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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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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Nice. It's irritating how quickly NWS stuff goes down the memory hole though.

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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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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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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A good plot of the rainfall from this event! Where did you get this from?

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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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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I really like this statistic! It makes climate shifts much more tangible.

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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 · 30/06/2025

Thanks. The document is hard to read.

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Thanks. This document is confusing!

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I saw the full justification. NSSL and GSL are also to be closed.

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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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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If you look at the spread of the observations themselves, the accelerated warming is obvious. All of the 2024 obs are warmer than any of the 2010 obs!

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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 · 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

Beyond NOAA and NASA, there is also the fantastic and innovative SCREAM model being developed in DoE, and NCAR's promising StormSPEED model. They both use the Spectral Element (aka HOMME) dynamical core, which is also pretty neat.

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

At the same time, advances are only gained through having the freedom to innovate on tailored models. If all centers were forced to work on a single lowest-common-denominator system, it would not only satisfy nobody but also lock in decisions permanently…usually chosen to satisfy the loudest people.

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It also shows the great value that can be realized when bringing together domains. Much of this success stems from advances from both climate—better clouds and radiation, improved air-sea interaction—and high-resolution prediction, with better microphysics and turbulence. There is one earth system!

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Perhaps the biggest achievement here is that NCEP, GFDL, and NASA Goddard, America's premiere modeling centers, are now working together towards common goals and on shared model components—most notably FV3 and MOM6, but also a variety of physics suites and software tools, tailored to lab goals.

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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 · 06/06/2025

Maybe the loop roads at the 518 intersection will help. I'm sure the state would also love to bring back their plans for NJ-92 😱 but I couldn't even imagine how much land they'd have to buy to build it, let alone the environmental impact reports they'd have to commission.

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Well—yes. It would be nice if they would widen 206 but then there would just be even more traffic, and then the road would have to squeeze into two lanes again into Princeton.

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lharris4.bsky.social @lharris4.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It’s only been 11 years. What’s a few more months?

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