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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations!
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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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m shedding a tear or two. Might need a facial tissue, Kleenex brand if possible.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Same to y’all!
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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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I suspect the ghosted channel is scattering off either rain or maybe small cloud droplets (cloud has that virga look), and then the wind looks gusty/strong enough that the channel probably moved a bit between strokes. Definitely my first time seeing the ghosting, but channels moving is documented.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hand Tool Rescue: soothing, good sense of humor, strange objects disassembled. The Barco rammer/compactor is a good first ep.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If you watch some gameplay of the South Asian table game carrom (wherein there is much caroming of discs), you might surmise it is the origin of the word, though a quick check of etymology sites implies carom comes from 18th century western languages. Curious.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
That’s a good font
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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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Wonder of wonders, it’s been reversed! mastodon.social/@danluu/1165...
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Dan Luu (@danluu@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even ...
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Of the mPING options, I’d say hail, too. The distinction is as @srhelicity.bsky.social put it.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The CG at the end looks to be a recoil leader along the crawling positive channel that gets loose and comes to ground as a -CG. I think a similar recoil thing is what happens (but upside down) for the few tower discharges in winter storm that also tap a second upper layer.
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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 · 20/04/2026
Those are some nontrivial differences! For my electrification interests, the droplet and graupel sensitivities are obviously quite important. Seems like a result that should inform our current and future electricity forward modeling work.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Neat that the right hand branch from tower 1 stays illuminated while there’s cutoff and darts on the left through the same channel base. Would be interesting to see if a simple two-branch system with varied charge density could reproduce these cutoff dynamics in the Pantuso and da Silva model.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Possibly a decoy emissary from the P3 microphysics scheme, proceed with caution.
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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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yes, I’m receiving reports of an intensifying lake effect band
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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
Code sprints are social so you don’t need to run solo. I’ll be happy if at least one person gets the reference, but it’s more likely this joke will crash.
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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 · 09/12/2025
I continue to be surprised every time this happens to me! Facts show I must grudgingly accept it.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Even if changes were all in summer I still might not see them until mid-semester when I reran a particular bit of code the one time I needed it. Long-term stability is a bigger help than specific timing. It’s vexing w.r.t. devs wanting to move things forward vs. users’ intermittency.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Adding my own ux reaction/fears here, the challenge in tracking this down is that there are about 20 versions of the underlying library in between, it’s a low-level change affecting a core operation, and, practically, it’s unknown if I need to spend 10 min or a day to figure it out.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Example: this worked in xarray 2023.4.2 with no warnings but in 2025.06.0: “IndexError: arrays used as indices must be of integer (or boolean) type.” No idea what changed. ix = {'track': [slice(1, 2, None), slice(4, 5, None)], 'cell': [np.int64(1), np.int64(4), np.int64(49),]} ds = ds[ix]
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
My re-teach cycle is about 2 yrs., so a bit longer than that would be ideal. Feels like I see some new decision/persnicketiness on that cycle with some regularity. Really breaks flow of lecture prep when you have to switch to debugging coder brain to get the red (warnings) out.
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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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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thomas Kinkade bad CGI front exterior
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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 · 25/10/2025
Nope!
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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 · 09/09/2025
Yeah, that’s more than enough. I think a fair share is 3x the amount of your first and student authored papers each year. I bet you’ve exceeded that?
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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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