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Gavin Schmidt
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Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.

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Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate. .. more

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 28m
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."

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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 7h
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 10h
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 19h
I loved this guy’s stuff. From playing the Real Inspector Hound at school, Arcadia when I was studying dynamical systems, R&G are dead, and, lastly, Leopoldstadt (which really did a number on me). 😢
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 22h
Pentium chip would like to have a word…

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d
Goes for substacks as well...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).

There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.

The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 1d
Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Gavin A. Schmidt, Scott L. Greer

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
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Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d
What approach are you taking to the code? OpenACC, or translation to a DSL or Julia or Jax or something else?

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 3d
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”

You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
There are already impressive efforts in AI/ML for climate change (oops, I said the words!) and I would be shocked (maybe not surprised) if this doesn't get included in this effort in some way.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: ¡AI Caramba!
RealClimate: Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware? First off, let's def...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
The use of AI to describe everything from LLMs to regression on big data sets is a bit problematic. It's used by the folks creating AI slop to claim credit for ML successes based on totally different architectures & we are now at the point where normal people hear AI & think chatbot (argggh!).

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Nonetheless, if the budget is there, this mission could be useful because some of the biggest roadblocks to big ML efforts is really bringing the training data onto one accessible system. Note that this will really be ML, and not based on GenAI efforts such as ChatGPT etc.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
There are some downsides. The DOE is a very expensive place to do 'normal' (not national security related) science. Overhead rates that pay for the security at national labs are ~300 to 400% which means that doing something within their firewall is roughly 3 times as expensive as doing it outside.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
While earth science is specifically not mentioned in the EO, my expectation that there will be an earth science thrust - based likely on the successes of ML weather forecasting (FourCastNet, DeepCast, NeuralGCM etc.) and building on the E3SM infrastructure that DOE has already developed.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
DOE has resources for this - and some very impressive high-performance computing resources already. These are developed mostly for nuclear weapons testing simulations, but have been used for other applications - protein folding, earth system models etc.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
It's not obvious to me that creating a single platform for genomics, pharmaceuticals, earth science, materials science etc. is really a good idea since you'd need a big increase in scale for not much benefit. My guess is that they will spin off specific topics to mostly separate systems.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
This is something that people have been advocating for in the US for some time, but the scale of such an effort is greater than any one of the science agencies could really do on it's own. The Genesis Mission seems to be even more ambitious - bringing multiple scientific areas together.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
First off, this 'mission' is not something totally out of the blue. In Europe, a main pillar of the Destination Earth project is a 'data lake' that would bring all Earth science data sets together (satellite data, models, reanalyses, in situ) to provide a foundation for machine learning.
DestinationEarth DataLake
data.destination-earth.eu

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Bob has interesting thoughts on the 'Genesis Mission'. But is there a useful path for Earth Science (writ large) here? Possibly yes.
bobkopp.net Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 4d
“Genesis Mission” thoughts:

1. Wacky name, makes me think some transhumanist Silicon Valley type named it (Chris Wright probably counts, even though he’s not actually SV)

2. Publicly accessible data centers at national labs and open large deep learning models could be really valuable for science

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 4d
“Genesis Mission” thoughts:

1. Wacky name, makes me think some transhumanist Silicon Valley type named it (Chris Wright probably counts, even though he’s not actually SV)

2. Publicly accessible data centers at national labs and open large deep learning models could be really valuable for science

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d
Peter Hotez: For all practical purposes measles is back, now whooping cough on the rise, next domino to fall. What’s next? Hib meningitis? Polio? All to benefit a corrupt wellness influencer industry and phony MAHA ideologies. Congress, the White House asleep. Americans should be outraged.
Is the US at risk of losing its measles elimination status?
More than 1,700 measles cases have been confirmed so far in the U.S. this year.
www.yahoo.com

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 4d
Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
We got a Charlie earlier this year - game changing. Even Kate comes over to watch me boil water and bake at the same time!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Breaking News: The CDC quietly appointed Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who has been critical of vaccines, as its second in command. During the Covid pandemic, he promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
Photograph of a printed guidance memo stating that the U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. Key points include: USG funds should not be used for related events, personnel should refrain from public promotion via social media or other channels, and CDC and other USG staff may attend local events but cannot speak or promote attendance. The memo notes this guidance supersedes previous blanket approval and may require adjustments to planned activities.