Dr. Jeremy Gibbs

As a Cowboys fan, this sucks. As a fellow J. Gibbs, this is awesome.

The kids all decided that it should be a federal offense for snow to have fallen — no matter how small the amount — and school to still be in session.

i know what you mean, vern

I'm a sicko, so I'd want you to tell me to fix my stuff by tomorrow, or else I'll just wait until the last day of a required change and rush anyway. An informal survey of people in the office seems to land on a timeline of O(1 year) depending on the nature of the change.

"Oh, so like asteroids and stuff?"

Can confirm! (and to earlier points, I think the google results illustrate the potential for a virtuous cycle between physical modeling and AI tools, where the respective skills in “why” and “what” are used to help the other).

“Look, DaNa, we need an in-house plane “for the science”, and Brian is our pilot.”

Newish home fun: My kids complained that the upstairs rooms were cold. I upgraded to smart thermostats with sensors in hopes the basic ones were having issues w/2 floors. Next day: cold again and the smart thermostat warned about an issue with the furnace. There was — its gas valve was turned off 😂☠️

The NIL is far from perfect, but we should stop allowing the few to abuse labor of the many for their own further enrichment. It's how we have, e.g., tech companies making millions per employee and paying them on average fractions of that value. No employees? No business. No players? No sport.

I'm also amazed that, even today, people will say, "They shouldn't get paid because they are getting a free education." Meanwhile, the entire industry is making so much money off of their labor that at some schools coaches can be paid $50+ million to be fired.

Fifteen Years

This is quite lovely xkcd.com/3172/

I now get caught jamming to the KPDH soundtrack. I was skeptical and then they pulled me right in like a little fish with a worm.

a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!

To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!

Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...

Terms and conditions in thread below:

This is insultingly bad. How many levels of people were like, “Yeah, that looks good”?

A turkey with an NSSL logo on its stomach and a pink cowboy hat

Our intern Tommie says, “Happy Thanksgiving from your pals at the National Severe Storms Laboratory!”

Studienorganisation Chiffre GEO-15486

Dr. Ivana Stiperski at the Univ. of Innsbruck has an opening for a PhD student on a project focusing on aircraft obs of mountain boundary layers (over the European Alps). From the site, Univ. of Innsbruck strives to increase the percentage of women and thus expressly encourages women to apply 🧪 🌊

Underrated part of faculty life, even though it takes non-negligible time: writing recommendation letters.

It just feels good to write nice things about people.

Well, great, I’ll be here all by myself.

A JWST deep-field image, replete with bright, familiar spiral galaxies, dimmer, rounder galaxies, and very dim, red–orange galaxies that date to within the first billion years of the Universe's history. Bright, blue, spikey features are stars in our own galaxy.

This is part of our universe.

An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.

The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.

sounds boring.

(get better!)

Picture of the National Weather Center in the middle ground with trees with yellow, orange, and red leaves in the foreground and a 22 degree halo around the sun in the background.

It's fall time around the National Weather Center...

+1. Google also has a free "crash course" on Coursera. www.coursera.org/learn/python...

Similar experience today. We have Gemini Pro at work, but I’ve been playing with Claude Code to help me debug/improve a model I’ve been writing. Overall, okay job. But, the confidence it has in being wrong and then compounding its wrongness with more wrongness takes time to sift through!

a fun little article. counterpoint: maybe the tea was doomed before it ever met the cup.

A dapper invisible figure in a suit with a monocle The Invisible Enby by S. Zainab Williams as seen in The Edge of Space-Time (2026) by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM Day! I’m celebrating with the dapper Invisible Enby, who is a queer fashion metaphor for the way dark matter shapes visible matter in the cosmos. Want to learn more? Preorder my new book, where they appear! 🧪
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A sunset, oranges light the upper half of the photo, while the four ground is dark

sunset.

A sign that reads Skunks are in the Area!

I’m glad to be back at work, but this sign announcing our return was kinda rude.

this moment in time (today especially) is such a surreal experience that i think i’m going to log off for a bit and try to focus on finding some small amount of joy each day.