The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

From Tails of the Boulder Commute: a troublesome turkey at the corner of Baseline and Foothills Pkwy this morning.

AMS Attendees: The conference hotel rates are now available. annual.ametsoc.org/2027/attend/... #ams2027

If you want a full write up of the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners, @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social has got you covered.

Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.

arstechnica.com

The LEAP STC renewal has successfully navigated the current government grant gauntlet! www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/f...

news.ucar.edu/133087/ucar-...

We're quickly moving from LLM-generated clip art and questionable diagrams to fully LLM-generated conference presentations. The style tics of the titles and bullets/captions are obvious and painful to read.

Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time

Heads up: With help from Claude and CREDIT, I have discovered that ERA5 has a few negative specific humidity values that caused my model to produce nans after performing a log transform on the data. The negative values are in both the pressure level (at 200 hPa) and model level output.

We’re proud to celebrate Olga Wilhelmi, PhD, as an AMS 2027 Fellow! 👏 Olga leads the GIS Program at NSF NCAR & conducts interdisciplinary & convergent research on societal risk & resilience to extreme weather events. 🤩 Congratulations, Olga, on this well-deserved honor! ral.ucar.edu/news/olga-wi...

Building an AI model just got easier thanks to our open source tool CREDIT! NSF NCAR’s next-gen Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin (CREDIT) got a fantastic upgrade, now with a building-blocks approach, reduced run time & more physics to keep the AI outputs as realistic as possible.

NSF releases some NOFOs for some directorates. Staff say they've been held up at OSTP for a while.

August 2026 Notices of Funding Opportunity for Foundational Research

Learn about new NSF funding opportunities prioritizing foundational research across the sciences and engineering.

nsf.gov

In non-ML ECMWF news, they are in the process of migrating away from GRIB ... to GRIB2.

CREDIT Generation 2 has arrived! You can now mix and match ML and physics components seamlessly with PyTorch layers to create a new generation of coupled Earth system emulators. More info: news.ucar.edu/133085/scien...

This release was perfectly timed for my long layover at ATL. Love the weather forecast!

Channel 6@channel6.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🥃 🐢 🏈 channel-6.ghost.io/the-2026-tur...

👀 Something special my team's been working on is set to arrive next week.

I am not at #32SLS in Madison this week, but my postdoc Kevin Yang will be presenting our work on GOES nowcasting with CREDIT. How many channels and timesteps do you need to get storms to grow? Find out at 2:30 PM today in Madison Ballroom A.

SCOOP: Internal Microsoft records reveal a "mad dash" inside the world's largest software maker as engineers and managers scramble to patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos: www.propublica.org/article/anth...

Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.

Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...

propublica.org

The SPC is channeling Raffi over the western US. 🍌☎️

NSF Unidata is hiring! We are seeking an enthusiastic and collaborative professional to join our team as a Program Specialist IV – Community Services & Partnerships Manager. More information: buff.ly/lwKemu7

Outstanding discussion of “Science: A New Golden Age” from @colesci.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/ostp-vision-... 1/4

OSTP Vision for Science is a ‘Golden Age’ for Corporations

"Science: A New Golden Age" tries to reframe the conversation away from the ongoing destruction of American science, writes Cole Donovan.

techpolicy.press

Was just having a lunch chat yesterday about whether the administration would export control open weight models to help open ai and Anthropic. Jensen has appeared at a lot more admin events than Sam and Dario recently…

Ken Watanabe: Let Them Fight

ALT: Ken Watanabe: Let Them Fight

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Marco Z@ocramz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

jensen one of us, let's bring him over on bsky xcancel.com/i/status/208...

Russ Vought and crew are just like Hans Gruber: trying to act sophisticated when in reality they’re just a bunch of petty thieves stealing our future. Fighting back is working; let’s keep it up.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The classic WWRP Forecast Verification website has found new life on Github Pages! See jwgfvr.github.io/forecastveri... for the new page and look forward to seeing updates.

@stormscale.io I can't find the button to change MRMS variables in heimdall. Did it get accidentally dropped in a recent release?

The AI czars have been Sacks, Burns, and Fall? are they doing a bit?

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 3mo ago

Trump's newest AI czar out after three months. His predecessor lasted 24 hours. techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/t...

Ahead of a hearing before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee tomorrow, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a 120-pg report, "Science: A New Golden Age" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Here's the summary from the press release:

Just finished Radical Cartography by William Rankin. Biggest surprise was chapter on color arguing against usage of “objective“ linear color maps like ColorBrewer b/c colors have connotations and maps make arguments by construction. Uniform colors also express a view. www.amazon.com/dp/052555979...

About time!

Politico@politico.com · 3mo ago

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

The FF LSRs coming out of Texas right now are horrific. "Feet of water over bridges" or "Every highway underwater". Wildfire smoke pouring into some areas across the north. GOES-19 down with possible massive problem. No ETA on fix. Good luck to all my fellow forecasters out there. Rough week.