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Thijs Heus

@thijsheus.bsky.social
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Modeler of atmospheric flow, clouds and boundary layers. #MicroHH. Associate prof at Cleveland State.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whenever I drop off my kids at school, I hear a decent amount of chatter from other kids: "wow, that's a nice ebike!" It's clear what kind of technology excites the young ones.
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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@djphysicswebb.bsky.social, Mary Chessey and I have a newly accepted paper on uncollected test item responses on open-ended physics exam questions! Blank responses on exams are missing data, not measurements of physics knowledge or skills. Read on for details... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.05473
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Missing Data on Physics Exams: Demographic Patterns, Course-Level Predictions, and Implications for Equity
In a previous quantitative retrospective study we showed that different demographic groups of students leave different numbers of problems blank on physics exams, leading to inequities in course outco...
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm going to tell my Physics class that Trump wants to convert the entire US to SI units.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do you handle? With luck. That's what we did.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that this is somehow less than how much Elon enriched himself during this period is incredibly scary to me.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tracking @fiftyplusone.news on how Nebraska and Kansas are coming into play.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's a distinct chance that 1947-1960, the core of the Baby boom generation, will never deliver a US president.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Their best album of the nineties. Not sure if that's a hot take or not
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
youtu.be/8J2ups3xVZk?... The Dutch *kids* news is not pulling punches about AfD. Spoiler: this video features Hitler and a concentration camp.
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Veel aandacht voor Duitse verkiezingen vanwege deze extreme partij
YouTube video by NOS Jeugdjournaal
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
While we're in the process of renaming, why stop at states, gulf's and lakes? what-if.xkcd.com/53/
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The early Roman Emperors are split in two clear groups: Augustus, Claudius, Vespasianus, etc who at least treated the Senate with respect, and Tiberius, Caligula, Nero... who ignored them for the paper tiger they were. Provosts can be divided into similar groups.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awesome! 10 miles on a hill flattening ebike should clear out many commutes and good deserts in Cleveland. I know it's my main mode of commute now!
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This looks cool
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 25/08/2026
if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure.
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Moanin’ Obukhov @fivethirds.net · 24/08/2026
<Turns head to camera> Oh! Hello, there! My wife and I just released an app called Furcast. It's weather with character. The app transforms the weather into a pixel-art world that changes with the sky. Original human-made art. Thoughtful privacy. Built for all. furcastweather.com/news/hello-f...
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hugo Grotius, the towering intellectual who basically founded international law, escaped from prison in a book chest. You are what youre accompanied by. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gr...
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hat tip to the weather service. They got the timing of the smoke moving out down to the minute here in the Cleveland area
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ugh. Cleveland is Smokey at the moment
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Indoor air quality is worse now than during cooking #cawildfires
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Best Star Trek Captain, wrong answers only: Sejanus, captain of the imperial guard.
Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in the BBC series I, Claudius
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Uniting the Belgians may be worth a Peace Prize after all.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Wet bulb Glob temperature of 27C in the Midwest is scary, but I guess it is safe to add another 2C to account for heat islands in the cities. That's deathly.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Temperature is 98F Dew point 77F Wet bulb 82F Cleveland area is downright dangerous at the moment.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Say what now.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I propose a new pitching achievement, in the same vein as a Maddux: pitching at least 7 innings, 10 SO, and at most 2Earned Runs, still earning a loss. We'll call it a Bibee.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If your CEO serves on the recently revamped National Science Board, are you eligible to apply? Asking for a friend in the Bay area.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Seriously confused about which Michael Mann, and what Heat. @michaelemann.bsky.social , what is your Erdos-Bacon number anyway?
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Remember Sharpiegate? That was such a masterclass of relative intelligence.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Welp.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
How can this be called misogynistic? They're clearly putting the women on a pedestal.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This might be a good (additional) reason not to slash ARM/ASR from the presidential budget proposal. Just spit balling here.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The strait of Hormuz is still open, but you first have to sing it's the end of the world (and I feel fine) correctly and at tempo.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'd watch this Netflix show.
A handwritten story by a six year old, saying "Etta the napkin lived in the kitchen. She wanted to fly. She tried and tried until she got it. She was happy and proud of herself"
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
According to the number of idling cars exhausting fumes at the elementary school, gas is still too cheap.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Easily the coolest picture I've ever been in.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Evergreen. Students, faculty, and perhaps even admin are all alike. Alike in actually wanting to learn, alike in poorly reading emails, alike in procrastinating straight through deadlines. Some of them may even be alike in being human.
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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is absolutely incredible: the average temperature over the past six months (October-March) will end up at 52.5°F in #Albuquerque. That's 4°F above the previous record warmest. 🤯 Even after accounting for climate change, the odds of it being THAT warm are 1-in-123,000!! 🤯
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'll just go work in a bar to save the economy.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'm on (broken) record lamenting that most equity teaching efforts try to "fix' the student or the teacher... Would be wonderful to start fixing the campus.
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The loud boom heard in Cleveland and the light seen across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic... it was a meteor! GOES-19's geostationary lightning mapper picked up the brief flash of light.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thundersnow???
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When discussing the Iran War with my 8&6yo, they concluded that Trump is just thinking he's playing Stratego. I, on the other hand, thinks that such board games are way to high level as a comparison.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm somewhat surprised by the constant use of external motivators beyond grades/medals *outside* of the class room; e.g. regular little prizes after sports practice for my kids. By and large, they're just getting in the way. @josheyler.bsky.social and daughter, any thoughts?
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Extreme Heat. During Frickin' Spring Training.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
1billion per day is roughly what Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Zuck make.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Real world implications aside, it's actually a pretty cool simple physics question to toss in my lectures. Back of the envelope gets me to roughly 0.01s/meter sea level rise. That's a leap second each quarter.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How did I miss this piece of sheer joy? Timeline, you disappoint me.
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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If this starts contributing to my h-index, I'm ok with such a BS death for a BS metric.
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