Dr. Jonathan R. Buzan
@jonathanrbuzan.bsky.social
Born in 340 ppm CO2.
Human and Animal Heat Stress, Carbon Modeling and Mitigation, CLM, Land Surface, Earth System Models, Paleoclimate, Future Climate
Human and Animal Heat Stress, Carbon Modeling and Mitigation, CLM, Land Surface, Earth System Models, Paleoclimate, Future Climate
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As we approach the end of 2025 (finally!!) I'd like to shout out five of the best books I read this year, because I finally had enough mental energy to read books and some of them really do deserve a recommendation:
December 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As we approach the end of 2025 (finally!!) I'd like to shout out five of the best books I read this year, because I finally had enough mental energy to read books and some of them really do deserve a recommendation:
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No, AI is not showing signs of self preservation, it's just fancy linear regression ffs. Can we stop this nonsense already
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
No, AI is not showing signs of self preservation, it's just fancy linear regression ffs. Can we stop this nonsense already
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This is a bad pic of it, but I’m totally geeked to hang this print of @stellerarts.com’s Scientifically Accurate Star on my wall!
December 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is a bad pic of it, but I’m totally geeked to hang this print of @stellerarts.com’s Scientifically Accurate Star on my wall!
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This past month showed us once again how extraordinary our weather and climate community is (scroll for 🧵).
Whether you’re joining us as student, scientist, hobbyist, or concerned citizen, let’s #SaveNCAR and put an end to the war on science together 💯
Whether you’re joining us as student, scientist, hobbyist, or concerned citizen, let’s #SaveNCAR and put an end to the war on science together 💯
December 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This past month showed us once again how extraordinary our weather and climate community is (scroll for 🧵).
Whether you’re joining us as student, scientist, hobbyist, or concerned citizen, let’s #SaveNCAR and put an end to the war on science together 💯
Whether you’re joining us as student, scientist, hobbyist, or concerned citizen, let’s #SaveNCAR and put an end to the war on science together 💯
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NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).
December 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).
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My Boxing Day trip via bullet train
December 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
My Boxing Day trip via bullet train
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My family doesn't often tolerate my "fun planetary facts," but today's "did you know that the tallest mountain on Venus is covered in condensed heavy metal snow" did produce some interest
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My family doesn't often tolerate my "fun planetary facts," but today's "did you know that the tallest mountain on Venus is covered in condensed heavy metal snow" did produce some interest
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Getting job rejections this weekend like
December 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Getting job rejections this weekend like
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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They aren’t going anywhere.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
They aren’t going anywhere.
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More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
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I am glad to see my castmates have understood this character.
December 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am glad to see my castmates have understood this character.
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📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field.
🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672,
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Salary: Grade 9/Negotiable
Start Date: September 2026
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www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field.
🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this:
#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this:
#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
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I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
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It made many of the paragraphs read almost identically across assignments — different words, same structure. Substituting the LLM’s voice for the students’ own. And many did not realize this was happening — it’s obvious looking at many at once, though.
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It made many of the paragraphs read almost identically across assignments — different words, same structure. Substituting the LLM’s voice for the students’ own. And many did not realize this was happening — it’s obvious looking at many at once, though.
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NCAR has been the magic sauce that has made weather/climate studies and advances in US and the world over great. madison.com/news/local/e... www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...
Trump’s closure of national weather center may imperil UW-Madison research
The planned closure of the National Center for Atmospheric Research would endanger decades of research at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, scientists say.
madison.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NCAR has been the magic sauce that has made weather/climate studies and advances in US and the world over great. madison.com/news/local/e... www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...
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Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering".
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering".
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
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"Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist" by Bob Ward & yours truly in today's @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist" by Bob Ward & yours truly in today's @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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BTW we have been through the 'dirt drying in the sun' merry-go-round in NorESM the last couple of months. The degree to which the soil evaporation changes (introduced to reduce runoff & arctic salinity) altered the climate was a little distressing for all concerned. But it wouldn't have made good TV
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
BTW we have been through the 'dirt drying in the sun' merry-go-round in NorESM the last couple of months. The degree to which the soil evaporation changes (introduced to reduce runoff & arctic salinity) altered the climate was a little distressing for all concerned. But it wouldn't have made good TV
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Flock of crows taking off? Recession indicator
December 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Flock of crows taking off? Recession indicator