Checks out

Only well-off AAAS fellows are "ok"; the rest of us aren't. If the science minibus passes, the decimation remains. Colette notes NIH ECRs are crushed. NCAR is not explicitly protected. Money won't arrive before a 5% grant success rate at NASA planetary forces more ECRs out after the 20% NASA RIF.

Published today in "Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025", by Pan et al. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I talked with @wuwmradio.bsky.social about data centers and how they affect the environment: www.wuwm.com/what-are-dat...

🌟 Editor's Pick! 🌟 “Simulations from a new lake model explain how liquid water could have been maintained over Mars in a cold climate, thus resolving a critical scientific gap in our understanding of Mars’ early history.” 🔗 eos.org/editor-highl... #AGUPubs @AGU_Eos

The ocean keeps getting hotter: In 2025, it absorbed 23 zettajoules (that’s 23 * 10²¹ joules) of heat, breaking a record for the ninth consecutive year. 🧪🌎🌊 eos.org/research-and...

@agu.org should give the social media person at Eos a raise.

Starting 2026 with a bang, our paper is published! 🎉🎉🎉 In it, we explored how polar amplification depends on the underlying climate state, with implications for understanding the past and future evolution of polar climate change! Enjoy! :) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118423

Have you seen the permafrost? Me neither. Catch a glimpse of its perils though in Yorgos Avgeropoulos' documentary (trailer here). www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mF... #climatecrisis #fossilfuels #arctic

The ocean absorbs excess human emitted CO₂ from the atmosphere, and through a series of reactions, decreases seawater pH in a process known as #OceanAcidification. #OADayofAction 🧪🌊🦑 www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/file/Haw... 📈 by #NOAA and UH Mānoa

Do alkalinity or nutrient levels have a bigger impact on marine phytoplankton? New research from @eth-eaps.bsky.social provides answers, with ramifications for oceanic carbon cycles and climate change. eos.org/research-spo...

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Marine heat waves can make heat over land much worse.

🚨 The first preliminary analysis from the Japan Meteorological Agency highlights 2025 as the third warmest year on record globally (since at least 1891 in this data). Additional climate rankings will be released later for other datasets. Graph and methods by ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/prod...

Scientists and PBS reporter Miles O'Brien on their way to Thwaites Glacier www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Here's to 2026! More jobs for scientists, more papers, more good science, and a brilliant FOD! Peace and love to the world. Let's crash it!

Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

Happy New Era's Eve Everyone!

Pulling climate data offline, canceling research grants, and de-funding scientific institutions doesn't just suppress climate information. It weakens the foundation we rely on to make good decisions of any kind. In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!

“You can’t just get these things online,” said Dr. Williams...Older material hasn’t been converted to a digital format, while many recent scientific & engineering journals and texts are behind a digital paywall and will be harder to access from outside the library. #histsci #histSTM #humanities 🗃️📜📚

I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work. Some are amazingly good. Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract. Here are some basic tips: 🧪

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away. They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity. 🎄💫🔭

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.

Offspring recommended. I might not have done so bad after all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

#OnThisDay in 1872, the expedition of HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, travelling nearly 70,00 nautical miles and cataloguing over 4000 unknown species over 4 years. This pioneering expedition, organised by the Royal Society, laid the foundations of oceanography.

Chile is to create a 150,000 hectare national park at 'the edge of the world', with forests, peatlands, glaciers, and coastline. Protecting wilderness is by far the best weapon we have against ecological collapse. share.google/QqQvdJDwY5Mt...

🌟 Day 5 of #AGU25 — Friday
 The final day of the meeting is here! Thank you for coming to New Orleans and for the science, connections, and community you brought to AGU25.

Please join the American Geophysical Union in advocating to safeguard NCAR. agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Historic times.

#NCAR is a leading institution in climate science. Climate science is not woke. It is the science that explains the evidence we have over the last few decades of an earth system that is stressed by anthropogenic interference.

#AGU2025 #againstallodds

An important legal victory. If DOE is going to appoint a group of contrarian scientists to assist in efforts to repeal the Endangerment Finding, they must show their work to the public: www.eenews.net/articles/jud...

Sometimes I feel completely defeated, drained and worn out. Not always. But the net is negative though. That’s not good. #too_many_idiots

Once upon a time only the cool kids debated typeface fonts. #calibri4ever #wastefullgov www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Climate injustice: “…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”

Noted. medium.com/@j.o.umsonst...

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Goodbye to my incredible lead author team for Chapter 8 in IPCC's 7th assessment report. I will miss you all. IPCC, TSU, amazing LAM1 colleagues from all 3 working groups. I will miss Paris... All this till LAM2, thankfully. #IPCC_AR7 #LAM1

Last month was the 4th lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of November. This was 1,320,000 km² below the 1981-2010 November average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

📣 PRESS RELEASE #IPCC authors meet in Paris 🇫🇷 to begin drafting the Seventh Assessment Report More than six hundred experts appointed to the three Working Groups of the IPCC are gathering in Paris this week to draft IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. 🔗 bit.ly/4ir09cC

#IPCC Chair Jim Skea said of the IPCC’s first joint Lead Author Meeting in Paris today that the meeting marks the beginning of our assessment of the latest science related to climate change. 🔗 bit.ly/4ir09cC

First in IPCC history as well a special focus will be placed on methods and processes to ensure on Gender, Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity. So proud to be part of this! #ipcc_ar7

Here we go, @ipcc.bsky.social first lead author meeting (and for the first time ever covering all three working groups) A mixed feeling of excitement and responsibility