The Rome Times Opinion: Why the Fabian strategy is a loser. Romans need to wake up and adopt a direct confrontation approach. By Hannibal Barca

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....

I regret to inform you that the rapture just happened. If you are still here, it means you did not make the cut.

I regret to inform you that the rapture just happened. If you are still here, it means you did not make the cut.

Does anyone else remember reading a short story (or maybe just a long thread) about the rapture happening, and then the world becoming better for those left behind because the rapture took all the hardcore Christians away?

Has anyone managed to get the updated (25-26) pediatric COVID booster (<6yrs)? Obviously particularly interested in Illinois, but I'm curious if they're available anywhere.

ECS <2 is absurd in the year of our lord 2025. The data used in Sherwood et al is now almost a decade old (not to mention Lewis and Curry 2014). Even ignoring pattern effects, we’re now already at ~1.5C with less than 2xCO2 and an even larger energy imbalance. No way Effective ECS is <2.

Has anyone managed to get the updated (25-26) pediatric COVID booster (<6yrs)? Obviously particularly interested in Illinois, but I'm curious if they're available anywhere.

RFMIP2 preprint now out! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

IMHO = In my humble opinion. It is a good acronym. I suggest another, potentially more useful and certainly more accurate one (as most opinions are not actually humble) : IMAE = In my anecdotal experience.

If you want to get your simple climate model picked up by IPCC AR7, see below 👇 We have 11 on our radar from the previous round of RCMIP (egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...), plus a few others we found since. Anybody we don't know about please ping me or Alex

Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Prove e wrong: Bluesky is definitely the social media site with the highest percentage of users that own a labelmaker for home use.

My favorite thing about this manuscript is the data availability statement: “no data was used in this study”. Preparing a pivot for research in a world with no funding

I commend our manuscript to any reviewer willing to check the math in our appendix.

I’m so happy that Taylor Swift achieved her life long dream of ending up with a football star! I am also sorry it’s not a star quarterback in a blue number 12 jersey which she was clearly pinning for (attached).

I’m so happy that Taylor Swift achieved her life long dream of ending up with a football star! I am also sorry it’s not a star quarterback in a blue number 12 jersey which she was clearly pinning for (attached).

📢📢 New preprint alert! 📢📢 Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)... Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap! arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353

What the heck is wrong with English spelling and pronunciation? Take the word “queue”. It has four vowels in a row, but you’re somehow not supposed to pronounce any of them.

What the heck is wrong with English spelling and pronunciation? Take the word “queue”. It has four vowels in a row, but you’re somehow not supposed to pronounce any of them.

Our colleague @latinwx.bsky.social represented in this BBC article: bbc.com/future/artic...

Does anyone know how to turn down the “drama” setting on a 2021-model toddler? The knob on mine is stuck on 11. I have found voice-activation is easily able to turn "drama" mode on, but not off. (For real though, this kid has a future in theater)