Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

Environmental challenges, like extreme weather events & critical changes in Earth systems, remain a priority, underlining the importance of risk mitigation in an interconnected world.🌐⚠️ —WEF Global Risks Report 2025 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/global-risks-report-2025-bleak-predictions/

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

In #ScienceUnderSiege (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...), @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I criticize the NY Times for pushing unhelpful antiscience (like the "Lab Leak Theory" for COVID-19) or fossil fuel-friendly framing (e.g. in this case, "geoengineering" as a climate solution):

Posts about scientific research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on Twitter. More importantly, you're far less likely to get sexist or racist replies.

Climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous than they were 20 years ago, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Here's how: yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/07/how-...

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

A new study published today in @nature.com, co-authored by researchers at the University of Minnesota, Project Drawdown, and other institutions, reveals a troubling feedback loop 🔁: drawdown.org/news/climate...

We talk a lot about the level of climate warming, have we passed a given threshold, and less about the rate. The rate is the core problem: we are changing climate faster than society or the environment can adapt. If it took 10,000 years to warm by 2 C, this would be a different conversation.

This new map provides a global view of the distribution of a multitude of aquatic ecosystems, including various wetlands. It's a pretty big step forward, and I look forward to seeing how it will be used e.g. to study wetland greenhouse gases. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

If you are interested in lakes and the role of nitrogen pollution in degrading them, here's a summary talk of 30+ years of our research presented at #aslo this spring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIa...

🎉 Congrats to Professor Emily Boyd, appointed as the new Director of the Beijer Institute! She joins from LUCSUS, where she’s served as Director for the past seven years. We also wish to say a heartfelt thank you to Carl Folke, retiring in September, for his inspiring leadership over the years. 🌍💚

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper! led by Josh Dean “Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems” doi.org/10.1038/s415... #radiocarbon in #rivers reveals the age of CO2 they release to the atmosphere. An active leak of old carbon from land. 🧪⚒️ @joshfdean.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

Office clean out days - amid the piles of paper, you can find some cool stuff @steve-carpenter.bsky.social

Thank you @steve-carpenter.bsky.social for an inspiring plenary on resilience to start our Great Lakes Conference! @iaglr.bsky.social

Michigan is using the latest science to update PFAS fish advisories, crucial for Great Lakes communities. @waynestateclas.bsky.social PhD student Brittanie Dabney spoke to @detroitnews.bsky.social on the risks. At @iaglr.bsky.social ? Don’t miss PFAS sessions today to learn the latest on PFAS!

Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.

At last an open society for Social-Ecological systems science, 25 years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and more than 50 years after resilience and adaptive management concepts!

#NativePlants provide the foundation for environments to support #pollinators, butterflies, birds, and other life above and below ground. However, the supply of #NativeSeeds to restore and conserve ecosystems often falls short of demand. Learn more: ow.ly/hyPJ50VY4n2

"All water discharged by wells is balanced by a loss of water somewhere." - Hydrogeologist C.V. Theis writing in 1940, nearly a century ago. From "The Source of Water Derived From Wells." water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/The...

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

I've spent more than two years of my life at sea on research vessels, each time for about a month. You can see people slowly going insane over that month of isolation from civilization, even though they're still around ~30 other people. Bunker life's going to make billionaires even more sociopathic.

Future projections of Europe’s forests focus on warming & drought, but what if AMOC collapses? @anjarammig.bsky.social's lab has a thought-provoking paper suggesting massive forest disruption & reorganisation, inc. spruce collapse in central Europe & forest loss in the north doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements: Jiang et al. in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"The data that drives [NOAA] forecasts informs the calculations for an untold number of property insurance policies in the country, helping to channel billions of dollars in aid to home and business owners in the aftermath of natural disasters."

The cover of this week’s Economist.

Information provided by GLOS supports the regional marine economy, improves forecasts, and supports decision-making and nearshore safety for countless stakeholders. Cutting or reducing funding would have wide-ranging impacts on Great Lakes communities’ economies and safety.

Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What happens when an apex predator disappears? 🦈 Between 2015 and 2019, great white sharks disappeared from South Africa’s False Bay, triggering a trophic cascade phenomenon - when the change in prevalence of a top predator leads to changes across all levels of the food chain below them.

🏆 Wir gratulieren Robert Arlinghaus (@rarlinghausfish.bsky.social) & Johannes Radinger (@radingerj.bsky.social), die zu den 19 Nationalen Champions des Frontiers Planet Prize zählen! Ausgezeichnet wurden sie für ihre Studie zur Förderung der #Fischbestände in #Seen: www.igb-berlin.de/news/robert-...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability Callahan+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "a transparent, reproducible and flexible framework that formalizes how end-to-end attribution could inform litigation by assessing whose emissions are responsible and for which harms."

"Drawing quantitative linkages between individual emitters and particularized harms is now feasible, making science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims." Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability. Callahan+ doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Will Great Lakes Programs Survive Major Cuts ? Our answer: The Great Lakes economy will not survive without healthy waters. Yesterday's interview with @tvotoday.bsky.social is now publicly available online 👇

Against authoritarianism or fascism, Silence = Consent.

"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."

Thank you @tvotoday.bsky.social for the opportunity to share today about the importance of Great Lakes science. @iaglr.bsky.social

Today and every day, we work to support evidence-based policies for people and the planet.

#EarthDay reminds us of our shared responsibility to protect the planet we call home. At the @nationalacademies.org we work every day to advance science, policy, & community solutions that help ensure a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone. Learn more about our work: buff.ly/klYhxF2

The current U.S. administration has taken an array of actions with far-reaching consequences for Earth and space scientists. Use our new tracker to sort them out and stay up to date. eos.org/research-and...

"Data from the Nature Careers global science jobs platform show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024." Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain doi.org/10.1038/d415...

"The fact of the matter is that facts still matter" - the role of science in Earth Day, the National Environmental Policy Act, and Clean Water Act blog.limnology.wisc.edu/2025/04/22/e...

Studying the rise and subsequent fall of the Piast dynasty in Poland, researchers demonstrate how sustainable states are those that balance their exploitation of ecological resources with internal societal connections: a lesson with many implications for us today. Read more:

They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

Happy Earth Day! 🌍 Delighted to present this new book all about Antarctica. 🇦🇶 I was coauthor on Chapter 7 led by Ben Galton-Fenzi. Congratulations to the many other authors involved and to @oceanandice.bsky.social for leading us all! 🌊

The actual page: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

We've identified almost 300 influencers who are spreading misleading content about climate change online. One of their false claims is that global warming is caused by an underwater volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga. Listen to the Sensemaker: lnk.to/zx49ruBS

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...

“It takes that global issue and brings it closer to us,” Dr. Hayhoe said. “If I care about food or water or transportation or insurance or my health, this is what climate change means to me if I live in the Southwest or the Great Plains. That’s the value.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...