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Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 15h
Thanks for posting this. Really important for any business continuity efforts. How many had a plan for this type of event? Is there any recovery beyond the 2500 from PG&E after losing so much?
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 3d
Sure!!
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 4d
I ask these because it could be both sides needing better coordination. And you point abt TX stands - the WFO was the most vocal in absence of local alerting. Whatever happened to IWTs? Are those still active with the reduction in force?
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 4d
Great interview with the mayor. Questions emerge: was the city in touch with local WFO? Does the city have reputation for issuing timely messages to locals using CodeRed? Did the city have consistently updated socials? Was WFO on chat about plans to issue WEA? Does WFO have local geo knowledge?
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 4d
This is not great. He’s now an expert in faith and spirituality?
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 5d
Do you mean losing access to external research funding, preventing the use of specific words, required posting our syllabus online? I can see that.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5d
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
"Do you work; I WILL check your references. I will not remind you of this again. 3 of your peers failed the fall course. Don't be like them."
I'm tired - glad the semester is done.
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
"it wasn't my fault," one pleaded. "I can't afford to fail!" And I didn't want to fail them, any of them, and yet this is the final assignment and they clearly didn't give it the effort required. So, the semester comes to a close and next semester, I have advice for my spring class...
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
I looked in google scholar, I used Amazon books to search, I used our university databases. I spent HOURS looking for these citations to prove to myself that I was being fair to these poor students who were TRICKED into using these fake resources.
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
And the references? They looked like they could be real. The paper titles were just a little bit different from the real thing; the authors were real published researchers; the journals, well they sounded like they could be authentic but they certainly weren't. I used ulrichsweb & web of science
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
THREE students used AI to search for articles, resulting in fake references, fake summaries, fake everything. I checked every paper for references. If there was a DOI to an article, at the very least they interacted with published material. These three? No DOI, no real papers, all made up.
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
But... you must tell me how you use AI to complete the assignment. Grammar? References? Search? Outline? Ideas? Just tell me. And sign your name saying that the words on that paper are YOUR words. They signed, they submitted (most did). And some were good enough not to get caught. Some weren't
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 6d
AI and my students' final papers: a story. The assignment was to select 10 peer reviewed articles, summarize them, discuss how they intersect, identify gaps in research and next steps. Any topic of interest related to the class. No more than 12 pages with clear instructions. I thought.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: Colorado senate delegation holds-up "minibus" appropriations package over Trump administration threats to NCAR that were like were "like a ‘stick of dynamite’ that exploded any chance of a bipartisan breakthrough on spending." More: tinyurl.com/y3abjxdz
Breaking news: Colorado senate delegation forces delay in budget votes due to administration plans to dismantle NCAR
Action comes as western parts of Denver region face "particularly dangerous" wind and wildfire risk on Friday
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 8d
A journalist asked me about public behaviour during the Bondi Beach attack:

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 8d
ICYMI: Atmospheric science spans from climate scale to microscale - just like the atmosphere itself - and the Trump Administration's plans to dismantle NCAR and somehow protect "vital weather research" shows a complete lack of understanding of how science works. tinyurl.com/3rtpafnx
Trump Administration announces plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research and close its famed Mesa Lab
Shortsighted plan would (in my view) cause irreparable harm to global atmospheric science research
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Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 9d
Where do I get this Richardsonism tshirt to show my affiliation? I’ve never put a bumper sticker on my car… but since my cat died, maybe I can take off her magnet and replace it with a picture of HCR instead?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9d
A Washington Post investigation found U.S. Forest Service trails are deteriorating due to staff cuts under the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/3YxlZC4

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 9d
This is a terrible development.

The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.
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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.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The 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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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 9d
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 9d
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.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The 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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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10d
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.

This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Science in reviewing grant proposals. The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded. They are described in an internal 1 December staff memo that Science has obtained and mentioned briefly in an update to NSF's grantmaking manual posted on 8 December. A major reason for the smaller staff is the elimination of hundreds of so-called rotators, scientists on loan from academia who served as program managers as well as higher level administrators. Their absence, combined with the new review policy, represent a major change in how NSF

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 10d
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 11d
Tweeting the scanner - like reporting what was heard on police scanners without verifying first? There are apps that are designed to do exactly that - putting the credibility of FBI behind it seems to be the difference?

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Stephen A. Meserve, Jeannette Sutton

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11d
Gen AI tools are not good sources for information during rapidly unfolding, novel events. Words associations aren't helpful for discovering ground truth. These tools are more likely to echo and contribute to the inherent uncertainty and ambiguity of crisis events.
Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 11d
Similar to what happened in the UVU shooting too when the FBI said the suspect was captured... not true and the campus EM had to walk that back.

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 12d
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
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“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

Alice last name @suttonj.bsky.social · 15d
Those WEAs and updates coming out of Snohomish County Sheriff are a master class in plain language messaging. So good. Others include unnecessary jargon like SET status and Level 2. Seeing them side by side is eye opening.