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Rob Johnson

@robjohnson.bsky.social
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Research Scientist, based in Hobart Tasmania. robjohnson.computer

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/08/2026
I was part of a workshop about communicating uncertainty and we shared our findings. Check out the write-up here: theconversation.com/communicatin...
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Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for
Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.
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National Computational Infrastructure @nci-australia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚀 Big win for Australia’s research infrastructure! NCI has secured $32.16M (NCRIS Step Change) to deliver a national AI/ML compute capability, strengthening sovereign compute & infrastructure resilience. Read more : www.education.gov.au/download/204...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/05/2026
I've spent a lot of time at the world's leading institutes in my field & while they haven't all been particularly supportive of diversity as a social good, at none of them could you go to the institute coffee break and find more than a small handful of researchers sharing a common country of origin.
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is awesome - bring on the claw! youtu.be/7rzYDM6vMtI?...
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How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/04/2026
The #Artemis II crew capsule Integrity’s side hatch is open and recovery crew are going in to assess the astronauts and (hopefully soon) pull them out
The Integrity capsule floating in the water surrounded by small boats a side hatch is open and someone is going in
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Splashdown! Welcome home, Integrity.
A big splash in the ocean under the three red and white parachutes
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Why the are the manuscript submission systems of academic journals so shite - are they're stuck in 1998? I'm on my third attempt to submit a thing. You'd think for all the money these journals make they could update their submission platforms! #science #SciencePublishing #AcademicPublishing
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
With the advent of AI weather forecasting, forecasting is changing. Maybe it's no longer *just* about building better models - it's about extracting more value from the ecosystem of models we already have access to? #weather #meteorology #ai #ml
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New paper: 👉 AI weather models still have errors/biases and needs post-processing 📌 Use post-processing as the integration point to safely bring AI weather models into national met services journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... #AIweather #NWP #forecasting #metservice #AI #machinelearning #Weather
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Management Is Not Leadership open.substack.com/pub/allenhol...
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Management Is Not Leadership
A periodic reminder that leadership and management are two entirely different things.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
More news on AI2ES. Please help save science funding in general but also help save AI for weather! www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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White House cuts to science funding threaten AI weather forecasting institute
The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a budget.
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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🌟 Abstracts Now Open! 📍 AMOS 2026 – Southern Skies, Southern Seas: Science on the Edge 📅 32nd Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 🗓️ Submission Deadline: 14 September 2025 🔗 amos2026.oa-event.com/submit #AMOS2026 #Meteorology#Atmosphere#Oceanography #ClimateScience
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you've heard something about Antarctica's sea ice melting but are not sure why that matters, you won't get a clearer explanation than this web story.👇 A few minutes very well spent.
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is illegal impoundment, plain and simple. For those who don’t know, Unidata is an IT services center for weather and climate research. They create software and maintain data streams that I, and hundreds of other meteorologists, use on a daily basis. #nsfdata
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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 09/05/2025
Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another. Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is really not good... many scientists around the world rely on unidata tools or products (think 'netcdf')... 😟 #science www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
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NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Vote 1 boogie boards....
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Lyndelle Gunton @lyndelleg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Great starting point for librarians and information professionals who are new to Bluesky.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn
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Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire.
Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.
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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Tonight @plustssn.autumnsky.us and I had the honor of receiving an #AMS2025 special award for our contributions to improving forecasts with visualizations of hodographs!!
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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“The [Australian] PhD stipend for 2025 is $33,511, barely catching up with inflation and well below the minimum wage of $47,627 a year.” #AcademicChatter Imagine paying a living wage! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away
The University of Melbourne student whose work could contribute to curing blindness says ‘people are shocked to find out how unlivable it is’
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It’s important to invest in weather… Weather measurements Weather forecasts Weather scientists
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025
Mapping changes in temperature: 2024 edition
175 maps showing temperature change from 1850 to 2024
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist" | My full interview today with #Channel4News UK: www.channel4.com/news/__trash...
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‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist
We spoke to Michael Mann, a climate scientist from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The deferment has ended. Fire expert, Prof David Bowman being very direct about what the climate- change driven Californian fires mean for Australia. Our cities are just as vulnerable as LA. Canberra 2003 fires demonstrated this, but more that 20 years on, we have put more fuel on the risk of fire.
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Rob Johnson @robjohnson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Car Brain - This rings true in Australia... This is the biggest barrier to more people riding bikes in cities youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
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This is the biggest barrier to more people riding bikes in cities
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
🚨 It is now 100% certain that 2024 will be the hottest year on record and likely the hottest year in many thousands of years. With 9 days remaining in 2024, the only way to not break the record would require global cold not experienced since the Pleistocene. 🔥
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard. Storymap featuring the bloke who started the heatwave forecast service at the BoM, and whose ‘heatwave factor’ we have used in the National Climate Risk Assessment
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Do most people in the weather community not realize how shaky the foundations of our weather and climate modeling infrastructure are right now? We can’t run CPU only models at high resolution without blowing power budgets. So what next?
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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