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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Kudos to the reporter, Rhea Biswas, for including quotes from people who are actually affected by the housing crisis. So many articles about housing are framed by the reactionary thoughts of the local NIMBY group, historic preservationist hardliners, and degrowther environmental activists...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
There is a point, in your 50s, where you become the expert. There is no one around to ask or everyone else clearly doesn’t have the experience. It’s quite stressful, that responsibility.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th. (🎥 Doni Nikz)
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Scott Keith 🇨🇦 @rspwfaq.com · 01/08/2025
The weather is too hot today so I hope someone fires the weather service and replaces them with an unbiased source that will report cooler temperatures. It’s all politics!
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I can count 19 cities. The choice appears to be somewhat arbitrary. I do like the emphasis on the most notable landmark even if it means a somewhat unrealistic skyline (the Gateway Arch and the Space Needle don't quite tower above St Louis and Seattle like that).
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TJones (Formerly FightFor46) moving 🦋 @thundxrcloud.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I haven’t looked into this trend, but I will say: on my deathbed, I will rank the collective experience of reading to my kids at bedtime as a top life highlight, alongside falling in love and the most amazing travel adventures. (I’m not sure publishing things or awards etc will even make the list)
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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today's lesson is aspire to a life where people don't use the word "controversial" in your obituary.
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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's disappointing major weather media groups that exist off NOAA/NWS data have been deafeningly silent about federal staffing hits and proposed cuts to NOAA. No letters of support. No news reporting on their detrimental effects to forecasting. Just glaring editorial omission. 🧵
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Haven't seen this, but it sounds like another "dude is a giant asshole, but 'so good' at his job that everyone has to put up with it and work around him" and it's not hard to see the wish fulfillment fantasy this represents, but I don't think I have ever met an asshole who was 'worth it.'
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Podcasts on current affairs are the audio version of doom scrolling. They feel like you're attached to What's Happening; the net effect over a year is... brain energy wasted on circumstantial, temporary things. Audiobooks feel detached from the relevant world. This is insidious, and must be fought.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/07/2025
Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Great article with a very nice Google Maps layer of trouble spots (although I don’t believe the one at the end of Blue Spring Road, which is on a bluff above the River…).
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When Princeton Floods: What Every Resident Should Know
Princeton, NJ - This summer’s Texas tragedy, where more than a hundred people died in a flash flood, brings renewed focus to a risk faced by many communities, including Princeton. Floods happen,...
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 12/07/2025
It's been a long week. So here's just a pretty graphic for your Friday evening... Simulation of atmospheric aerosols in our intricate Earth system. Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green) Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 10/07/2025
Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.) Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Joke's on anyone trying to use my SAT scores to dig up dirt on me: many Midwestern kids only take the ACT so I have no SAT score to divulge.
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In our darkest times we see people do extraordinary things to help others. Petty Officer Scott Ruskan from NJ heroically rescued 165 people from the Texas floods. We are eternally grateful to Ruskan and other first responders risking their lives for others nj1015.com/coast-guard-hero-kerr-county/
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NJ man hailed a hero for rescuing 165 from deadly Texas flood that killed at least 80
A New Jersey native found himself in the heart of a Texas crisis, becoming a beacon of hope while rescuing those trapped by rising waters.
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Philippe Papin @pppapin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I remain struck by the event similarities to the conceptual model of @rschumacher.cloud's PhD work. Nam-3km cross-sections as it picked up on the event show the mesoscale setup well. Unfortunately end result was a catastrophic flash-flood with significant loss of life. 😞 bsky.app/profile/rsch...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 30/06/2025
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
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Sandy @sandyshaye.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In the book by Michael Lewis “Who Is Government” it is very hard to get gov’t employees to talk to reporters because they are often FORBIDDEN to by the political heads of their agencies! They are told to keep their heads down and don’t draw attention.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I’ve known people who have become close enough to being famous to make me realize that, really, fame sucks. I’d be so sad if I had to hide in my hotel room and not even visit a coffee shop or a museum or park while traveling. youtu.be/nFxTBM0wH74
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Why Celebrities Have to Say No
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We are losing access to key weather satellite data important for hurricane forecasting. But remember when we said that computer models were less reliant on balloons because they now use satellite data? Well, this is some of that satellite data and we're losing it. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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Critical meteorological satellite data terminated
Meanwhile, Eastern heat dome slowly shrinks
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“It will stop all progress” in U.S. forecasting, said James Franklin, who retired in 2017 as chief of the NHC hurricane specialists. Abolishing that research will be “a generational loss" of any progress that would have been made over the next 10 years or more."
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If we were a meaner, perhaps more vain people, Illinois might make some noise regarding the fact that this is the third day of our dangerous heat wave. Alas, we generally prefer to quietly deal with our problems and not make national news hay out of them.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Ever since recorded music attained fidelity on-par with live performances, it could be argued that nobody "needs" to learn to play an instrument. But luckily we decided the world is a better place when we teach each other how to play instruments so we still do it. I feel the same about writing.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Why Bell Labs was so productive” (via David Eppstein at 11011110.github.io/blog/2025/06... )
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Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is one of the most impressive things (from a fluid dynamics standpoint) I've ever seen. You can so clearly see the multiple vortices shedding near the ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGD2...
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Inside the Arnett, OK tornado - May 18, 2025
YouTube video by The OTUS Project
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey, all sorts of special stuff tonight. Such a beautiful evening too AND a full moon!
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Now posted! The research highlight for our BAMS paper documenting the major improvements in hurricane track forecasts by NCEP's models since the FV3 Dynamical Core was implemented in the GFS in 2019. This represents a huge achievement for the NOAA community, by better dynamics, DA, and physics.
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Closing the gap — Hurricane Prediction Advances in the US FV3-based Models – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratorysearch
Hurricanes are one of the most destructive natural events on Earth. Improving the skill of hurricane forecasts, especially for those in the North Atlantic basin, has always been an important objective...
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Recalling the time John Denver, Dee Snider, and Jello Biafra joined forces to fight US government censorship
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
In addition to this, Tapinto Princeton is a great source for local news.
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Federal Cuts Cloud Forecast at Princeton’s Legendary Climate Lab
Princeton, NJ — It was hour 73 when Jared Rennie, research meteorologist, logged onto the 100-hour Weather and Climate Livestream. Wearing black glasses and oversized headphones, he promised to...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Good to hear the hemorrhaging at NWS will slow. Still, they have lost 560 people this year and are only allowed to hire 125. And the new hires will not be on board to help during the coming hurricane season, for the most part.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Here's some retro-style weather reporting for you (of current conditions). Everything is available on GitHub too. Also apparently NOAA has a VERY powerful API for retrieving weather data at www.weather.gov/documentatio... .
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WeatherStar 4000+
Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
vimeo.com/146049113 via kottke.org/16/04/beauti...
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ABOVE ILIAMNA
Fly high above Lake Iliamna, Alaska, following the crew of the Alaska Salmon Program as they conduct sockeye salmon surveys during one of the largest migrations…
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Diana Olick @dianaolick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
One of the most fascinating interviews I've ever done. Seriously. On the eve of #hurricane season, #tornadoes moving across the South and Canadian #wildfire smoke descending on the upper Midwest, there is no more important time to focus on #climate impact on #finance #economy. @climate.noaa.gov
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JPMorgan hired NOAA's chief scientist to advise clients on navigating climate change
Last year, JPMorgan hired Sarah Kapnick as the bank's chief climate scientist. She's now advising clients on how climate change will impact their investments.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
These people with their ugly orange signs need to respect the character of the neighorhood!!!
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
EXCELLENT book that leans on both the hard physical science and the romantic-era idealism that begot Atmospheric Science.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The GFS is on top again. But weather clowns will still scream that the GFS and NOAA modeling as a whole are “terrible”.
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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Gonna sound corny, but this is something I tell myself a lot, They need you hopeless. They need you sick, sad, angry, and above all hopeless. So doing anything that’s fun, stimulating, fulfilling is an act of rebellion. Go have some fucking fun and be a rebel!
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There were no drones, and (I think) the government was nervous about telling the public that given the number of politicians who lost their minds to drone delusion. reason.com/2025/05/09/w...
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Newly released documents show what the feds knew about the New Jersey drone scare
Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.
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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“Today, there are more interesting things to do than fundamental physics…*most* areas of theoretical physics are thriving…this opens up *thousands* of new worlds to explore.” johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/v...
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Visions for the Future of Physics
On Wednesday May 14, 2025 I’ll be giving a talk at 2 pm Pacific Time, or 10 pm UK time. The talk is for physics students at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, organized by Artur Renato …
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The staging area for unsold Teslas at Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrence, NJ seems to be accumulating a lot more cars, and it's not just Cybers now either, it's all models.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights. They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried. So, yeah, contempt.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I would like a 10-part documentary about the marketing wizard who convinced coffee chains and then supermarkets to selectively rebrand "whipped cream" as "cold foam." Somebody assessed a nonexistent product gap, brought nothing new to the table and yet charged forward boldly anyway.
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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A thoughtful article that inadvertently makes another point: "Authentic skepticism" is in short supply in part because the professional skeptics who should be leading the charge have either become alt-right apologists or locked themselves into irrelevant 1970s hobbyhorses.
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is literally the Big Pharma conspiracy theory of my lifetime!! That they were suppressing cures because the treatment is more lucrative! Mr. Anti-Big Pharma conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. is literally helping them turn the made-up nefarious scheme real!
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