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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am beyond honored to receive the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award this year. I'm extremely lucky to be part of an amazing community that's enabled me to be where I am today. I can only hope I'm able to pay that forward and help enable the next generation to come.
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RadarScope @radarscope.app · 21/09/2026
RadarScope 5.7 is available today for iOS with support for ProbSevere, RRFS, indie radars, and One more thing…
RadarScope on CarPlay.
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Clem Tillier @ctillier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One of the neatest observations made by lightning mappers: we clocked this meteor fireball at ~57 kilometers per second (125,000 mph). That is FAST!
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Multi-sensor Observations of a High-velocity Fireball over the South Atlantic on 2026 April 1
Multi-sensor Observations of a High-velocity Fireball over the South Atlantic on 2026 April 1, Silber, Elizabeth A., Rubbrecht, Niels, Tillier, Clemens E., Cano, Juan L., Landis, Rob R., Longenbaugh, ...
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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 12/06/2026
We did some science last night! (Phased-Array Polarimetry for Electrification and Lightning)
the OU advanced radar research center’s “Horus” mobile phased array S-band radar is in a grassy field. a thunderstorm anvil stretches about halfway over the sky. A small horseshoe vortex is visible in front of the anvilThree instruments (a differential wavelength radiometer, a highspeed camera, and a global shutter camera) on tripods pointed at an approaching frontal boundary at sunset. Long exposure photo of a CG lightning flash. Mammatus clouds are visible above the camera.Long exposure photo of a CG lightning flash, with two channels coming to ground. Mammatus clouds are visible above the camera.
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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
MetPy Mondays is back! John Leeman from NSF Unidata introduces what’s new in MetPy and previews a new 15-part MetPy Mondays series focused on practical meteorological data analysis, remote data access, and case study plotting. buff.ly/BQitB7I
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MetPy Mondays #329 - What's New in MetPy? | NSF Unidata
This MetPy Monday episode introduces a new series focused on the latest features in MetPy and practical workflows for meteorological data analysis in Python. John highlights improvements to core…
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is on the Saturday after the @ametsoc.org Madison meeting. Disappointed I will be on the road to another thing!
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SportsLogos.Net @sportslogos.net · 04/05/2026
The Madison Mallards are organizing the world's largest Euchre game as they play one this summer as the "Right Bowers" 🃏 Full pics and details ⬇️ news.sportslogos.net/2026/04/29/m...
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Madison Mallards to play as Right Bowers for Euchre-themed promotion
The Madison Mallards, a collegiate summer level team who are keeping this minor league baseball correspondent busy with a slew of alternate identities, will rebrand in tribute to a uniquely…
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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 26/04/2026
excuse me? I wrote the code for this commit using nano. I then used @vscode.dev to publish this commit, because I couldn't be bothered to find my personal access token wanted to use the github extension for login. NONE OF THE CODE WAS WRITTEN BY COPILOT. IT INJECTED THIS INTO THE COMMIT MESSAGE.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
GLM has been game-changing for the community that monitors meteors. Great example! It’s also one of the many new capabilities that would be lost in the current plan to stop flying a GLM-like instrument after the current fleet reaches end of life.
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The full complaint is worth a read. There are several additional overreaches in there that I wasn't previously aware of.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 10/03/2026
My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
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White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.
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What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences
Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Running a grad student code sprint tonight with a spaghetti meal. We have this sauce for fans of the history of weather radar color maps. @pyart.bsky.social
A Carbone brand glass jar of marinara cheekily annotated with the number 42
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As the AMS Annual Meeting approaches, don’t forget that TTU Atmospheric Science is hiring for two faculty positions. We’ll be at the meeting and can visit if you have any questions in advance of the application deadline.
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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
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Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
Job announcement for Texas Tech University flood monitoring and modeling system
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Second game in a row where the lock screen score is opposite the in-app score. You’ve got a bug, @espn.com!
Score report from the ESPN app’s Lock Screen feature, showing a TTU victoryScore report from the full ESPN app, showing an Arkansas victory
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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Took advantage of being sick today to make a joke about amplitude and phase shifts to my voice as part of an exam review on the frequency domain. 😎
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Austin @gingerwx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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 Precipitation and Data Science positions and join us in fall 2026!
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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 @andrewdessler.com · 31/07/2025
🚨 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. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
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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.
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“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 @wx4stg.com · 01/08/2025
Passed my @ttu.edu Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today! Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor, @deeplycloudy.bsky.social, looking at lightning with phased array radars
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Kelcy Brunner @kelcyno.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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 @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025
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! blog.persistent.info/2025/07/infi...
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Infinite Mac Construction Set
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025
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.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Come for the UI history, stay for the fully usable and complete app and game nostalgia. Really remarkable.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 09/07/2025
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.
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Meredith Plays Horn @meredithmoo25.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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 @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
See, it is possible to love linear algebra!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/06/2025
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!
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 07/06/2025
HyperCard stack that shows a card that says "RIP Bill Atkinson (1951–2025)"
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The moon in crepuscular rays illuminating a supercell
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A quadrilateral of supercells emerges. #quadrilateralsupercellconspiracy
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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. manganiello.social/objects/1bf4...
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Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
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...
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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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 @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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.
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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
✨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: arcg.is/zLOSW #PoweredByUnidata
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NSF Unidata Community Survey
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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 @laurenthal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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/ @weathersullivan.bsky.social (free link):
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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.
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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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 buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
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NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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! github.com/Unidata/MetP...
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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...
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 29/04/2025
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. buff.ly/3U56ooz
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