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Scott Osprey

@sosprey.bsky.social
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Expat kiwi interested in global teleconnections; Co-lead of @WCRPclimate.bsky.social QBOi and Explaining & Predicting Earth System Change WG2 | University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social & National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Oxford student Esme Somerside Gregory’s original play, Noether, recently celebrated the legendary mathematician's ground-breaking physics contributions and inspiring legacy at the Mathematical Institute. Watch the play via link in bio or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oMuV9XW-CQ
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño
Seasonal marine cloud brightening in the southeast Pacific reduces global El Niño impacts on decision-relevant timescales.
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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Oxford’s Dr Shruti Nath has joined AfriClimate AI to develop localized, AI-led weather forecasting systems tailored specifically for African operational environments and climate resilience. Read in full via link in bio or www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-led-we…
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
65th Cherwell Simon Lecture - The quantum computation revolution and its impact on physics www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/65th-...
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65th Cherwell Simon Lecture - The quantum computation revolution and its impact on physics
Professor Dorit Aharonov will be discussing 'The Quantum Computation Revolution and its Impact on Physics'
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Are attention spans really shrinking? The innate capacity to maintain attention is meaningless within a constantly distracting environment @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says
Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.
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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Oxford alumni: Join Professor Myles Allen, Dr Carly Howett, and Professor Tim Palmer on April 25th for AOPP physics talks. Register via bio link!
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Want to join our next course? Check out our training programme: ncas.ac.uk/study-with-us/
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Atmospheric Science Training Courses - NCAS
Build your place within the atmospheric science community by developing skills and knowledge with the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hello from Leeds 👋 We've just hosted our Introduction to Atmospheric Science course. Thank you to everyone who came to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Registration now open for the 11th UK National Climate Dynamics Workshop. 22-24 June at University of Reading. Abstract deadline is 30 April. www.rmets.org/event/11th-n...
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11th National Climate Dynamics Workshop
UK Climate Dynamics Workshops are annual in-person events aiming to promote collaboration amongst the UK academic sector and the Met Office.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US 'supports' UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius
US Department of State says it supports the UK's decision to
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A lot can happen in one day: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Chagos Islands: Do not give away Diego Garcia, Trump tells UK
The president's comments come just a day after the US gave its official backing to the UK's Chagos deal.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Every cloud has a silver lining. Great news for Earth observation. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA
These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hi Ed, with the levels of CFCs trending down and the ozone hole recovering how much do we expect the stratosphere temperature changes due to ozone recovery to counteract those due to increasing GHG concentrations?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For fans of the QBO, here is a new paper from Dillon Elsbury of the modelled connections between the QBO, MJO and ENSO. Other acronym connections possibly exist too! wcd.copernicus.org/articles/7/3...
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QBOi El Niño Southern Oscillation experiments: assessing relationships between ENSO, MJO, and QBO
Abstract. This study uses an ensemble of climate model experiments coordinated by the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation initiative (QBOi) to analyze the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the presence of eit...
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
eos.org/research-and...
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2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos
A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
QBOi‐SNAP‐QUOCA workshop: improved simulations of the stratosphere for better predictions of weather, climate and extreme events - Mudhar - Weather - Wiley Online Library rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I may be cynical but will people remember a bust forecast of rain or no rain?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Gutted: clearly missed a Nobel nomination after having editor remove word “unprecedented” from paper title in 2016.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Ooh ooh it’s Nobel Prizes week! Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Scientists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking immune system work
The prize-winning discovery explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Whoa!
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Presumably the haricot beans are cooked before they are covered in tomato sauce…
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The meaning(fulness?) of science. Read on: medium.com/@gcampsvalls...
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Why We Write in Science
A hard look at today’s science system — why we publish, what’s gone wrong, and how we might recover the broken joy of writing.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds
Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
They do say that it would attract 1.5M people annually and would all but pay for itself after one years operation. Could be worse though, it could be a Disney theme park.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Regular annual updates needed of climate forcers to enable prediction and attribution of environmental change www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it
Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload left spread over wide area. apple.news/A3AMUiAV-S8S...
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Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload — The Telegraph
Orbital rocket hovers off ground for 14 seconds before running out of steam
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
NASA cancels subscription to @nature.com as federal funding cuts have unexpected impacts www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
For an analogy similar to the quantum well, one can think of a laser cavity. Light of a particular wavelength is amplified (via stimulated emission) in the laser tube. The ends of the tube are mirrors reflecting the light into the tube building power. But light leaks through the mirrors nonetheless.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Rossby waves reflect & evanesce when they travel in the atmosphere meeting winds they cannot pass through (like the polar vortex after it breaks down). This general characteristic of waves is called total internal reflection and waves can leak through if the barrier is thin.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Can you give some advice of other places to go for similar information?
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/06/2025
Lots of King’s Birthday Honours for UK climate scientists… Many congratulations to Andrew Charlton-Perez, Jolene Cook, Gabi Hegerl, Tim Lenton, Peter Cox, and Emily Shuckburgh!
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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is also what my students say :-(
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Jon Robson @jonrobson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Come and work with us!
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
UK universities face added head-winds with likely new levy on international students www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
bbc.co.uk
Starmer unveils 'tighter' immigration policy promising numbers will fall significantly - live updates
Proposed changes include English tests and cuts to recruitment of overseas care workers, as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Doesn’t the ARIA programme require an act of parliament to be discontinued within 10 years of operation? That all being said, what evidence would the funding agencies require for any SAI research funding to be discontinued?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A likely outcome? "Scientists conclude solar geoengineering is a bad idea, please do not give us any further funds" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Wow, who knew of the hidden shield within the UK coins?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
How long door to door?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Is there any merit in GE research funding being setup up more like a science debate, with for and against funding streams. The traditional science funding approach risks sleepwalking into eventual deployment.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
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Proposed 2026 NASA budget slashes $6 billion, mostly from science programs
The cuts would reduce NASA's budget by roughly 25% and phase out spacecraft that were planned for a return to the moon.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A greater awareness and scrutiny of the upper atmosphere is a must to inform on impacts and future regulation of satellite reentry. Let’s hope upcoming missions like the European www.cairt.eu and similar US missions go forward.
cairt.eu
Cairt - English
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Well there you go: I have been meaning to cut back on baby formula www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Ultra-processed foods may be linked to early death
UPFs, such as crisps, biscuits, ice cream, hot dogs and fizzy drinks, are increasingly common in diets worldwide.
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Great opportunity to do cutting edge research on climate tipping points!
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Extracting minerals from land generally involves production of loads of toxic substances (e.g. gold - cyanide or mercury). There are very good reasons not to mine the ocean sea floor.
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It was a pleasure to welcome @alexsobel.co.uk at our headquarters in Leeds last week and introduce him to our research and its impact!
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"The Deliveroo charges are astronomical." Feeding an astronaut can cost up to £20,000 per day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trial to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off
The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
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EGU Atmospheric Sciences Division @egu-as.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The @egu.eu Atmospheric Sciences Division @egu-as.bsky.social has left twitter and is now on bluesky! Share the word and follow us!
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
But do they pay for the bus ride?
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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It would be brilliant if a data-driven model could be made using data from a future @esa.int Earth Explorer mission like www.cairt.eu
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Cairt - English
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