Sean Arms
@lesserwhirls.bsky.social
☦️ Indiana born, PhD in Met from OU, software engineer at NSF Unidata (UCAR/UCP/EODS)
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Students in the atmospheric and related sciences: are you looking for a summer internship? I've just updated my listing of summer internships for the 2026 application cycle. Most deadlines are coming up in January & February!
#weather #climate #reu #research
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#weather #climate #reu #research
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Research Internships – Clark Evans, Ph.D.
clarkevanswx.github.io
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Students in the atmospheric and related sciences: are you looking for a summer internship? I've just updated my listing of summer internships for the 2026 application cycle. Most deadlines are coming up in January & February!
#weather #climate #reu #research
clarkevanswx.github.io/education/un...
#weather #climate #reu #research
clarkevanswx.github.io/education/un...
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Update: Rebooted; nothing bad has happened. Gotta love server infra even running on 15+ year old hardware.
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Update: Rebooted; nothing bad has happened. Gotta love server infra even running on 15+ year old hardware.
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That feeling when you had the regular update script running at one of your public facing servers, but you also forgot to reboot it for 3.5 years. I am sure nothing bad is going to happen if I do it now, 2 days before NY break starts.
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
That feeling when you had the regular update script running at one of your public facing servers, but you also forgot to reboot it for 3.5 years. I am sure nothing bad is going to happen if I do it now, 2 days before NY break starts.
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It's not ideal, but fortunately NIST's clocks in Gaithersburg are still up and running. There are other Stratum 1 systems out there too. But hopefully Boulder can open back up soon.
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It's not ideal, but fortunately NIST's clocks in Gaithersburg are still up and running. There are other Stratum 1 systems out there too. But hopefully Boulder can open back up soon.
“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
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Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services
groups.google.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
Looking to check out the new AI GFS output? @pth1.bsky.social is making it available via the @uwmad-aos.bsky.social THREDDS Data Server! thredds.aos.wisc.edu/thredds/cata...
TDS Catalog
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December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Looking to check out the new AI GFS output? @pth1.bsky.social is making it available via the @uwmad-aos.bsky.social THREDDS Data Server! thredds.aos.wisc.edu/thredds/cata...
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🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
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Join us for our town hall at 6pm in 243-244 to learn more about @ncar-ucar.bsky.social community data, compute, software and educational resources. #AGU25
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Join us for our town hall at 6pm in 243-244 to learn more about @ncar-ucar.bsky.social community data, compute, software and educational resources. #AGU25
From NSF: www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...
Intent to restructure critical weather science infrastructure
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the agency is reviewing the structure of the research and observational capabilities operated by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric...
www.nsf.gov
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I had to write or I’d explode. open.substack.com/pub/tornatri...
All roads lead to Boulder (and NCAR)
I share my NCAR stories spanning my career in atmospheric science.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I had to write or I’d explode. open.substack.com/pub/tornatri...
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Note: NCAR/UCAR websites will be offline most of the day today due to unrelated power issues.
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Note: NCAR/UCAR websites will be offline most of the day today due to unrelated power issues.
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Stop by my poster this morning at board 341 to learn more about @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Geoscience Data Exchange #AGU25
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Stop by my poster this morning at board 341 to learn more about @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Geoscience Data Exchange #AGU25
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Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu
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🚨 New job alert! 🚨
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (T/TE)
Research Focus: The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain an externally funded and internationally recognized research program...
arizona.csod.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🚨 New job alert! 🚨
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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For those of us facing the challenge of our students being too reliant on ChatGPT, CoPilot, LLMs, Clippy, etc., there's a new interesting paper by engineering creativity expert, David Cropley at Univ South Australia: There's an upper limit to LLM creativity, and it's... mediocre at best.
“The Cat Sat on the …?” Why Generative AI Has Limited Creativity | David Cropley, PhD
Why treating #semantic distance as a proxy for #creativity is not merely misleading but leads to faulty conclusions about human and #LLM creativity.
Since LLMs burst into our collective consciousness...
www.linkedin.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
For those of us facing the challenge of our students being too reliant on ChatGPT, CoPilot, LLMs, Clippy, etc., there's a new interesting paper by engineering creativity expert, David Cropley at Univ South Australia: There's an upper limit to LLM creativity, and it's... mediocre at best.
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NF's annual Black Friday Back Issue Bundles sale is on! Get caught up on any NF you missed, or buy a bundle for a Nintendo-loving friend/family member!
www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/shop
www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/shop
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NF's annual Black Friday Back Issue Bundles sale is on! Get caught up on any NF you missed, or buy a bundle for a Nintendo-loving friend/family member!
www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/shop
www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/shop
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Discover the power of virtual field trips!
Our free, interactive programs offer K-12 students the opportunity to explore Earth system science anywhere. All you need to participate is a computer, webcam, and internet access.
Our free, interactive programs offer K-12 students the opportunity to explore Earth system science anywhere. All you need to participate is a computer, webcam, and internet access.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Discover the power of virtual field trips!
Our free, interactive programs offer K-12 students the opportunity to explore Earth system science anywhere. All you need to participate is a computer, webcam, and internet access.
Our free, interactive programs offer K-12 students the opportunity to explore Earth system science anywhere. All you need to participate is a computer, webcam, and internet access.
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Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...
2026 SIParCS Undergraduate Student Internships
Job Description Summary: The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers graduate students and undergraduates w...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...
Have a look for yourself. deflock.me/map
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Have a look for yourself. deflock.me/map
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Check out the great work going on at the #UCP @comet-meted.bsky.social
Building Better Weather Networks eos.org/features/bui...
Building Better Weather Networks eos.org/features/bui...
Building Better Weather Networks - Eos
A lack of weather data often leaves African communities vulnerable. Convergent efforts to improve observational networks throughout the continent are slowly filling the gaps.
eos.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Check out the great work going on at the #UCP @comet-meted.bsky.social
Building Better Weather Networks eos.org/features/bui...
Building Better Weather Networks eos.org/features/bui...
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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!
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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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"Data available upon request"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Data available upon request"