Eric Bruning

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“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.”

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

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

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.

Infinite Mac Construction Set

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...

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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...

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

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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]

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

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):

Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.

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.

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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!

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.

Critical meteorological satellite data terminated Meanwhile, Eastern heat dome slowly shrinks

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.

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See, it is possible to love linear algebra!

WeatherStar 4000+ Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!

Today’s weather report styled like The Weather Channel in the 90s: WeatherStar 4000+. [weatherstar.netbymatt.com]

HyperCard stack that shows a card that says "RIP Bill Atkinson (1951–2025)"

The moon in crepuscular rays illuminating a supercell

A quadrilateral of supercells emerges. #quadrilateralsupercellconspiracy

A yin-yang of lightning channel density from the tornadic supercell storm over Lubbock, and lightning in two overshooting tops showing the updraft of the main supercell and one that merged from the rear as the HP transition happened.

Thankfully no high end damage that I’ve heard of, which given that path I’m grateful.

This is so very resonant with the philosophy seeping more every day into faculty affairs, and students are dragged into this same financialized logic that doesnt let them slow down enough to think vigorously. manganiello.social/objects/1bf4...

I want to extend my heartfelt thanks for the support and kind words from everyone in the community. It really helped in getting through this rough time not to mention made clear the importance of our mission and the positive impact we have.

Rough waters remain ahead but I’m grateful to be here.

Starting with that premise will go a long way! Didn’t read anything personally, but second hand influence in our house was Ames and Ilg. Also, Wonder Weeks for practical “wtf am I dealing with here.”

Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see The Trump administration is undermining the collection and distribution of essential weather and climate information, right before hurricane season.

It’s hard to overstate how important Unidata is to weather research & communication, but the program paused most of its operations this month due to a lapse in funding from the NSF freeze. Staff is furloughed & it is unclear when they will be able to resume operations thebulletin.org/2025/05/deco...

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I cannot express the strength of greatness I feel in the air around me every day.

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

Why Trump’s Plan to Stop Tallying Weather Losses Matters to the Insurance Industry NOAA’s billion-dollar disaster list provides a crucial metric for tracking rising damages tied to climate change and development.

A reinsurance industry group began pushing to protect NOAA's billion-dollar disaster list back in February -- because it helps convince “the public and public officials to embrace resilience," driving down insurance costs.

Story w/ @weathersullivan.bsky.social (free link):