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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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-...

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

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...

Mediation analysis or "three correlations in a trench coat"

“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.”

"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."

PhD opening in Environmental Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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 🧪

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...

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/🧵

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.

Columbia University's medical school froze hiring and spending last week, although they did not announce it publicly (the student newspaper did).

This is a really cool new paper👇👏

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/...

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... THREAD 🧵 1/7

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.

Really nice data-driven explainer of recent causes of global warming from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-...

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...

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/...

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...

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).

for everyone who followed the story early last year where my hometown had a $500k sand dune wash away two days after building it, you'll be happy to hear they are responding realistically and responsibly by spending $2 million on more sand. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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 here:

🚨"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/...

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.

The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030 (or after 2100) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org

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...

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

We are looking for a new department head at Carnegie Mellon. Join us in Engineering and Public Policy

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-... THREAD 1/10

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