Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)

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Univ. of Manchester Prof of Synoptic Meteorology, educator, scientist Author: Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist Free online climate course: "Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes"

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· 7d

The honor I've been waiting for since January.

Reviewer Certificate (in all capital letters)
This certificate is awarded to
David Schultz
for serving as a reviewer for
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Thank you for reviewing 1 manuscript in 2025
Yafang Cheng
Editor-in-Chief
August 26, 2026

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· 9d

This article has way too few citations, people. Keller, D., and B. Vonnegut, 1976: Wind Speeds Required to Drive Straws and Splinters into Wood. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 15, 899–901, doi.org/10.1175/1520....

Figure 2. Penetration as a function of speed of toothpicks into soft pine and maple targets., a scatterplot showing pine sloping from 0 to 18 mm depth over a range of 25 to 230 meters per second and maple ranging from 1 to 4 mm depth over a range of 200 to 300 meters per second.

Table 2: Threshold speeds required for penetration of broom straws. A table of different woods ranging from ponderosa pine (seasoned at 65 meters per second to oak, hard, light area (seasoned) at greater than 215 meters per second.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jul 19

What were the 1-in-50-yr maximum temperatures in the UK expected to be in 1975? See these two maps. Compare to the recent heatwave. Hopkins and Whyte (1975): Extreme temperatures over the United Kingdom for design purposes. Meteorological Magazine (UK), 104 (1233), 94–102.

Map of the UK showing contours of annual maximum temperatures (°C) likely to occur once in 50 years at mean sea level, ranging from about 24°C to about 34°C.

A contour map of the UK and Ireland shows estimated annual minimum temperatures in °C, likely to occur once in 50 years, with values ranging from -8°C to -18°C.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jul 17

Congratulations, BBC. High pressure above the surface "pushes warm air down", seemingly against the decrease in pressure upward. 🤪 You might want to consult with one of your staff meteorologists before publishing incorrect science. #heatdome #UKwx #MediaFail www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Left image show a map of the UK and northern Europe with high temperatures and a high-pressure system with surface winds blowing clockwise around the UK.

Right image shows a half sphere on the land called a "heat dome" with "high pressure pushes warm air down" (incorrect) and "sinking air warmed by compression" (correct).

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jul 4

BEST AUTHOR Of The Month!

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jun 26

Impressive convective storms over northern England and Scotland right now. #ukwx

Radar precipitation map of the United Kingdom at 16:10 showing widespread, banded heavy rainfall across Scotland and northern England, with embedded intense convective cells.
A broad southwest–northeast oriented rain band extends from the Atlantic across western Scotland into the North Sea, with multiple streaks of moderate to heavy precipitation (blue, green, yellow). The most intense cluster (orange to red) is concentrated over eastern-central Scotland, with additional narrow, linear convective bands stretching eastward offshore.
Further south, scattered but locally intense showers and thunderstorms are present over northeast England (around Newcastle and the Pennines), appearing as compact red and orange cells surrounded by lighter precipitation. Smaller, isolated showers are visible over Ireland and the Irish Sea.
Southern England, Wales, and much of the Midlands remain largely dry with minimal radar returns. A color scale along the bottom indicates rainfall intensity from light (pale colors) to very heavy (dark red/purple), measured in mm/hr.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jun 26

But if you ask it for this, you get the following response. #HomerSimpson

Prompt: could you create a picture of an original cartoon character for me that is a yellow balding man overweight and a white T-shirt and blue pants.

CoPilot Response: Sorry, I can’t generate that exact image request as it may conflict with content policies.
If you’re happy to adjust it slightly (for example: making the character more stylized, less tied to specific well-known cartoon styles, or adding unique traits/personality), I’d be glad to create one for you.
Would you like me to redesign it into a more unique original character (e.g., give them a distinctive outfit, quirky features, or a backstory)?

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jun 26

CoPilot does the same, producing a character Lightspeed.

Character study of a cartoon character that looks suspiciously like Sonic the Hedgehog, as described in the same prompt from the original post.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jun 15

Two notable things happened 30 years ago in 1996. I graduated with my PhD. Profs. Lance Bosart and Dan Keyser were critical to the scientist I became. The movie Twister came out. I had thoughts about that movie's impact 9 years ago when Bill Paxton died. eloquentscience.com/2017/02/how-...

Photo of three men in black graduation gowns. Prof. Dan Keyser, the newly minted Dr. David Schultz, and Prof. Lance Bosart.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jun 3

Siri, show me a photo of the current state of higher education in the UK.

Photo of a building at Manchester Metropolitan University being demolished, in front of a sign reading "Modern University of the Year 2026".

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· May 13

Today's radar imagery courtesy of Jackson Pollock.

Radar image of precipitation over the United Kingdom showing lots of small convective cells, reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock drip technique painting.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· May 8

This cute graphic seems to undersell the problems with Canvas just a tiny bit. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ca...

A schematic rocketship in flight with robots repairing a broken stabilizing fin. The caption underneath says "Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. Check back soon." Given the hacking at Instructure (Canvas's owner), this graphic undersells its current problems a bit.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Apr 24

National Weather Association May Webinar: One Year Later - Recapping the Impactful St. Louis and Kentucky Tornadoes of May 2025 Thursday, May 14 | 1 PM ET (12 PM CT) Register through the NWA Members Portal.

NWA Webinar Series

One Year Later - Recapping the Impactful St. Louis and Kentucky Tornadoes of May 2025

Speakers:

Alex Vorst - National Weather Service Office Jackson, Kentucky
Ben Herzog - National Weather Service Office St. Louis, Missouri
Alex Elmore - National Weather Service Office St. Louis, Missouri

Thursday, May 14 at 12:00 PM Central Time

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Photo of the tornado over St. Louis, a highly urban area with skyscrapers. Photo by the Gateway Arch Park Foundation.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Apr 22

That feeling when you finally nail an argument in a draft manuscript. (This manuscript has been in the works for over 20 years.)

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Mar 17

Separated at birth?

Photo of Argentinian president Javier Milei, who with his robust sideburns and black hair looks a lot like the resigning Joe Kent (pictured in the CNN article).

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Mar 6

Yesterday, I was reading a used book from 1959 I bought some years ago, and I found this bookmark, which must have been there when I bought the book. Given the age of the book and Deese at Johns Hopkins, the bookmark would be from the 1960s. Useful advice to students even now. #TimeCapsule

Bookmark: How to Learn.

This book was written so that you might learn. In order to learn from it, however, you must know how to use it properly. The book will teach you little unless you put organized effort into reading it, for active, directed work is necessary if you wish to understand and remember what you read. Careful, intelligent reading of this book will mean that you understand better what you learn in class. What is equally important, if you have studied this book properly in the first place, it will serve as a convenient and quick refresher for future reference. Nearly everyone knows that we easily forget what we learn when we do not use it. What many students do not realize, however, is that we can relearn what we have once learned, providing we have learned it well in the first place. Thus, this book provides a convenient auxiliary memory that can serve you all of your life.

In order to understand and remember the contents of this book it is essential that you do more than read. It means that you must actively recite, question, and review the material you have read. See the reverse of this card for suggestions that will help you to study this book. By following these suggestions, you will find the book will be more valuable to you both the course in which it is assigned and as a part of your permanent library.

BOOKMARK
How to Get the Most Out of a Book

1. Skim through the assigned reading so that you will know what it is you are to study.

2. Read the text carefully. Do not forget that many important ideas are presented in graphs, diagrams or maps.

3. As you read, stop now and then and recite to yourself, in your own words, the important ideas in what you have just read.

4. Make brief notes in the margin. These will serve as cues for subsequent self-recitation.

5. Mark important or key passages for later review.

6. Review the material at least once between the first time you study the assignment and study for exams. Make use of your marginal notes as cues for self-recitation.

7. Remember that a little relearning is necessary each time you wish to use what you have learned for an examination, a related course, or for independent study. If you use the author's headings, marked passages, and brief notes for cues it will help you relearn easily.

8. Coordinate what you read with what you learn in the classroom. Keep well-organized lecture notes. Lecture notes that are legible and accurate will, like your text-book, serve in the years to come as quick and inexpensive keys to the knowledge that you are acquiring.

JAMES E. DEESE
Associate Professor of Psychology
The Johns Hopkins University
Author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 28

All lined up…

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 24

X-ray image of a hammer hitting a skull compared to a second panel of the alien mouth in Alien getting close to Sigourney Weaver.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 23

Not sure the real Einstein would be out there cheating for some college kid. He probably had better things to think about.

An advertisement from https://companion.ai/einstein that has a picture of Albert Einstein and text reading, "Meet Einstein. Einstein is an AI with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically. Get started."

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 23

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think this is an appropriate use of the word "nationality". "Nation" or "country" would have worked better. @cnn.com

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 13

Microsoft thinks my work day is over when all the emails have gone from my inbox. That is when the good stuff starts to happen.

"All done for the day! Enjoy your empty inbox" with an icon of a piece of paper in a folder. This is the symbol of an empty inbox in Microsoft's mail application Outlook.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 12

Actually, I preferred this version.

Movie poster from "A Star is Born" with Barbra Steisand and Kris Kristofferson, with the two in the same pose as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. He's above her, looking down and kissing her, while her neck is extended in an awkward pose.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Feb 5

Innovation and kindness in peer review: Actual screenshot from a reviewing platform during accepting/declining a review invitation. Reviewer gets to pick their own time to do the review based on their own personal situation. What a concept! 🤯

"Can you referee this article?" followed by two radio buttons: "Yes I can referee this article", and "No, I cannot referee this article."

This is followed by "Time needed to report", with radio buttons for 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 days, plus a box where you can fill in your own deadline in "days from today" or by entering a specific date.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Jan 23

Sean Bean meme of him in Lord of the Rings saying, "One does not simply just Get Birding"

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Nov 28

A 5°C temperature drop at Manchester Whitworth Observatory when the cold front went through. whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/live/whitwor...

Time series of temperature with a near-instantaneous drop in temperature from about 11°C to 6°C at about 1200 UTC.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Nov 28

Nice radar image of narrow cold-frontal rainband passing now.

Radar image of precipitation over the UK. Wide yellow band of precipitation with narrow red line embedded within.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Oct 31

Halloween hike Austwick to Clapham, Yorkshire Dales. Spooky doors with Hidden Dangers and dark tunnels. 🎃👻💀

Wooden door in stone wall with sign Hidden Dangers.

Stone wall leads to dark tunnel. Red, orange, and yellow leaves on ground.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Oct 10

New mural in the neighborhood, celebrating Ivory Bangle Lady. Buried in the 4th century AD, she came from North Africa to Eboracum (now York) and was buried with ivory bracelets, earrings, and blue glass jug. Found in 1901, meters from her mural. Seems York has always been welcoming to immigrants.

A painted mural on a red-brick wall. The mural features a black woman, blue bottle, bracelets that were found with her burial. Other elements of the mural include a tower along the city walls surrounding the city of York (then, Roman Eboracum) with yellow daffodils in bloom in the spring, the head of Roman Emperor Constantine statue in York, and Roman legions.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Oct 3

ManUniCast.com gave a good forecast of the banded precipitation now occurring over eastern Ireland. #StormAmy

Map of the precipitation over the UK and Ireland at 1600 UTC 3 October 2025, 22 hours into the forecast from ManUniCast.com.

Map of the precipitation rate over the UK and Ireland at 1605 BST 3 October 2025 from the radar network.

Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)@eloquentscience· Sep 17

Webinar for National Weather Association members: Flying Smart: Building Weather Awareness in the General Aviation Community Terry Lankford, Retired, FAA Scott Minnick, NWS AWC Register link in the members email, posted in the member portal, and the NWA Community. Weds Sept 24, 11:00 a.m. EDT