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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

✨ PS: I’m also on the job market! Looking for Lead/Senior UXR, Research Scientist, or adjacent product research roles in #trustandsafety, platform integrity, #publicsafety / #crisiscomms, and high-stakes info systems.

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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 · 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:

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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-...

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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 · 08/11/2025

I think its pages related to the page you're currently browsing. On meteorology, I get: "outline of meteorology" "timeline of meteorology" and "weather"

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

6) So WHAT DO? Connect with your community IRL. Balance your online info diet with offline time. Pay attention to who gains power and who loses voice when billionaires start buying the public square.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

5) Lack of tech literacy + mystery algorithms + AI slop + government overreach == perfect storm of both extreme trust AND distrust in what people see online and who is behind it. Information disorder scales up in fascism.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

4) When ppl don't understand how algorithms or platforms work, they invent explanations. From my paper: users construct folk theories about the way platforms work. Expect a wave of speculation about "what changed" after the deal (even if nothing did!). Go search "blocking Oracle" on TikTok.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

3) The deal details are still unknown. A takeover by Ellison doesn’t necessarily mean the algorithm will change. Given his recent comments about “keeping the masses subdued,” it’s fair to worry what “content moderation” might look like under new ownership. Media consolidation is always dangerous.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

2) This connects back to my CHI 2025 paper on how people perceive “sticky” and “stubborn” content on their FYPs. Spoiler: it’s incredibly frustrating for users — and those frustrations reveal some deeper things I want to address:

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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 · 17/09/2025

Came here to ask this question exactly. The data suggests covid is more prevalent/severe compared to the flu. why "all" for flu and [limitations] for covid? This continues to reek of politics unfortunately.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

1000% agree with doing this IRL! It's hard when it feels like the sense of community, in general, is so fragile. We have a lot of work to do.

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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 · 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!

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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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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

- MTG really has people believing this is "weather modification" 🙄

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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'd love to connect with other fellow researchers and practitioners in crisis informatics, social media studies, or news/information environments while I'm here in Yokohama! ☕

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Over the weekend, I also had the opportunity to present at the News Futures workshop (sites.google.com/view/newsfut...), discussing my research agenda on "Weatherfluencers" (folks who live stream content on ongoing severe weather) and their role in crisis information ecosystems.

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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_...

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Severe Weather Survey

A survey about your experiences watching severe weather news coverage.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Orwellian double-speak. It's vandalism by definition. Even Pam Bondi's charges against the folks behind one of the first tsla "attacks" are all vandalism-related.

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julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

...Except the AI is just random people's thoughts (read: terrible, misinformed "opinions") from Reddit and Twitter. We're doomed.

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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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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.