Did the @bart.gov speedrun today, and got interviewed while on the train by @bikecurious.bsky.social ! He does weekly livestreams while biking around San Francisco on Twitch/Youtube Segment with me: www.twitch.tv/videos/25664...

That one brown tree on the redwoods Mac background..

thank you for asking, no.

Plumbing is the new turing test.

Do you want to work on improving some of the most widely used global climate datasets? We are offering a 34-month research / climate data science post to further develop CRU TS and CRUTEM @climateuea.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Probationary employees eceived emails and were given an hour to empty their desks, despite a U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco ruling ordering the Office of Personnel Management to stop indiscriminate firings because they are likely illegal.

It’s the UK’s biggest environmental health risk - impacting us from birth to old age. Researchers are tracking pollution, identifying the most toxic particles, and pushing for effective policies. Cleaner air is possible - but we need action. Read the story: ncas.ac.uk/scientists-e...

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Late-breaking livestream this PM (4:30pm PT) to discuss the sudden mass firing today of #NOAA and National Weather Service (#NWS) staff, including those in mission-critical and life-saving roles. youtube.com/live/W2V...

GPT-4 still seems nicer for casual conversation than the newer models. It doesn't usually write 5 page responses to simple questions.

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

You know, if you don't ask any Dutch submarine captains you meet if you can go visit any cool boats, you're doing yourself a disservice.

Getaround.com just shut down. This is a huge hit to the autonomy of city-dwellers (carless like me). For those who don't know it let you rent cars directly from people on a map. You could rent as short as an hour or month, through the app and just go pick up the car from wherever it was parked. 😢

I made a game controller interface for Interactive Fiction/Text Adventure games like Zork! (Yes, it is of limited use, as you have to type other things on the keyboard, but it's fun) D-pad go directions, X ->examine/x O -> inventory/i □ -> open △ -> close github.com/steamfire/co...

anything is possible at bluesky you can do anything at bluesky the infinite is possible at bluesky the unattainable is unknown at bluesky welcome to bluesky this is bluesky welcome to bluesky welcome this is bluesky welcome to bluesky welcome to bluesky

Under a not so white sky: visual impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection New paper out today by Ansar Lemon TLDR: casual observers would not notice anything different about the sky in a world cooled 1 C with stratospheric sulfates. iopscience.iop.org/a... 1/6

Well, I guess I'll be taking the train from now on

Why life as we know it is left-handed? One tantalizing hypothesis, reconnecting my research on complex systems with my early steps in science as a PhD student, is that cosmic rays have skewed the early lifeforms. www.quantamagazine.org/cosmic-rays-... www.science.org/content/arti...

DOWNLOAD THE DATA, PLEASE. Space earth observations particularly

It's really satisfying to 3D print your ideas :-)

One of my prettiest balloon launches, from 2006, in the morning mist of an island airport on the Tennessee River, DKX. #UTARC #balloons

A fair bit of coordination in my day feels like making sure devices are on charge. Perhaps new batteries are on order. My airpods last about 3 hours, but given I wear them most of my waking time, I think they've given valiant service.

Colorado State's AGN-201. Come to UNM if you want to drive one of these babies!

"Pizza peptides"! this guy runs commercial foods through his mass spec to tell what is in them youtu.be/8KcvW2k128Q?...

Brushing off my cad skills, I think I'll make a 3D model of #Voyager from the blueprints :-)

Lofi is something I enjoy, I’m pretty down for Christmas music, Christmas Lofi is some of the worst music I’ve ever heard

Calling all (future) atmospheric scientists! We have the perfect course for you: ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Post someone you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.

Rooman nomerals.

such a sick pictute. if this is from the eclipse from this year we ended up getting videos of it from a weather balloon as well.

Reykjanes lava fields as seen by Sentinel-1 on Nov. 28, 2024.

One positive to come out of COVID: it validated that most of the general public were competent enough to perform at-home lateral flow tests. Hopefully reducing burdens on primary care now that diagnostics can be done by individuals.

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯 Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

Oh Ice Cream Truck that plays 8-bit "Turkey in the Straw" on a loop that stops before the chorus and circulates in my neighborhood daily for years, including Thanksgiving week in the rain, what is the real story? It can't be about money.

The cardputer is adorablely tiny with 1980s style youtube.com/shorts/bx4Me...

Filling an early Loon "Ibis" balloon using a crane at Winnemucca, NV airport. Dec 9, 2014

We’re talking to Voyager 1 right now through the DSN ✨

These are both great cabin-vacation-vibe simulator games!

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

.@KellyWanser, Exec Dir of nonprofit SilverLining, thinks we may need to resort to #geoengineering ("climate intervention" as she euphemistically calls it). What does it involve & what are the risks? This week on @CleaningUpPod, @bryworthington finds...

This is a gorgeous book by one of my friends - it would look good in your living room!

Folks have been asking about striking linear feature that has appeared on radar near SF. This is likely a "Narrow Cold Frontal Rainband" (or NCFR), but also appears to be accompanied by series of "gravity waves" (vertical undulations appearing as parallel striations). #CAwx

Hello transit sickos!!! We are now on Bluesky. Follow us for news and other fun stuff going on in the Bay Area. And of course ... weirdo broad-gauge posting. 💙🚆

A marching band on a cable car in San Francisco. 🔥

saucer section not charging

Hey all

The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arecibo-message-earths-first-interstellar-transmission-turns-50/

Multiple Y-axes are the way to go. (Pardon the grid lines)