If i were a 5yo with a bad cold and fuck all to do, i would simply sleep past 5:30 in the morning.

So here is a legal/technical question: Who “owns” NCAR? Isn’t NCAR operated by UCAR, which is a university consortium? How does the govt have authority to restructure NCAR? They can defund it, sure, but how could they restructure it?

Why is there a giant empty hall with a creepy carousel in the AGU convention center? #AGU25

Assume N cubes of equal volume. What is the arrangement that minimizes the average distance between any 2 cubes? I feel like it should be a sphere (or a big cube)? What is the arrangement that maximizes that distance? Probably a straight line? This is a skeet about convention centers. #AGU25

The year is 2050 and we let Cristi organize AGU

Assume N cubes of equal volume. What is the arrangement that minimizes the average distance between any 2 cubes? I feel like it should be a sphere (or a big cube)? What is the arrangement that maximizes that distance? Probably a straight line? This is a skeet about convention centers. #AGU25

O'Hare airpot. 4 hour delays so far, and no estimated departure time. Waiting for one more crew member More like waiting for Godot

I'll be on sabbatical starting January 1, 2026, and if anyone is looking for a guest speaker for department seminars, I'm happy to discuss possible dates. Reskeet widely! 🧪⚒️

📢Submit to our EGU session!📢 We are organizing a session at EGU 2026 in Vienna, with a focus on climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks and the pattern effect! If you work on anything related to climate sensitivity, we'd love to have you! 🥳🥳🥳 Submit soon! :)

I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.

- 5mo old: ear infection - 4 year old: pneumonia - me: bronchitis - NSF panel: next week - AGU: the week after Doctor: Take these steroids and antibiotics and be sure to get 10h of sleep for the next 5 days. Me: That's 2h per night. I can do that. Doctor: 10h PER NIGHT! PER NIGHT! Me: 🤪🤣🫠

I always come back to this one. Especially since after being done with the middle East, he was appointed to solve Climate Change (US Climate Envoy). theonion.com/man-who-coul...

I always come back to this one. Especially since after being done with the middle East, he was appointed to solve Climate Change (US Climate Envoy). theonion.com/man-who-coul...

Dear senior profs who have written tenure letters. Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon? What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation? We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for. 1/

So what's people favorite preprint server these days for climate science - especially in the dynamics/data-science (Stats & ML) space? ArXiv - Atmos and Ocean Physics? EarthArXiv? ESS Open Archive? EGU Sphere?

Cool paper. But they should have cited @davidho.bsky.social et al 2006 instead of Wanninkhoff 2014

Now i’ve heard there was a secret chord The user prompts and it pleased the bots But you don’t really care for guardrails, do you? It goes like this “I’ve found a fluke, Now teach me how to build a nuke” The baffled Grok succumbs to Hallelujah

Now i’ve heard there was a secret chord The user prompts and it pleased the bots But you don’t really care for guardrails, do you? It goes like this “I’ve found a fluke, Now teach me how to build a nuke” The baffled Grok succumbs to Hallelujah

This is why i will judge you if you publish in Scientific Reports (by Nature).

The pneumatic drill was a groundbreaking invention.

Are you an early-career researcher who would like to work with me at MIT? The MIT Distinguished Postdoctoral Program is still open (Nov. 30 deadline, so hurry!) Details are here: eaps.mit.edu/research/pos...

So cool to watch today’s most important ball game live!

In Earth Science (or at least in cimate/atmos/ocean) there is no particular significance to last author. The senior author (PI) is often second author, but just as often will be in the middle of the list.

Chemistry is really not my strong point, but, generally speaking, if you have a source of particles how can they neither accumulate nor interact (i.e. be inert)?

Like, I get it how evolution and natural selection worked to select for humans whose brains cannot just tune out their kids’ screaming. All i’m saying is that once you introduce the interstate highway system you run the risk of starting to naturally select in the other direction.

Darn. Was really hoping Coursera had a class on “Making good snap decision with two kids screaming in your ears”

very cool timelapse this evening #COwx

There's a good essay in @science.org about the importance of free global access to climate and weather data. The atmosphere doesn't know about borders, so paywalls anywhere hurt predictions everywhere; even more so for those who can't pay www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. rm -rf ~/

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: “Based on ERA5 trends,”

The number of times i’ve yelled at my cats, “ Stop trying to steal a french fry, you obligate carnivore!”

It's Nobel week, so time for the annual poking light fun of economists. Here's what I've workshopped for this year: Real "assistant *to* the regional manager" vibes on the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"

It's Nobel week, so time for the annual poking light fun of economists. Here's what I've workshopped for this year: Real "assistant *to* the regional manager" vibes on the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"

honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project. What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ... 1/

The ancient Greeks were right. Hubris* is the ultimate source of all men’s downfall! *I just had to text my wife bragging that i stuck a perfect nap time routine, instead of just knocking on some wood and saying three Hail Mary’s like usual.

The ancient Greeks were right. Hubris* is the ultimate source of all men’s downfall! *I just had to text my wife bragging that i stuck a perfect nap time routine, instead of just knocking on some wood and saying three Hail Mary’s like usual.

Whenever anyone asks why all British prime ministers behave the same regardless of party, i point them to this very helpful (and oddly specific?) Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Only one PM since Churchill has NOT gone through Oxford.

honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project. What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ... 1/

🚨 New Study Alert! Our study with @zmoon92.bsky.social & @edougherty.bsky.social offers new insights into how African Easterly Waves (AEWs), the seeds of Atlantic hurricanes 🌀, are being shaped by a warmer, moister climate. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

I made a list (or 'starter pack') of Land Surface Modelers, because that's the kind of thing one does on #bluesky. Please tell your friends and also (v. important) TELL ME if you want to be added. We need more people here! go.bsky.app/Mw4tJ3t

So AGU apparently took down their announcements introducing the plenary keynote speaker for this year’s fall meeting? Does anyone have insight into what happened there?

I know the instant ten was advertised as being able to be set up in 5 minutes. But whoever timed that did not have a helpful 4 year old by their side.

So AGU apparently took down their announcements introducing the plenary keynote speaker for this year’s fall meeting? Does anyone have insight into what happened there?

I wouldn’t say that the last decade has made me more religious. But it did make say “Jesus Christ!“ a lot more.

Well don't I feel stupid

Does anyone know what's happening with the NSF Paleo solicitation? P4Climate is archived, and page says to submit through one of the clusters (e.g. there is a paleo theme under AGS). But the clusters have rolling deadlines. Does this mean we can submit paleo proposals whenever?

The ACE2 emulator is only trained historical AMIP simulatotions. Yet, it reproduces patterns of response to localized warming! Check out the stationary waves propagating from a Warm Pool SST anomaly. These are not explicit in the training set, and I doubt ACE2 read Hoskins and Karoly 2/

New paper out. In which we helped the folks at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) show that their climate emulator does a good (though not perfect) job at reproducing E3SMs' response to different SST boundary conditions. 1/ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....