Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

Would've loved to see if some faint, distant aurora was visible from near Ann Arbor, but clouds all weekend. Clouds.

the lack of a recovery timeline for mila holloway’s injury

#AGU26

Kris Karnauskas@oceansclimatecu.bsky.social

Heard on a call this morning... For #AGU26 community, if you're presenting a poster this year, there are changes to the format! We're going square.

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@hockeybear.space

12 Sept

Liberty Biberty is just a knockoff of Chunky for ITYSL

31 Aug

Trying to find a PDF of an older paper online. I tried google scholar first, and hit a complete wall. Tried a regular google search, and did not get anything that actually took me to the paper. Switched to Kagi, a newer, freemium search engine. Literally the first hit was *the* PDF I needed.

@realinfowars.bsky.social

31 Aug

Google is only useful if you need the most superficial knowledge on a search term. If you need anything more in-depth, you have to wade through AI summaries and past a lot of not-very-relevant links. None of this is new, but this is me posting through enshittification in real time.

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InfoWars

26 Aug

To memorialize Jim Haggerty getting shot in the ass, the Gorton’s Fisherman should wear black for one year.

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Zack Labe

@zacklabe.com

10 Aug

We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.

Zack Colman@zcolman.bsky.social

SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change reportThe authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region.

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PlasmaNerd

@plasmanerd.bsky.social

24 July

Today was my last day at NASA. It wasn't an easy decision to leave, but it was the right decision for me. open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

open.substack.comRed LinesReflections on leaving NASA, professional integrity, and knowing when it's time to step away.

23 July

A trend I've seen in scientific talks this past few months is speakers including an AI-generated diagram only to say, "This is AI, so don't blame ME if it's wrong! Tee-hee!*" Dude. It's YOUR talk. YOU are responsible for its accuracy. Don't offload your laziness to AI. *tee hee added for emphasis.

10 July

The work that @drbwalsh.bsky.social and I did to develop a concept for stopping space weather is now **front page** on the Wall Street Journal. It's been a wild week.

wsj.comA Plan to Stop Solar Storms From Sending Us Back to the Stone AgeThe plan involves school-bus-size satellites and a whole lot of salt, and it could provide an ionic ‘air bag’ for the Earth.

10 July

Oh boy I read the comments.

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Paul Voosen

@voosen.me

10 July

Great to see StormWall getting a bit more traction in the broader press! Here's a gift link to the @mims.bsky.social story.

Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.@spacecataz1663.bsky.social

The work that @drbwalsh.bsky.social and I did to develop a concept for stopping space weather is now **front page** on the Wall Street Journal. It's been a wild week.

scientificamerican.comSenator Mark Kelly reveals why science is critical to America’s futureOn steering the path forward for research and innovation

2 July

It is hard to explain how excited I am for this. It's going to be early-2000s AdultSwim if it was wayyyy too online in 2026.

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

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Clara Moskowitz

@clarakm.bsky.social

18 June

"We’ve got the world’s biggest economy, in my view, not because of real estate developers but because of science," says @captmarkkelly.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/mark... ‪#SciAmYoungScientists: sciam.com/youngscientists @sciam.bsky.social

5 June

Storm has arrived super late. Not super fast, but strong magnetic field. Bz is jumping up and down. Kp sitting around 6. The timing **sucks** for North America.

5 June

I should clarify that "not super fast" is <1000 km/s. We're sitting around 700 km/s, which is pretty good overall...

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science.orgRadical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’Gases released from satellites could slash the threat of severe space weather

Big space weather news! Our work on assessing the feasibility of artificially stopping major space weather events has been published! Science magazine has released a news article on it! #spaceweather #aurora www.science.org/content/arti...

science.orgRadical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’Gases released from satellites could slash the threat of severe space weather

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Huge shoutout to the lead of this study, @drbwalsh.bsky.social. I am happy to help bring this work to (virtual) life using the computer models here at @umclasp.bsky.social.

Big thanks to the article author, @voosen.me. Writing about space weather is tricky; this is a very well written article that remains accessible without messing up the physics! 👏

science.orgRadical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’Gases released from satellites could slash the threat of severe space weather

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTerrestrial Space Weather Protection Through Human‐Produced Mass‐LoadingMass loading can reduce the size of geomagnetic storms and space weather impacts Modern technology has the ability to provide sufficient mass-loading to reduce the intensity of geomagnetic storms

The peer-reviewed article is in @agu.org 's Space Weather journal: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In a nutshell: It is possible to release a large amount of gas to act as a buffer between the Earth and an extreme space weather storm. It would act as a "storm wall" to break the tsunami of energy coming from the Sun and protect the power grid and more.

youtu.bePresidential Transition UpdateYouTube video by University of Michigan

15 Apr

Saw this announcement earlier today. Tough, tough news.

University of Michigan@umich.edu

An update from University of Michigan Board of Regents Chair Mark J. Bernstein about the presidential transition. youtu.be/Qod4Nczs07s

10 Apr

I just downloaded 35 years of SuperMAG electrojet index data for reasons.

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

10 Apr

Here's the same thing but funnier. 35-ish years of auroral electrojet data as measured on the ground...

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The Onion

@theonion.com

9 Apr

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

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lauren

6 Apr

true i suppose but i don't think age is the big barrier preventing me from being an astronaut, it's that i'm stupid

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com

People wanna say you're washed up by middle age, but the YOUNGEST person on this moon mission is 47.

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Popehat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

18 Mar

The Afroman case is so emblematic of the farcical degeneracy of the criminal and civil justice systems.

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PlasmaNerd

@plasmanerd.bsky.social

4 Feb

Replying to @plasmanerd.bsky.social

This is why we need continuity of measurements,overlap and redundancy of measurements across different locations! The answer has real world implications for how we run and train models and understand how storms arrive at Earth from the sun!

4 Feb

Shocking contrast between the solar wind density values observed by IMAP versus ACE- as much as 20 times higher in the new IMAP versus the very old ACE!!! We know ACE is getting old, but holy smokes that's a staggering difference.

4 Feb

I'm not sure why this is- the two spacecraft are surely seeing different parts of the CME, but a 20x difference is humongous! There are degradation factors with ACE and inter-calibration efforts yet to come.

Had a great #AMS2026 on the space weather side. Probably my most productive AMS meeting in some time! Here are my big takeaways:

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2) We are about to enter a new era in solar wind observations. IMAP's I-ALiRT data goes live next week (!!!) and the SOLAR-1 spacecraft is going live this spring. These are much needed resources for end users, aurora watches, and researchers!

3) NASA wants to try to get science missions into space more quickly, but I don't know what this means yet. This is a goal expressed in multiple venues yet, but we're all still waiting to see how this transpires.

Had a great #AMS2026 on the space weather side. Probably my most productive AMS meeting in some time! Here are my big takeaways:

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

1) Agencies, especially NASA, are ramping up research-to-operations work in space weather in new and thoughtful ways. They are working on new proposal opportunities for R2O and experimenting with ways to support effective R2O2R efforts.

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@mayor.nyc.gov

26 Jan

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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Ben Collins

@bencollins.bsky.social

26 Jan

It can get lower!

The Independent@the-independent.com

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

independent.co.ukMorale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reportsMorale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

21 Jan

"Ships immediately" My AMS presentation next week is going to be the fashion statement of the century.

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Seeing all these aurora pics from Europe...

Damn, this storm is evolving fast. I can't keep up with everything. Auroral index is through the roof. GOES spacecraft are outside the magnetosphere (and scared, prolly). I can't keep up with the great people posting info in real time!!

Two things from my end: Here at Umich, we've wound up the SWMF to do a real-time run with our latest research version of the model. I'll post some synthetic aurora as the run evolves. We are also testing a ground magnetometer about 20 miles outside of Ann Arbor. I'll share preliminary data!

Space weather storm is here! ...EARLY! This is a good sign for mid-latitude aurora. Unfortunately, real time solar wind data is giving erroneous velocity data (a near constant 300 km/s). We'll pay attention to density and magnetic field to see how this unfolds.

youtube.comI Visited the Capital of Motordom and I Have ThoughtsYouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

9 Jan

This was super cool to watch, especially the concluding message at the end about American cities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c062... I love Detroit; my parents are from the city and it's part of my heritage. I have been lucky to do a lot of fun things in the city as of late.