julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Friends and foes: I have emerged from dissertation jail with a defense date: May 21, 12pm ET. It's about #weather influencers, livestreams, live chat, and the very weird/interesting/important work of making sense of tornado threats as they unfold. It's PUBLIC. Pls come! DM 4 link #wx #wxsky 111
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Been in a dissertation writing HOLE. What did I miss? 🍭 010
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 21/02/2026NYC #Blizzard: People currently out walking their dogs, strolling the kids around, normal early spring Saturday. #WinterStormFern? Trader Joes fully looted. Why? 010
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The Farmer’s Almanac will cease production after 2026, having been fully replaced by Ted Cruz, America’s leading cold-weather skedaddler and #1 Worst Canadian Ever. 010
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation: 633108956
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 18/12/2025"...transfer stewardship of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer to an appropriate operator..." And who could that appropriate operator be? Certainly not the universities cutting ATMOS programs? Who could ever want a fuck ton of weather data and why is it Peter Thiel? www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...nsf.govIntent to restructure critical weather science infrastructureThe U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the agency is reviewing the structure of the research and observational capabilities operated by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric... 020
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic 91566358
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I need a linguistic perspective on the Epstein emails. Where are the threads on this? Why do they all "talk" like that? 1111
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/20251) I recently spoke with Business Insider about what the potential sale of TikTok could mean for the *magic* For You Page: 👇🧵 www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-insid...businessinsider.comTikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a saleAs TikTok prepares to sell its US business, employees, creators, and researchers wonder about the future of its content algorithm. 132
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Super excited to present at #TSRCONF at @stanfordcyber.bsky.social this Thursday! My poster, Weathering Trust: Credibility Formation in YouTube’s Weather Info Ecosystem, explores how “weather influencers” have become critical—yet largely unregulated—sources of safety information. Come say hi!! 🌪️⛈️ 031
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/09/2025A straggler thought after yesterday's #NWAS25 digital-first sessions and this morning's #helene content: post-disaster misinfo is out of control. we have elected reps actively theorizing weather-control machines (wouldn't that be nice?). Question is: How do we push back? Esp. online? 010
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Like I said, September is *busy* but I am VERY excited to attend #NWAS25 (remotely) this upcoming week. Looking forward to the digital meteorology panel tomorrow as this topic is pretty squarely my dissertation project (from an HCI, influencer, and platform policy angle). 🌦️🌪️☔ Fuck yeah, weather!media.tenor.coma cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below himALT: a cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below him 030
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 05/09/2025September is starting off crazy busy/chaotic. But not as chaotic as #SpiderJesus💥 Today at 1:30PT/4:30ET I'm presenting (remotely) a preliminary work on #AIJesusSlop at #4S2025. Dive deep into observer theories and how this slop is so much more than #spam. See ya there! 🙏 020
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Exhausted by the news cycle. Here is System of a Down on the first day of their tour at MetLife Stadium. #soad 030
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough* 4687191313
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Fantastic read. "There's no social media equivalent of a WEA alert that's sent out to all mobile phones within radius." 0274
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2025NEW: After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.propublica.orgHow the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk MapAfter Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. 1324880
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I'm not a meteorologist, I'm a social scientist (studying #wx comms). A few things can be simultaneously true re: #tx #floods: - trump admin should have never defunded NOAA, but - NWS was staffed & issued watches/warnings just fine - Ppl don't check the weather at 3am! - we cant predict everything 100
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Sometimes the newsday demands a timeline cleanse. 😮💨 020
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I feel like they're missing a few other totally mysterious cases that are not at all related to helium or hydrogen 🙃 000
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Scott Thomas @scotttgl1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Very concerned by “Y’all Watches” on weatherwise… the idea that these are areas that the weather service may be considering warnings is not OK. There is a substantial risk for confusion with weather service products. Add that our watches are not short fuse polygon products. That is warnings. 86411
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I'm at #CHI2025 this week presenting my paper with Sourojit Ghosh on controlling unwanted content on TikTok's FYP: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13895. This paper was ~3 years in the making and I'm excited it finally found the (right) home!arxiv.org"They've Over-Emphasized That One Search": Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's For You PageModern algorithmic recommendation systems seek to engage users through behavioral content-interest matching. While many platforms recommend content based on engagement metrics, others like TikTok deli... 131
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Someone made a lot of money. The SEC shall investigate! Oh wait, no... it won't (forgot about that Feb 18 executive order for a moment). 25758211
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/04/2025For those of you on the edge of #wxsky: I'm a PhD student studying human-computer interaction <> weather. I'm recruiting for a study on weather presentation formats and what you find trustworthy/credible. Doing 1hr interviews + survey. Pays $17! Screener: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...uwashington.qualtrics.comSevere Weather SurveyA survey about your experiences watching severe weather news coverage. 155
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20/03/2025In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets! 542973690
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.netairtable.comAirtable | Everyone's app platformAirtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free. 2258
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.seattletimes.comI found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back. 14224304417229
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️onion person @junlper.beer · 14/03/2025“it’s one big club etc, etc” 502591353
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 11/03/2025You know, the French would have brought out their guillotines by now. 000
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Laura Haynes👩🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Sunday morning coffee by the fire…it’s too damn cold to go outside (for those wondering, it’s 21°) 45109579
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.scientificamerican.comWhy Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather ServiceNOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate 3546290
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk 35781754709
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Duncan Dwyer @duncandwyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025So AI is going to create threat profiles for people who criticize ICE—and then cross reference that with the personal identity data the Musk Rats were allowed to steal—to monitor us IRL (using facial recognition to track us) based on what we say online. I wish I was making *any* part of that up. 😬theintercept.comICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It OnlineICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet. 10244152
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...advait.org 13475102521
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Great! This is Yuki. She is a shiba-jindo mix and very fucking against DOGE.🖕 1633
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Something else to thank EM for. "The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day." @planet4589.bsky.social #astronomy 851251505
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025In all seriousness, maybe just arrest the DOGE script kiddies if it's unlawful to access SS numbers without proper clearance? IDK just throwing out ideas. 010
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Folks, can I pause your doomscrolling for just a second? What are the best papers/syllabi you have on newsfluencers? (I know, I know, but I need to write a little thing only semi-related to the doomscrolling) 000
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/01/2025🚨I was too wrapped up in the TikTok ban to share the news, but my short paper with Sourojit Ghosh titled '"They’ve Over-Emphasized That One Search”: Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's For You Page' was accepted at #CHI2025. Weird timing! See you all at the Cup Noodles Museum? 0141
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Is there a Bsky cat/dog/animal pic starter pack? I need some timeline cleansers. 330
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️teenvogue.comIn California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.” 18255113321
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Todays's lab meeting conclusion: you've all been very bad. go unplug the internet, grab a snack, and take a little walkie around the blockie. #meta #elmo #apocalypse2025 030
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Thing I did not have on my 2024 Bingo Card: Weather-related mass delusions. Y'all, I promise, fog has *always* looked like little water droplets 😭 020
Reposted by julie vera ⛈️Robby Grodin @moshmallow.bsky.social · 26/12/2024An Act Of Violence is out 1/20/2025! Hear the single "Cis Death Squad" and pre-order here: cocainemitch.bandcamp.com CD will be available via Haul Of Horror soon!!cocainemitch.bandcamp.comAn Act Of Violence, by Cocaine Mitch12 track album 042
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The absolute *irony* that Trump will be the one to save us from the TikTok ban. 🫠 000
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024The NJ/NY drone discourse is really something. On one hand, so fun to talk about UFOs again. Feels nice and innocuous. On the other hand, the livestreams, police scanner monitoring, and threats to shoot them out of the sky + vague statements from the pentagon make me nervous. And not for the aliens🛸 010
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Starter packs are good, starter packs are wise. Here's a starter pack I created for UW HCDE PhDs: go.bsky.app/KQcAHEA 120