I was honored to visit @uwmad-aos.bsky.social for an alumni-only tour over lunch today! I finally got my #RooftopSelfie. I also found my senior thesis still in the library. I still have some Badger blood left in me! #AMSMadisonSummit

P158 is now up for your perusal!

Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️@tornatrix.bsky.social · 2d ago

My URAs, Lauren Grose @lgrose24.bsky.social, Maliyah (Mia) Smith @maliyah-wx.bsky.social, and Evelyn Girardi present their poster P158 on their efforts to preserve Dr. Ernie Agee’s research materials from the 1976 West Lafayette, Indiana tornado! 3-4 p.m CDT Tuesday ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

"At Purdue, … we have an AI-competency requirement now for graduation and are in the process of figuring out what that is." 🙄 chronicle.com/article/purdues-mitch-daniels-warns-against-conditioning-research-grants-on-reforms

Purdue’s Mitch Daniels on Trump Pressure: ‘We Need to Be Careful’

Daniels, who is back at the university as its interim leader, believes higher ed should change but says conditioning government funding on reform risks harming the sector.

chronicle.com

The same people who grumble about public funding for higher ed also expect competent Drs. and nurses to be available when they get sick, movies and books to entertain, engineers to design their communities, IT to service their tech, artists to interpret the world etc. Higher ed is a public good.

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · yesterday

You should be able to go to school for a “monetarily worthless“ degree (no such thing but you get my meaning) and not only should that be free to citizens on the state’s dime, they should also support your living needs while you do it.

My office for the morning #AMSMadisonSummit

Lastly, I’ll be describing early tests of a new method of initiating ice categories in the P3 microphysics scheme based on specific processes (heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation, rime splintering, etc.) on Friday: ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

Then, on Thursday, @storm-spotter-k.bsky.social on the sensitivity of storm mode to the initiating updraft pattern across different environments with varying deep-layer shear in idealized simulations: ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ.... If you are here and able, please consider coming to their talks!

Members of my research group are presenting this week at the @ametsoc.org Madison summit for #32SLS! First up tomorrow (Tuesday) morning is @shearcoincidence.bsky.social on comparing observed and simulated rain and hail size distributions from @nsficechip.bsky.social: ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

Members of my Weather Radar Research Lab (WRRL) are in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin for the 32nd Severe Local Storms Conference #32SLS at the @ametsoc.org #AMSMadisonSummit! Contribution 🧵:

Holy roost rings, Batman! #32SLS #inwx 🐦

Mandatory Spotted Cow #32SLS @meteodan.bsky.social 🍻

Surely, that can’t be a mesovortex east of Indianapolis! It is an adorable mesovortex. And don’t call me Shirley.

Final full descent sounding for this go around. Balloon is going back up and we'll keep doing that loop as long as Dolphin will let us.

Dr. Larissa@rissarwx.bsky.social · 4d ago

So uh, we're doing a thing and it's very fucking cool

Our local TV station got wind that I sometimes send radiosonde data to NWS, and sent one of my former instrumentation students (now one of their photojournalists) out to interview me about it. Watch for a clip of @eaps-spottr.bsky.social students launching a sonde. www.wlfi.com/2026/07/29/p...

Purdue launches weather balloons for the National Weather Service

Purdue launches weather balloons for both student use and the National Weather Service.

wlfi.com

Hurricanes that suddenly intensify are especially dangerous since rapid intensification is notoriously hard to forecast and leaves little time to prepare. But now, NSF NCAR researchers have developed a technique to predict sudden intensification in hurricanes as far as 5 days out.

What do you need to know before the hurricane season really ramps up? This week, we’re getting a preview straight from the source: NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Michael Brennan! 🌀 WATCH or LISTEN 👉 linktr.ee/WeatherGeeks

Agencies are lagging on FOIA and resorting to extremes to close requests. The EPA even rejected our request for an email for being too broad. They relented when we objected to the absurdity of that claim. It shouldn't have come to that. More in @nytimes.com:

Federal Agencies Face Record Backlog of Public Records Requests

A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.

nytimes.com

“We should stop assuming that all students embrace and use [generative AI] technology. And we should all consider whether we can make a place for conscientious objectors in our classes that honors their concerns and their autonomy.”

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6d ago

Career Advice | Students as Conscientious Objectors to Generative AI We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect. By Carla Fehr and Jennifer Saul: https://bit.ly/3RAWBf1 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Live English-translation NHK coverage of the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in southern Japan, near where some of my relatives live. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Watch Live TV | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

NHK WORLD-JAPAN offers live streaming and one-week catch-up programs, delivering news and culture from Japan to global viewers.

www3.nhk.or.jp

This is one of my worst storm chasing nightmares: Getting fenced in by live power lines. youtube.com/shorts/N-9HJ...

Severe storm: Power lines toppled

YouTube video by WISN 12 News

youtube.com

NEW: A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough:

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

propublica.org

Nobody in their right mind should show Facebook people a graphic that says a hurricane might hit 230 mph in four days. But that's what you need to do to get noticed in the Carnival Barker Attention Economy we've built for ourselves.

🚩 My 2010 PhD thesis is ‘70% AI’ I ran my 2010 PhD thesis through an AI detector. It flagged 70% as AI, then tried to sell me a ‘humanise’ fix. Either I am a time traveller, or these tools do not work. Link to my thesis in the comments to try yourself. #AIDetection #HigherEd 🧪 #AI

Hi all, #32SLS is just around the corner (a week away)! It's not too late to make a submission for a video or slideshow, and we need more! It doesn't have to be professional-grade or even particularly polished. See the submission portal linked below for details and @tornatrix.bsky.social

Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️@tornatrix.bsky.social · 4w ago

#32SLS attendees: Do you have amazing, interesting, or unique weather video or slideshow to share? Please submit it to SLS Video Night! forms.gle/Eb1mo58rcwVY... As SLS is part of the AMS Summer Meeting this year, we'll have an extra-large audience! @meteodan.bsky.social @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social

‘[W]hile DOGE “was supposed to save money,” the federal government and the state will be spending a lot more money to do the same work.’ wapo.st/3TEDQb3

DOGE delayed a grant that would have reduced fire fuels in a Minnesota forest now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

wapo.st

When I started with NWS in 1990, we had a relatively well-developed - if bureaucratic - process for service evaluation and learning lessons from weather events. Getting that back would be a good 1st step as Congress debates a nat'l disaster safety board. balancedweather.substack.com/p/weather-di...

Weather disasters provide lessons that could help reduce future impacts - but we aren't looking for them

A national disaster safety board is a great idea - but a good initial step would be to start truly evaluating the NWS

balancedweather.substack.com

Sixty years ago this summer, we tested the dropsonde for the first time! We’ve made massive improvements over the years to enhance dropsonde tech, which helps protect communities and further improve hurricane forecasting.

#32SLS is just over a week away, and we could still use more submissions to #32SLS Video Night! Polished or unpolished, short or long, video or slideshows, we want it all! 📺 🎥 📸

Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️@tornatrix.bsky.social · 4w ago

#32SLS attendees: Do you have amazing, interesting, or unique weather video or slideshow to share? Please submit it to SLS Video Night! forms.gle/Eb1mo58rcwVY... As SLS is part of the AMS Summer Meeting this year, we'll have an extra-large audience! @meteodan.bsky.social @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social

You guys, are bike lanes gentrification or are they DEI, I can’t keep it straight

There's no feeling of validation quite like having your paper cited as "inspiration" in another paper. doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...