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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Seeking a Project Scientist to create advanced forecasts of high-impact weather phenomena for deployment at scale in tropical countries. Help expand our work generating monsoon onset forecasts for tens of millions of Indian farmers to other phenomena & countries. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05447

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Assistant/Associate/Full Project Scientist - Department of Earth & Planetary Science

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Berkeley's Geography Department, one floor up from me, has an opening for an Assistant Professor focusing on the impacts of global environmental change. Apply by Oct 2! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05449

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Want to help many millions of farmers in India adapt to weather and climate variability? Seeking a Policy and Research Manager to manage scientific partnerships focused on technical and operational aspects of disseminating weather forecasts directly to farmers: www.diluchicago.in/policyresear...

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Policy & Research Manager (Scientific Partnerships) (Copy) — Development Innovation Lab - India

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

From MIT President Sally Kornbluth's letter to the US Department of Education, regarding their proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Proud to be an MIT alum this morning

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

@ametsoc.org thank you for responding and checking on this!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

@ametsoc.org I'm leading a career-development course for 150 undergrads at UC Berkeley and would love to be able to refer them to the AMS Career Center ... but the internship listings are for last summer, with application due dates in early 2025. Is your career site broken?

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is seeking an assistant professor in physical climate science: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084 4/4.

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Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Berkeley's Earth & Planetary Science department is seeking an assistant professor in *any area* of Earth & planetary science: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04978 3/4

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Assistant Professor - Earth & Planetary Science - College of Letters & Science-Mathematical & Physical Sciences

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Berkeley's Miller Institute offers postdoc fellowships (3 years!) and visiting professorships every year, with deadline for nominations in mid-Sept. Great opportunity across all the basic sciences: miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship miller.berkeley.edu/visiting-pro... 2/4

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Miller Fellowship

UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

In the midst of all the turmoil in science, some great opportunities at Berkeley now: 1) Miller Institute postdocs & visiting professorships, 2) faculty position in any Earth & Planetary Science field in my department, 3) faculty position in physical climate science in Env Sci Policy & Mgmt 1/4

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@davidho.bsky.social I think depends on the country. Here is India guidance. I was told by a contact when this happened to me they were detaining about 80 travelers per week for this at Bangalore. in.usembassy.gov/travel-alert... Some people end up with weeks-long legal cases in India

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yes @davidho.bsky.social also be aware if you travel internationally at all. I will never again own one of these Garmin devices that use satellite connectivity -- going entirely with phone options like the iphone sat texting from now on.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Indeed, @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social is very serious. These are illegal in India, Thailand, China, and more. Great devices, but I accidentally left one in my backpack while traveling to India, got taken out of airport to police station for hours, missed flight, thousands of dollars cost.

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Hello BlueSky 🦋 I'm the Director of Graduate Studies in Cornell Chemistry. We're hiring a new Graduate Field Coordinator to help support our graduate program. Please apply or repost if you know someone great! tinyurl.com/3znxx4bh

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Graduate Field Coordinator-Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Graduate Field Coordinator-Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology The Opportunity The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Graduate Field Coord...

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hi all, we're hiring an early career catastrophe research role in our group! Master's or PhD, flexible on area of specialization, experience in cat modeling not required. US only but remote is available, we've got a hybrid team in Boston, London, and scattered across US and UK.

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Analyst, Catastrophe Mgt in Remote | Careers at Remote | Kelsey Mulder

Pleased to announce I’m hiring! I’m looking for a Research Analyst based in the U.S. This is a remote position. https://lnkd.in/eeUYTttF

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Berkeley's Miller Institute offers postdoc fellowships and very nice visiting professorships every year, and has now opened its call for applications/nominations. This is a really great opportunity across all the basic sciences: miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship miller.berkeley.edu/visiting-pro...

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Miller Fellowship

UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And I'm moving my infrequent social media presence here, since X will soon be owned by and feeding all its information directly to the head of a new federal agency. Regardless of my feelings for billionaire social media CEOs, at least they hadn't been able to arrest me. #DeepState #BigBrotherMusk

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Also see Yi's page where you can browse the forecasts for a few regions: yzhang-aos.github.io/forecast/ Wet bulb temperature is a combined measure of heat and humidity. It's literally the lowest temperature you can cool something to by evaporating liquid water (like sweat).

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forecast | Yi Zhang 张祎

Atmospheric Dynamics, Extreme Events, Climate Science#

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

In a new paper led by Yi Zhang, we show there's a 70% chance of the tropics setting a new record this year for its highest recorded wet-bulb temperature, due to combined effects of El Niño + global warming. news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/22/r... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Record-breaking heat and humidity predicted for tropics this summer

Combination of global warming and El Niño could lead to extreme humid heat stress across the tropics

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I've come up against the fact recently that "service", which overlaps some with public outreach, is expected in some amount but is really not rewarded in the research university promotion & pay raise (at least where I am). I could cut my service work in half and still have same raise/promo result.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

This is less advice to you, as I know you've thought about all this >> me, and more brainstorming for how I might try to work. The Berkeley Journalism school happens to be right next door to my building and I've really not engaged.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

One way I could imagine a university giving hard salary support for this is if it was coupled to teaching, e.g. you teamed up with a journalism or education school, taught students how to do outreach, and delegated some of that work, analogous to how TT faculty work with research.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

It is so incredibly useful to be able to access the historical images going back years on your site. I routinely use windy.com too but quickly jump to nullschool for any past events.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I'm remembering when an astro dept at a certain university reached out to deGrasse Tyson about the possibility of him giving a colloquium on science education, and the response was that his fee was somewhere in the numerous thousands, which included him letting you take him to dinner.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Daniel, thanks for the background. I do wonder if there's a 'next step' in the public persona evolution that maybe you have reached, where one gets logistical support from a press office and starts charging some speaker fees, which then subsidize the 'pro bono' outreach.

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Figuring out what my own pace/level is feels like I should be writing some sort of business plan for the effort. But the 'institutional support' concept is interesting. I was initially going to say there is none, but even at UCs there are press offices. Does UCLA's help you at all?

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

The Nino3.4 weekly values on BOM site have gone down a tiny bit in the first few days of December -- has it maybe peaked? Or started to shift warming a bit more into central Pac?

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

This came at a great time as I'm contemplating being more engaged with public, i.e. media, outreach about tropical climate & monsoons. But I have near-zero patience for 'can you have an interview 2 hours from now', so trying to think about a middle ground between nothing and your 1100 hours/year!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Thank you -- this was a very useful tip!

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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I signed up this morning with an interest of "other" and told them I was a university professor interested in designing relevant educational programs for students.

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