We are hiring two new postdocs in Greenland ocean and ice sheet modelling to join our team at @bas.ac.uk! Apply by 8 October:

In London, hate will never win.

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

The news this week was upsetting on a personal level, and reading this by @iandunt.bsky.social was just what I needed 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇬🇧 iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

If you stop observing the sea ice it stops declining, right?

Here I am - loudly, and clumsily, declaring support!

I've had 3 requests to review journal articles in the last week, which is not that unusual these days. Is this normal for a scientist approaching mid-career stage? Or is it a consequence of editors trying to have gender-balanced review panels in a field where women are underrepresented?

I don't know what to say about NOAA except that my heart goes out to every single one of you who lost a job yesterday. Your work is appreciated all around the world, not just in the US. I hate living in a dystopia.

It took me more than 10 years but today I was in a meeting of entirely female ice-ocean modellers (4) for what I believe is the first time

With all the senseless layoffs happening in the #US #science sector I hope we can try and help a little bit at least. If you're an ECR expert in sea-ice modeling our vacancy is open till 11th March. You will be welcome in NZ! 🧪 #academicsky @climate.noaa.gov

Climate scientist here, I heartily endorse this podcast episode! For a topic so ripe with misinformation, it's refreshing to see a couple of non-experts get it completely right.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

🎉🎉🎉 Woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉 Amazing feat by the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice team! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Smashing the 800,000 year record for a continuous ice core by a country mile back to 1.2 million years ago.

Me to my 3 year old:

Does anyone else remember "global warming stopped in 1998"?!

Let the world's largest iceberg inspire you: Even after spending months spinning in the same spot, you too can become unstuck.

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

declaring a conflict of interest: i hope we continue to not know stuff because otherwise I'd be out of a job

The best-selling motor vehicles in the US and UK for 2024 are both made by Ford, but that's where the similarity ends.

We all like to think that our own niche field is the most important for climate change, but every now and then we get a reminder that the clouds people actually have it

Hi Bluesky! We have a paper out today in The Cryosphere: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1... about Antarctic sea ice trends in observations and climate models (+huge thanks to co-authors, not on BlueSky) (thread: 1/6)

Has anyone else noticed that the current rate of political crises has now reached one country per day

My god a platform where the most followed band is The Mountain Goats. I’m home. I’m finally home.

Absolutely. We become immune to the tragedy of our own fields

This is true between fields as well. A few years ago at an interdisciplinary conference the West Antarctica scientists and the AMOC scientists really freaked each other out. But everyone was pretty chilled about their own science.

Social media is allowed to be (supposed to be?) fun. It's not a civic duty, and that's okay.

A visual illustration of the case for geological net zero.

I saved this up to watch tonight and it's just as good as everyone says it is. The world needs more people like Hank.

Scientists just really like to classify things, and starter packs scratch that itch

This is excellent by @ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social : what politicians mean when they say "carbon offset" is typically not carbon negative. theconversation.com/cop29-only-b...

It's a bad sign when the Australian meteorologists get excited... maybe I should re-evaluate my plans for tomorrow...

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

🚨Exciting Postdoctoral Opportunities in Oceanography 🌊 at CNRM Climate Center, Toulouse 🚨 We are seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to join us for 2 two-year positions!

I've really noticed this my last few trips to Canada (versus the UK). It's obscene.

This week in Kaitlin's Worry Spirals

Throwback to high school when I wanted to read RealClimate during break time on the school computers (yes I was a nerd) and the school software blocked it because "Blogs and Social Media" were Not Appropriate For School

@oceanandice.bsky.social continues his streak of creating top-tier acronyms - a surprisingly useful skill in science

All of this is great. Equal parts realism - 1.5C is a pipe dream - and optimism: we've already avoided the worst case scenario. Even within my career the perception of RCP8.5 has changed from the default outcome, to not worth modelling any more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tomorrow is #PolarPrideDay2024 #PolarPride #LGBTSTEMDay

I'm super excited to share @carbonbrief.org's new and improved attribution map! Use the map to explore 600+ extreme weather attribution studies from all around the world: buff.ly/3URzsmI And check out my in-depth Q&A on attribution for all you need to know about this evolving field: buff.ly/4hRt4Gc

Ed Balls

Happy Polar Pride! 🌈 Today we're celebrating the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in the international polar research and operations community 💙 ➡️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/p... #PolarPride2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #DiversityinPolarScience

For ECRs publishing can feel like a race and reviewers like those trying to trip you up before the finish line. But science is about going far, not about going fast. Your reputation is built on your written word. Be meticulous with it! And use reviewer feedback to further elevate your science.

I'm pretty sure it was this, on a massive screen at AGU, that made me decide to study oceanography

Whenever someone makes fun of weather forecasts I fight them, with citations

I got so used to this in Canada and Australia that when I moved to the UK, and Google Maps said that the train from Cambridge to London was faster than driving, I thought it was a bug

I quietly left Twitter a year ago when I reported a comment saying "Naughty Dr Kaitlin, needs a good spanking" and the content moderation people decided it was absolutely fine and should stay up

Anyone else paralysed by indecision about what to post here because they worry social media is destroying the world, but reasonable people opting out won't help the situation, and they like reading what interesting people have to say, but also want to be a private person? Also, who has time