So honored to be a part of this outstanding group of scientists! Thanks so much to @plosclimate.org for publishing our ideas! Congrats to all authors, it’s been an incredible journey. Hope it continues!

"The illegal shipments intercepted included materials such as e-waste, used batteries, waste oil, hazardous scrap metal, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), plastic waste, contaminated scrap paper, and other environmentally hazardous materials." Textiles, too! #BaselConvention #YouWasteItYouOwnIt

This is so important, and don’t forget that major land use change and deforestation occurred across Europe, Asia, and Africa long before even 1750.

Job seekers: Excellent thread from my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social. If you’re considering applying for any of my open positions, jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ consider reading this first!

Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MSc’s on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

Could prehistoric farmers and pastoralists have caused skies to be dustier than normal? What feedbacks could that dust have had to societies downwind? This paper was a long time coming, and I am really glad to see it published! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #envhist #envhum

🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨 Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics* Term: 2 years Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance Start: July 2026 Details in next two posts 👇

Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!

Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!

Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?

It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...

Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?

Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Great explainer from my colleague Dan.

Good thread. Having thought about these issues a lot myself and recognizing that landscape scale wildfires are rarely all of one severity or another, I enjoyed this back and forth.

Those were the days. I’ll never forget my two weeks in solitary confinement at the Penny’s Bay COVID detention camp.

Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦 calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#Amsterdam's canals don't meet most Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point criteria, and not all scientists agree with declaring the #Anthropocene anyway, but these feathered inhabitants' embrace of 'new' materials is terrifying. There's nothing encouraging about the common coot's adaptation.

SNOW = MONEY

Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch! Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Interesting different views on whether scientists are also responsible for communication of their work and its importance.

And this sort of story is exactly why any ideas anyone has about a brain drain from the US as science is cut is likely not happening.

Headed home from Tucson after an intense week of biome modeling with @elkezeller.bsky.social, dreaming about vegetation of earth millions of years ago. Thanks to @leafwax.bsky.social for making this happen! And great to see you and the new lab @thirstygecko.bsky.social!

Ok ok I’ll admit that I was on local television early this morning to talk about the California wildfires and climate change.

“If every urban fire that is put out is a problem solved, many wildland fires put out are problems put off.” Wise words from @sjpyne.bsky.social www.stephenpyne.com/blog/posts/4...

Are you interested in understanding the links between climate change, vegetation, and wildfires? Would you enjoy working with computers? I am hiring paid interns and graduate students: jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ Look forward to hearing from you!

This is the only international wildland fire social conference - combined again with the Fire Safety Summit! Come join us in Calgary Fall 2025

40% of the world's waste still ends up in open dumps. We know such dumps deliver a sizable contribution, up to 10%, of manmade GHGs. But as @profkatespencer.bsky.social explains below for the UK, with climate change we can expect further poisoned gifts. theconversation.com/as-floodwate...

Tidying up the other day. Procrastinating, I arranged my transit passes - some quite classic by now - in geographical order.

Want to come to @ucalgary.bsky.social and have awesome colleagues like @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmtheodor.bsky.social @molszyns.bsky.social @jedokaplan.bsky.social and myself? Consider applying for this! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1497629... 🧪 #academicsky

Can the state of Washington hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires? 🔥

Last Glacial Maximum (21 ka) pollen-based climate reconstruction for Europe, N Africa and Middle East! 👋 LGM climatic cooling and drying were significantly greater in winter than in summer. Great maps by the way! 🤩 cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/...

Gift link to @hannahritchie.bsky.social ‘s thoughtful, pragmatic, and optimistic interview with the NYTimes. I agree with her that while climate action might not be fast enough, there are many reasons to be optimistic and there is a important role for scientists www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Would you like some global lightning data?Today I released the latest version of the WGLC lightning climatology and timeseries, covering 2010-2022. zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...

I have complicated feelings about being back in Hong Kong this week. But this transdisciplinary project on the history of China is one of the most inspiring things I am working on at the moment. It is so great to see the progress my incredible collaborators are making.

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation 🇨🇦, we are thinking about the peoples who first lived at Kootenay Lake, thankful that we can enjoy their temperate rainforest and use the western red cedar that was so important for many First Nations in the Pacific Northwest.