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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Winter Solstice today. Likely record warm Christmas on tap. Perfect opportunity to explain why we have winter and can still have a warming climate. Enjoy. My thoughts www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sitting in my local spoons, thinking about an ambitious side coding project I want to try. Make an iceberg float and classification GUI on python.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I think I'm almost ready to submit my paper again. This has been ongoing since last December. Hundreds of hours.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Peer review process for iceberg science: "You're training an AI for your pipeline? You gotta get more images!" The data scarce field of iceberg detection: "Hahaha sure you want me to get 200 images, 95% of which will be useless" #academicsky

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Explain your username: Hi I'm Sonny and I got my PhD in 2022. I'm also autistic and been diagnosed since 1998. My special interests are ice, snow, weather, planes, trains and travel. I turned one of those special interests into a living. How? I study icebergs.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Doing a linkedin course on plain writing, and some of these tips are completely different to scientific writing. I've always been told I write like a scientist, even outside of science.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As an autistic adult, I like to tidy my own spaces and ensure only I move things around so I can remember where it all is. If someone moves things when I'm out of sight, it could make things more difficult.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Still makes me laugh that Kinder Surprise eggs are banned in the US.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Happy World Autism Day folks. ♾️

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today's a very good day. I wrote my first ever research grant proposal last month. Today I was told I'm being awarded the grant. Happy days. 😄

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Earwax build up is so bad for me. I am wondering if its just my stress levels. I'm autistic, so my chronic stress levels are quite high compared to the NT population.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Starting to notice videos freezing after trying to watch them in my Facebook news feed and it's really inconvenient and annoying.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Was featured in Seaways magazine for our work, recently!

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

There's something annoying to me about media articles that have to be written to hide blatantly obvious messaging. What's stopping you from saying the quiet parts out loud? I'm very good at spotting patterns and hidden messaging. It's a red flag if "everyone is welcome" is controversial to you.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hey Bluesky. Today's π day, right? I present my contribution.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

As I write a giant application and another paper, I can't help but continue to have the utmost empathy for my friends in the US. It's an empathy that makes me physically shake and my heart beat rapidly increase. This is autistic hyper empathy at its strongest.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sorry. Been Mia. Writing up a fellowship application and it's rather difficult.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

An astrophysicist could answer this one. The Sun would have to expand for billions of years to warm up Mars, surely?

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Every single individual in the weather enterprise should be utterly furious today.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is the second time a private jet has ignored instructions not to cross the runway during an active landing. 🤦‍♂️

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Anyone who says "scientists shouldn't be political" can eat razors forever

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

8 conference paper reviews, and 2 draft funding applications later and I'm ready for a birthday weekend in Bologna, Italy. Ending my twenties with my favourite food in the world at its birthplace: ragù bolognese, and lasagna.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So with RFK Jr now confirmed, I'm concerned it is going to become more difficult these next 4 years for autistic people in America. Sending you all my best wishes from here in the UK.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.

A screen shot of Google Earth with “Gulf of Mexico” in the search bar. The red pin in the gulf is labeled “Gulf of America.”

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Yes, our sensory systems are far more overloaded than they were years ago. #autism

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So polarisation is a word included here. How on earth are radar polarimetry scientists supposed to publish research? What about physics research in optics?

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So many journals to pick from but who? JoG - good for glaciology work without a big remote sensing focus MDPI RS - not sure about this one, already have 2 with them IEEE JSTARS - really good for methods in remote sensing applications. RS of Environment - Seems good for a mix of both T & A.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

GFS model hinting at another potential #windstorm for February 11th. Too early to say details but if the model is correct this could be the next named storm (Floris).

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I absolutely never in a million years will call it anything but the Gulf of Mexico, AND Mount Denali.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“Climate science is dead. God knows what’s going to happen to biomedicine. This marks the beginning of the decline of the golden age of American science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/s... #ScienceUnderSiege

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Why Trump Picked a Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios, Who Isn’t a Scientist

Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank Christ for that at least... none of my friends on rental assistance and SNAP will be homeless. But the precedent is bad... and we don't know how this affects academia, specifically research grants...

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Wow, potential convection and tornadic activity in the afternoon possible.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Reports of roof tiles flying off in Lancashire. 85 to 105 mph winds moving into Scotland now.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Extremely intense bomb cyclone about to hit us hard in the UK. Lowest pressure recorded is 936 mb Stay safe and stay weather aware.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Glad that we have DEI policies where I work. I'm so grateful.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The two EOs that I'm probably going to be the most emotional about. Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement and drilling in the Arctic. Horrific for science. The erasure of non binary gender identity from federal recognition. Horrific for my fellow community.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The enslaught of executive orders expected tomorrow is going to be one to watch for.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I want to make it clear that some older folks and adults who criticised Tik Tok and young folk on it ever since inception, are the same people who, here in the UK, whether a voter or in political office, opted to decimate our youth services, youth clubs and opportunities for young kids to thrive.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I don't think academics (especially) should be making fun of younger folks who have now lost access to Tik Tok. No matter how you feel about it personally, many folk from marginalised communities have lost a means to put food on the table. And it's any user who registered an account in the U.S.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

So the felon who originally wanted it banned now wants it unbanned, and the CEO will be at his inauguration. The thing I'm saddest about is a loss of income for people who are in dire poverty in the U.S. and who made funds from the app to put a bit of food on the table.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Opportunity for anyone in astrophysics to come work with the department! John is an excellent person to work with.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ceasefire? I really hope it actually is this time. 467 days. It's been 467 days.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How marking is going. One minute: Where's the references?! The next: This work is so incredible that it makes my heart very happy and makes me love the subject even more! I finished 4 tonight will do the other 4 tomorrow 😀

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So I've just been offered to do some glaciology marking for 4 hours on 8 scripts. I have a tight week and they want it back by Monday. But I've got a bit of free time while my code is left to do its job, so I've taken on the extra workload. I haven't had an opportunity to mark work in a long time.

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Sonny Bailey @drsonny.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If anyone knows of any UK or international conferences in remote sensing, Earth observation or polar science I could apply to present at, do let me know! Looking at more than just ESA Living Planet this year!

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