Paul Roundy
@PaulRoundy1
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Professor of Atmospheric Science. I study climate variability of the tropics, and interactions between the tropics and extratropics. My tweets R my own.
Joined February 2013
@DrShepherd2013 Doubting Einstein's prediction implied doubting his abilities, b/c unless he was flawed, how could he have been wrong?
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The people who lead our top universities should have to pass a basic academic skills test.
“I believe the test is a racist test. There’s no two ways about it.” —University of California Regent Jonathan Sures in 2020
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I'm a simple man. If I see a field trial of genetically-engineered trees, I read it. A recent preprint reports the largest field trial to-date of American Chestnut trees engineered to resist a blight. And the results look promising. For context: The U.S. was once filled with
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The bottom 10% of students should not be going to UCSD (or any college for that matter), and the bottom 10% of UCSD students should not need a remedial course in elementary and middle school math.
IQ fanatics are apparently too dumb to get context. Math 2 is taken by ~700 out of nearly 9,000 freshman. Yes, it turns out if you take the bottom 10% of students, you will find terrible scores. There is nothing wrong with trying to educate the bottom tier of students!
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Musa itinerans, the Mekong giant banana. These are winter hardy, but I'm giving them a head start for next year.
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Interesting that he didn't do so, but many people on the left have tried & sometimes succeeded.
“Biden Vows to Ban Standardized Testing in Public Schools If Elected”
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BREAKING: US House approves bill to end government shutdown, sends it to Trump
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Folks on our side often fail to appreciate that the Left, too, is locked in similarly tense internecine battles for control of The Message. These are heady times, and the fight should be welcomed. The growing pains, the infighting, the bloodlust: this is the only path through the
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"the evidence sides with the civilians, making this one area where laypeople have a firmer grasp on reality than many alleged experts – and one area where academia seems to impair people’s understanding of the world rather than improving it"
The War on Sex Differences
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An eagle crossing a stunning example of the optical phenomenon known as a subsun over Grossglockner in the Alps. 📽: piet_flosse https://t.co/S5xrhR5vM3
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"For example, an academic paper I wrote with Lewis Halsey about sex differences in STEM sparked a minor online controversy and got me reported to my university’s DEI administrators." Funnily, just citing this paper in a paper of mine led to informal complaints against me.
The War on Sex Differences The second excerpt from my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences [Link below.]
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The New York Times published an editorial with data claiming moderates win more, and progressive pundits raised a lot of (valid) flags about the methodologies they used. So I corrected for those, and the Times is still correct: moderates win more often. https://t.co/cDNFPVYQl2
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Democrats win more often when they run candidates who match their districts, not their Bluesky feeds.
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The Indian basin MJO is typically an atmospheric angular momentum minimum because it typically follows a period of weak overall tropical convection (because the Western Hemisphere phases are associated with less overall tropical rainfall), which implies that the tropics are less
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There is another aspect, though, that does tie to geography, the Pacific Ocean is the widest part of the world for a jet and westerlies to occur without intersecting with land masses and Mountain ranges. So, when a surge of angular momentum emerging from the tropics intersects
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An MJO event that develops initially there without having gone through the Indian Ocean and Maritime Continent phases does increase atmospheric angular momentum, but it doesn't imply high angular momentum anomalies (it can just be increasing from a low level). It's just that on
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There's a lot of discussion about atmospheric angular momentum. Most people don't understand why Indian Ocean MJO is associated with low angular momentum and Pacific MJO is associated with high. The mechanism is that convection near the equator spreads momentum from the
@santha75 La Nina actually is associated with low atmospheric angular momentum, and Pacific mjo is associated with high angular momentum.
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Why are people still insisting that we give such ideologically driven absurdities the time of day? It makes people think the left doesn't care about what's actually true. We can treat Trans people with dignity but not let our brains fall out when we do it. There's a reasonable
Imagine spending 8 years coaching high school soccer & badminton, & the time you invest teaching your daughter basketball & taking her to training & games every week, then finding out you don’t know or care about sports because you don’t think males belong in female competitions.
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This kind of nonsense really is out there, in authority, in schools. How general is it? I still intersect with many fairly normal classrooms where real learning still happens.
I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the
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