“It will take longer without the incentives, but I still think we’ll get there over time. Once someone buys an EV, they're 80% more likely to buy another EV,” Barra said. insideevs.com/news/784300/...

Events for When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social ) still loading. Coming to Charis Books in the ATL area I'll be in conversation with Golah B. Tawkin of Black in the Garden (blkinthegarden.com)!

Thanks to all who came out for our vigil on such short notice. It was a really beautiful gathering. Thanks also @jamieeldridgema.bsky.social for stopping by and sharing some words of encouragement, we appreciate the work you are doing to support our community. #ICEout @maindivisible.bsky.social

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

The deadline for graduate student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) summer school is this Friday, January 9th! paleoCAMP is completely free for all students selected to attend paleoclimate.camp/apply

This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16. Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.

If y'all need a script, here you go. You can call 202.224.3121 and ask for your representative. The script is included below in this thread as well. eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Can I suggest my own? 😂 When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History & America's Black Botanical Legacy. I explore 7 trees & the cotton shrub--the science of them, personal/family history related to them & their intersections with Black history. It's out Jan 20, 2026 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

There's an interesting special section in the NYT today on the future of NYC, including the climate risks. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Notable is this graph of local changes in extreme rainfall:

I had to play with the colors, yes, but to try to get the color of the Sunrise to the right of the far hour as blood red as possible. I don’t recall a Sunrise of this color

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

The Trump administration announced plans to close NCAR, citing its role in climate change research. But three officials told CNN they believe this is really part of the White House's plan to punish CO governor and free Tina Peters. WH did not deny the connection. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

🚨 What if evolution is the ”law”… and networks are the machines that do the work? In this paper (just published) I try to formalize how living systems are non-equilibrium, information-processing, adaptive matter. With a great biological flavor! 🧪🌐🌍🧬🦠 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🧵 1/

As we move into the final days of the year, 2025 has just overtaken 2022 as warmest year-to-date for Central England. Given the forecast, it looks likely that 2025 will end up being the warmest calendar year for this region since records began in 1659. The top 3 warmest will be 2022, 2023 & 2025.

Full of clear graphs, such as this one on the energy consumption of new cars. Battery electric consumption mode is one third of that of combustion engines. PHEVs combine the worst of both worlds: higher electric consumption than BEVs and higher fuel consumption than “regular” fossil fuel vehicles.

In Mediterranean pine reforestation, trees acclimate to warming and drought by shifting carbon below ground aka optimal partitioning theory. New paper @jappliedecology.bsky.social lead by @ajpelu.bsky.social using #RemoteSensing and #dendroecology doi.org/10.1111/1365...

You pasted in an incomplete link. Here's the full one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

Diderma sp slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends while #hiking

Very cool work by Bryan Black here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research establishing the exact date of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound metropolitan area: 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium' doi.org/10.1130/G537...

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

A terribly sad day. After hours of testimony to the contrary, the Regents could not find the will to support Nebraska. Our Earth and Atmospheric Science, Stats, Textiles, and Education Admin programs are gone. Along with the faculty and their creativity, knowledge, and passion. Sorry, students.

My whole academic career has been on the downhill slope of state higher ed funding. I don't have illusions what it takes to be a successful higher ed admin in that context, but I have to admit the last year has still been dismaying.

Spatiotemporal Variability of Dendroecological Indicators in Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) Tree‐Rings Across Europe in Relation to Species Distribution Models 🔗

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...

“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.

I currently have three funded PhD positions available for applications. Links for more info and to apply are in my profile page: research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/t...

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... My lab facilities enable the study of plant wax traits, get in touch if you want to write a proposal for the Dec 4 deadline.

🌳💧📊 #PhDAlert! MSc in #ForestEcology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Excellent analytical and statistical skills in time-series analysis and experience with #treering methods🪵? We offer a #PhD position in #Dendroecology: apply.refline.ch/273855/1795/... #dendrosciences #ecology #ScienceJobs

The rapid warming and current drought in Iran appears to be a factor for the fires in the Hyrcanian Forest, a broadleaf mixed forest in a relatively wet region: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...

Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams. Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives: www.tu.org/conservation...

Repeatedly! When I was researching for my article on Trump and the Supreme Court's latest threat to the Clean Water Act, I learned the Cuyahoga River caught on fire not once, not twice, but over a dozen times ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A South Carolina woman who police say tried to end her pregnancy with medication has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child neglect. Don't miss this story from @kylietcheung.bsky.social jessica.substack.com/p/south-caro...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

🚨Job opportunity🚨 We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you! 🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Men do not “have sex with underage girls” they rape them. Language matters. Children CANNOT consent

Grateful for @koshersoul.bsky.social's words about #WhenTreesTestify: "We have been waiting for this. A botanical memoir, a history, a history with a Black lens-that takes us from roots to branches...an electric, bold weaving of ethnobotany, personal memoir, spirit and science and I am here for it"

Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program 🌎🧪🌳🍁 apply.interfolio.com/176741

Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now I understand 67. This morning the clock said 6 and my body knew it was 7.