We’re a little bit bottomed out and holed up.

Let me look out of the window … yep I confirm. Well over knee deep in the unplowed areas… 😀

Now we've got serious cold. At 6am AKDT/8am MDT Monday, -62F/-52C at Faro, YT and -60F/-51C at Carmacks, YT. In Alaska, Northway at -55F/-48C. #akwx #ytwx #Weather #Cold #Winter2026 @climatologist49.bsky.social@evaholland.bsky.social

As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq www.calebscholars.org/donation/

#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)

Looking for climate experts at #AGU25 right now who can comment on these administration plans to break up UCAR. DMs open.

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

In other news...

The NOAA Arctic Report Card was released today. (I am a very minor member of the team that works on the Tundra Greenness part, via a collaboration). I'll put more links in this thread.

A combination of new visa pressures under the Trump administration, increased policing and quashed political expression have left many at UAF concerned about their future in the U.S. (Via UAF Sun Star)

Go, Hungarians.

I’m so proud

Our local Cooperative Extension Service has a pamphlet that is literally entitled “Canning walrus in pint jars”.

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

From UAF Troth Yeddha’ at 2:38pm Monday, and the sun says “bye-bye” for another day. Of course, if we were on the longitudinally correct time zone, this would be a 1:38pm photo. #akwx #AlaskaSky #Winter2026 @borealchrys.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social

Same pic, my version.

My wife really liked the podcast episode I'm on ☺️. So I’m reposting the link.

Folks there are six of my mutuals following this. These "resistance" meme accounts full of AI and low on fact checking are insidious. They give a quick kick, but accomplish nothing.

This is fun. Hat tip @leahwrenn.bsky.social

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

A plethora of winter things are happing in Alaska. We have Winter Storm Watches, Cold Weather Advisories, Winter Weather Advisories, Winter Storm Warnings, Blizzard Warnings, Extreme Cold Watches, and Heavy Freezing Spray Warnings. @alaskawx.bsky.social

That's me. I was surprised as an adult to find they're not particularly expensive. They were doled out as special, precious gems one by one.

Key takeaways from the @UCBerkeley study: * Prescribed burns maintain large, fire-resistant trees and remove smaller “fuel ladder” vegetation that can drive high-intensity crown fires. * While each burn releases CO₂ in the short term, treated plots showed higher long-term productivity.

I liked Dunkelman's book but this op-ed is based on the same fallacy that leads some people to think fascist Italy and Germany were models of efficient administration.

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people. He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*. The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us. We, the people.

„CNRS began this process by unsubscribing from Elsevier's Scopus and is continuing today by cutting access to Clarivate Analytics' bibliometric database. This will help the org save €1.4 mill annually in subscription fees, redirected towards promoting open science & development of open databases.“

November average temperatures were above normal almost everywhere in Alaska except for parts of Southcentral and Kodiak Island. The northern Interior eastward into northwest Canada was especially mild, though not to record high levels. #akwx #Climate #Autumn2025 @patwx.bsky.social

KYUK’s Sage Smiley spoke with Annie Rosenthal, a fellow with media outlet High Country News, about her recent reporting about the use of artificial intelligence for translations needed in disaster response, including its implications for tribal data sovereignty.

thank you to everyone who joined us in front of the White House today. So many reasons to protest against this Administration's deadly and unlawful actions, fueling the #AIDS pandemic. Grateful for the power of activism. #WorldAIDSDay #WAD2025 healthgap.org/press/world-...

The International Arctic Research Center communications team has come out with season 2 of the Alaska Voices podcast ("conversations among Alaskans and stories about the environment") and episode 1 is a conversation between myself and my cool colleague Nancy Fresco. alaskavoices.org/navigating-t...

Armies going to war often have more consideration for their enemies' holidays - and no law enforcement should ever consider the people they arrest as enemies. If you even think any of this arresting is necessary at all, which I don't.

ROTFL, good lord.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Earthquake check-in for the Anchorage and Valkey folks? I snoozed through it. Apparently some got a correct warning a min ahead of time? #alaskasky earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This is fun.

Andrea Pitzer always has insightful commentary. Worthwhile to follow.

Happy World Linguistics Day from Two Rivers, Alaska, USA.

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

Here's Greg Bovino playing dumb -- or maybe it's real!! -- about shooting Reverend Black while he was praying. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... @jackjenkins.me

There's a lot of captivating information in this (and the Reuters piece further down). What I take from it in addition is that the public disapproval worked - the protests *and* the critical reporting *and* the pulsions taken by politicians. Not to save USAID and its clients, but to weaken DOGE.

To the rest of the world about the world cup:

I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.

What else are you gonna do?

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

I admit, I didn’t have asking “did you hear about that 75th birthday rave for a Slovakian Catholic bishop?” on my bingo card.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Can’t wait for the Juneau premiere @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social

Never take public transportation for granted :)

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.