Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)

IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is leading a team of Brown faculty members involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities. Learn more about Brown's role in the project ⬇️

On it

Here’s an idea and you want to help people in you area, turn your itty bitty book library 📚 into a tiny food pantry. Again, please repost.

Just published in PLOS Climate: "Towards provision of regularly updated climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @wcrp-cmip.org @juliearblaster.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social @tatianailyina.bsky.social

Hi everyone! New equitable climate futures job at Brown working with ecf.brown.edu. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

A quick summary by me of a new instance of an old story. @realclimate.org Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

It's about time we start organizing the Liege Colloquium for 2026! Submesocale Processes in the ocean will be the topic, a revisit of the Colloquium of 2016. 10 years of advances! I'll try to document here the journey towards organizing such an event, maybe there's interest? #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪

AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

More bad news for Rhode Island wind farms. Now they are going after transparency in funding of activists: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Portal to help support the NASEM fast-track effort to assess the EPA endangerment finding (deadline for submissions, Aug 27) www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/ant...

Small advertisement for the session on emulators convening by me & @baylorfk.bsky.social , Helene Hewitt, @shrutinath97.bsky.social , Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, @cwomack101.bsky.social.

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Go team SIMCoast! www.uri.edu/news/2025/07...

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

"Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification" | My blog post on our new article (@xuekeli.bsky.social, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social, Shannon Christiansen & yours truly) out this week in @pnas.org: michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...

Conveners for the session on emulators: Helene Hewitt, @baylorfk.bsky.social, @shrutinath97.bsky.social, myself, Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Christopher Womack

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

Top think tanks Think top tanks Think tank tops

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.

Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪

I would not be a scientist or a professor #withoutNSF. Some think that overhead charges to grants are just free money for universities to waste. Since I began as a professor, I have gauged my grant funding so that my overhead covers my 9 month salary--the largest expense I cause my university.

Yep. Great thing to set up if you can and participate in. www.providencejournal.com/story/entert...

Who wants to work on coupling #IceSheet models into #GCMs? We have a 4 year position open @dmidk.bsky.social -come and join us in Copenhagen... (Part of the @icelink-project.bsky.social ) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

@baylorfk.bsky.social — an IBES fellow and professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences — spoke to @jeremybernfeld.bsky.social about how climate change impacts the ocean and how RI communities can better prepare for conditions that could negatively impact water utilities.

I wish this was an exaggeration.

Congratulations to IBES Director Kim Cobb (@kimcobb.bsky.social) — one of six outstanding Brown faculty members newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Learn more ⤵️

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/m... Yes! We need a bottle bill and we need to ban nips (single-shot hard alcohol containers).

A really great interview with @frediotto.bsky.social !

On my way to review the NYUAD climate program: ACCESS.

And it happened!

The World Meteorological Organization report on the State of the Global Climate 2024 was released today: "...led to the highest number of new displacements recorded for the past 16 years, contributed to worsening food crises, and caused massive economic losses." Press: wmo.int/news/media-c...

Tomorrow!

That's a clutch. "Cloture" is a covered walkway at a nunnery.

I get to introduce my favorite movie next week! mvfilmsociety.com/2025/01/scie...

Job opportunity for a Research Software Development to join my collaborators on the @rhodiumgroup.bsky.social Climate Impacts team (and collaborate with me!) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

We invite you to the CELLO Conference 2025, Sept 16–18 in Hamburg, Germany. Our motto “Climate Exploration in Lively Liaison with the Ocean,” honors that nearly 50 years ago, under Klaus Hasselmann, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology recognized the ocean’s crucial role in the climate system.

Because of a snow, @baylorfk.bsky.social’s Mines Climate Seminar has been rescheduled for MONDAY at 10 am in Hill Hall 202. Register for the Zoom stream here: mines.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Postdoc opportunity with Sophie Nowicki and me on "Earth System Modeling of Regional Sea Level Rise and Risk"

OK--what's a budget? for money? mass? energy? salinity? 🌊 I talk it through with Hemingway and a banker... youtu.be/4EAufDOzJeE

New ocean AI video! 🌊 "The Oceans are a Challenge to Observe": youtu.be/86FSP1vdcnQ

New ocean AI video! "The Oceans are a Challenge to Observe": youtu.be/86FSP1vdcnQ

OK, as we near the end of what is likely to be my only year-long sabbatical*, I wanted to share some things I've learned and will apply in the coming year of teaching and being. (Thread) *Check my privilege ✅

Also, for climate students and other newbies, @skepticalscience.bsky.social puts out skepticalscience.com which is a great place to begin to learn the contours of the field and spot disinformation.

Katherine, I'm on the lookout. Also, if anyone tries to imitate me, you can tell they are doing so because they'll post low-quality, AI scripted, deep faked voice-over cartoons about climate change... Oh wait, that's me...