Dr Stephen Thomson
@stephenithomson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics
at the University of Exeter, UK. Good friends with Jupiter. Co-creator of the Isca Modelling framework.
at the University of Exeter, UK. Good friends with Jupiter. Co-creator of the Isca Modelling framework.
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Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
May 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
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We're advertising 2 fully-funded PhD positions in atmospheric science @exeter.ac.uk for entry in September 2025. Both are open to UK and international appliants.
The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're advertising 2 fully-funded PhD positions in atmospheric science @exeter.ac.uk for entry in September 2025. Both are open to UK and international appliants.
The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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The Predictability of Weather and Climate group at the Physics Department of the University of Oxford invites applications for an open-ended senior research position: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:04 PM
The Predictability of Weather and Climate group at the Physics Department of the University of Oxford invites applications for an open-ended senior research position: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Saying my first hello to BlueSky, and hoping it is a saner place than what the other site has unfortunately become.
February 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Saying my first hello to BlueSky, and hoping it is a saner place than what the other site has unfortunately become.
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Here's some maps showing where today's winds fit in each station's all-time #climate, in terms of percentiles and "rank".
I tend to find 99%'ile or greater a good guide, with established stations, for impactful winds.
A number of all-time station records set in #StormÉowyn
I tend to find 99%'ile or greater a good guide, with established stations, for impactful winds.
A number of all-time station records set in #StormÉowyn
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Here's some maps showing where today's winds fit in each station's all-time #climate, in terms of percentiles and "rank".
I tend to find 99%'ile or greater a good guide, with established stations, for impactful winds.
A number of all-time station records set in #StormÉowyn
I tend to find 99%'ile or greater a good guide, with established stations, for impactful winds.
A number of all-time station records set in #StormÉowyn
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>140mph gusts, in a global model, as Storm Éowyn approaches Britain and Ireland on Friday
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
>140mph gusts, in a global model, as Storm Éowyn approaches Britain and Ireland on Friday
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This is a very important issue. The success rate of proposals is so low that people spend all their time, writing proposals and not doing actual science. Another way science is broken.
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
www.pnas.org
January 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is a very important issue. The success rate of proposals is so low that people spend all their time, writing proposals and not doing actual science. Another way science is broken.
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Adding this to the spring semester lecture material 😁
January 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Adding this to the spring semester lecture material 😁
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Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
December 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
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Cheers to all for getting through Term 1! To the wonderful students, the supportive staff, and the occasional caffeinated miracle! ☕️
Time to rest before we do it all again 🙂
Time to rest before we do it all again 🙂
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December 14, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Cheers to all for getting through Term 1! To the wonderful students, the supportive staff, and the occasional caffeinated miracle! ☕️
Time to rest before we do it all again 🙂
Time to rest before we do it all again 🙂
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Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.
December 13, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.
Loved attending @exeter.ac.uk's graduation yesterday to cheer for our MSc in Weather and Climate students. Teaching at a University is a great privilidge, and it's wonderful to have the opportunity to celebrate our students' achievements. Well done to all!
December 13, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Loved attending @exeter.ac.uk's graduation yesterday to cheer for our MSc in Weather and Climate students. Teaching at a University is a great privilidge, and it's wonderful to have the opportunity to celebrate our students' achievements. Well done to all!
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I've made a starter pack of people who work on the stratosphere/middle atmosphere and/or often post about the stratosphere, including forecasts of the polar vortex.
Please do suggest anyone I've missed – quite hard to keep up with everyone on here now!
go.bsky.app/MxwzdEi
Please do suggest anyone I've missed – quite hard to keep up with everyone on here now!
go.bsky.app/MxwzdEi
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
I've made a starter pack of people who work on the stratosphere/middle atmosphere and/or often post about the stratosphere, including forecasts of the polar vortex.
Please do suggest anyone I've missed – quite hard to keep up with everyone on here now!
go.bsky.app/MxwzdEi
Please do suggest anyone I've missed – quite hard to keep up with everyone on here now!
go.bsky.app/MxwzdEi
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Exciting PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of weather and climate modelling: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Advancing weather and climate prediction: breaking the convergence barrier , NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2025 Entry Ref: 5386 at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Advancing weather and climate prediction: breaking the convergence barrier , NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2025 Entry Ref: 5386 at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD....
www.findaphd.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Exciting PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of weather and climate modelling: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Jupiter’s Poles: In a new review, Hue+2024 re-project the #JWST NIRCAM 2.12-micron observations of #Jupiter’s north (top) and south (bottom) polar regions (Hueso+2023), showing delicate hazes over each pole, with filaments and waves suggesting a richly dynamic polar hood.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20413
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20413
November 19, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Jupiter’s Poles: In a new review, Hue+2024 re-project the #JWST NIRCAM 2.12-micron observations of #Jupiter’s north (top) and south (bottom) polar regions (Hueso+2023), showing delicate hazes over each pole, with filaments and waves suggesting a richly dynamic polar hood.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20413
arxiv.org/abs/2410.20413
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Spending hours with ChatGPT can save you minutes of reading the documentation.
November 18, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Spending hours with ChatGPT can save you minutes of reading the documentation.
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Sr Director position (weather forecast) at UChicago's new Human-Centered Weather Forecasting Initiative. Unique opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary team to generate AI- & physics-based forecasts, particularly to support communities most vulnerable to climate variability.
November 17, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Sr Director position (weather forecast) at UChicago's new Human-Centered Weather Forecasting Initiative. Unique opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary team to generate AI- & physics-based forecasts, particularly to support communities most vulnerable to climate variability.
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Come and do a PhD in beautiful St Andrews!
I am looking for a PhD student to work on an Iapetus DTP-funded project, 'Understanding pathways to extreme heat using large ensembles', with co-supervision from @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Chris Taylor and Nick Dunstone.
iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
I am looking for a PhD student to work on an Iapetus DTP-funded project, 'Understanding pathways to extreme heat using large ensembles', with co-supervision from @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Chris Taylor and Nick Dunstone.
iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
November 15, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Come and do a PhD in beautiful St Andrews!
I am looking for a PhD student to work on an Iapetus DTP-funded project, 'Understanding pathways to extreme heat using large ensembles', with co-supervision from @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Chris Taylor and Nick Dunstone.
iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
I am looking for a PhD student to work on an Iapetus DTP-funded project, 'Understanding pathways to extreme heat using large ensembles', with co-supervision from @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Chris Taylor and Nick Dunstone.
iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
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Hello new Bluesky followers! Back in August, #ESAJuice completed its LEGA (lunar-earth flyby), sending it towards Venus, where it'll pick up speed for its long journey out to Jupiter (arriving in 2031). It was a superb opportunity to test out the sophisticated instrument suite at the Moon and Earth
Timelapse of Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
youtu.be
September 6, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Hello new Bluesky followers! Back in August, #ESAJuice completed its LEGA (lunar-earth flyby), sending it towards Venus, where it'll pick up speed for its long journey out to Jupiter (arriving in 2031). It was a superb opportunity to test out the sophisticated instrument suite at the Moon and Earth
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Great example of #citizenscience here: using the gorgeous JunoCam observations of Jupiter's diverse vortices (ovals, spots, storms of different colours and sizes), combined with a Zooniverse volunteer project, to extract some #planetaryscience. Nicely done!
New paper alert!
Our paper from the Jovian Vortex Hunter citizen science project is out now on PSJ: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3.... We had over 5000 Zooniverse volunteers comb through more than 60000 images from JunoCam to find around 8000 vortices between 2018-2021.
Our paper from the Jovian Vortex Hunter citizen science project is out now on PSJ: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3.... We had over 5000 Zooniverse volunteers comb through more than 60000 images from JunoCam to find around 8000 vortices between 2018-2021.
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter's Vortices - IOPscience
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices, Ramanakumar Sankar, Shawn Brueshaber, Lucy Fortson, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Glenn S. Orton
iopscience.iop.org
September 19, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Great example of #citizenscience here: using the gorgeous JunoCam observations of Jupiter's diverse vortices (ovals, spots, storms of different colours and sizes), combined with a Zooniverse volunteer project, to extract some #planetaryscience. Nicely done!
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Deadline 23 Sept: We are hiring a postdoc to work on extreme temperatures in a changing climate (broad scope). Please share and mention to colleagues who might be interested!
🚨Postdoc on extreme temperatures and climate change🚨
Part of a wider project using theory, simulations + obs to advance understanding of extreme temperatures in a changing climate. Application deadline 23 Sept, details ⬇️
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Part of a wider project using theory, simulations + obs to advance understanding of extreme temperatures in a changing climate. Application deadline 23 Sept, details ⬇️
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
September 16, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Deadline 23 Sept: We are hiring a postdoc to work on extreme temperatures in a changing climate (broad scope). Please share and mention to colleagues who might be interested!
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In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.
September 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM
In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.
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Decided to create a planetary climate starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be included, and I'll add as I see more people.
go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY
go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY
September 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Decided to create a planetary climate starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be included, and I'll add as I see more people.
go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY
go.bsky.app/BzJ8PXY