A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Are you interested in studying how different farming practices influence soils, including chemical levels and bioavailability, functional soil outcomes and other ecosystem endpoints? Check out this ECOSOLUTIONS PhD! @ukceh.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A team from UKCEH, @metoffice.gov.uk, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ecmwf.int used satellite observations & advanced modelling to identify and investigate the causes of wildfires from Mar24-Feb25 fire season and the role played by climate & land use change. 🎥 Co-lead Dr Doug Kelley 2/

Co-led by the UEA, @ukceh.bsky.social, @metoffice.gov.uk and @ecmwf.int the second annual State of Wildfires report has found that human-driven climate change made wildfires many times larger and more destructive. Read more 👉 bit.ly/47sZNhC #Research #Wildfires #ClimateChange #NewReport

Our Planet. Decoded. UKCEH makes sense of environmental complexity to power decisions that shape a better future. We don’t just examine our planet, we decode it – working out how to build a better tomorrow. 🎞️ youtu.be/s9fBwN5-kxM #UKCEH #EnvironmentalScience 🧪

A request for weather interested volunteers! Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

Coming soon on Counting the Earth... 🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service. 🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!

Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin? A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376... Please share!

Heading to IAHS 2025 in Roorkee 🇮🇳? 🌏 I’m co-hosting a side event + giving a talk with the ROBIN Network! Let’s talk reference hydrological networks, drought indicators & climate change detection! 🧵👇

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied

On the same day in the Telegraph:

curly hair is an adventure because sometimes you wake up and it looks great and sometimes you wake up and it looks incomprehensibly bad and there is no way to know what kind of day today is going to be until, like Perseus, you tiptoe to take a fateful look into the mirror

Much less CO2 can be safely stored underground than we thought, scientists warn If we simply dump ongoing fossil fuel emissions underground, we may run out of space… www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

Really wonderful visualisation by my old colleague @laorso.bsky.social, showing that we usually get either sun or wind in Britain. Days where there's little sun or wind do happen and are difficult, but they're not that common... ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

With exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK this year, hydrologists at UKCEH address the question of whether #globalwarming is increasing severity of #droughts in a guest post for @carbonbrief.org

Numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF IFS) still outperform AI weather models in forecasting record-breaking hot and cold extremes and unseen wind extremes Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724 with Zhongwei Zhang @erichfischer.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and Sebastian Engelke

🌟 We're excited to have our water science director Dr Glenn Watts as a keynote speaker at next month's Hydro-JULES conference, Land and water in a changing climate, at the Royal Society. 🖱️ Book your place! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l... 🧪

Dr Ségolène Berthou @metoffice.gov.uk is a keynote speaker at the Hydro-JULES 'Land and Water in a Changing Climate' event on 24 September. Dr Berthou currently leads activities on the Regional Environmental Prediction collaboration... Register here: buff.ly/UVhq3K4 🧪

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means. If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

💧 How can we plan for future droughts when past observations are limited? UKCEH hydroclimatologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social explains how ‘hindcasts’ and the UNSEEN method can help us explore rare but plausible scenarios, filling gaps in observations. New blog post: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

📰 Groundbreaking new partnership to deliver a world class public weather service announced Read our news release 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

1) is #NERC seeking to limit the number of proposals it receives? 2) why is #NERC prohibiting the resubmission of rejected proposals; and 3) is 1) related to 2)?

Yes climate change is already killing people www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Okay, I'm having trouble finding reviewers for an article on river morphology and its impacts. Lots declined and 1 late 21 days. Can anybody suggest a reviewer or volunteer to review? #AcademicSky #GeoSky

What is the hydrological outlook for the UK in the weeks and months ahead? Steve Turner talks us through the likely situation for river flows and groundwater levels. See the full outlook: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook 🧵🧪 1/ #WaterResources @steveturner.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage is celebrating its 201st birthday episode on Thursday at 11am. Questions include: 'so, climate change, are we screwed?' from Nish Kumar Also featuring Brian Cox, @robinince.bsky.social, @deborahmeaden.bsky.social & Mel Giedroyc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C. Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.

As the UK prepares for an extended heatwave over coming days, interesting new @natgeosci.nature.com research suggests longer heatwaves as climate warms #climate #heatwave www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow. #climate #remotesensing

📣 Registration is now open for the HydroJULES 'Land and water in a changing climate' event. This event on 24 September at the Royal Society will bring together modellers, industry and practitioners to share new developments and visions for the future. 🔗 enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l...

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Long-term UKCEH research has been key to ensuring offshore wind developments are considered with minimal effects to #seabird populations. A new study shows how NERC funding delivered via research centres has had a crucial role in developing the UK offshore wind industry. tinyurl.com/bddafm87 🧪

Weather Balloons xkcd.com/3107/

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world. Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story. And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

THINGS YOU LOVE TO SEE: IT there's more to do and further to go, but this (and the resounding vote against an amendment that banned 'postal abortions') is a great step

We’d like to congratulate Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez, who has just been appointed OBE in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List for his achievements in spearheading climate science education! 🔗 rdg.ac/45UlcQA @unirdg-met.bsky.social

UK Hydrological Summary for May: Recent rainfall brought some respite but summer began with depleted river flows, groundwater levels & reservoir stocks. Increases risk of further dry weather impacts, with climbing evaporation rates limiting rainfall effectiveness 🔗 nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Do you have any hydrological model outputs driven by UKCP18 climate projections? If so then this hackathon is for you! @digitaluom.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukcp18-hyd...

North Atlantic Ocean patterns can signal UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance; offering major potential for early drought forecasting. 📢 Published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment! Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s432.... #UKDroughts #Teleconnections #Forecasting

New CANARI research reveals predictability for UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance 🏜️ Find out more in the paper published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, led by @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo

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Loch Leven Matters! Tell us how the water quality in Loch Leven affects you in our Community Conversations and join us for a science activity evening to discover how we research the lake in this series of free events from 11-13 June. Sign up today buff.ly/ZGA3EHd 🧪

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/42ZB3vq

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

🖥️ The UK Hydrological Outlooks Portal allows you to view the river flows outlook in more detail specific to your local area. ➡️ ukho.ceh.ac.uk #hydrology #water