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Analyzing the tweets and the accounts of the turf industry on Twitter.

Maggie Reiter has done a brand new analysis of turf industry accounts on . See the analysis at Finding Turf Twitter. She wanted to find “high-signal” accounts. I wanted to see if I could find people still sharing interesting things on Twitter/X.

I’ve been waiting for this feature for a long time, and I’m glad it is now available. That is the automatic dubbing of the videos on ATC’s YouTube channel into these languages:

I asked Google’s NotebookLM for some help with this one. I have grown enough grass and seen enough bermudagrass and zoysiagrass growing together in wet and dry conditions to have formed an understanding about these grasses.

I’ve shared the posts from 2024 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. For reference, the median post in the top 10 got 754 views in 2024.

These posts had the most views in 2024. They are on a nice balance of topics: temperature, sand topdressing, bentgrass and Poa annua and zoysiagrass and bermudagrass, playability, and the TurfGvX.

I’ve updated the OM246 calculator to v2 with two substantial changes. One is an entirely new tab for unit conversions between different ways of expressing sand rates. I like mm. Others use kg/ha or tons/ha.

The GCSAA announced last week that Dr. Larry Stowell and Dr. Wendy Gelernter have been selected to receive the prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award. I asked Google’s NotebookLM AI service to generate an audio overview of their contributions.

The ATC Doublecut podcast now has more than 150 episodes for your viewing or listening pleasure. Which ones have been listened to the most? My favorite episode to record was this one about locations in the world with 365 days in the year with a high GP for cool-season grass.

A couple of the science and statistics blogs I follow have recently shared AI-generated audio summaries of research papers. The ones I’ve seen were from Google’s NotebookLM. I hadn’t been using this, with most of my LLM (large language model) use over the past couple years being ChatGPT.