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Ryan Ward

@ryanward.bsky.social
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Irving Krick still contracted by us government
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
unfortunately stealing the solution to a fluid mechanics problem from user data is probably one of the more benign and banal data privacy issues we’ll see
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like as I lean on chat as a learning tool it’s good refresher on stuff I know/knew but if im learning new stuff it doesn’t cement as easily. maybe the lack of friction to information/instant gratification to questions?
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just read a Facebook euology for a dog written by AI
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I suspect this generalizes to academic pursuit broadly arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
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Mathematics in the age of AI
An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And I’ve always said this
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Expressed fomo at missing the nyc wildfires and was bequeathed Irish wildfires
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Unfortunately you don’t get this kind of discourse on blue sky
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If an AI weather model missed that a hurricane would strengthen to a some hypothetical unseen Cat 6 instead of Cat 5 but still got the timing broadly right (cheaper and faster), would it really matter ? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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AI Isn't Built for the Black Swan Era of Bad Weather
Using artificial intelligence to forecast the weather is getting so good – and so cheap - that meteorological services are starting to retire the expensive physics-based systems they have relied on. T...
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
doi.org/10.1021/acse... Thorough retrospective and touching tribute by John's long time collaborator, Rick Flagan (H/T @ryanward.bsky.social)
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John Seinfeld─The Atmospheric Engineer Who Cleared the Air
John Seinfeld is one of the most important and influential atmospheric scientists and engineers of the last 60 years. As a young chemical engineering professor, who had just defended his thesis on the...
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It’s amazing that LinkedIn posts were like that before llm’s
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
And to think this doesn’t even get to AI stagnating our culture open.substack.com/pub/experime...
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The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/newscien...
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Research Papers Used to Have Style. What Happened?
A Brief History of Scientific Writing
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me
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Eat Me
On Rosalía's "Lux" and our collective gut health
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Seems not great
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Trudeau/Katy Perry, Louvre heist… this is the type of shenanigans reporting that we don’t get anymore when the news cycle is all fascism and horrors of AI
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our new article out today takes a hard look at some practical limitations on stratospheric aerosol injection and what they means for the riskiness of this approach. @mcneill-lab.org w/ @gwagner.com & @steingart.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu @columbiaseas.bsky.social Here's the press release:
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How hard is it to dim the Sun?
Solar radiation management is gaining traction as a climate intervention—but new research warns that real-world constraints make it riskier and more uncertain than most models suggest.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
😽😽😽😽🙂🙂🙂wish I could be there🥲🥲
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.
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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
They should read our new study. In Los Angeles Purple Air sensors are likely more accurate than the expensive sensors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Poorly quantified trends in ammonium nitrate remain critical to understand future urban aerosol control strategies
Regulatory monitors fail to measure ammonium nitrate aerosol, masking its importance as a top aerosol pollutant in Los Angeles.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This work was really fun for us (I think) and also shows a lot of our biases. We’ve been so focused on organic aerosol the past decade (at least in LA), that when we saw that the nitrate component was more abundant than the organic, we had to unearth the ancient texts on ammonium nitrate
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Ann Marie Carlton @amgcarlton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Coming across your paper, @ryanward.bsky.social is an excellent twist of fate.... I ❤️ your work! Congratulations.
science.org
Poorly quantified trends in ammonium nitrate remain critical to understand future urban aerosol control strategies
Regulatory monitors fail to measure ammonium nitrate aerosol, masking its importance as a top aerosol pollutant in Los Angeles.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
from across campus in the rain I can hear a chorus of boo’s at Columbia commencement
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The thought of Lori lightfoot having met the pope
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
a lot of discourse about AI destroying student creativity and critical thinking paired with a perhaps ironic lack of creative solutions
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🫡
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
From @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social: Elevated atmospheric lead levels during the Los Angeles urban fires www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Notes from the Field: Elevated Atmospheric ...
This report describes an increase in particulate matter lead levels in Los Angeles, California during the January 2025 fires.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I don’t like the press knowing what read only means
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
With AI about to render a lot of industry jobs obsolete (decadal time horizon) and the federal gov’t looking to nuke your field… good time to plan a career
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Haroula Baliaka @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@caltech.edu on #ASCENT www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...
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Caltech Aerosol Monitoring Site Collects Data in Aftermath of Urban Firestorm
An instrument suite operated by Caltech researchers in Pico Rivera gathers data on particulate matter all day, every day, and saw the changes associated with the Los Angeles fires.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump has ordered the government to stop all permits for wind energy heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...
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Trump Orders End to All Wind Energy Permits
The worst case scenario for the wind industry is here.
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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
@caltech.edu’s Haroula Baliaka on the composition of smoke from the Eaton Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...
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Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged
The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and property.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Surely dei and woke caused this
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Written 18 years ago. from Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A Santa Ana wind can flush out the PM almost entirely from the LA basin. And in the presence of strongly wind-driven sources, it can generate unprecedented PM. Of course, the bigger health concern is getting everyone at the urban-forest interfaces out. Hoping everyone stays safe😪
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This will be one of the all-time work-ending social media events of my lifetime
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Has isoprene not given us enough… let her rest
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Relevant for like 3 ppl: upon inspecting Science Advances info for authors, there was very coincidentally an example citation for a paper I have recently spent a lot of time with, and ironically the example citation is wrong💀 Should be I. N. Tang (respect to atmospheric science legend Ignatius Tang)
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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Important points from Brian Deese. We need a national strategy for AI and energy demand. Both to ensure we maintain progress on decarbonization, and also to make sure we build the infrastructure we need to stay competitive internationally. heatmap.news/technology/a...
heatmap.news
America Needs an Energy Policy for AI
Additionality isn’t just for hydrogen.
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Things are unfortunately getting very real
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Learned about a lake the size of Burkina Faso today😵
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Ryan Ward @ryanward.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Random used book store find to discover caltech had a department of meteorology in the 30s/40s run by a con artist… what’s that saying about street vs book smarts
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