"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Dendrochronology has impact across disciplines and all scales! Excited about how we're working at TNC AZ to incorporate more tree-ring studies into our portfolio

what even is the fucking point

☕🌍 New #CoffeeGeogPod ! Kit Marie and Mexican paleobiologist @mathchaos.bsky.social explore #decolonising #paleontology, identity across borders, colonial legacies in science, renaming species, the Bone Wars, and more! 🎧 LISTEN: soundcloud.com/geogr... 📺 WATCH: youtu.be/jW1wIe66shg

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

Worst of the worst? No, this retired UK citizen who was in the US as a tourist had committed no crime, had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket. ICE and Trump are just our of control. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

A movie about the importance of climate science AND defeating Nazis? Hell yeah

Excited to have this paper out showing a strong coupling between Central American tree-ring oxygen isotopes and ocean–atmosphere dynamics (interbasin SST gradients, ITCZ, CLLJ... ). Many thanks to all co-authors! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Better than Lord of the Rings? That's debatable, but what is not debatable is tree ring science is fundamental to our understanding how forest work and what we can do to make them more resilient. www.nature.org/en-us/magazi...

Seems like a fun game for the dendro folks. Post a tree you photographed

A group studying the Ring of Fire, co-led by 15 First Nations along with a federal agency, is calling for immediate environmental monitoring ‘before any development occurs,’ along with health care funding for nearby communities. thenarwhal.ca/ring-of-fire...

The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.

A Dry, Warm January Leaves the West With the Worst Snowpack in Decades www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I've seen several Big Climate Accounts™ post about how the recent winter storm was made worse by climate change. It's a convenient narrative. s But what is "worse"? Colder temperatures? More snow? More freezing rain? Is there any primary literature supporting the idea of worse snowstorms? 1/

Nevermind the jobs you had five classes you took in college: Quaternary Geology Land Plants, A Survey Paleobotany Evolution of Jazz German Literature

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Led by Roel Brienen, our paper in @natcomms.nature.com "Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms" is finally out and formatted. Other bluesky folks contributing to the paper were @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social and @rmtrr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meanwhile, Esri's popular climate action MOOC opens on Feb 18. Explore how GIS is uniquely suited to address our changing planet. I’m pleased as hostess to guide you thru this free, 6-week course, that features @globalecoguy.bsky.social + @katharinehayhoe.com Save your spot → ow.ly/7jiJ30sS4i6

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New online! Why 50-year studies are needed in a 3-year-grant world

"The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries, which conducted its study together with scientists at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social , says the research also shows that financial firms aren’t applying the same rigor to their handling of #climate as they do to other serious risks"

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

😬 Look, there are exceptions (go follow @sharanjit.bsky.social), but most actuaries have very little climate training.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Ive said this off-hand on panels and interviews over the last few years sort of as a joke, but after Trump’s invasion of Venezuela I realized I am dead serious We need to start talking like the chemtrail people

Technically it belongs to the indigenous people who were already here.

The worst part about this? The NWS people make some damn nice looking maps. AI models are good! They have value! AI generated images? Bad. Absolutely no reason to use them for weather forecasting.

Deadline Friday!

Community college, junior college & city college faculty, are you interested in going to sea for eight days on an Alaska-to-Bay Area route with STEMSEAS? Join me! stemseas.org/2026-2yc-fac... We have an informational webinar this Friday afternoon. ⚒️🌊

Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. By NYT Lisa Friedman www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/c...

And this will all be sold to us as ”this way you will have more time to do research.”

Got some good news to end 2025. Found out my promotion to full professor was approved and will be effective July 1. Glad to end the year with some good news :)

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!

Universities are combining departments, eliminating programs, pushing AI, buying out tenured profs and moving from cheap labor to the cheapest most exploited labor imaginable

Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us. One of the featured artworks is “Rivers Feed the Trees #467” by Meredith Nemirov. Year and Medium: 2022, acrylic on historic topographic map

Even at research intensive (R1) universities in the US, "tenure density" is already below 50%.

For geo folks: Barrick and Newmont want to pump groundwater to dewater their gold mines. That lowers groundwater, and groundwater and surface water are connected physically (if not legally).

Happening now! Drop by if you are still at AGU and want to learn what a spatial network of tree-ring Hg has to say.

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.

True.

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

Interesting read.

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Interesting model here. “If universities genuinely want to realize their potential to solve societal challenges, they must create mechanisms to recognize publicly engaged research in the P&T process” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...