When extreme weather strikes, thousands turn to @weatherwest.bsky.social. 🌩️ Daniel Swain, climate scientist and prolific communicator, makes complex #science clear for the public. Meet him in this year’s #Grist50 list: grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Weather #Disaster #Climate #Floods #Hurricane

We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪 hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

📢We're hiring!📢 We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE @OpenUniversity £47,389 to £56,535 Closing Date: 20 October 2025* We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs. jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

The Pacific "blob" is back, except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin. This is altering weather patterns, led to Japan's hottest summer on record, and could affect your winter weather too. Also hit hard is marine life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

📣 PRESS RELEASE Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Registration closes 30 Nov 2025. Read more 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New paper out today in GRL: Drying of the Panama Canal in a Warming Climate (shorturl.at/TJ3aj) Main finding: Low water levels in Gatun Lake (main reservoir for Panama Canal) become more frequent and severe in a warming climate, particularly under higher emissions pathways

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, we are hiring an Assistant Professor in Atmosphere and/or Ocean Physics. No deadline stated, but review will begin soon, so please do not delay. apply.interfolio.com/173819

New paper led by Alex Saunders (University of Arizona) shows index insurance outcomes can be sensitive to choice of metric and dataset - important insights for those using index insurance as a means to reduce vulnerability agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

some personal news

New study in @natwater.nature.com led by @laibaoliu.bsky.social on shortcomings of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). "[I]ncrease of agroecological droughts [...] cannot be symmetrically & fully reversed by removing the same amount of CO2." @michaelgwindisch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Attn lovers of tasteful draped linen: I’ll be in conversation with Aditi Mayer at Eileen Fisher SoHo Wed Sep 24 6-8 pm www.eventbrite.com/e/eileen-fis...

How Pacific SSTs changes under future warming an important determinant of how much Central America dries in the future agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

A new study w/ Emily Burt, @scottallenunr.bsky.social, et al. via @aguecohydro.bsky.social made possible by @bafu.admin.ch. We use >3500 lysimeter isotope observations from 47 sites over 3 years to measure how rainfall percolates into soils, with estimates of young water at different soil depths.

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're hiring for a second position in my department this year! Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05078

Honoured to be appointed Lead Author of IPCC #AR7 for the chapter 7 on "Projections of regional climate and extremes". I am looking forward to contribute together with my @usyseth.bsky.social colleague @lukasgudmundsson.bsky.social and IPCC WG1 vice-chair @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

One step closer to realizing my dream of a dinosaur proxy system model.

New product of our group: PIKART – A Comprehensive Global Catalog of #Atmospheric_Rivers. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Delighted to announce that Ben Santer is now an Honorary Professor @ueaenv.bsky.social & the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Ben is returning to his "academic home": he did his PhD in CRU before his stellar career developing "fingerprint" methods to identify human & natural effects on climate.

The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

Check out our new alert system at @climatecentral.org for the rapid attribution of climate extremes around the world (including information on temperature extremes, marine heatwaves, tropical cyclones, wildfires, and more to come): www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Pleased to share a new paper from our socio-ecological research in Central America, led by Dr. Talia Anderson - Talia used a mixed methods approach to understand how perceptions & socio-economic factors mediate farmers' adaptations to climate variability and change link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NOAA Climate and Global Change fellows were furloughed this week. One of many losses.

I was also a Fellow. This program brought me from my home country of Australia, providing me resources+networks that paved my career path to becoming a full professor in a US institution. Having now worked with many undergrad/grad/postdocs, I have witnessed CGC benefits to society at large.

I know it's small in the grand scheme of <<waves hand at everything>> but this bums me out: "NEW FOR AGU25: AGU will no longer support the usage of Mac presentations during the conference. Please be aware that you must convert your presentation to a PC friendly version prior to presenting."

how i feel about @zentouro.info 's latest Ph.D. chapter

In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

🔬 CEREGE is hiring two researchers in stable isotope geochemistry! Are you passionate about geosciences, isotopic analysis, and environmental challenges? Two fixed-term research positions (CDD) are open via @cnrs.fr Feel free to share these opportunities within your networks!

TONIGHT!! www.harvard.com/event/kate-m...

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Very strong heat dome over the US. Figure made from @ecmwf.int data using @blender.org For more on heat wave patterns for the Northeast US, see: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #scicom #Blender

10 years ago today, we dropped a thing that people still ask me about regularly. The question "What's Really Warming the World?" still has the same answer. With Blacki Migliozzi, in conversation with NASA GISS geniuses @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social 🎁🔗

Yesterday's humidity in Upstate NY and Vermont was exceptional. I took a look at that today, and I tried to connect all the things happening across the country right now. Extreme weather patterns (this being a near-record strong ridge) usually produce extreme outcomes.

A final reminder that we have a permanent position at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Assistant/Assoc Prof) level in Active #Tectonics and #Geomorphology at the University of Canterbury, #NZ. Closes on 28th June. Come join us. #Geology #hazards jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

In non-WW3 news, new paper alert! Or what I did on my Norwegian sabbatical. Humid heat trends in Europe: Pretty bad! But unlike Southeast US, temperature increases (in part driven by fewer clouds) are the main cause, not dewpoint increases. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Explore past and future climate on your PlayStation. Including CRU-TS observational data from Climatic Research Unit @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social

Sorry Red Dead Redemption 2, there is a new sheriff vying for all my free time

I was on my dear friend @ayanaeliza.bsky.social 's podcast talking about good stuff (my book), bad stuff (gestures vaguely around), and the best stuff (our planet) ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/9-ways-to-...

(teaching my son how to play magic the gathering) me: there are a lot more new rules than when i was a kid luca: <<old man prospector voice>> "rah! back in my day, we didn't have these new fancy magic rules!" (and i have a new appreciation for why quokkas throw their children at predators)

Excited to share our new Nature Geoscience paper on how persistent Rossby waves patterns are triggering simultaneous hot-dry extremes across western Europe, Asia, and the U.S., severely reducing vegetation productivity and carbon uptake. www.nature.com/articles/s41...