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julie vera ⛈️

@julievera.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @hcdeUW | Research in extreme weather livestreams, crisis comms, sensemaking, & platforms | #SkyWarn Spotter, dog mom, stress baker 🌪️🐶🧁

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Friends 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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Been in a dissertation writing HOLE. What did I miss? 🍭
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
NYC #Blizzard: People currently out walking their dogs, strolling the kids around, normal early spring Saturday. #WinterStormFern? Trader Joes fully looted. Why?
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
One last hurrah. Why not! 😭
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The 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.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Another 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:
Homeland Security
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Electoral power is being transferred from the hands of criminal illegals, back into the hands of American citizens.

Polymarket * @Polymarket • 4h
BREAKING: Trump has deported so many people from Minnesota they're projected to lose a Congressional seat after next census.
2:54 PM • 1/16/26 • 2.3K Views
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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.gov
Intent to restructure critical weather science infrastructure
The 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...
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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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I need a linguistic perspective on the Epstein emails. Where are the threads on this? Why do they all "talk" like that?
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
1) 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.com
TikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a sale
As TikTok prepares to sell its US business, employees, creators, and researchers wonder about the future of its content algorithm.
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Super 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!! 🌪️⛈️
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A 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?
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Bluesky will break today. 😭
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Like 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.com
a cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below him
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below him
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
September 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! 🙏
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Exhausted by the news cycle. Here is System of a Down on the first day of their tour at MetLife Stadium. #soad
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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Fantastic read. "There's no social media equivalent of a WEA alert that's sent out to all mobile phones within radius."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2025
NEW: 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.org
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
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.
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I'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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Sometimes the newsday demands a timeline cleanse. 😮‍💨
A white, fox-like dog lounging lazily on a beige couch
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I feel like they're missing a few other totally mysterious cases that are not at all related to helium or hydrogen 🙃
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Scott Thomas @scotttgl1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Very 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.
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'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 Page
Modern 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...
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This feels a lot like propaganda, folks!
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Someone 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).
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
For 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.com
Severe Weather Survey
A survey about your experiences watching severe weather news coverage.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20/03/2025
In 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!
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net
airtable.com
Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The 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.com
I 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.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/03/2025
“it’s one big club etc, etc”
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
You know, the French would have brought out their guillotines by now.
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Sunday morning coffee by the fire…it’s too damn cold to go outside (for those wondering, it’s 21°)
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This 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.com
Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service
NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
CFPB - 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
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Duncan Dwyer @duncandwyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So 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.com
ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025
Microsoft'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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Great! This is Yuki. She is a shiba-jindo mix and very fucking against DOGE.🖕
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Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Something 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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In 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.
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Folks, 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)
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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?
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Is there a Bsky cat/dog/animal pic starter pack? I need some timeline cleansers.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These 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.com
In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Todays'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
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Thing 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 😭
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Robby Grodin @moshmallow.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
An 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.com
An Act Of Violence, by Cocaine Mitch
12 track album
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The absolute *irony* that Trump will be the one to save us from the TikTok ban. 🫠
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The 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🛸
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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Starter packs are good, starter packs are wise. Here's a starter pack I created for UW HCDE PhDs: go.bsky.app/KQcAHEA
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