Casey Davenport
@cedavenportwx.bsky.social
Weather and severe storms nerd. Meteorology prof at UNC Charlotte. Passionate educator. Always striving to be a better instructor and mentor. Opinions mine. This is my only Bluesky account; all others imposters.
https://pages.charlotte.edu/casey-davenport
https://pages.charlotte.edu/casey-davenport
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Hi everyone! 👋🏻
Some of you may know me from The Other Place, but for those who don't--I'm not the most frequent poster, but I do love interacting (and occasionally posting) on a variety of topics:
Severe storms ⛈️
Coding 💻
Teaching and learning 👩🏻🏫
Academic life 🏫
Mentoring 👭
Parenthood 👦🏼
#wxsky
Some of you may know me from The Other Place, but for those who don't--I'm not the most frequent poster, but I do love interacting (and occasionally posting) on a variety of topics:
Severe storms ⛈️
Coding 💻
Teaching and learning 👩🏻🏫
Academic life 🏫
Mentoring 👭
Parenthood 👦🏼
#wxsky
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How are you feeling about all this fake AI garbage stuff?
What worries me as an amateur science communicator is that it'll make so many folk - maybe even most folk? - so cynical about everything they see that they assume EVERYTHING that surprises them is confected nonsense...
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What worries me as an amateur science communicator is that it'll make so many folk - maybe even most folk? - so cynical about everything they see that they assume EVERYTHING that surprises them is confected nonsense...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How are you feeling about all this fake AI garbage stuff?
What worries me as an amateur science communicator is that it'll make so many folk - maybe even most folk? - so cynical about everything they see that they assume EVERYTHING that surprises them is confected nonsense...
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What worries me as an amateur science communicator is that it'll make so many folk - maybe even most folk? - so cynical about everything they see that they assume EVERYTHING that surprises them is confected nonsense...
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Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
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It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...
UNL used bad data to make $27.5 million cuts, faculty say
UNL's faculty takes issue with the data used by the university to propose program budget cuts. The eliminations are partially financial, but all of the programs up for elimination made more money in s...
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...
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It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
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It’s deep in the Daily Nebraskan article but TL:DR. Nebraska regents are idiots.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
It’s deep in the Daily Nebraskan article but TL:DR. Nebraska regents are idiots.
An incredibly tragic and short-sighted decision. 🤬
Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
An incredibly tragic and short-sighted decision. 🤬
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🚨 New job alert! 🚨
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (T/TE)
Research Focus: The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain an externally funded and internationally recognized research program...
arizona.csod.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🚨 New job alert! 🚨
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!
Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”
The release of new safety plans by Camp Mystic shows the laissez-faire approach our society has to weather disasters compared to much lower probability risks such as commercial airline accidents. If we truly want to limit these tragedies, that has to change. https://tinyurl.com/527djxk3
BalancedWx Special: Camp Mystic reveals new flash flood safety plans
And why this demonstrates how much more we need to be doing as a society to reduce weather fatalities
tinyurl.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”
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A new study tested AI chatbots by prompting them with popular misinformation topics while varying how the prompts were framed. They found that framing mattered: prompts that were creative, closed-minded, or written from an expert’s point of view made the models less likely to issue a correction.
Epistemic Fragility in Large Language Models: Prompt Framing Systematically Modulates Misinformation Correction
As large language models (LLMs) rapidly displace traditional expertise, their capacity to correct misinformation has become a core concern. We investigate the idea that prompt framing systematically m...
arxiv.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A new study tested AI chatbots by prompting them with popular misinformation topics while varying how the prompts were framed. They found that framing mattered: prompts that were creative, closed-minded, or written from an expert’s point of view made the models less likely to issue a correction.
I dare you to find a sweeter, more amazing set of grad students than the ones I have the privilege of mentoring!
Even without such thoughtful gifts, I know I'm definitely the lucky one ❤️
Even without such thoughtful gifts, I know I'm definitely the lucky one ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I dare you to find a sweeter, more amazing set of grad students than the ones I have the privilege of mentoring!
Even without such thoughtful gifts, I know I'm definitely the lucky one ❤️
Even without such thoughtful gifts, I know I'm definitely the lucky one ❤️
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Hope today feels kind to you. 😽🤍
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hope today feels kind to you. 😽🤍
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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JUST IN: Border Patrol is preparing to end its immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, nearly a week after the agency first deployed agents to the state’s most populated city, two officials at DHS tell NBC News.
Border Patrol preparing to leave Charlotte, plans to mobilize in New Orleans next
Border Patrol agents arrested more than 250 people in Charlotte this week and, according to reports, could begin operations in Louisiana and Mississippi as soon as next week.
nbcnews.to
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
JUST IN: Border Patrol is preparing to end its immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, nearly a week after the agency first deployed agents to the state’s most populated city, two officials at DHS tell NBC News.
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The @dtc-community.bsky.social just released a new call for visitor program proposals targeted at early-career scientists and grad students. The focus is on advancing hierarchical system development principles for NOAA’s modeling systems (which can include MPAS)! dtcenter.org/visitor-prog...
Announcement of Opportunity - Special Call | dtcenter.org
dtcenter.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The @dtc-community.bsky.social just released a new call for visitor program proposals targeted at early-career scientists and grad students. The focus is on advancing hierarchical system development principles for NOAA’s modeling systems (which can include MPAS)! dtcenter.org/visitor-prog...
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Why I hate writing, part 8 million:
Spending most of the day "writing" and only churning out 3 sentences because my brain is fixated on crafting The Perfect Sentence™️ and Most Logical and Coherent Argument.
I've tried free flow writing imperfect sentences and ideas and my brain flat out refuses 😭
Spending most of the day "writing" and only churning out 3 sentences because my brain is fixated on crafting The Perfect Sentence™️ and Most Logical and Coherent Argument.
I've tried free flow writing imperfect sentences and ideas and my brain flat out refuses 😭
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Why I hate writing, part 8 million:
Spending most of the day "writing" and only churning out 3 sentences because my brain is fixated on crafting The Perfect Sentence™️ and Most Logical and Coherent Argument.
I've tried free flow writing imperfect sentences and ideas and my brain flat out refuses 😭
Spending most of the day "writing" and only churning out 3 sentences because my brain is fixated on crafting The Perfect Sentence™️ and Most Logical and Coherent Argument.
I've tried free flow writing imperfect sentences and ideas and my brain flat out refuses 😭
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Hurricane Melissa produced the fastest hurricane winds to be recorded by a dropsonde, verified by reviewing data at NSF NCAR! Hurricane Melissa’s 252 mph wind gust surpassed the previous record from Typhoon Megi over the Western Pacific in 2010, where a dropsonde measured wind gusts of 248 mph.
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hurricane Melissa produced the fastest hurricane winds to be recorded by a dropsonde, verified by reviewing data at NSF NCAR! Hurricane Melissa’s 252 mph wind gust surpassed the previous record from Typhoon Megi over the Western Pacific in 2010, where a dropsonde measured wind gusts of 248 mph.
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Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
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I keep thinking about this with regard to the National Weather Service.
We're real accustomed to tornadoes and blizzards not hitting by surprise anymore.
Don't mess with that.
We're real accustomed to tornadoes and blizzards not hitting by surprise anymore.
Don't mess with that.
good example of how people have no idea of what makes a modern country work in a day to day sense but will miss those things when they are gone
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I keep thinking about this with regard to the National Weather Service.
We're real accustomed to tornadoes and blizzards not hitting by surprise anymore.
Don't mess with that.
We're real accustomed to tornadoes and blizzards not hitting by surprise anymore.
Don't mess with that.