tornadic supercell storm over Lubbock, and lightning in two overshooting tops showing the updraft of the main supercell and one that merged from the rear as the HP transition happened.
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This is so very resonant with the philosophy seeping more every day into faculty affairs, and students are dragged into this same financialized logic that doesnt let them slow down enough to think vigorously.
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Fabio Manganiello (@
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Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...
https://manganiello.social/objects/1bf46e19-a33a-4a99-b5a6-2a834bd649bf
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Ryan May
5 months ago
I want to extend my heartfelt thanks for the support and kind words from everyone in the community. It really helped in getting through this rough time not to mention made clear the importance of our mission and the positive impact we have. Rough waters remain ahead but I’m grateful to be here.
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Jessica McKenzie
5 months ago
It’s hard to overstate how important Unidata is to weather research & communication, but the program paused most of its operations this month due to a lapse in funding from the NSF freeze. Staff is furloughed & it is unclear when they will be able to resume operations
thebulletin.org/2025/05/deco...
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Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see
The Trump administration is undermining the collection and distribution of essential weather and climate information, right before hurricane season.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/05/decommissioned-retired-paused-the-weather-climate-and-earth-science-data-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see/#post-heading
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NSF Unidata
6 months ago
✨Reminder: The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses✨ Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work. 🔗 Take the Survey:
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https://arcg.is/zLOSW
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David John Gagne II
6 months ago
Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.
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Lauren Rosenthal
6 months ago
A reinsurance industry group began pushing to protect NOAA's billion-dollar disaster list back in February -- because it helps convince “the public and public officials to embrace resilience," driving down insurance costs. Story w/
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Why Trump’s Plan to Stop Tallying Weather Losses Matters to the Insurance Industry
NOAA’s billion-dollar disaster list provides a crucial metric for tracking rising damages tied to climate change and development.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/how-trump-s-plan-to-stop-tallying-weather-losses-impacts-insurance?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjgwNDQ5NCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3NDA5Mjk0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlpVUVFEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDODQyRERFMUM0RDI0OUVDQUQ5REU4NDhDQkZGNUNBOCJ9.rWyGKBzOCSw9021Ub-LkNmurv-6HkjMAzYFDEo_dSJI
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NSF Unidata
6 months ago
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see
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NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/nsf-unidata-pause-in-most
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MetPy
6 months ago
MetPy 1.7.0 is out! Highlights include saturation vapor pressure (including over ice) and LCL calculations, automated high/low identification, and clients for accessing S3 archives of NEXRAD L2/L3, GOES, and ML weather prediction output (from NOAA/CIRA), and more!
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Release 1.7.0 · Unidata/MetPy
Highlights New analytic LCL calculation based on Romps (2017) New saturation vapor pressure calculations, relative to both ice and liquid, using Ambaum (2020) Moisture/temperature dependent gas co...
https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy/releases/tag/v1.7.0
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AGU (American Geophysical Union)
6 months ago
AGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce.
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American Meteorological Society
6 months ago
NOAA Research introduced and is redeveloping our national Doppler radar network. It provides the radar observations used to keep you safe in severe weather (the same ones seen on TV & your phone). NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more:
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/stand-up-for-noaa-research-the-time-to-act-is-now/
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NSF Unidata
6 months ago
✨The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is now live! ✨ Share your insights, support community progress. Take 15 minutes to complete the survey, and as a thank you, you'll have the chance to enter a drawing for an NSF Unidata swag bag. 🔗
arcg.is/zLOSW
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Jacob Carlin
6 months ago
I've shared this before (and lack the poetry of
@deke-arndt.bsky.social
) but thought I'd re-share on BlueSky for the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. While I didn't move to Oklahoma until 2012 (and OKC until 2016), I'm always reminded this time of year of a very distinct memory. (1/7)
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Sam Gardner
7 months ago
wrf-elec run for today 0z through Saturday 0z… I will eventually make a website for this..
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Pat Hyland
7 months ago
Imagine dismantling: 1) The world leader in weather forecasting and warnings 2) The most favorable government agency among Americans 3) The best return on investment (ROI) - even understaffed/underfunded 4) An agency whose mission is to protect lives and property Because that is what’s happening
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kottke.org
7 months ago
Waldo Jaquith on why he works in the open (blogging, open sourcing software, etc.): “I’ve long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.”
[waldo.jaquith.org]
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Why I work in the open.
I’ve long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.
https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2025/03/work-open/
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NSF Unidata
7 months ago
NSF Unidata is looking for creative people to help set the priorities and direction for our program. We need insights, ideas, and a better understanding of the science data challenges you're facing. Nominate someone (yourself?) to help us serve our community!
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Kelsey Hightower
7 months ago
I'm not against artificial intelligence. I'm for natural intelligence, in all its forms, that has turned ordinary things into wonders since the dawn of time, and continues to produce a data set for us all to learn from, including the machines.
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One of the most wild news stories I’ve ever read.
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NSF Unidata
7 months ago
There's still time to apply for a NSF Unidata grants to help you purchase hardware to support your Earth Systems Science project. The application process is easy, and the deadline to submit your proposal has been extended to April 7, 2025.
www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
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Apparently if you use FileMerge (a graphical diff tool) from Apple’s dev tools on two folders it will give you an easily browsed hierarchical list of which files differ. Handy!
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AGU (American Geophysical Union)
8 months ago
A hostile work environment is driving dedicated public servants away—threatening the future of public service. Have you or your colleagues faced similar challenges? Share your story:
forms.monday.com/forms/c675e5...
#WhereScienceConnectsUs
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NSF Unidata
8 months ago
Tired of downloading the same data over and over? In our latest
#MetPyMonday
, we show you how to build a local cache for NWS soundings! Learn how to automate your data retrieval and streamline your workflow in just a few minutes.
youtu.be/Pl47QBjPlu4?...
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MetPy Mondays #324 - Build a Custom Local Data Cache with Python
YouTube video by NSF Unidata
https://youtu.be/Pl47QBjPlu4?si=Cdnxqc1mjiriM2Qr
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Kaitlyn Jesmonth
8 months ago
Undergraduate research exposure is a main reason I am where I am today. Please read this article by SUNY Oswego highlighting the importance of NSF Project LEE to us as students. I'm forever grateful. And great job to
@zoebush.bsky.social
, Sarah, and Kaitlin!
www.oswego.edu/news/story/s...
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SUNY Oswego faculty-student team conducts illuminating research on lake-effect lightning
The groundbreaking work of SUNY Oswego meteorology faculty and students continues to make illuminating discoveries about the phenomenon of lake-effect lightning.
https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/suny-oswego-faculty-student-team-conducts-illuminating-research-lake-effect-lightning
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Erin Sikorsky
8 months ago
Excellent NEW analysis from my colleague Noah Fritzhand on the national security benefits of NOAA:
councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/03/05/n...
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NOAA’s Critical Contributions to US National Security - The Council on Strategic Risks
NOAA’s research programs, vessels, satellites, science centers, laboratories, and extensive pool of distinguished scientists and experts play key roles in protecting human lives and economic prosperit...
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/03/05/noaas-critical-contributions-to-us-national-security/
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
8 months ago
From the front page of
@ametsoc.org
, my professional society. The headline couldn’t be truer.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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The U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at Risk
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/
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WIRED
8 months ago
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
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Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
https://buff.ly/w4FAuSs
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Sam Gardner
8 months ago
TTU-wrf simulation with electrification module for today/tomorrow.
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Alt18F
8 months ago
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
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We're not done yet | 18F
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