Benjamin Sulman
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Ecosystem scientist and computational modeler. Living in Knoxville, TN, formerly of Madison, WI
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After all these years I finally built a flux tower! Well,
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and Geoff Schwaner did most of the work 😁 Salt marsh near Port Arthur, TX
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Will Stancil
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Daniel Swain
1 day ago
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
www.nsf.gov/funding/...
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Daniel Swain
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The major winter storm and cold outbreak in the central & eastern U.S. this weekend will be most notable not for record cold, nor heavy snowfall, but instead for very heavy ice accumulations that will cause widespread/severe electrical infrastructure and travel disruptions.
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Rebecca Varney
2 days ago
New preprint in Earth System Dynamics: When will the northern high latitudes become a net carbon source? We evaluate using policy relevant SSP scenarios including overshoot, explicitly representing permafrost🌳❄️🔥🏔️ ➡️
doi.org/10.5194/egus...
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Northern high latitudes could become a net carbon source below 2 °C global warming
Abstract. Under historical warming, terrestrial ecosystems within the northern high latitudes have been a net carbon sink, providing vital mitigation against anthropogenic emissions of CO2. However, t...
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6075
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Minnesota Star Tribune
2 days ago
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Rabbi Sara Zober
3 days ago
Some of you know I've taken a PT hospice chaplain job. It means I work with a lot of geriatric patients with different kinds of decline. And as Trump's condition continues to deteriorate, I've been feeling more and more that the GOP is guilty of elder abuse for not relieving Trump of his office.
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Mike Moore
5 days ago
A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
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MPR News
5 days ago
Federal immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
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U.S. citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns dr...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/20/chongly-scott-thao-says-ice-removed-him-from-home-in-his-underwear-after-warrantless-search
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Rosemary Mosco
5 days ago
How to get into nature.
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Lydia Polgreen
6 days ago
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.uMdS.bLHlWGLyrxIy&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Marisa Kabas
6 days ago
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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David Ho
9 days ago
Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.
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Colorado senators’ bid to save NCAR funding fails as U.S. Senate passes spending bills
“In the face of unrelenting political attacks from President Trump, we are standing together to protect institutions like NCAR that are vital to our state and our economy,” Sen. John Hickenlo…
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/01/15/colorado-ncar-funding-john-hickenlooper-michael-bennet-senate/
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The Washington Post
10 days ago
The lack of affordable child care is creating significant hardships for many families, new research finds, with 1 in 5 households reporting having to cut back on coverage or resort to less desirable alternatives.
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Parents are cutting back on child care as costs stretch budgets
Research shows 1 in 5 families face child care hardships because of the expense, with single mothers most affected.
https://wapo.st/4qlGApl
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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays
11 days ago
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Diana Vieira
20 days ago
📢 New study
@natgeosci.nature.com
on the global impact of wildfires on soil erosion
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
@unibas.ch
The 1st global estimate of post-fire soil erosion, accounting for cumulative fire impacts.
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@pborrelli.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Global estimation of post-fire soil erosion - Nature Geoscience
Global post-fire soil erosion accounts for approximately 8.1 ± 0.72 Pg per year, or 19%, of total global soil erosion, and Africa is the most impacted continent given its larger burned area, according...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01876-0
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alix e. harrow
13 days ago
hey The Everlasting ebook is on sale for $6.99 wherever ebooks are sold (in the US)!
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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The Everlasting ebook by Alix E. Harrow - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Everlasting" by Alix E. Harrow available from Rakuten Kobo. From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest abo...
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-everlasting-4
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Frerk Pöppelmeier
13 days ago
✨I have a vacant 3-yr postdoc position in biogeochemical Earth system model development. If you're interested in geochemical isotopes and their use as paleoceanographic proxies, please consider applying. For any questions on the position, just get in touch✨
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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Uni Bern: Postdoc position: Earth system model development
(3 years)
https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/532b5818-56d7-4bc2-94d6-683a0e03e4d9
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
14 days ago
Whooping Cranes Came Back From the Brink of Extinction. Now, New Threats Are Converging on Their Texas Wintering Grounds development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species’ recovery
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Whooping Cranes Came Back From the Brink of Extinction. Now, New Threats Are Converging on Their Texas Wintering Grounds
Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species' recovery
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whooping-cranes-came-back-from-the-brink-of-extinction-now-new-threats-are-converging-on-their-texas-wintering-grounds-180987950/
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Noel Murray
14 days ago
John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.
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Altmetric
17 days ago
THREAD The first full year of tracking research on
@bsky.app
Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.
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Dr. Renato Braghiere
18 days ago
New paper out in JAMES (Jan 2026): “ClimaLand: A Land Surface Model Designed to Enable Data-Driven Parameterizations” (Deck, Braghiere et al.). I’m excited to be a co-lead on this CliMA land-model milestone.
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025MS005118
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
20 days ago
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
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Ocean Acidification Research Center
20 days ago
Thank you to the Nome Nugget for reporting on our Strait Science Seminar! You can view the recording online.
#AlaskaSky
#OceanAcidification
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Brad Johnson
20 days ago
Senate g House Approps are out with FY26 Interior, EPA, Commerce, Science, Energy and Water Development text after four months of the fiscal year have already lapsed.
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Committee Releases Conferenced CJS, E&W, and Interior Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/committee-releases-conferenced-cjs-eandw-and-interior-bills
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Ben Bond-Lamberty
20 days ago
The deadline for DOE's SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) summer 2026 program is in TWO DAYS:
science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Ke...
Are you an undergraduate interested in STEM? Apply!
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SULI Key Dates | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
The page provides the information about SULI Key Dates.
https://science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Key-Dates
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Mike Peacock
20 days ago
Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?
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Bailey Murphy
23 days ago
📢 New paper! Improving how models represent Arctic veg ⬆️ ability to simulate C dynamics. Using obs from towers/chambers/drones/aircraft, we found better rep of heterogeneity=better predictions, bringing models closer to obs and highlighting key gaps for scaling (shrubs!) 🔗:
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Integrating Characteristic Arctic Vegetation in a Land Surface Model Improves Representation of Carbon Dynamics Across a Tundra Landscape
Refined Arctic plant functional types in simulations improved landscape-level fluxes, but carbon allocation parameters need further review Incorporating representative tundra vegetation increased...
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009039
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MTH
23 days ago
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Annalee Newitz
27 days ago
Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy!
bookshop.org/p/books/auto...
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Randall Munroe
30 days ago
Funny Numbers
xkcd.com/3184/
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Emily St. James
about 1 month ago
Woodworking: beloved by geophysicists
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan
about 1 month ago
A funny thing about the
#AGU25
American Geophysical Union conference last week was how many scientists and other environmental scholars I talked to, who, when the conversation turned to what we were reading for pleasure, started raving about how great
@emilystjams.bsky.social
's _Woodworking_ is.
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Chris Vagasky
about 1 month ago
A Christmas present for you soccer fans. At the
@ametsoc.org
Annual Meeting next month, I'll be presenting a FIFA World Cup lightning risk assessment. To do this, I've taken NLDN/GLD360 lightning data during the World Cup period 2016-2025. Here are the pretty maps. ⚽🧪 (1/6)
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Paul Fairie
about 1 month ago
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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New Phytologist
about 1 month ago
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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EAG
about 1 month ago
Job alert:
#postdoc
in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils, University of Lausanne (CH). Apply by 5 Jan 2026 or position open until filled. More info:
buff.ly/GEtpyAG
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SMBC Comics
about 1 month ago
Of course you don't need AI. You can just crunch the numbers in excel. COMIC ◆
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hop
PATREON ◆
www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆
smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Katie Rocci, PhD
about 1 month ago
I have had the great privilege of being a visitor at NCAR for the past ~3 yrs & can tell you that the people there care deeply about making community-driven & useful tools and providing climate & weather info needed for US and global decision-makers, and are just genuinely good & caring people. 1/n
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Rosie Fisher
about 1 month ago
This looks like a cool job...
www.researchgate.net/job/1034278_...
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ECOSYSTEM MODELLING at Aarhus University in Århus, DENMARK
Dec 17, 2025 | Are you experienced in integrating field data and remote sensing data with numerical modelling to quantify interactions within ecosystems? Then... | NEW JOB
https://www.researchgate.net/job/1034278_Associate_professor_in_ecosystem_modelling
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Chris Vagasky
about 1 month ago
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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Cecilia Keating
about 1 month ago
@ncar-ral.bsky.social
President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at
#AGU25
Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists
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, Day 4
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Alexandra Witze
about 1 month ago
#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)
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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL
about 1 month ago
Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere.
shorturl.at/NybzX
Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5
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Todd Murphy
about 1 month ago
The comments on this are typical. Not all AI/ML is bad!
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Kate Marvel
about 1 month ago
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
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This would be devastating
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about 1 month ago
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Cian 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (he/him)
about 2 months ago
More of what I'm up to at
#AGU25
! Stop by our Tuesday AM poster session to talk wireless data networking: how can we get increasingly large data volumes from remote field sites to the computing resources & people who need them, at the speed the science needs?
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Jacob T. Levy
about 1 month ago
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NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant-review-process-reducing-influence-outside-scientists
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Biogeosciences Early Career Committee
about 1 month ago
We're excited for
#AGU25
! Early Career folks DM or tag us with details about your posters and talks so we can share!
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