Kelton Minor
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Researching human adaptation to global changes in climate, environment, and technology
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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Meade Krosby
6 months ago
There were 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US in 2025. And we only know this because
@climatecentral.org
hired the NOAA employee who led this vital tracking effort, which was decommissioned by the administration last spring.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
8 months ago
There will be a brain drain out of the US to Canada, Europe and other countries. And once we lose these top researchers we may never get them back. It‘s been a monumental mistake to attack science and higher education.
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Bob Kopp
10 months ago
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by
@andrewdessler.com
) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doeresponse/home
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Prof Friederike Otto
10 months ago
Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous
www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...
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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)
10 months ago
We warmly welcome
@keltonminor.bsky.social
as a new Associate Professor in Planetary Behavioral Data Science, in a joint position with the Psychology Dept. Kelton's research examines how individuals and populations adapt to rapid global changes in the atmosphere, biosphere, and cybersphere.
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Today I'm starting a new chapter as a tenured Associate Professor of Planetary Behavioral Data Science at the University of Copenhagen (
@cphsodas.bsky.social
& Department of Psychology)! It has been an Orwellian kind of year for scientists. But as history shows, science persists.
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Marshall Shepherd
11 months ago
If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links
RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/07/national-climate-assessment-links/
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Zack Labe
about 1 year ago
Glad this is getting some coverage. I've already had to send over 20 emails and several phones calls about this, with no resolution yet.
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ClimateFran
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to Environmental Research: Climate
@iopp-environment.bsky.social
on receiving its first Impact Factor of 5.4! ERCL is non-profit, open access and has no article charges through 2025. Consider for your interdisciplinary climate research!
iopscience.iop.org/journal/2752...
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Environmental Research: Climate - IOPscience
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2752-5295
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Gernot Wagner
about 1 year ago
EU may look like the winner in the US brain drain. But I'm afraid I'm with
@markgongloff.bsky.social
&
@lararhiannon.bsky.social
: "A US Brain Drain Doesn’t Benefit Anyone"
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Association for Psychological Science
about 1 year ago
New research from Nick Obradovich,
@estebanmoro.bsky.social
l,
@keltonminor.bsky.social
shows that people post more on
#socialmedia
when bad weather hits, sometimes even more than during large social events in the U.S.
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Worse Weather Pushes People to Social Media
New research shows that people post more on social media when bad weather hits, sometimes even more than during large social events in the United States.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-mar-weather-social-media.html
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Andy Kroll
over 1 year ago
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health
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Amanda Fanniff, PhD
over 1 year ago
If you had a grant cancelled, consider submitting info about your terminated grant using this Google Form [Contact Scott Delaney with Qs on Signal (sdelaney.84)]
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also, see
@scott-delaney.bsky.social
's post below for the database of cancelled grants
#defendresearch
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Julia M. Rohrer
over 1 year ago
New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
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Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
https://www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/reviewer-notes-thats-a-very-nice-mediation-analysis-you-have-there-it-would-be-a-shame-if-something-happened-to-it/
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Dean Eckles
over 1 year ago
Mediation analysis or "three correlations in a trench coat"
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“We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.”
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Brendan Nyhan
over 1 year ago
"The government’s action therefore risks deterring and suppressing constitutionally protected speech—not just illegal discriminatory conduct... The administration’s failure to honor the Title VI safeguards creates a dangerous precedent for every recipient of federal financial assistance."
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Cameron Brick
over 1 year ago
PhD opening in Environmental Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Nature Portfolio
over 1 year ago
All scientists, regardless of their discipline or location, are potential targets for online hate. But there are things you can do to protect yourself, and resources that can help. Nature provides five steps to get started.
#Academicsky
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Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.
https://go.nature.com/3Rhuwp8
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Thanks to the BBC World Service for having me on earlier today to talk about what’s happening at Columbia, and why we should care about what these funding cuts are actually doing to the science that keeps us safe.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - Science In Action, Columbia Cuts and "Transgender Mice"
Individual stories of those affected by the Trump administration's upheaval of science.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5vf9
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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Scott Dance
over 1 year ago
New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with
@washingtonpost.com
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Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/14/trump-cancels-greenhouse-gas-laboratory-lease/
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Robert Kelchen
over 1 year ago
Columbia University's medical school froze hiring and spending last week, although they did not announce it publicly (the student newspaper did).
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Columbia’s medical school pauses spending and hiring amid NIH cuts
The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is pausing hiring and spending in response to federal funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health, James McKiernan, interim dean of the college, an...
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02/18/columbias-medical-school-pauses-spending-and-hiring-amid-nih-cuts/
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen
over 1 year ago
This is a really cool new paper👇👏
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CameronJBunker.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Bad weather causes people to use social media more. Evidence in new psych science paper by
@keltonminor.bsky.social
@estebanmoro.bsky.social
Nick Obradovich, including evidence within individuals overtime.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241306099
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Social media activity is consequential for individuals and societies. It is also remarkably sensitive to local weather 🌡️🌧️❄️ Our new research article is out in
@psychscience.bsky.social
, work together w/ Nick Obradovich &
@estebanmoro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0956...
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Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity - Kelton Minor, Esteban Moro, Nick Obradovich, 2025
Humanity spends an increasing proportion of its time interacting online, yet—given the importance of social media to human welfare—the external factors that reg...
https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241306099
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Carl T. Bergstrom
over 1 year ago
Science, I realized, gave us superpowers. We evolved sensory capabilities consistent with our physical scale and temporal experience. But with science, we can understand what happened in the femtoseconds after the Big Bang, the molecular basis of inheritance, a 4 billion-year story of life on earth.
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Marshall Burke
over 1 year ago
Really nice data-driven explainer of recent causes of global warming from
@hausfath.bsky.social
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-...
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Exploring the drivers of modern global warming
By using a simple climate model, we can disentangle greenhouse gases, aerosols, and natural forcings.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-the-drivers-of-modern-global
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Ruth Mottram
over 1 year ago
Working in
#Greenland
as a scientist or social scientist or hoping to connect with the community? Then you should definitely participate in the
#ArcticHubConnect
deadline is 17th Jan. Can't emphasise enough how important this is for Greenland
#science
arctichub.gl/activities/a...
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Arctic Hub Connect 2025
Let's connect on February 25th, 2025.
https://arctichub.gl/activities/arctic-hub-connect-2025/
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Daniel Swain
over 1 year ago
Serious situation already w/#TemescalFire, which started above #PacificPalisades is now moving through populated wildland-urban interface. This is an extremely fast-moving wind-driven fire, with long-range spotting ongoing. Watch Duty link: #CAwx #CAfire
app.watchduty.org/i/...
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Robbie M. Parks
over 1 year ago
Out today in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
Nature Medicine: Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States. Short 🧵 below.
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
@columbiaclimate.bsky.social
@uarizona.bsky.social
@harvardchanschool.bsky.social
:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gavin Schmidt
over 1 year ago
For the first time ever all the producers of operational surface temperature products will coordinate their 2024 releases on Jan 10. This includes NASA, NOAA, Hadley Centre/CRU, Berkeley Earth and Copernicus (ECMWF).
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Katharine Hayhoe
over 1 year ago
Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals. Read more by
@deevybee.bsky.social
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finland-vs-germany-case-of-mdpi.html
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler
over 1 year ago
🚨"Heat disproportionally kills young people: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure" My new paper co-lead with
@ajsw.info
is out today! Using 20 years of nationwide mortality microdata + wet-bulb temperature, we uncovered fascinating new findings. Thread 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico
Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3367
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Zack Labe
over 1 year ago
Yet another month (November 2024) with anomalous warmth continuing across just about all of the Canadian
#Arctic
Archipelago... 🫠 Data from
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
ERA5 reanalysis.
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The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030 (or after 2100)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030 - Nature Communications
The first day with no sea ice in the Arctic will be a visible sign of climate change. This work reveals that this could occur before 2030 already and becomes more likely as the world warms. As the ice...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3
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Hannah Ritchie
over 1 year ago
Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work
@jimmcquaid.bsky.social
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@kirstypringle.bsky.social
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airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con...
h/t
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler
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We found surprising age-specific inequality between the impacts of heat and cold. Heat: 75% of heat-related deaths were among those under 35. Cold: 96% of cold-related deaths are among those over 50. This is now accepted for publication, so more to come soon...
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler
over 1 year ago
Are you interested in the health and economic impacts of climate change? I've spent my PhD researching this. Now I'm on the job market! Thread below highlighting my published/working papers from my first publication to my
#JMP
I'll start with my first publication, in
@naturecomms.bsky.social
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Destenie Nock, PhD
over 1 year ago
We are looking for a new department head at Carnegie Mellon. Join us in Engineering and Public Policy
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Robert McSweeney
over 1 year ago
Today,
@carbonbrief.org
has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html
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Hello 👋 Bluesky 💙 Excited to reconnect! I'm an outgoing postdoc from Columbia University's Data Science Institute and recent recipient of the 2024 NIH Director's Early Independence (DP5) Award. I study human adaptation to global technological and environmental changes.
#Climate
#Health
#Society
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