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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 1d

What a pleasure it is to be able to dive into details of model tuning, incorporating new processes, code performance in front of colleagues alike 😍
@esm2025.bsky.social

ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 2d

"Advancing Ocean Biogeochemistry in the ICON Framework: Challenges and Opportunities"

Recent advances, challenges faced, as well as opportunities discovered during the process are presented.

By @tatianailyina.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe it’s already the final GA of @esm2025.bsky.social
The project has been instrumental to advancing the representation of ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry in our new ICON-based Earth system model. The networking and collaborations have been invaluable!

ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 2d

👋Bonjour from Météo-France Campus, Toulouse!
We're starting our Final GA! Great to reunite with colleagues from across Europe to share what we've achieved during the 4.5 years of ESM2025. 🌐
Welcome by @smlmrn.bsky.social. Thanks to #CNRM @meteofrance.com @cnrs.fr

#ESM2025inToulouse kicks off! 🥳

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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 2d

"Advancing Ocean Biogeochemistry in the ICON Framework: Challenges and Opportunities"

Recent advances, challenges faced, as well as opportunities discovered during the process are presented.

By @tatianailyina.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 2d

We're now following a set of presentations on the results from our Core Theme 1 - Improving processes realism in ESMs.🧵👇

To know more about this Core Theme:
bit.ly/ESM2025_CT1

#ESM2025inToulouse

CT1 - ESM2025

Project structure Core Theme 1 – Improving processes realism in ESMs This core theme consists of three workpages that aim to improve the representation of a number of important processes […]

www.esm2025.eu

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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 2d

👋Bonjour from Météo-France Campus, Toulouse!
We're starting our Final GA! Great to reunite with colleagues from across Europe to share what we've achieved during the 4.5 years of ESM2025. 🌐
Welcome by @smlmrn.bsky.social. Thanks to #CNRM @meteofrance.com @cnrs.fr

#ESM2025inToulouse kicks off! 🥳

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 3d

Klimaschutz auf lokaler Ebene ist der Weg zu Innovationen, mehr Lebensqualität und einem positiven Einfluss auf unsere Gesundheit.

Hamburg braucht dieses verbindliche Instrument zur Umsetzung konkreter Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz.

Hamburger #Zukunftsentscheid am 12.10.
zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 3d

The #Klimaschutzverbesserungsgesetz includes concrete measures, such as 30 km/h speed limit, earlier shutdown of oil and gas heaters, full electrification of transport.
Together with the much needed climate protection, they go hand in hand with benefits for our health and life quality in #Hamburg.

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 3d

At the Referendum on 12 Oct, the residents of #Hamburg will decide on the Law for Better Climate Protection - a crucial stepping stone for our city to achieve climate-neutrality already by 2040. We need such binding platform for innovation in Hamburg!
#Zukunftsentscheid
zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid

Gemeinsam machen wir Hamburgs Klimapolitik sozial, planbar und verantwortungsbewusst. Stimme am 12.10.2025 beim Volksentscheid mit JA für ein besseres Klimaschutzgesetz.

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

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Markus Trapp @textundblog.bsky.social · 3d

Liebe Hamburger:innen! Jede Stimme zählt. Ich hoffe, eure gehört dazu:

„Mindestens 265.000 Menschen müssen am 12.10. mit JA abstimmen, damit Hamburg ein besseres #Klimaschutzgesetz bekommt.“

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid

Gemeinsam machen wir Hamburgs Klimapolitik sozial, planbar und verantwortungsbewusst. Stimme am 12.10.2025 beim Volksentscheid mit JA für ein besseres Klimaschutzgesetz.

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

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Eileen Wolf @eileenwolf.bsky.social · 4d

"Eine gesunde psychische Verarbeitung bedeutet immer auch, den eigenen Handlungsspielraum zu nutzen und auf unterschiedlichste Weise aktiv zu werden."

Deshalb mag ich konkrete Vorhaben wie den #Zukunftsentscheid. Wir alle können etwas tun. @leadohm.bsky.social
www.zdfheute.de/wissen/psych...

Wie die Psychologie der Verdrängung nachhaltiges Verhalten behindert - die Wissens-Kolumne von Terra X und NANO

Die Strategie der Verdrängung blockiert nachhaltiges Handeln. Der Extremwetterkongress verlangt hinzuschauen. Wie das - gesund - gelingen kann.

www.zdfheute.de

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KURS FAHRRADSTADT @kursfahrradstadt.bsky.social · 5d

Moin #Hamburg,
moin Zukunft!

Bitte helft alle, damit der #Zukunftsentscheid ein Erfolg wird und Hamburg beim #Klimaschutz voran kommt!

--》Stimmt mit "Ja"!
(Und erinnert noch einmal Freunde, Familie und Kollegen daran, es ebenfalls zu tun 🙂

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid

Gemeinsam machen wir Hamburgs Klimapolitik sozial, planbar und verantwortungsbewusst. Stimme am 12.10.2025 beim Volksentscheid mit JA für ein besseres Klimaschutzgesetz.

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 17d

The drop in CO2 uptake on land (LULUCF) in Finland and Sweden isn't without political consequence.

Finland and Sweden now asking the EU for more flexibility. Norway has also made similar comments (but is not an EU member country).

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Swedish LULUCF is now about half what it was a decade ago

Finnish LULUCF has from a 30 MtCO2/yr sink to a 10MtCO2/yr source.

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 17d

So very proud of @danaifilippou.bsky.social for her best poster award, featuring her PhD project on how marine 🌊 extreme events evolve under increasing and decreasing CO2 emissions
👇
wisskomm.social/@MPI_Meteo/1...

MPI für Meteorologie (@[email protected])

Angehängt: 1 Bild 👏 Congrats to Danai Filippou, IMPRS-ESM PhD candidate in the group of @[email protected], for winning the best poster award at the 23rd Swiss Climate Summer School in Ascona! 🏆 ...

wisskomm.social

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Jan 29

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

euphoric photo of dolphins jumping under a rainbow

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SCWIST @scwist.ca · Jan 29

Women in leadership often face a double standard: assertiveness is "too aggressive," while showing empathy is "too soft."

In reality, women who lead with both compassion and determination challenge outdated stereotypes and pave the way for a more inclusive and effective leadership model.

Text on a blue background with a quote from former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about battling perceptions of weakness, asserting compassion and strength.

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Karsten Schwanke @kschwanke.bsky.social · Jan 29

Yess!

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · Jul 8

One of the functions of conservation science in the current era is to act as witness and document specifically how, where and why biodiversity and the ecosystems that support us are being destroyed. This in itself is an act of resistance. 🌏

Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jul 7

Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 9

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated

archive.is/8sYNv

Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale.
The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models.
But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO₂ “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”. “You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”

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Dr Melanie Zeppel @drmelz.bsky.social · Jul 10

Angry about the shut-down of Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, be inspired by these Women of Climate, awarded Order of Australia 2025.

Merryn York, Commissioner of Australian Energy Market Commission.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merryn_...
#WomenofClimate #SuperstarsofSTEM
@ckiernan.bsky.social

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · Jul 10

Scientists have been fearlessly curious in uncovering the complexity of Earth system feedbacks. What they study now are the feedbacks of ecosystems' demise, exacerbated wildfires, glacier melting, permafrost thawing, changing AMOC, etc.
At times the fear becomes more powerful than curiosity.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hitze ist bekanntlich ein stiller Killer. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass die Hitzewelle in Europa im Juni in den Großstädten 2300 Menschenleben beendet hat. Davon sind 1.500 Hitzetote der Klimaerwärmung zuzuschreiben.
www.taz.de/!6096071

Hitzewelle im Juni: 1.500 Tote durch Klimawandel

Die extremen Temperaturen im Juni wurden deutlich gefährlicher, weil sich die Erde weiter erhitzt. Betroffen ist vor allem eine bestimmte Gruppe.

www.taz.de

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jul 9

Interesting idea - what if sports teams championed the conservation of the species they use in their names and emblems?

@[email protected]‬

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Jul 9

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social . @justcentre.bsky.social

Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis

Our research shows people are strongly in favour of measures to tackle the climate crisis. They just need to be listened to, says professor of energy and climate governance Rebecca Willis

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · Jul 9

There is hardly a research funding program these days that doesn't force climate scientists into the AI hype. Basic science aiming at improving models and collecting new data is difficult to fund. We need this basic science to understand and quantify the changes in the Earth system.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 9

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated

archive.is/8sYNv

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · Jul 9

🌡️ June 2025 was the 3rd warmest June globally

🥵 June 2025 saw an exceptional #heatwave impact large parts of western Europe

🌊 This heatwave was made more intense by record ocean temperatures.

#climate change means heatwaves are:
🌞more frequent,
📈 more intense &
🌍 impact more people

🧪⚒️

Anomalies and extremes in the average surface air temperature between 17 June and 2
July 2025. The extreme categories (‘coolest’ and ‘warmest’) are based on rankings of average
temperatures for the same 16 days during 1979–2024. The other categories describe how the
temperatures compare to the distribution of these temperatures during the 1991–2020 reference
period. ‘Much cooler/warmer than average’ - cooler/warmer than 90% of temperatures.
‘Cooler/warmer than average’ - than 66% of temperatures. ‘Near average’ - within the middle 33%.
Credit: C3S/ECMWF

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fellow Climate Scientists,
collecting data, developing models, designing experiments, testing hypothesis to address knowledge gaps in our understanding of the Earth system - all this is an act of resistance!
🧪🌊🌍

Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · Jul 8

One of the functions of conservation science in the current era is to act as witness and document specifically how, where and why biodiversity and the ecosystems that support us are being destroyed. This in itself is an act of resistance. 🌏

Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jul 7

Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3

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Volker Quaschning @volkerquaschning.bsky.social · Jul 8

#Erdgas kann klimaschädlicher als Kohle sein!
Warum will Ministerin Reiche jetzt sauteure Erdgaskraftwerke subventionieren und uns abhängiger von fossilen Importen machen?
Das beerdigt alle Klimaschutzbemühungen!
https://taz.de/Fossile-Energie/!6055067/

Fossile Energie: Ist Flüssiggas noch klimaschädlicher als Kohle?

Die Crème de la Crème der LNG-Branche trifft sich zum Gipfel im Berliner Edelhotel Adlon. Die Klimabewegung protestiert. Die Politik geht hin.

taz.de

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Mikael Karlsson @mikaelkarlsson.bsky.social · Jul 5

Climate researchers face an antagonistic climate of denial, scepticism, and distrust. This impacts their communication and research negatively.

Read further in a new study published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social by Laila Mendy and me.

Our findings are concerning.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coping with an antagonistic climate: Researchers' perspectives - Ambio

Swedish researchers face an antagonistic climate of denial, scepticism, and distrust. Despite Sweden’s reputation as a climate forerunner, our interviews with 30 researchers show problems for conducti...

link.springer.com

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Axel Kleidon @akleidon.bsky.social · Jul 5

35 Grad im Sommer - ist das noch normal? Nein, ist es nicht. Es ist der Klimawandel. Im neuen Youtube Video und diesem Blogbeitrag erkläre ich es mit etwas Physik - was Temperaturen im Wesentlichen prägt, wie Variabilität entsteht, und warum Extreme so viel häufiger werden.

Neu auf youtube: Warum extreme Temperaturen so viel häufiger werden

35 Grad im Sommer - ist das noch normal? Nein, ist es nicht. Es ist der Klimawandel. Im neuen Youtube Video und diesem Blogbeitrag erkläre ich es mit etwas Physik - was Temperaturen im Wesentlichen prägt, wie Variabilität entsteht, und warum Extreme so viel häufiger werden.

earthsystem.org

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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · Jul 4

What if our time and funding would go into studying something more meaningful?

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