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Kenzie Krocak

@mjkrocak.bsky.social
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Scientist studying ⛈️🌪️ and how we communicate forecasts.

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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Long time, no post, but I have to share a cool job opportunity: Social Science Research and Testbed Support Specialist in Norman, OK. Please pass along to folks who may be interested! Happy to answer questions or point you to someone who knows more. careers-fedwriters.icims.com/jobs/2456/so...
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Two things: 1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything. 2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The general public has absolutely no idea how much work scientists put in just TRYING to get grants, and then to cobble enough grant money together to do the actual research they envision. The idea that scientists (at least the ones I work with) somehow get rich off of grants is so laughable.
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 22/05/2025
A study published in #WeaClimateSoc by @sean-ernst-wx.bsky.social & co (incl @mjkrocak.bsky.social & @wwwehde.bsky.social) found that survey respondents who described their feelings about extreme weather in positive terms rated significantly higher on tornado preparedness. Read more: bit.ly/442d1Rp
Three hands holding up emoji signs against a blue background, displaying different expressions from left to right: neutral, sad, and happy. Photo credit: Getty Images via Unsplash.
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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Several wildfires grow rapidly in size in Minnesota's Arrowhead region.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Could certainly happen, but imo we know enough about who typically doesn’t do well in tor events (MMH residents especially) that we have to start doing better for those pops. WoFS guidance and other similar ideas are one of many we should utilize in the pre-warning timeframe, when appropriate.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Explicit mentions of uncertainty, suggested protective actions (that aren’t “get underground or die”) and being really clear about what the guidance can/can’t tell us. At least that would be my first go-tos :)
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It’s definitely nuanced. Imo, there’s always going to be a need for the 15-30 min “warning-scale” notice. That said, many populations and systems need more. We really need both: advanced notice when we are confident something will happen 1-2 hours ahead, and then a warning again at 15 mins.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Call your congresspeople! NOAA provides incredible ROI and we cannot kill all of the cooperative institutes. I've heard people complain NOAA is behind ECMWF in terms of AI. This would flat out put us behind EVERY weather agency around the world! CALL! WRITE! www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Bloomberg article about the OAR cloud computing contract services going away. I talked about impacts on severe wx R&D in my Substack post yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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BalancedWx Special: Staffing and contract issues affecting NOAA/NWS
Services from forecasting to translation to severe weather research negatively impacted
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Sean Ernst, Ph.D. @sean-ernst-wx.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New paper out for early release - huge team effort over at OU IPPRA getting this one out! We tested several early prototypes of the Storm Prediction Center's Conditional Intensity visualizations with the public, emergency managers, and broadcast mets. 1/4 journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Multiple fires and evacuations in and near Norman OK. If you are not signed up for city alerts, go here: www.normanok.gov/public-safet... #okwx
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Chris Geelhart @wxgeelhart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today is my day off, but I will be heading to work in a few hours to help out with this outbreak. We have 10 people scheduled to work on an evening where the normal staffing is 2. We will keep working even if the government shuts down. Saving lives is our #1 priority.
Severe weather outlook for central Illinois
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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.
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Guest opinion: Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel and Lance Bosart: We need NOAA now more than ever
The recent seemingly arbitrary and capricious reductions to NOAA are seriously jeopardizing the future of the country and, more generally, the property and lives of hundreds of millions of tax-payi…
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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today I received an email expressing praise and appreciation for my work this week. That sort of simple kindness is like jet fuel for the soul. I will never believe that empathy and kindness are a weakness. Praising a job well done, even when excellence is the expectation, is never bad.
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Rep. Paul Tonko @reppaultonko.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Halting weather balloon launches in Albany is a disaster waiting to happen. No weather balloons means weaker storm tracking, worse forecasts, and more lives at risk. Our community needs full National Weather Service staffing now!
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Brad Barrett @barrett-weather.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Plug for a new weather app: apps.apple.com/us/app/every... Developed by an NWS forecaster specifically for weather-minded folks who want ad-free access to NWS forecasts and more! AFDs, CF6s, radar with SPC and WPC outlook overlays, clean forecast displays Did I mention it’s ad-free? 😀
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2025
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
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NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Elizabeth Smith @eeeeelizzzzz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.
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Jacob Carlin @locoako.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Second this! But please don't forget about the folks in the other NOAA Line Offices. The folks in OAR, NESDIS, etc are developing our future weather radar technologies, operational forecast models, warning paradigms... the list goes on. The entire enterprise is valuable and deserves to be saved. 🥺
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
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Jacob Carlin @locoako.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This may be a good time to remind folks that 1 out of every 3 Executive Branch employees is a veteran (the largest employee of vets in the Nation). And not all in DOD: more than 20% of GSA, VA, DOT, DOE, DOJ, DOL, DHS, and State Dept are veterans, some of the agencies hardest hit by these firings.
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Elizabeth Smith @eeeeelizzzzz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Find all the things NOAA does in your neck of the woods by visiting this page: www.noaa.gov/legislative-... In Oklahoma, the list is quite long! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul... Not as long in West Virginia, but there’s probably more than you think! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Excellent article explaining the vast ways the National Weather Service protects life and property, and supports commerce in the U.S. The NWS is the gold standard across the world, with many countries modeling the NWS operating model. It’s a government service worth saving.
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JimmyC @jimmyc42.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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a man sitting at a desk with a dell computer
Alt: a man sitting at a desk with a dell computer, walks to dumpster and throws it in. Wondering what the world has come to, he tries to throw out those electrons. But no the spam found its way in and those electrons are tainted forever. Sorry electrons.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Same. Our pasture raised blah blah fancy eggs were $5.14 this week.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Shout out to Emily Allen for a great presentation about information needs ahead of severe weather events @ametsoc.bsky.social
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Great group of social science scholars from OU and NSSL at the @ametsoc.bsky.social 2025 annual meeting this year!
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Kenyatta Esters @kesters2.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Ken Graham stresses that meteorologists need to be good communicators and need to be able to quickly get their points across to emergency management officials. #AMS2025
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Fantastic @ametsoc.bsky.social presentation by Lauren Harvey talking about updating ProbComm and the associated recommendations.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The always amazing Gina Eosco discussing 20+ years of progress in the SBS/weather space. Cheers to open science datasets and a place for SBS at the table 👏🏻💜
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
One of my favorite things about #AMS2025 is the fun weather earrings, especially when you match!
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Vanessa Dunham kicking off the @ametsoc.bsky.social annual meeting with a talk on social media questions on NWS posts
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/01/2025
Truth matters. But when debunking climate misinformation, we have to understand that science denial is just an excuse for solution aversion. If we don’t want to fix it, any excuse will do: it’s not real! not us! not serious! That’s why talking solutions is so important. #AMS25
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If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Congrats, you are all now honorary members of the NSSL social science team.🤪
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/12/2024
RIP President Carter, who nailed our society’s foundational environmental problem: “Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.” 🌎 e360.yale.edu/features/jim...
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Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy
With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’...
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Honestly the CFB playoff feels like a bit of an afterthought following the majesty of the all American event known as the Pop Tarts Bowl.
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Oooo that is pretty coffee
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Boooo
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Addison Alford @addisonalford.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Roll Tears Roll. BOOMER SOONER!
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Yes! We love that hike
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Congrats and well deserved!
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Tony Reinhart @tonyreinhart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What does the future of weather radar hold? NSSL has been hard at work developing the next gen. 🌩️ Faster updates 🌩️ Flexibility and adaptability Phased array radar is as a potential paradigm-shift solution for the future of weather radar. inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnews/202...
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A CLEAR VISION: Phased Array Radar innovating for the future – NSSL News
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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 14/11/2024
Hello, #wxsky and #climatesky! 👋 Are you a student looking for a summer internship or know students who are? Check out my list of summer internships in the atmospheric & related sciences, freshly updated for 2025! 💵🎓 If you know of any I've missed, please let me know! sites.uwm.edu/evans36/educ...
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Research Internships – High-Impact Weather Research Group
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