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timothybertram.bsky.social
Dad, UW Madison professor, atmospheric chemist, xcskier. Tweets are mine
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Let's see how the 4 yo does on @lisacadmusbertram.bsky.social final exam. "Scribble scribble scribble" she says.

An affordable (<$25k) EV that is half the size of a modern pickup. I hope this comes to market as promised. Midwest innovation and manufacturing. www.slate.auto/en

Madison, WI #HandsOff πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

Madison showing its colors!!! Wall to wall from the capitol to the campus. πŸ‘ŠπŸ»πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ”₯

See a trend? Every single county.

Wisconsin has spoken.

Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big (bad) news: the US Embassy air monitoring program webpage has been taken down: www.airnow.gov/internationa... This erases ~17 years of a critical data source at ~80 US diplomatic posts around the world. Critically for the health of thousands of foreign services officers, critical for research..

Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

@cwiedinm.bsky.social has co-authored a fantastic conversation article on the massive effort that underpins weather forecasting β˜οΈπŸŒ€πŸŒ§οΈβ›…β„οΈβš‘ theconversation.com/noaas-vast-p...

Glad to see our elected WI representatives taking some action.

Austin Dobrecevich takes our portable battery-powered time of flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer (ToF-CIMS) on a maiden voyage through Seattle via my e-bike. The instrument is being developed with Tofwerk AG and funds from the Beckman Foundation. Photo credit: @chriskenseth.bsky.social

Students interested in #NASA and/or planet Earth 🌍 should really consider applying for SARP.

Very nice to see these high-quality theoretical calculations for the formation of thioperhemiacetal from HPMTF that was proposed by Chris Jernigan in pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I won't be at #AGU24 until Tuesday evening after two fantastic students from our team give their talks.