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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

From 2012 at out old house. Bastard chewed the face off our kids pumpkins. I tried to make a warning sign, but that failed to stop him. He earned the nickname Devil Squirrel.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This one is for the educators out there, especially those wrestling with AI in the classroom. “The Digital Sugar Rush: AI as the Refined Sweetener of Social Learning” by Dr. Flux of CU Boulder. So much gold in this talk! @fluxinflux.bsky.social youtu.be/wceud79nRz4

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Digital Sugar Rush: AI as the Refined Sweetener of Social Learning

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Nintendo Force Magazine @nfpublishing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Work is complete on Nintendo Force Magazine's 86th issue! patreon.com/NintendoForce Sign up as a patron before tomorrow to get on the mailing list!

Front cover art for NF Issue #86, featuring the Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake.

The front side of NF #86's double-sided poster, featuring art from the Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake.

The reverse side of NF #86's double-sided poster, featuring art from the Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t let your life become being just a meat proxy. dontbeameatproxy.com Shout out to @lesserwhirls.bsky.social introducing me to this term, which has deeply penetrated my thoughts on AI.

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Please don't copy-paste AI answers at people. Read it, understand it, check it, then say it in your own words.

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Jon Petters @jonpetters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Super useful framing of all the problems with these 'tools' and how they are foisted upon us I suppose nitroglycerin could also be a tool... Might well use this (with due credit) in next semester's data mgmt course

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was already close to being over the phrase “reimagine” (similar to how “synergy” became a bit of a joke years ago) but this did the trick.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) Slack might be a good resource for finding opportunities: us-rse.org/get-involved/

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The way TIOBE evaluates programming language interest is completely outdated now that developers are no longer actively researching how to use them, and agents have language usage knowledge inside LLMs. TIOBE Index is dead. // @monkchips.bsky.social

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

TOML Schema is near 1.0 release. Comes with Go, Rust, and Java implementations. Test it out: toml-schema.org

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not because GitHub is easy to replace (hint: it is not),but because it tests a bigger question: can AI make building products so fast and cheap that distribution becomes the only moat that really matters? 2/3

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is just one of many exciting directions that are in active development for the Java platform and I cannot wait to see it in action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0X...

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Paths to New Numeric Types On the Java Platform

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🎉WxData 2.2 Released🎉 A large expansion to the Open-Meteo API interface and a new Python interface to retrieve air quality data using the Air Now API are new features. Docs & Tutorials: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... GitHub Repo: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... Release Notes: github.com/edrewitz/WxD...

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What questions do you have about AI in education? 2026 NSF Unidata Summer Intern Tara Staresinic has published the first post in her "AI in Education" series, sharing a student's perspective on AI, sustainability, ethics, and practical ideas for the classroom. buff.ly/BhPXGMT

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🎉Python Package Milestone🎉 Proud to announce that xmacis2py reached 10,000 total downloads on conda-forge as of today. xmacis2py is a Python interface with the ACIS2 API for retrieving climate data and has lots of tools to analyze and visualize the data. xmacis2py = xmACIS2 in Python. #climate

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This MetPy Monday tutorial shows how to work with NEXRAD Level II radar data in Python and turn raw radar volume data into a useful reflectivity map. buff.ly/emrLpMC

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This paper suggests people who developed strong cognitive skills before AI may be better positioned to use it as a productivity tool, while those who rely on AI before mastering those skills may be less likely to develop them. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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matplotlib @matplotlib.org · 09/07/2026

Want to contribute to #matplotlib but don't know where to start? Join us for a live session on how to help us triage issues and PRs on GitHub! 📅 July 14th · 2pm UTC 🔗 hackmd.io/@matplotlib/... Bring your questions - all are welcome!

Card with yellow background, with text: "Matplotlib New Contributors Meeting. Triage Edition (surrounded by a red label emoji and a file storage box emoji). Tuesday July 14th, 2PM UTC, on Zoom. Details at https://hackmd.io/@matplotlib/triage0726. All are welcome! Join us _"

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If I were the King of Universities (which, heaven forbid), I would place this finding at the exact centre of every single policy decision from teaching to research to estates to capital investment. At every level in every process, the question would be: are we as humane as education demands we be?

Screenshot from a Higher Education Policy Institute report. The key sentence is: "students are used to and want human teaching, human feedback, and human connection."

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🎉OpenMeteoApi.NET 1.0 Released🎉 I've been picking up C# as my #2 language to Python and I am proud to announce that I just published my 1st version of my 1st ever nuget package. OpenMeteoApi.NET on nuget.org: www.nuget.org/packages/Ope... OpenMeteoApi.NET Github Repo: github.com/edrewitz/Ope...

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

...and for those not in python or an icechunk compatible ecosystem, don't worry, we have not forgotten about you! We'll have access to the icechunk store via one of our THREDDS Data Server instances.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Here soon @unidata.bsky.social will have a real-time rolling archive icechunk store of MRMS reflectivity fields available 😀

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Absolutely. Maven or Gradle would be where to start for Java package management / build systems.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Note that members will be drawn from the realms of academia (both educators and students), U.S. federal science agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Nominations are open! Nominate yourself, nominate someone else—without community participation, there is no Unidata.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is bonkers. Yes you should check every citation (AI involved or not). WTAF.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

CSV, BUFR, GINI, GRIB, HDF, and netCDF

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎉xmACIS2Py 2.5.1 Released🎉 Users can now calculate daily departures from normal based on a custom climatology in xmACIS2Py 2.5.1. xmACIS2Py 2.5.1 brings two new Jupyter Notebook Tutorials where we make ENSO Temperature & Precipitation Analog Composites. Notebook Links👇 #python #climate #weather

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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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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Had a very similar experience with Sonatype Nexus, and the whole thing just leaves me feeling sad. ctrue.name/2026/04/21/t... #java #maven #gradle

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The Fall of Sonatype Nexus

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Casey Davenport @cedavenportwx.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"...If you hand that process to a machine you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed." I hear all the time about the importance of efficiency in so many aspects of our lives. But HUMANS ARE NOT MACHINES. Learning & growth is slow & a GOOD thing!

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 30/03/2026

I'm personally banking (as an old fuck) that being able to write actual code that actually works will be as valuable in a few years as old fucks that still remembered how to write COBOL around Y2K

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 30/03/2026

watching GitHub slip to one-nine of uptime over the last month or so has been an interesting reminder that LLM generated code is like taking out a high interest loan against your future self; there are ways of leveraging that debt into something valuable but most of the time, you default

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve said it before, but this time more visibly (on National AI Literacy Day nonetheless). For your consideration: Changes that encourage students, or scientists, to move further away from the data should be violently challenged. 🔥 (╯°□°）╯︵ 🔥┻━┻🔥 #AILiteracy

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

One question I ask myself is what can I do to help ensure folks in our community are not left behind, and pushing them to use AI tools is not what comes to mind; I will help guide people in the direction of new tech, but not at the expense of their personal values.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The change at NOMADS will not impact the NSF Unidata instances of the TDS (for example, thredds.ucar.edu or tds-nexrad.scigw.unidata.ucar.edu), the instance ran by NCAR GDEX, or any the other instances ran by the community, as they are all site specific and independent of each other.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The NOMADS OPeNDAP service was implemented by the GrADS-DODS Server, which is independent from the Hyrax server (from the OPeNDAP group) and the THREDDS Data Server (From NSF Unidata). NOMDADS discontinued use of the GrADS-DODS Server, but NCEI still runs an instance of the TDS.

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Sean Arms @lesserwhirls.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Not only that, but OU and UW (allegedly) put in their own proposals? I wonder what those look like?

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 17/03/2026

UCS filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the NSF to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “NCAR represents one of the most successful models of federally supported scientific infrastructure in the US.”

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UCS Files Requests to Make Proposals Public on How to Restructure National Center for Atmospheric Research

The Union of Concerned Scientists today filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the U.S. National Science Foundation to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure t...

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