Delighted to share our new sea level risk project led by Daniel Gonzalez-Duque: But that sea level risk is... UNDERGROUND?? Read on... 🧵 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

How to know if your cat is plotting to kill you, 4846184: make the mistake of audible laughter in an otherwise quiet room.

As an Arctic researcher, it always comes out arcticle first. Still. Probably always.

“Countries that fail to develop adequate adaptation and monitoring capacity will face growing instability driven by drought, crop failure, water conflict, & displacement.” ⬇️ @erinsikorsky.bsky.social & Shuchi Talati say #climatechange should drive conversations about climate interventions, like SRM

IT. IS. HAPPENING. China's State Counsel has announced that provinces will be graded on their efforts to peak emissions before 2030. "Authorities ranked as making unsatisfactory progress ... could be subject to disciplinary processes if issues aren’t rectified." 💥 🧵

"29% of respondents in states w/ a 'divisive concepts' law said they had altered their research & 10% said they were looking for a job in a diff state. Researchers in education & nursing were among the most likely to have altered their research." www.chronicle.com/article/near...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Important read. "Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living. Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh look. Another “really bad idea” to fix climate change. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/c...

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Guess what? The Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics was funded again! Thanks to the Sloan Foundation! Berkeley. In person. August 17-21, 2026. Applications are due May 15th! Lineup includes J. Shapiro, T. Deryugina, R. Walker, J. Boomhower and more! www.auffhammer.com/summer-school

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

MORE CAT: There is no such thing as armrests, human. There is only cat. #morecat #caturday

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

Happy Superman Day. Golden Age Superman was a New Deal hero and a champion of the poor and oppressed. Never forget that Superman’s earliest enemies included: slumlords, crooked businessmen, corrupt politicians, mining tycoons, gangsters, and abusers. (Action Comics #1)

An underwater airplane hunter wants to unearth Alaska’s offshore minerals, writes Max Graham for the Northern Journal alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/17/a...

April is the trillest month, breeding Sick beats out of the dead land, mixing Tracks and memories, melting Faces with acid rain.

✨📊 Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/visualizing-ship-movements-with-ais-data

In Heatmap AM today: 🌬️ SunZia, the largest U.S. renewable project ever, comes online 🛶 Senate votes to open Minnesota Boundary Waters to mining ↩️ Energy Department brings back DAC, funding two hubs Cap off your week with the low-down from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/sunzia-wi...

aaaand here's another (jp morgan chase): for all the headlines about how finance doesn't care about climate anymore (there are many) the job postings are saying the opposite--they've truly never cared this much before

Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41... What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.

Students were most interested in 2 pieces of advice at a #SciComm career panel I did yesterday. I think this advice applies to folks in any 🧪 field Almost every single job I’ve gotten has been bc someone knows me. But what does it really mean to network in a way that leads to opportunities? 🧵

“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

it's happening "PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences" "Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

If you see this, post something you saved because it’s funny

Several cruise companies are opting out of bringing passengers to Tracy Arm in Southeast Alaska, citing ongoing safety concerns after a landslide last summer generated a tsunami and pushed a wave high up the opposite mountain wall. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

How much water lies beneath our feet? After years of research, scientists have an answer, and a new, detailed national map of groundwater. I spoke with @reedh2o.bsky.social of @princeton.edu and Laura Condon of @uarizona.bsky.social about their fascinating research: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

I liiiive for competency. It's one of my favorite things to watch.

As emotional as the return is, I am also fixated on the feeling of going from zero g to gravity to open ocean swells. Has to be disorienting. What a wild trick to play on your brain.

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

4. Augmenting hydrogen electrolysis newatlas.com/energy/hydro...

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

This one. Right in the feels.

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Moon Joy. Humanity. Integrity. Love. All words NASA has emphasized today in their mission ops.

Metals mining in Alaska still a big source of jobs, money and exports, reports @yjrosen.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/06/m...

"CAIL fosters critical thinking that empowers students, academics, and professionals to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social contexts."

Deplurize a movie: Whale person (invasion of the body snatcher)

A single way to die in the west

"A munitions sergeant at a dead run outranks a lieutenant who has no idea what's going on."

The Benjamin quote is still my fave description of this — the phases don’t have to be strictly sequential. “Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

Lived Experience remains undefeated as the best climate teacher.

Genuinely, one of the most daft and hopeful things to witness is a successful mission launch. I saw one live when I was 15… 🧵

Very much enjoying the deep dive on methane and CO2 from @hausfath.bsky.social and others. I especially appreciate @bobkopp.net's pithy way of making it all make sense below. Worth the rabbit hole ... if radiative forcing lights you up.