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Climate scientist with extracurricular interest in wine, whisk(e)y, hifi audio, action figures, Apple, and other nerdery.
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A good seasonal summary of #sea-ice at both poles. It will be really interesting to see if Antarctic ice rebounds from this year’s extreme low. Seem like odds are against much larger ice extent in the next few years. https://www.carbonbrief.org/exceptional-antarctic-melt-drives-months-of-record-low-global-sea-ice-cover/
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We are hiring!
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the dynamical mechanisms for the formation of tropical Pacific climate change pattern.
You will study tropical Pacific climate change patterns, addressing model-observation discrepancies, reconciling past and projected changes, and determining the importance of local and remote drivers.
https://jobs.mpimet.mpg.de/jobposting/71e31eb762952c526536951771ad56298214ae520
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Incredibly sad to hear of Anchor Brewing shutting down after 127 years: https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/anchor-steam-18192913.php
A huge loss. Though, the writing was on the wall when some absolute dingbat in charge got rid of their amazing historic label design and made it look like generic Trader Joe’s crap.
Cultured Chicken Is a Step Closer as a Second US Company Gets FDA-Approved https://singularityhub.com/2023/03/27/cultured-chicken-is-a-step-closer-as-a-second-us-company-gets-fda-approved/
I empathize with the frustration here: I don’t want to log in to your website https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell
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Which generation has the strongest argument that they are typically ignored?
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My almost 13 year old daughter had a good idea. We’ve been talking about doing a podcast together - mostly for us to have.
Her idea was reviewing books that are being taken out of school libraries - discussing the content, reviewing the actual literature but also the reasons it was banned and our thoughts there as well.
This is something I think that we will do, soon.
Nice, short piece that provides an overview of some of the ongoing challenges of modeling #ENSO.
Unravelling ENSO complexity | Nature Geoscience
New paper: this is software development aimed to reduce the overhead involved with converting climate model output to CMIP-like format (which is what ESMValTool is expecting as input). GMD - Evaluation of native Earth system model output with ESMValTool v2.6.0
Minimal Saltern Study Wallpapers — Basic Apple Guy
This connection between aspartame and anxiety is interesting, but it has all my skeptical spidey senses tingling. Starting from the massive dose that the mice were given, but extending to the epigenetic mechanism to affect later generations. Common Sweetener Linked With Anxiety in Startling New Research
https://scitechdaily.com/common-sweetener-linked-with-anxiety-in-startling-new-research/
#Rogue_Waves are incredibly frightening!
'Rogue wave' kills American woman, injures four on Antarctic cruise | CNN
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A nice visualization and explanation of some economically relevant math: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
New version of Numpy released. Doesn’t look like any huge changes, but a bunch of deprecations and some performance improvements. Release v1.24.0 · numpy/numpy · GitHub
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.24.0 #Python #Numpy
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Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented
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Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"
The answer: 25,000
25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.
And still virtually nothing has been done.
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The reporting of this story is not very balanced, and that makes it hard to guess what is really going on. Certainly there are some questions that need answers. #Impact #Controversy #Paleontology
Paleontologist accused of faking data in dino-killing asteroid paper | Science | AAAS
Climate scientist with extracurricular interest in wine, whisk(e)y, hifi audio, action figures, Apple, and other nerdery.
I never joined Twitter, and don't regret that decision.
Joined Nov 2022
