My first time seeing emperor penguins — and definitely didn’t expect it to be so close to McMurdo station #Antarctica 🇦🇶 ❄️ 🧪 @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social #emperorpenguins

“Gutting @NCAR.bsky.social is putting American lives and property at higher risk of fire, because we’re not going to have the information that we need in order to really understand it and address how fires are increasing in a warming world,” said Jennifer Balch, a preeminent fire scientist.

The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

A glaciologist at @cires.colorado.edu, @alibanwell.bsky.social, is featured in a coloring book featuring women in STEM fields www.axios.com/local/boulde...

UK Government sets goal for net zero Antarctic scientific operations by 2040 🧊 Decarbonising research stations by 2030 shows how we can advance vital climate science whilst minimising environmental impact in one of Earth's most sensitive regions. Read more: cpom.org.uk/uk-strategy-...

🚀Here is the current list of @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Lancaster University, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Reading University and @bas.ac.uk Net Zero Polar Science DTP projects 👇 📅Deadline: 7 Jan 2026 nzps-dtp.ac.uk/nzps-project...

Read the story by @colorado.edu here! buff.ly/yQzOCrX and happy coloring! #cuboulder #cires #glacier #penguins #antarctica #STEM

Meet @alibanwell.sky.social, a research scientist at @ciresnews.bsky.social. Banwell is one of the "Extraordinary Women" highlighted in a new coloring book that showcases female role models in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

🛰️In our latest Q&A, CPOM Professor @alibanwell.bsky.social discusses why she was honoured to be featured in a STEM colouring book, and why representation matters so much in science careers 👇 cpom.org.uk/when-does-a-...

I'm advertising x2 PhDs through this scheme 🛰️ ❄️ 🇦🇶 🇬🇱 "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" "Thawing Greenland, Powering Tomorrow: Dynamic ice sheet hydrology for Sustainable Energy"

🗞️ Article in @uk.theconversation.com Dr Inès Otosaka (@northumbriauni.bsky.social), who leads on the @esa.int Cryotipping Project, discusses 3 ice sheet instabilities scientists are worried about 👇 🔗https://theconversation.com/three-things-that-might-trigger-massive-ice-sheet-collapse-267275

Applications are open for the CIRES Visiting Fellows Program! Two-year Visiting Fellowships are available for postdoctoral researchers, and terms of up to 12 months for senior scientists on leave or sabbatical. Learn more: cires.colorado.edu/award-progra... #fellowships #fellows #postdoc #sabbatical

Led by Dr Emily Glen, our new @egu.eu preprint is now online in Cryosphere Discussions: "A nine-year record of slush on the Greenland Ice Sheet" egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... #Greenland 🇬🇱❄️🧪 @cpom-uk.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @lancasteruni.bsky.social

I'm advertising x2 PhDs through this scheme 🛰️ ❄️ 🇦🇶 🇬🇱 "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" "Thawing Greenland, Powering Tomorrow: Dynamic ice sheet hydrology for Sustainable Energy"

Happy Friday! In celebration of the weekend, enjoy a closeup of an Adelie penguin at the colony on Cape Royds, Antarctica. 📸: Lauren Lipuma/CIRES

Very excited to be part of this dream team of supervisors 🇦🇶 Interested in ice shelves? Come join us at @cpom-uk.bsky.social, the North East 🇬🇧 is a pretty great place to be!

Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️

Huge congratulations Dr @amyswiggs.bsky.social!! 👩‍🎓 🛰️ ❄️

“I’m scared for my own life and future. And I’m absolutely terrified for that of my son. And you should be, too,” said @hughmontgomery.bsky.social #climate www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

Today and every day, we're thankful for all the amazing scientists, students, and admin staff at CIRES and our colleagues at @colorado.edu, @noaa.gov, and beyond.

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

Check out this new coloring book featuring @cires.colorado.edu @alibanwell.bsky.social. What an inspiring and fun project. #STEM #womeninscience #superstars

Excited to be featured in this new #STEM Super Stars colouring book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YSJ9XW ❄️ 🧪 @cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social

🎓 Two PhD positions open in #PolarScience & #ClimateScience 1️⃣ AI-Driven Landslide Forecasting 2️⃣ Antarctic Climate Through Time 📅 Both Deadline on 17 Dec 2025 🔗 cpom.org.uk/phds More details 👇 #PhDPosition #EarthObservation

Even SOUTHERN ENGLAND has now had ❄️ before us in Boulder Colorado! 😳 🧪

Well, it's officially snowed in Hawaii before Denver this year. What a time to be alive! #cowx

Thanks to all of the readers that submitted their #Boulder County northern lights photos www.axios.com/local/boulde...

And there it goes! After separating from its Falcon 9 rocket, #CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now flying solo under the care of @operations.esa.int. We’re waiting to receive its first signal 📡 @eumetsat.int @euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @climate.noaa.gov @cnes.fr

“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice” -striking message from @iccinet.bsky.social report Ice melt leads to the most profound long-term impact of the #climatecrisis - sea level rise #climatecrisis Post by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The efforts of MAGA/GOP to completely destroy American science plows on. www.science.org/content/arti...

Even in total darkness, the Arctic is getting warmer — and clouds are part of the reason why. A new study analyzed 26 years of winter data from Alaska’s North Slope, and revealed that increasing cloud opacity — clouds becoming thicker and denser — is trapping more heat near the surface.

Exciting PhD Opportunity: Antarctic Ice Loss in High Definition: Analysing novel high-resolution satellite data streams for quantifying 21st century change. Interested in combining computing innovation with climate impact? 🔗 For full details and to apply: www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

If the clouds break tonight in #Boulder, we could get another northern lights show www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Not Svalbard or Iceland, but not bad, #Boulder! #auroraborealis #aurora 🧪

🆕UK scientists, including CPOM’s Noel Gourmelen, author UNESCO UK report on accelerating glacier loss and its impacts. 🧊 Since 2000, glaciers have lost 6,542 billion tonnes of ice – and melting has been 36% faster in the past decade (The GLAMBIE Team, 2025). 🔗 unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of. Cape Crozier remains magical! 🌍🧪🦑🦉

"One glacier's 'Out of this world' retreat might have set a modern record. Now, scientists pieced together what happened," CIRES research posted by the Smithsonian Magazine. Story: buff.ly/gytQpc1

Led by Chris Bézu, with co-authors @bradlipovsky.bsky.social, Daniel Shapero & myself, our @igsoc.bsky.social pre-print presents a new open-source model that couples ice-shelf flow, flexure & fracture 🧊 🧪 @cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In 2024, Amazon forest fires released sevenfold more CO2 than in previous years.

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Dismantling federal agencies like NASA will be disastrous for science www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

There are many uncertainties in this article except this one: "Worldwide, some 230 million people live less than a meter above sea level, and 1 billion people are within 10 meters of sea level." www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-wil...

🚁 At the Lit & Phil last week, CPOM's @andyshepherd.bsky.social & @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social showed how drones are transforming fieldwork in polar regions, sharing these highlights from a CPOM PhD research trip to Iceland last year ❄️ #PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

This video shows how Hektoria Glacier began to disintegrate in 2022. #Antarctica #CIRES

Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Please share! CIRES is accepting applications for the role of Associate Director of Science to oversee research activities! This position supervises others and reports to the CIRES Director. Learn more about the position: buff.ly/DE3DhQH

🛰️We loved bringing this polar science made possible by data from the @esa.int CryoSat-2 mission to life for children and their families at the @scienceatlife.bsky.social 👇

We can’t wait to see updates from Ali in Antarctica! 🇦🇶