Sean Arms
@lesserwhirls.bsky.social
☦️ Indiana born, PhD in Meteorology from OU, software engineer at NSF Unidata (UCAR/UCP), priv/acc
🎉WxData 2.2 Released🎉 A large expansion to the Open-Meteo API interface and a new Python interface to retrieve air quality data using the Air Now API are new features. Docs & Tutorials: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... GitHub Repo: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... Release Notes: github.com/edrewitz/WxD...
What questions do you have about AI in education? 2026 NSF Unidata Summer Intern Tara Staresinic has published the first post in her "AI in Education" series, sharing a student's perspective on AI, sustainability, ethics, and practical ideas for the classroom. buff.ly/BhPXGMT
🎉Python Package Milestone🎉 Proud to announce that xmacis2py reached 10,000 total downloads on conda-forge as of today. xmacis2py is a Python interface with the ACIS2 API for retrieving climate data and has lots of tools to analyze and visualize the data. xmacis2py = xmACIS2 in Python. #climate
This MetPy Monday tutorial shows how to work with NEXRAD Level II radar data in Python and turn raw radar volume data into a useful reflectivity map. buff.ly/emrLpMC
This paper suggests people who developed strong cognitive skills before AI may be better positioned to use it as a productivity tool, while those who rely on AI before mastering those skills may be less likely to develop them. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Want to contribute to #matplotlib but don't know where to start? Join us for a live session on how to help us triage issues and PRs on GitHub! 📅 July 14th · 2pm UTC 🔗 hackmd.io/@matplotlib/... Bring your questions - all are welcome!
If I were the King of Universities (which, heaven forbid), I would place this finding at the exact centre of every single policy decision from teaching to research to estates to capital investment. At every level in every process, the question would be: are we as humane as education demands we be?
The article in question should be required reading for everyone in UK higher ed: www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/05/w...
WEEKEND READING: Stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Professor Debbie Holley, Emerita Professor in Learning Innovation at Bournemouth University; Professor Wendy Garnham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Suss...
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🎉OpenMeteoApi.NET 1.0 Released🎉 I've been picking up C# as my #2 language to Python and I am proud to announce that I just published my 1st version of my 1st ever nuget package. OpenMeteoApi.NET on nuget.org: www.nuget.org/packages/Ope... OpenMeteoApi.NET Github Repo: github.com/edrewitz/Ope...
Nominations are open! Nominate yourself, nominate someone else—without community participation, there is no Unidata.
NSF Unidata@unidata.bsky.social · 2mo agoNSF Unidata's advisory committees have reorganized themselves into a new structure to invite participation from a wider range of community members. Read more: buff.ly/pGJ1lsX
This is bonkers. Yes you should check every citation (AI involved or not). WTAF.
Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
CSV, BUFR, GINI, GRIB, HDF, and netCDF
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo agowhat are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
Fire is transforming the US West’s public lands – research shows overlooked cost to recreation theconversation.com/fire-is-tran...
Fire is transforming the US West’s public lands – research shows overlooked cost to recreation
Wildfires in Colorado are reshaping landscapes and visitor habits.
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MetPy Mondays is back! John Leeman from NSF Unidata introduces what’s new in MetPy and previews a new 15-part MetPy Mondays series focused on practical meteorological data analysis, remote data access, and case study plotting. buff.ly/BQitB7I
MetPy Mondays #329 - What's New in MetPy? | NSF Unidata
This MetPy Monday episode introduces a new series focused on the latest features in MetPy and practical workflows for meteorological data analysis in Python. John highlights improvements to core…
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Had a very similar experience with Sonatype Nexus, and the whole thing just leaves me feeling sad. ctrue.name/2026/04/21/t... #java #maven #gradle
The Fall of Sonatype Nexus
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"...If you hand that process to a machine you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed." I hear all the time about the importance of efficiency in so many aspects of our lives. But HUMANS ARE NOT MACHINES. Learning & growth is slow & a GOOD thing!
I'm personally banking (as an old fuck) that being able to write actual code that actually works will be as valuable in a few years as old fucks that still remembered how to write COBOL around Y2K
watching GitHub slip to one-nine of uptime over the last month or so has been an interesting reminder that LLM generated code is like taking out a high interest loan against your future self; there are ways of leveraging that debt into something valuable but most of the time, you default
I’ve said it before, but this time more visibly (on National AI Literacy Day nonetheless). For your consideration: Changes that encourage students, or scientists, to move further away from the data should be violently challenged. 🔥 (╯°□°）╯︵ 🔥┻━┻🔥 #AILiteracy
UCS filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the NSF to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “NCAR represents one of the most successful models of federally supported scientific infrastructure in the US.”
UCS Files Requests to Make Proposals Public on How to Restructure National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Union of Concerned Scientists today filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the U.S. National Science Foundation to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure t...
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what is this garbage. why is this person a professor. how could anyone believe this enough to write an article about it. who approved publishing it in bleeping SCIENCE.
Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 5mo agoSome people should never have access to students. “AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”
It’s the last day of February and it is nearly 70 F in my backyard. Thanks, I hate everything.
Can confirm, this do be how it be…except with “driven to apply” and “perfectly intersects with my passions of”. I sometimes miss the days of “leveraging synergies” because at least that had a somewhat measurable soul.
Robyn Swirling@rswirling.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’m reviewing applications for a job I’m leading hiring on. I wonder if any of these people realize that when they feed the same prompt as 170 other people into chatGPT that it gives them all the same answers. I have read the exact same sentence about power mapping in 100+ applications.
...I just... www.nsf.gov/news/transit...
Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations
The U.S. National Science Foundation has informed the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) that management and operations of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center are expected to…
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