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Austin @gingerwx.bsky.social · 7d

Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 9d

Nope!

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 10d

Texas Tech Geosciences is hiring two open-rank Atmospheric Science faculty positions in Precipitation Hazards, and in Data Science; part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Atmospheric Hazards Strategic Hire. See the details for the Precipitation and Data Science positions and join us in fall 2026!

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Oct 1

I have been wondering what is the driving philosophy of the present political moment. Focus here is placed on a particular philosophy of apocalyptic thinking, not the politics of WWII Germany.

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 30

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yeah, that’s more than enough. I think a fair share is 3x the amount of your first and student authored papers each year. I bet you’ve exceeded that?

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Aug 10

Good read on an advancement in the fundamental mathematical physics that we use to quantify the atmosphere. Fun to imagine how the result might also apply to improved statistical representations of cloud and precipitation particle interactions.

WIRED @wired.com · Aug 10

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 31

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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DOE climate report response form

We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · Aug 1

“If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. … Science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state. An American abdication will only hurt America.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 31

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

How Scientific Empires End

And what it means for America

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Sam Gardner @handle.invalid · Jul 31

Passed my @ttu.edu Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today!

Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor, @deeplycloudy.bsky.social, looking at lightning with phased array radars

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Kelcy Brunner @kelcyno.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hi All - We are convening a session at AGU this December, please share with your groups and consider submitting to our session! @ltgbug.bsky.social #lightning #AGU2025

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yeah, that’s mostly my experience.

The tip of the pyramid seems linked to language from empirical-statistical modeling where disciplines can’t draw on ~universally agreed, more general, physical-mathematical theory. But we can as meteorologists. Those are our hard, but most compelling, studies.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Jul 9

This is @persistent.info’s post with some more technical details – and some further twists like using an LLM to a control an old computer!

blog.persistent.info/2025/07/infi...

Infinite Mac Construction Set

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Jul 8

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Come for the UI history, stay for the fully usable and complete app and game nostalgia. Really remarkable.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jul 9

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. [aresluna.org]

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Jul 9

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. [aresluna.org]

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

aresluna.org

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Meredith Plays Horn @meredithmoo25.bsky.social · Jul 5

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 3

To make reiterate for others: the Big Murder Bill that *just* passed is completely separate from next year's budget for NSF, NOAA, and NASA (set via separate appropriations).

Will take a little bit longer to hear more about science agency budgets (were originally supposed to hear more next week):

Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · Jul 3

The House Appropriations Committee won't take up the CJS spending bill (which includes NASA, NOAA, and NSF) next week as previously scheduled. "Due to scheduling changes, those proceedings will be rescheduled to a later date," TBD.

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Cole Releases Fiscal Year 2026 Markup Schedule (Updated July 3, 2025)

Washington, D.C. – House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) today released the markup schedule for Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bills. This schedule is subject to change. An official...

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excellent piece from @zoeschlanger.bsky.social on what Schlanger aptly calls the "miserable cascade of losses for the American hurricane-safety apparatus." Quoted: @drkimwood.bsky.social, @michaelrlowry.bsky.social, @franklinjamesl.bsky.social + Andy Hazelton.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted

The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Jul 1

In one bright spot of normality, what you said sounds exactly like the usual process described by legislative affairs folks at AGU and this does matter more than you (or I) might think. Basic goals like getting them to tally science. Glad they got to hear the fully justified skepticism too!

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is a NOAA document, not a congressional one. My understanding based on past learning about the process is that this is the detailed justification that accompanies the top-level budget request from the executive branch. Actual appropriations/bill markup would be in a congressional document.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are losing access to key weather satellite data important for hurricane forecasting. But remember when we said that computer models were less reliant on balloons because they now use satellite data? Well, this is some of that satellite data and we're losing it.

open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Critical meteorological satellite data terminated

Meanwhile, Eastern heat dome slowly shrinks

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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · Jun 26

See, it is possible to love linear algebra!

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 26

We found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb, hoping to find out what it's really and truly like to be in a serious relationship with an AI partner.

Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/couple...