Florian

Florian

@oook.bsky.social

High Performance Computing for climate & weather models at NASA's GSFC. Got my name on more monkey movies than average.

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Here's Sir David Attenborough on why this huge, heart-shaped piece of the UK in Northumberland is so important. A chance like this to save massive space for nature won't come again. £11,000 donated yesterday, £1.37m still to go by the end of the month - the time is now! 💚 #conservation #ukwildlife

youtube.comSir David Attenborough on the Rothbury EstateYouTube video by The Wildlife Trusts
Xander's Skyscape@wellmanneredxs.bsky.social

One final sprint to save a landscape - £28m secured, £2m to go! Donation matching until the end of the month - the Wildlife Trusts are so close to buying the largest chunk of the UK offered for sale in 30 yrs. Landscape-scale protection, to hold a 40-mile wide nature corridor together for wildlife.

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"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?" Hear, hear!

Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social

It’s really remarkable. Most don’t even know what’s happening because they outsourced their critical thinking to the Times, the New Yorker etc But on a fundamental human level how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?

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Replying to @andrewdessler.com

They’re not even pretending that it’s for any kind of legitimate reason. Instead, they’re trying to dismantle NCAR to suppress knowledge.

Decades if not centuries of knowledge about to be erased... Many of those NCAR researchers will leave public research _forever_. And how to blame them, they'll make 3x the money in any private sector needing their fluid dynamics know-how without being insulted every other week. The Age of Morons.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

bit.lyTrump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in ColoradoThe Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Premium Newsletter: There is no real market for renting out AI GPUs, and the majority of revenue comes from two companies - Microsoft and NVIDIA - the latter of which rents its own GPUs back from Neoclouds like CoreWeave so they can raise debt...to buy more GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any...

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Research matters. Science matters. Understand the world as it is rather than as we wish it was matters.

Climate.us@climate.us

Welcome to our page! We are glad you are here. Stay tuned for more exciting news to come. In the meantime, check out our bio and follow us here and on our other social channels: climate.us

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🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Let it be known for the future of science in the US: the redearcher where there, they did the work to prove the merit of their work, way past anything the private sector does to vet ideas. They were there, ready to work, and the country failed them.

Dr. Stephanie Henderson@drsahenderson.bsky.social

Well. It happened. Today we were told that our NASA proposal was selected, but they can’t fund it due to the budget cuts. Nothing like getting a congratulations and we’re sorry in the same email. Only 4 proposals were selected in the call out of >120. Please excuse me as I go throw things.

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Well. It happened. Today we were told that our NASA proposal was selected, but they can’t fund it due to the budget cuts. Nothing like getting a congratulations and we’re sorry in the same email. Only 4 proposals were selected in the call out of >120. Please excuse me as I go throw things.

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I'm not pointing fingers at anybody but I do see #USDA left out of a lot of the reporting on cuts to federal research funding, and USDA funds a LOT of research!!! Food safety! Ag sustainability! Making our food supply chains more resilient!!!

Morgan Carter@morgancarterphd.bsky.social

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

Reality is inconvenient? Easy, close your eyes, stop trying to understand, deny and remember: whatever happens it's someone else's fault.

Tom Di Liberto@tdiliberto.bsky.social

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Suite à cette énième saloperie d'Adobe, je suis en train de tester plusieurs logiciels, et pour le moment je dois dire qu'Affinity a l'air de faire tout ce dont j'ai besoin. J'ai une version trial de 7 jours, mais sauf grosse douille en chemin, je crois que je vais enterrer Photoshop pour de bon.

Anthony Dean@diversetechgeek.bsky.social

Adobe to automatically move subscribers to pricier, AI-focused tier in June - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

propublica.orgWhite House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends OnPotential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

Long time coming and beyond deserved.

Matt Belloni@mattbelloni.bsky.social

It’s official: Stunt performers are getting their own Oscar, starting with 2028 show. Very hard faught win for stunt community and will add more blockbusters to the telecast…

This is devastating. Brilliant colleagues axed because the administration is afraid of scientific independence. I expect they'll come for all of us. We will keep working until then and elsewhere after the axe fall. Our work is beyond their myopic, hateful, small world view.

Peter Stott@stottpeter.bsky.social

Extraordinary announcement behind cutting funding to one of the world's leading climate institutes, GFDL. Apparently it's (amongst other reasons) because climate modelling is leading to climate anxiety and therefore should be stopped. www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

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the amount of work that goes into preparing a proposal: yeesh the amount of work that goes into reviewing proposals: yeesh the amount of work that goes into doing the work you proposed to do: YEESH Yet lately, for many folks, it just gets ripped away. 🫠

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NOAA just sent around notice that its annual global monitoring conference (the meeting where everyone talks about tracking global atmospheric change) is not happening. "We are taking a short hiatus in holding GMAC while redefining our approach to the GMAC organization." gml.noaa.gov/gmac/

gml.noaa.gov2025 Annual Meeting - NOAA Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory was formed to observe and understand the Earth system and to develop products, through a commitment to research that will advance the National Oceanic and Atm...

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We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med... #AI #MachineLearning

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Despite this being extremely stupid and self defeating, it is also not required under any EO. And, while they still exist, this also violates the agency scientific integrity guidelines.

Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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For those of you who wanted a bit more from the book set in this universe.

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social

ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die! DRAGON: My gold? ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and- DRAGON: Fair enough ADVENTURER: Wait, what? DRAGON: It's yours ADVENTURER: DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here? ADVENTURER: Um... /1

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We are pleased to announce the newly formed NERC-funded Doctoral Landscape Award in Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions (ExaGEO DLA). For our full statement, please see our LinkedIn post here: shorturl.at/J4QFk

shorturl.atExaGEO DLA on LinkedIn: We are pleased to announce the newly formed NERC: Natural Environment…We are pleased to announce the newly formed NERC: Natural Environment Research Council funded Doctoral Landscape Award in Exascale Computing for Earth…

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First post on @bsky.app 🎉: Can #AI-based weather forecasting models (trained on present-day data) provide skillful forecasts also in different colder and warmer states of the climate system? Our preprint in arxiv explores this question: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Here is what we found so far (🧵1/7)

doi.orgRobustness of AI-based weather forecasts in a changing climateData-driven machine learning models for weather forecasting have made transformational progress in the last 1-2 years, with state-of-the-art ones now outperforming the best physics-based models for a ...

Alright last #SC24 plug. NASA's booth is looking ready to roll. Come for the stickers, stay for the awesome presentations of my colleagues from high resolution modeling of the storm season to multi flow fluid simulation of the SLS launchpad! And if you ask nicely, I'll rant about FLOPs to you

So if you are into how do we future proof numerical model performance in a hardware world that keeps diversifying andhow do we carve space for scientists and performance developers to work side by side efficiently stop by and let's have a chat!

A few days away from a consequential election and after closely following the campaign, I feel the duty to offer my deeply researched political insight, in a calm and articulated manner: (┛ಠ_ಠ)┛彡┻━┻

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This new study finds that atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, changing weather patterns around the world. The shift is worsening droughts in some regions, intensifying flooding in others, and putting water resources on which many communities rely at risk. Read more: 🧪🌎

theconversation.comAtmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patternsThese powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ provide a huge share of annual precipitation in many regions, including California. They can also melt sea ice, with global climate implications.

Hi, I am a performance software developer, working on climate models! My greatest hits includes "yes we can put this code on GPU without you losing your mind" and "I've been tracking that NaN for 3 days and I am insane now". Honorable mention for "yes this model is going to Python, watch me"

Kim Wood@drkimwood.bsky.social

Hi, I'm a hurricane scientist! My greatest hits include "No, it's not just sea surface temperatures," "Weakening hurricanes don't equal lower impacts," and "A hurricane is so much more than its category." Honorable mentions include the versatility of Python tools & the usefulness of open science!

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📢Today the Global Carbon Project releases its 2023 edition of the Global Carbon Budget, a comprehensive assessment of our perturbation of the carbon cycle and the balance of sources and sinks of CO₂. 1/🧵