Friends and foes: I have emerged from dissertation jail with a defense date: May 21, 12pm ET. It's about #weather influencers, livestreams, live chat, and the very weird/interesting/important work of making sense of tornado threats as they unfold. It's PUBLIC. Pls come! DM 4 link #wx #wxsky

Been in a dissertation writing HOLE. What did I miss? 🍭

NYC #Blizzard: People currently out walking their dogs, strolling the kids around, normal early spring Saturday. #WinterStormFern? Trader Joes fully looted. Why?

One last hurrah. Why not! 😭

Staten Island Advance/SILive.com@silive.com · 6mo ago

National Weather Service revises NYC weekend snow prediction upward, issues storm watch

The Farmer’s Almanac will cease production after 2026, having been fully replaced by Ted Cruz, America’s leading cold-weather skedaddler and #1 Worst Canadian Ever.

Shea Jordan Smith@sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

"...transfer stewardship of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer to an appropriate operator..." And who could that appropriate operator be? Certainly not the universities cutting ATMOS programs? Who could ever want a fuck ton of weather data and why is it Peter Thiel? www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

Intent to restructure critical weather science infrastructure

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the agency is reviewing the structure of the research and observational capabilities operated by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric...

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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

I need a linguistic perspective on the Epstein emails. Where are the threads on this? Why do they all "talk" like that?

1) I recently spoke with Business Insider about what the potential sale of TikTok could mean for the *magic* For You Page: 👇🧵 www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-insid...

TikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a sale

As TikTok prepares to sell its US business, employees, creators, and researchers wonder about the future of its content algorithm.

businessinsider.com

Super excited to present at #TSRCONF at @stanfordcyber.bsky.social this Thursday! My poster, Weathering Trust: Credibility Formation in YouTube’s Weather Info Ecosystem, explores how “weather influencers” have become critical—yet largely unregulated—sources of safety information. Come say hi!! 🌪️⛈️

A straggler thought after yesterday's #NWAS25 digital-first sessions and this morning's #helene content: post-disaster misinfo is out of control. we have elected reps actively theorizing weather-control machines (wouldn't that be nice?). Question is: How do we push back? Esp. online?

Bluesky will break today. 😭

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 11mo ago

i can't believe they built me into the app

Like I said, September is *busy* but I am VERY excited to attend #NWAS25 (remotely) this upcoming week. Looking forward to the digital meteorology panel tomorrow as this topic is pretty squarely my dissertation project (from an HCI, influencer, and platform policy angle). 🌦️🌪️☔ Fuck yeah, weather!

a cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below him

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a yellow raincoat holding a microphone with the words it 's raining sideways below him

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September is starting off crazy busy/chaotic. But not as chaotic as #SpiderJesus💥 Today at 1:30PT/4:30ET I'm presenting (remotely) a preliminary work on #AIJesusSlop at #4S2025. Dive deep into observer theories and how this slop is so much more than #spam. See ya there! 🙏

Exhausted by the news cycle. Here is System of a Down on the first day of their tour at MetLife Stadium. #soad

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

Fantastic read. "There's no social media equivalent of a WEA alert that's sent out to all mobile phones within radius."

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 12mo ago

i been saying this about how it's really bad that local communities have outsourced communications to Meta/Facebook and Twitter: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-s...

NEW: After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

propublica.org

I'm not a meteorologist, I'm a social scientist (studying #wx comms). A few things can be simultaneously true re: #tx #floods: - trump admin should have never defunded NOAA, but - NWS was staffed & issued watches/warnings just fine - Ppl don't check the weather at 3am! - we cant predict everything

Sometimes the newsday demands a timeline cleanse. 😮‍💨

I feel like they're missing a few other totally mysterious cases that are not at all related to helium or hydrogen 🙃

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

Twice a day, every day, meteorologists around the world simultaneously release weather balloons. But in recent months, fewer balloons are being launched in many corners of the United States. In some cases, helium or hydrogen shortages are to blame.

Very concerned by “Y’all Watches” on weatherwise… the idea that these are areas that the weather service may be considering warnings is not OK. There is a substantial risk for confusion with weather service products. Add that our watches are not short fuse polygon products. That is warnings.

I'm at #CHI2025 this week presenting my paper with Sourojit Ghosh on controlling unwanted content on TikTok's FYP: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13895. This paper was ~3 years in the making and I'm excited it finally found the (right) home!

"They've Over-Emphasized That One Search": Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's For You Page

Modern algorithmic recommendation systems seek to engage users through behavioral content-interest matching. While many platforms recommend content based on engagement metrics, others like TikTok deli...

arxiv.org

This feels a lot like propaganda, folks!

NOAA@noaa.gov · last yr.

These minerals are currently sitting atop the sea floor, waiting to be scooped up and processed. Through #NOAA’s mapping tech and licensing abilities, we are helping industry leaders find, collect and bring back these minerals to benefit the #USA & domestic manufacturing.

Someone made a lot of money. The SEC shall investigate! Oh wait, no... it won't (forgot about that Feb 18 executive order for a moment).

For those of you on the edge of #wxsky: I'm a PhD student studying human-computer interaction <> weather. I'm recruiting for a study on weather presentation formats and what you find trustworthy/credible. Doing 1hr interviews + survey. Pays $17! Screener: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

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Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

seattletimes.com