You read the study in the Global Tipping Points Report, now join @iceybethan.bsky.social @ricarda-winkelmann.bsky.social, Judy Daxootsu Ramos and Annika Ord and me to discuss glacier loss and tipping points southeast Alaska at the #COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion next Monday. @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Wie geht das mit den Kipppunkten? Eindrucksvoller Kurzfilm von @artede.bsky.social zur gefährlichen Dynamik durch #Klimawandel, mit Input der PIK-Fachleute Shivani Ehrenfeucht und @rahmstorf.bsky.social . „Jedes Grad, jeder Bruchteil eines Grades zählt.“ www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

🧊Donovan Dennis (@donovanpdennis.com, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social ) is a glaciologist exploring the current state of glaciers and ice sheets, and what their loss means for our planet

Here we go again! 🎤 Our event "Diverse minds, shared future", in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ STEM group during the Berlin Science Week, is approaching fast! We're excited to start introducing the amazing speakers joining us for this year's event

The #JuneauIcefield is a deeply meaningful place for me and many others, part of the reason we put so much care into our case study on tipping of Áakʼw Tʼáak Sítʼ (Mendenhall Glacier), one of the icefield's major outlet glaciers. The study is out today as part of the Global Tipping Points Report.

Ready for @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social?! Come by the Diverse Minds, Shared Future event on 1 Nov from @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social and LGBTQIA+ STEM Berlin. You’ll hear six great talks, including one about glacier tipping points 😉. No PowerPoints, just props! berlinscienceweek.com/programme/di...

It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant. In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)

Super stoked to be one of the speakers at this year's #PrideHike in the beautiful Kaisergebirge! I'll be chatting all weekend about the changing alpine environment and how that impacts us ~all~, especially those of us whose happy place is up in the thin air. Thanks to Osprey (packs) Europe for (1/2)

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This quote at my SBahn stop hitting differently this week. “What a time it is when talking about trees is almost a crime. Because it involves silence about so many misdeeds!” How I feel coming and going talking about clim. change/Michelangelo, trying to ignore the rising tide in my former home.

Following a workshop on Earth system #tippingpoints at the @ec.europa.eu's Joint Research Centre, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social colleagues and I have contributed to a policy brief with recommendations for how the EU can/should move forward--check it out!: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Getting a bit teary on the train listening to two elderly gays signing up for new life insurance policies and making each other the beneficiaries. Something really beautiful in the mundanity of that. Speaking a mix of English, Swedish, German, and French. Stunning.

Did a thing last week🎓. Really thought I wouldve left it before that day came tbh. Can remember the moment I was accepted to a PhD, 21, totally gobsmacked. The day I left Boston and that first PhD, my supervisor in the Times for harassing his students in Antarctica. The first time w/ my 🌈 pin(1/2)

Hello world — with little luck, I’m looking for a paper that summarises the history of study of climate change, particularly with respect to glaciers. I.e., what did researchers in the early 20th century think caused the kind of variability that led to terminus position changes? Suggestions?

Had a great time at this year’s TIPMIP meeting with @docaharper.bsky.social and so many others! We had a night at the Maryland Science Center and a keynote by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse as well as many many productive science conversations 😊.

Just spent the last two weeks crisscrossing the U.S. West with my TIPMIP colleague to talk climate and Earth system tipping points. We’ve learned so much about the state of tipping research in the U.S.! Looking forward to our next stops on the East coast before our TIPMIP General Assembly and AGU!

Happening today at Lettretage in Berlin! Join for a discussion of "The Shining Mountains" by Alix Christie, and a short warm-up reading by yours truly :). Veteranenstr. 21, doors open at 19:00, readings begin 19:30.

pro tip: if you power walk to work listening to an aerobics playlist wearing a beige turtleneck, white high tops, and calvins, you kinda feel like your mom in the eighties which is fun.

Berlin is cool cuz you can go from this and this to that and that without an outfit change.

Could also just eat the rich instead.

Join us on 11. Dec. at Lettretage in Berlin for a Montana-filled evening :)!

Welcome to Bluesky @flisaacs.bsky.social! Was going through some old photos and came across this evergreen photo.... Hope to see you sometime soon here in Potsdam :)... also spotted @juliusgarbe.bsky.social (who I'm sure would be just as excited to see you too). What a morning :) :) :)

Our community here is growing which is really nice. GFZ scientists we found so far (actually, they found us here...) are @bstein.bsky.social (modelling the deep underground in Earth's mantle etc.), @lianegbenning.bsky.social (researching ice algae, e.g. on Greenland, and other super cool stuff 1/n

Even if critical #temperature thresholds are temporarily crossed by up to 6.5 degrees Celsius until 2100, a possible #tipping of the #Greenland ice sheet could be prevented, a new "Nature" study with PIK scientist Niklas Boers finds: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Hey #bluesky world, PIK is new on here :) Looking forward to share latest PIK #science! Follow us for research news on #climate impacts, #climatechange, #solutions and much more. In case you're wondering what PIK does, watch this great explainer vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRx...

Was such a delight to see @katharinehayhoe.com at PIK today 😊. Such a nice discussion on public perceptions of climate change/policies, the role of scientists in enacting climate policy change, and the space science and scientists occupy in political arenas. Thanks for the great talk (as always)!

Are you modelling or interested in tipping points? Curious about the Tipping Points Modelling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP)? We're hosting a "TIPMIP for All" event Mon. to update folks and get them interested in joining us. Sign up at tipmipforall.bpt.me. Looking forward to seeing folks there :)!

Few things that make me as happy as this view 😊. Also zoom in on the clouds. They’re wonky. 📍Angel Pt., Flathead Lake

First time up to the lake in four years 😍.

Road snap from here in #BigSkyCountry. Another week in beautiful Montana.

Wrote a little thing a while back which became my first published essay today. It’s about when I was 16 and a page in DC, and how I fell in love with a boy for the 1st time while listening to senators debate whether that kind of thing should be accepted. hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/in-t...

Really buzzed because a while ago a very #gay essay of mine was accepted by a lit mag for the first time ever and, it's coming out in a few weeks 😍😍. Can't wait to share. (And yes, pun intended 😘 🌈).

(Re-)introducing myself here on 🟦sky 😊. I'm Donovan, a geoscientist and wannabe writer with a checkered past involving politics, history, and art history. I deviated from ice into (cold) rocks for my PhD, but am thankfully back in the ice world now. Also a big ol' gay 🌈, (except not very tall).