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Bryan Lawrence
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Prof of Weather and Climate Computing, UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Reading. Expat kiwi. Walker. Currently mainly at @bnlawrence@mastodon.nz
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Kudos to Australia for having an Earth System Science plan … which is in part about prediction, which is good, since they seem to have launched it next year

Screenshot of the launch sep page which states: The Australian Academy of Science and the National Committee for Earth System Science launched the Decadal Plan for Australian Earth System Science on Monday 25 November 2025.
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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Another set of bogus university rankings came out today (I think). They have sustainability ratings. Great, I think. Then I look at them, and I go, “What? Huh?” Then I look up the weightings. Their definition of sustainable is not mine!
Indicator,Weight EE1 - Academic Reputation in Earth & Environment,10% EE2 - Alumni Impact for Environmental Sustainability - Public and Third Sector,4% EE3 - Climate Science and/or Sustainability Courses,3% ER1 - Research Impact on SDGs for Sustainable Research,9% ER2 - Sustainable Research National Statistics,1% ER3 - Research Center with an Environmental Sustainability Focus,2% ER4 - Policy Citations (Environmental),1% ES1 - Alumni Impact for Innovation,5% ES2 - Member of an officially recognised sustainable group,1% ES3 - Climate change commitment (staff perception),2% ES4 - Publicly available strategy or policy on sustainable procurement and investment,1% ES5 - Student Society focused on Environmental Sustainability,1% ES6 - Net Zero Commitment,1% ES7 - Emissions Efficiency,1% ES8 - Renewables Generated Onsite,1% ES9 - Progress Towards Target,1% ES10 - Policy on Climate Strategy,1% EO1 - Employer Reputation,3% EO2 - Research Impact on SDGs for Employment and Opportunities,4% EO4 - Employment and Opportunities National Statistics,1% EO5 - Partnerships with Industry,2% EO6 - Skills Satisfaction ,1% EQ1 - Research Impact on SDG's for Equality,4% EQ2 - Student Gender Ratio,1% EQ3 - Faculty Gender Ratio,1% EQ4 - Women in Leadership Ratio,1% "EQ5 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy",1% EQ6 - Academic Equality (Staff View),2% EQ7 - Disability Support,1% EQ8 - Equality National Statistics,1% HW1 - Research Impact of SDGs for Health and Wellbeing ,3% HW2 - Health Provision on Campus,1% HW3 - Health and Wellbeing National Statistics,1% IE1 - Research Impact on SDGs for Education,3% IE2 - Academic Reputation for Impact of Education,1% IE3 - Alumni Impact for Education,1% IE4 - Academic Freedom Index,1% IE5 - Impact of Education National Statistics,1% KE1 - Knowledge Exchange: Progress / Dissemination,6% KE2 - Outreach and Community Engagement,1% KE3 - Staff perception,2% KE4 - Policy Citations (Social),1% GG1 - Ethics Cultu…
December 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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This should really be unacceptable in 2024.
Data availability The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Code availability Apart from the Python packages referenced in the Acknowledgements, the underlying code for this study is not publicly available but may be made available to qualified researchers on reasonable request from the corresponding author.
December 2, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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Spent today at the CEDA birthday shindig. Is it wrong to say that if felt a bit like watching a child graduate!?
A birthday cake with the CEDA logo and Happy 30th birthday in coloured icing!
November 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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(from mastodon, where it is attributed to David Sipress, date unknown)
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Following the good example of @andyreisinger.bsky.social I’ve used this cool Google Scholar word cloud generator shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... from @morinryan.bsky.social to introduce myself here (though I think most of you know me anyway).

From the titles of my papers; fair summary really:
Word cloud: biggest words are modelling earth climate data model system metadata cmip5 cmip6 …
September 27, 2023 at 7:31 AM