Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

I love that. Looks just like me.
Why's he sound like that?

Phew... where do we start. ST miscues (big returns, blocked FG). Goff inaccurate early. Passpro is not good enough; interior run blocking not good. D was okay, but missed tackles sprinkled about. LOTS of penalties and miscues. Team wasn't ready AT ALL.

Little dude loves his head rubs

Please wash hands after petting ToiletCat.

When you feel political cartoonists have been working too hard and deserve something easy as a treat

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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A template for your curriculum vitae The importance of keeping your CV up to date and easily findable

Periodic reminder that it is useful to always keep your CV/Resume up to date. Not sure where to start? Here's a template passed on to me during my graduate school years, and I've modified it based on feedback from others. Feel free to use and share!

open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

#CV #Resume

Two other effects highlighted in this talk:

1) Sat electrical discharges are strong enough to be measured on the ground (!!!)
2) Sat flybys are detectable electromagnetically.

Overall message: space is becoming more polluted, and we need to come to terms with that.

MIPSE Seminar | Space Science in an Anthropogenic Environment | Happening @ Michigan

Greatly enjoyed this seminar by Dr. Jesse Woodroffe. Some human-space environment effects discussed that I hadn't thought about at all, including human-generated VLF radio signals being detected in space and potentially scattering particles!

events.umich.edu/event/136477

Ah, yes- the Earth's well known... uh... quadrupole magnetic field.

I am *very* excited for SWFO. High quality, real-time L1 data is the current cornerstone of space weather monitoring, and we've been struggling with that recently.

SWFO-L1 Launch SWFO-L1 will keep a watchful eye on the sun and near-Earth environment for space weather activity, using a solar telescope to monitor the Sun's activity and a suite of instruments to make real-time me...

AND... WE HAVE LIFTOFF of NOAA’s #SWFOL1 satellite, riding along with
NASA.gov's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (#IMAP) and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory!

More about SWFO-L1:
noaa.gov/SWFOL1

#LetsGoSWFO!

I'm about to get my COVID vaccine. Can't wait to go out and start a fight with the first COVID I see

Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting Yesterday, several media outlets claimed or strongly implied that "transgender symbols" were found at the scene of the gun used by Charlie Kirk's shooter. This turned out to be false.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.

Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.

WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.

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look at my FBI director dawg we are never finding this man

Nah, just warnings to those going.

Hell yeah the first talk at an IEEE meeting is about space weather.

Kicking off an international conference in Italy by listening to warnings about travel complications in the host nation of the next meeting: the United States.

We're being warned about searches, visa problems, and other actions that visitors may be subjected to while in the US.

This sucks.

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...the other wolf inside me:

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When my students don't know the word "cromulent"

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA HOLD ON.

THERE WAS A BASKET CASE 2?!?!?!

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me, in Michigan, at 2pm local

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Dst (one measure of storm strength) was only about -40nT or even around zero, depending on which calculation you use. For scientists, that's... almost not even a storm.

Very unfortunate storm in the end. The magnetic field of the storm was predominantly northward- meaning it could not effectively transmit energy to the Earth system, preventing the aurora from moving southward.

BOOOO!

Isle Royal (very near Canada!) is showing some color, but it's pretty diffuse right now. The storm isn't cooperating for us mid-latitude/lower Michigan folks right now. :(

www.nps.gov/isro/learn/p...

Storm is here! Solar wind speed is ~675 which might not be enough to push things south enough for us Michiganders. Magnetic field is yet to cooperate, but it's still early...

YES!

Now before we all start reposting pseudo science craziness, let's get some speed estimates and remember that southward oriented magnetic field is important for creating aurora (and other "fun" effects) at Earth. In other words, it's going to be a bit before we know if we should be excited.

Today was a good day.
for running.

Just found out that Tohru Araki passed away. His work on storm sudden impulses was very important to me; I was lucky enough to meet him at a conference. Sad to see that he is no longer with us. :(

feeling vulnerable and deep (why am I spending twenty minutes convincing ChatGPT to read a long and oddly formatted table instead of typing it into excel myself)