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amsearlycareer.bsky.social @amsearlycareer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are you interested in applying to join BECP? Follow the QR update to apply! NOTE: Thee graphic says email your resume but the application process has changed! Please apply at the link on the QR code.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

May 26, 2026 | the dissertation fatigue/burn out has hit me like a truck....despite that I must still cook and bake! Details in the alt text and this is part 1 🥴

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If my dissertation has typos or errors in logic then it's not my fault because this is how I'm writing it half of the time 🥴🥺

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

April 30, 2026 | maybe this thread needs to just become a monthly roundup of my cooking and baking 😅 can I just blame everything over the next 3 months on stress from dissertation writing? 🥴 Details are in the alt text. And this is part 1 of this update 🫣

Slow cooker pulled pork with air fried potatoes and green beans

Stuffed zucchini boats with steamed broccoli

Black and pinto bean quesadilla filling put over shredded lettuce 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

April 2, 2026 | Oops it's been a while since I've posted. I've taken photos but keep forgetting to post so here's a photo dump of some things I've cooked/baked since March 9 😅 descriptions are in the alt text!

Pulled/sliced pork with maple bbq sauce and air fried green beans and potatoes

Homemade dinner rolls that I had with homemade butternut squash soup!

Homemade marble cake with chocolate and vanilla frosting

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

March 9, 2026 | smokey chicken chickpea stew for lunch this week!

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The new Lego set is quite realistic! 😂🐱

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 26/02/2026

Some highlights: -Authorizes appropriations for five years for OAR’s weather labs and cooperative institutes, plus related weather research efforts. -Renews and authorizes appropriations for five years for VORTEX-USA. -Furthers HFIP, with a renewed emphasis on social sciences. (1/n)

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

February 25, 2026 | southwest lentil and rice skillet!

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Gus has been a good helper so far! (despite his tendency to try and chew on the yarn)

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Besides all of the cooking/baking things I share (when I remember to take photos...🫣), I've been channeling my "penultimate months of PhD anxiety" into learning how to knit! I've been working on a sweater for a few weeks now, and it's actually starting to ~look~ like a sweater 🤩

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AMS Committee on Tropical Cyclones & Tropical Meteorology @amstropical.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Congratulations to the students winners of the First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate at the @ametsoc.org 106th Annual Meeting in Houston! 🌤️🌎 A sincere thank you to our judges for your time and expertise in making this event a success. 👏🌀

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I am gobsmacked & honored to have received awards for both of my presentations at the AMS Annual Meeting last month. I want to thank the conference organizers & those who gave me helpful feedback on my research. These interactions will help me shape this work as I enter the final months of my PhD.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

February 18, 2026 | stress baking + big research group meeting tomorrow = pumpkin cheesecake muffins 🎃

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

February 11, 2026 | chocolate chip cookies!! These are a birthday request from a research group member...can't say no to that kind of request! 🍪🍪

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

February 8, 2026 | yesterday was busy! Meal prepped chicken stew for lunch during the week, made tzaziki dip for falafel wraps, and made gluten free cinnamon rolls for a party (cream cheese frosting not shown) (also these were a mess to make and don't look pretty 😅) 🍗🍲🧆

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

February 4, 2026 | whoops, it's been a while! I can only blame 25% of it on AMS. Anyways...I made chicken lettuce cups with air fried green beans tonight 🤷🏻‍♀️🥬🍗

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Oh it was.... Hopefully we both have better luck next year! Otherwise I'll be convinced I'm cursed and can never quietly travel to AMS again 😂

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Ughhh. Thankfully my journey to AMS this year wasn't as bad as in 2025, but I can only imagine and sympathize with yours! Lol, of course united didn't! I'm just thankful my bag arrived in one piece. It's crazy how things are either quiet or piling on all at once!

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Oh, and 3. One of my cats puked twice within 10 minutes of me getting home 😮‍💨😂

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I do think you beat me, but my entry isn't bad: 1. United makes me valet/gate check my carry on bag in DC, doesn't put it on the plane despite it being on the tarmac (see pic), then takes 30 hours to find and deliver it to me in Albany 2. My car wouldn't start so I had to drop $260 on a new battery

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is my final AMS as a student, and I am also interested in any job opportunities in applied meteorology, research-to-operations, and forecast improvements, with foci in extreme precipitation and hazards. If you would like to meet up, let me know - I'll be here all week! 😊

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today at #AMS2026 I am presenting both a talk and a poster from my PhD work (which I will be finishing this summer! 🫨). My talk will cover 7 years of storm-total precip verification and my poster digs deeper into the driving mechanisms of a poor forecast from Hurricane Henri (2021). 🌧️

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Ooh, what's the name of the restaurant?

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I completely agree. I am not huge on daily weather monitoring/watching models and it's been a large source of imposter syndrome since I started undergrad almost 10 years ago. There's more to being an atmospheric scientist than looking at models!

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

One of my goals for 2026 was to learn how to knit! I've been crocheting for over a decade and have attempted knitting a couple of times with no success. I am SO pleased that this time knitting has clicked! Meet Poppy the chicken! 🐓🧶

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

January 9, 2026 | I had a tooth extracted and an implant placed yesterday (owwww) which means soft food / liquid diet for me! Butternut squash soup and homemade dinner rolls 🥣🍞🦷

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

December 29, 2025 | kale salad with lots of yummy mix-ins (apples, dried cranberries, roasted chickpeas, carrots, & feta) with a homemade salad dressing! 🥗🍎

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

December 25, 2025 | I meant to post this yesterday and I need to work on my plating skills, but I made chicken and orzo with feta and spinach 🌲

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

December 24, 2025 | My family has a tradition to make homemade pizza on Christmas Eve. This year I attempted a homemade pan pepperoni pizza! 🍕

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Oops! It's been a while. I've got a 2 for 1 special: Dec 21 | quinoa patties with sun dried tomatoes and spinach Dec 22 | hoisin chicken and mushroom lettuce cups with pickled carrots

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Brian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

NCAR provides the facilities, tools, & data critical for atmospheric sci education & research. Leading computer models of the Earth System are developed here. The training, continuing education, & sci exchanges NCAR makes possible are irreplaceable. Its dismantling would be chaotic & devastating.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

November 12, 2025 | Chili! 🌶️🫘

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

November 6, 2025 | falafel wraps with homemade tzaziki and green beans! 🧆🌱

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

November 4, 2025 | Last week a friend introduced me to this kale apple salad and I am OBSESSED! So, I made a batch for myself! 🍎🥬🫘

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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

While most attention is rightfully on Jamaica with Cat. 5 Melissa...note also the trailing bands of heavy rain pumping into southwestern Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula. Likely rainfall rates of several inches per hour into an extremely flash flood, mudslide prone area.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa. Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I completely agree! It was fun at first, but not so much now.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

October 26, 2025 | Made some chicken & white bean soup for lunch this week, plus a bonus batch of brown butter apple blondies for a social event tonight 🤤🍎

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Carl Parker @carlparker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Heartbreaking visible image of a potentially generational storm, and a likely reflection of broader trends—greater ocean warmth and depth of warmth, faster intensification rates, slower forward speeds, and greater rainfall rates.

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

October 22, 2025 | tropical storm me might be enjoying the Caribbean, but Albany me is enjoying an easy weeknight dinner of air fryer chicken and broccoli with some pasta 🤷🏻‍♀️🥦🍝

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

He's cute, so I guess that makes up for blocking my keyboard!

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm also interested in tips for dealing with difficult co-authors! 😺😂

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

How I feel working on the results section for chapter 1 of my dissertation. Writing fatigue is so real!! I'd love to hear some tips for mitigating it (especially the eye strain and headaches)

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Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have nothing but wonderful things to say about this department! I highly encourage any prospective students to attend this webinar. I am also always happy to answer any questions about DAES/Albany and graduate school in general. 😃

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