William Revelle

@revelle.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology at Northwestern. Studying Personality and intelligence Developer of the psych package for R. See personality-project.org/revelle.html

Celebrating the solstice (plus 3 days) with the latest version of psych (2.5.6) and psychTools (2.5.7.22 -- it took a few tries to get it) which are now on CRAN. Small improvements and minor bug and typo fixes (see the news files). Added a function to report the information in correlations.

The Trump administration is undermining the collection and distribution of essential weather and climate information, right before hurricane season. "Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see," by @jessimckenzi.bsky.social.

Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see

The Trump administration is undermining the collection and distribution of essential weather and climate information, right before hurricane season.

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The Trump administration's disassembling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is threatening the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. "How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve," by Eric Morgan and Ralph Keeling. ⬇️

How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve

How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...

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The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 427 parts per million. What does that mean, and what can we do about it? On April 17, join the Bulletin for a virtual event on the risks of climate change and how to understand what planetary shifts are inevitable—and which have solutions.

Beyond the Threshold: The Urgency of Climate Change

On April 17, join the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to explore the risks of climate change and how to understand what planetary shifts are inevitable – and which are solvable – in this current era...

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An "apparent attempt by Russia to infect AI chatbots themselves with propaganda shows that the internet as we know it may be changed forever." What can be done to mitigate the harms of LLM grooming? Read more from Annie Newport and @ninajankowicz.com. ⬇️

Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots

A pro-Russia network is internally corrupting large-language models to reproduce disinformation and propaganda.

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Yesterday, Maine Senator Angus King grilled US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, about the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, which made no mention of climate change for the first time in 11 years. @jessimckenzi.bsky.social reports below.

Maine senator grills intelligence director Gabbard on omission of climate change from annual threat report

Gabbard implied that climate change was no longer considered a direct threat to US national security.

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Celebrating the Equinox with the release of psychTools 2.5.3 to CRAN. (joining psych 2.5.3) Addition to vJoin but more importantly, edits to 4 vignettes: Introduction to the psych package Overview of the psych package for psychometrics Using the psych package for factor analysis How to find Omega

"Ice loss in Greenland is already large, greatly accelerated from centuries of near stability, and irreversible. [...] Though a tipping point for future ice loss is already crossed, the pace of this loss is still not set in stone," writes Twila Moon. Read more below:

The shrinking of the Greenland Ice Sheet can’t be stopped—but it can and must be slowed

Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a tipping point for future ice loss has already been crossed, the pace of this l...

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Congratulations to Dan Mroczek for a life time Achievement award from the European Association of Personality Psychology. Also honored were Emorie Beck with the Early Achievement Award Chris Soto the Mid Career award. Antonis Koutsoumpis the EAPP dissertation award. Reinout de Vries for Leadership.

Celebrate the solstice with the latest release of psych 2.5.3 now on CRAN. The basic bug fixes (thanks all for finding them) and the addition of some minor suggestions from a number of users. Update to psychTools coming soon. (Required psych to be on CRAN first.)

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"The ability to observe, forecast, and warn of impactful weather is being degraded. This is putting American lives and the American economy in danger." "Hurricane Elon: DOGE cuts could cause meteorologists to miss the next 'nightmare' storm," by @johnmoralestv.bsky.social.

Hurricane Elon: DOGE cuts could cause meteorologists to miss the next ‘nightmare’ storm

Balloon-launch gaps are only one example of critical meteorological information that is on track to go missing in 2025.

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It's not real. It's not us. It's not bad. It's too hard to fix. It's too late. Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next. Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.

💻 ⚡ By harnessing the power of supercomputers, a team of scientists from Scripps Oceanography, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center uncovered that small-scale ocean processes may have a far greater impact on storm development than previously believed.

Supercomputers Reveal How Small Ocean Processes Influence Storms

A team of scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have discovered that small-scale ocean processes can h...

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