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Dani Jones
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Marine research scientist 🌊 • they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ • parent • polyam partner • bass guitar amateur • views mine, but you can borrow them • here to hang w/nerds
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Distracted boyfriend meme Boyfriend: “tech writer on medium” Girlfriend: “exploring a tool’s capabilities” Girl walking by: “declaring it ‘dead’”
July 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Horrible legislation. Dangerous. Evil.
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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US folks - please help protect trans healthcare access. Text SIGN PCCOMC to 50409 and letters will be sent to your representatives.

🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ 🙏
May 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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#StandUpForScience rally from Friday in Lansing

Good attendance, good energy

It was great to be around other defiant, pro-science people!
March 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This website makes it very easy to find your reps. It even gives you a script you can use when making calls:

5calls.org/issue/omb-fe...

It’s a fantastic tool. They cover a wide variety of issues, too.

Let your reps hear from you!
January 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Now hiring Summer Fellows! Come work with me and my amazing colleagues on pressing environmental issues in the Great Lakes Region 🌊 👩‍💻 🧑‍🔬

Apply below!



ciglr.seas.umich.edu/2025-great-l...

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CIGLR GLERL Apply for a Great Lakes Summer Fellowship! ciglr.seas.umich.edu Photo of previous summer fellows in background
December 19, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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Built! Thanks so much for finding me at #AGU24. My kid and I enjoyed putting it together!
Lego model of an Argo float standing up on a table. It is yellow and cylindrical
December 16, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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Interested in developing a Great Lakes research proposal with me or another CIGLR PI? Check out the opportunities below

ciglr.seas.umich.edu/accepting-pr...

Each project needs to be submitted by a CIGLR regional consortium partner, but the original idea can come from anywhere 🌊

DM for details
CIGLR (Small photo of a few different aspects of Great Lakes research) Accepting proposals! 2025 CIGLR Programs
November 11, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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Spotted today at NOAA PMEL: a saildrone that I was told has circled Antarctica 🇦🇶 🌊

It was great fun visiting the lab, giving a talk about the Great Lakes, and spending time with some fellow marine scientists 🙂

Thanks to Sage Osborne for hosting!
Orange saildrone, shown in a parking lot. It is wider than an accessible parking spot. It has dark solar panels, a large sail, and fins on the bottom. It is much taller than a person Logo for the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
September 26, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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I randomly flipped open a journal at U. Washington today, only to be greeted by this absolute classic of physical oceanography 🌊

Anyone know if Mike is on BlueSky?
Paper text: austed princi adjusted an system in thie trope Pergamon Pukyong University s Progress in Oceanography 49 (2001) 41-61 Progress in Oceanography www.elsevier.com/locate/pocean Winter-to-winter recurrence of sea surface temperature, salinity and mixed layer depth anomalies Michael A. Alexander*, Michael S. Timlin, James D. Scott NOAA-CIRES, Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA Abstract The mean seasonal cycle of mixed layer depth (MLD) in the extratropical oceans has the potential to influence temperature, salinity and mixed layer depth anomalies from one winter to the next. Temperature and salinity anomalies that form at the surface and spread throughout the deep winter mixed layer are sequestered beneath the mixed layer when it shoals in spring, and are then re-entrained into the surface layer in the subsequent fall and winter. Here we document this 're-emergence mechanism' in the North Pacific Ocean using observed SSTs, subsurface temperature fields from a da
September 25, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Glad to be back in Seattle this week - I’m visiting U. Washington today and tomorrow and NOAA PMEL on Thursday

Hoping to convince some fellow oceanographers that although the Great Lakes are not oceans, they are indeed cool and interesting 🌊

If you’re around and want to say hello, let me know!
September 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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What’s even plainer than a “plain language summary”?

A plain language summary run through XKCD’s “simple writer”! ✍️

Atmospheric moisture becomes “sky water”, and forecasting becomes “future computer thinking” 😁

xkcd.com/simplewriter/
Plain Language Summary The representation of cloud radiative effects and the atmospheric heating and moistening due to moist convection remains a major challenge in current generation climate models, leading to a large spread in climate prediction. Here we show that neural networks trained on a high-resolution model in which moist convection is resolved can be an appealing technique to tackle and better represent moist convection in coarse resolution climate models. xkcd SIMPLE WRITER WRITE LIKE UP GOER FIVE AND THING EXPLAINER PUT WORDS HERE Sky heating and sky water are big problems in computer thinking, leading to big problems in future computer thinking. Here we show that computer brains trained on lots of things in which sky water is there can help put sky water in computer thinking.
September 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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First world problems
Your favorite band's tour schedule You: Home * Nearby, but you missed it Home * Really far away Home * City you'll be in next week Home * City you'll be in next week Away * City you live in Home * Really far away Home * Really far away Tickets from - ticketmonster.com
September 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Just some abstract ocean-lake fun

The ACC could drain the Great Lakes in about 35 hours! 😮🌊

#ocean
How long would it take to drain the Great Lakes at these flow rates? St. Lawrence River ~70 years Gulf Stream ~8 days Antarctic Circumpolar Current ~35 hours
August 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Inspired by the “how many Rs in strawberry” situation, I asked ChatGPT to play Wheel of Fortune, and it did…not do well

Interesting how it can code reasonably well but it can’t play a spelling guessing game 🤔
August 27, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Are you working at the intersection of machine learning and marine science? If so, consider submitting an abstract to our session (OS025).

We’ve been running this session since 2021, and we’re thrilled to be convening it again. We hope to see you in DC!

#AGU24

www.agu.org/annual-meeting
OS025: Interpretable machine learning for marine sciences Share your work on using machine learning and Al to unlock new insights in marine sciences, highlighting the importance of interpretability and explainability. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 31 JULY AGU24 Washington, D.C. | 9-13 December 2024 Black dot with text : What’s next for science
July 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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It is #ShowYourStripes day! Here’s one for Detroit

Visit showyourstripes.info to download simple, stark graphics that highlight how your climate has warmed over the past century or so.

Share them to start conversations about climate change.

It's time for action.
Temperature change in Detroit, showing the striking increase in recent years
June 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

It’s about love, humanity, and - where necessary - resistance
The text reads: Love is not an ideology Pride heart with trans and pride colors
June 2, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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It was lovely to finally meet @katharinehayhoe.com in person a few weeks ago before her Wege Lecture in Ann Arbor!

*Effective climate action is fueled by hope and love*

For some inspiration, watch the full lecture here:
umich.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Two people standing next to each other and smiling, looking at the camera Climate action must include spending time doing the things we love, with the people we love, in the places we love
June 1, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Friday night - saw the northern lights from just south of Ann Arbor. Beautiful! I loved the enormous scale of them - huge pillars of color!
Northern lights- vertical columns of pink and purple, with green stretched out across the lower part of the sky. There’s a building in the foreground Northern lights- vertical columns of pink and purple, with green stretched out across the lower part of the sky. There’s a building in the foreground
May 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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The online portal for Climate Informatics 2024 is really cute, and it seems to work well too

I’m enjoying some talks about machine learning in hydrology 🌊
April 22, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Happy New Year 🎆

Here’s a cute little octopus to get your year started off right 🐙
Tiny octopus hanging upside down
January 1, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Spotted in San Francisco

“Hope will never be silent”

#AGU23
AGU23
Neon sign letters spelling out “Hope will never be silent”
December 19, 2023 at 1:53 AM
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Tomorrow! Come hear about our recommendations for making seagoing work safer for transgender and gender non-conforming people 🏳️‍⚧️

More info:
ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?...

#AGU23
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https://ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?page=Session&project=AGU23&server=eppro01.ativ.me&id=p1396308-157374 #AGU23
December 14, 2023 at 1:23 AM
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Come join our interpretable machine learning session on Monday, and our poster session on Thursday!

#AGU23
Interpretable machine learning for marine science From data mapping to gaining trustworthy new knowledge Talk session: Monday at 4pm Poster session: Thursday at 8:30am Come join us! #AGU23
December 9, 2023 at 7:12 PM