@robjohnson.bsky.social
Research scientist and nerd, based in Hobart Tasmania. robjohnson.computer
If you've heard something about Antarctica's sea ice melting but are not sure why that matters, you won't get a clearer explanation than this web story.👇
A few minutes very well spent.
This is illegal impoundment, plain and simple.
For those who don’t know, Unidata is an IT services center for weather and climate research. They create software and maintain data streams that I, and hundreds of other meteorologists, use on a daily basis. #nsfdata
Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another.
Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
This is really not good... many scientists around the world rely on unidata tools or products (think 'netcdf')... 😟 #science
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Vote 1 boogie boards....
07.03.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Great starting point for librarians and information professionals who are new to Bluesky.
22.01.2025 07:42 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn
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Tonight @plustssn.autumnsky.us and I had the honor of receiving an #AMS2025 special award for our contributions to improving forecasts with visualizations of hodographs!!
16.01.2025 00:27 — 👍 165 🔁 10 💬 16 📌 2
“The [Australian] PhD stipend for 2025 is $33,511, barely catching up with inflation and well below the minimum wage of $47,627 a year.” #AcademicChatter
Imagine paying a living wage!
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175 maps showing temperature change from 1850 to 2024
Mapping changes in temperature: 2024 edition
10.01.2025 17:36 — 👍 414 🔁 200 💬 7 📌 13
"‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist" | My full interview today with #Channel4News UK: www.channel4.com/news/__trash...
10.01.2025 21:18 — 👍 1195 🔁 410 💬 35 📌 23NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.
10.01.2025 21:34 — 👍 266 🔁 138 💬 8 📌 13The deferment has ended. Fire expert, Prof David Bowman being very direct about what the climate- change driven Californian fires mean for Australia. Our cities are just as vulnerable as LA. Canberra 2003 fires demonstrated this, but more that 20 years on, we have put more fuel on the risk of fire.
09.01.2025 02:11 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Car Brain - This rings true in Australia... This is the biggest barrier to more people riding bikes in cities youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
08.01.2025 23:44 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 It is now 100% certain that 2024 will be the hottest year on record and likely the hottest year in many thousands of years. With 9 days remaining in 2024, the only way to not break the record would require global cold not experienced since the Pleistocene. 🔥
24.12.2024 15:55 — 👍 164 🔁 70 💬 10 📌 7Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard. Storymap featuring the bloke who started the heatwave forecast service at the BoM, and whose ‘heatwave factor’ we have used in the National Climate Risk Assessment
22.12.2024 03:42 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0Do most people in the weather community not realize how shaky the foundations of our weather and climate modeling infrastructure are right now? We can’t run CPU only models at high resolution without blowing power budgets. So what next?
07.12.2024 00:26 — 👍 152 🔁 19 💬 18 📌 9
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
