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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 6h

The University: We need to become leaders in climate and sustainability and there is an urgent need to develop climate science courses.

Me: Our department has climate in the name and we already offer courses on climate science at every level.

The University: Who invited you to this meeting?

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 3d

🌊 New study overturns the “permanent El Niño” idea for the warm Pliocene

Upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific has persisted for 5 million years, even under ~3°C warmer climates

Future upwelling may be more resilient than feared…

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene

Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...

www.science.org

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 6d

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

www.latimes.com

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 7d

The German State of Baden-Württemberg is sponsoring 14 fellowships for researchers whose work is under political pressure in the US. Total funding for the fellowships is 3.6 million EUR. Freiburg, Konstanz and Tübingen are the participating universities.
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www.myscience.de/en/news/wire...

Baden-Württemberger Forschungsinstitute erhalten 3,6 Millionen Euro für ’Global Fellowships’

www.myscience.de

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

It could, but the article was specifically about coal and subsidies to the coal industry. There are ways to make mining less damaging but there so far is not a way to stop coal from releasing CO2.

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

This is so true! I have been involved in several committees where we get a handful of applications so PLEASE nominate yourselves or better yet nominate a deserving colleague.

Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 8d

PLEASE NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR ACADEMIC AWARDS.

And ask friends to nominate you. And apply again next year if you don't get it.

I've been on a handful of committees that can give people things. A frequent complaint is that we can't give great people recognition if we don't "see" them in the pool.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 8d

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

Short-term initiatives to rescue industries with no long-range planning are only going to delay the inevitable end when some future government decides that they are spending too much $$ propping up that community. end/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

slowed their transition to renewable (and cheaper) sources of electricity. This story is also not an unfamiliar one to anyone who grew up in a place with a resource based economy. But it should be a lesson that government intervention is never a permanent solution. 5/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

of the coal business. The effects on those communities who depended on mining were devastating. Many of those who lost their jobs coal mining went on to find work in the oil sands our west. NS power was then left with a bunch of legacy coal generating plants that they need to maintain which has 4/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

In the 1980s as cheaper and cleaner sources of coal from western Canada and the US were found NS coal started to suffer but NS power continued to purchase local coal to support the industry. This was coupled with the fallout from the Westray disaster in 1992 and by 2001 the government was out 3/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

This led to coal naturally being used early on for electricity generation. NS started to move away from coal for electricity but then the 1970's oil crisis caused the province to reinvest in local coal with the government stepping in forming DEVCO to boost local coal as a domestic alternative. 2/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 8d

"Mine, Baby, Mine': Trump Officials Offer $625 million to rescue Coal." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...
This reminds me of something my home province of Nova Scotia did that still has lasting repercussions. Nova Scotia has a long history of coal mining. 1/

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 12d

I love that this particular bristlecone looks like a dragon

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 13d

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

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Climate.us @climate.us · 14d

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social · 14d

🌳 🪓 When the chopping begins, history ends. At Columbia's Tree Ring Lab, every piece of timber tells a story.

Rings of Time: Seeking Clues to the Future in Urban Timber

Lamont scientists are working with lumber salvage companies to preserve old timbers from demolished structures that offer rich clues to climate data and human history.

news.climate.columbia.edu

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 15d

Timmins, Ont., has a sordid history with mining, from boom to bust, and the scars left behind. With a massive nickel mine set to open nearby, many want the jobs and benefits, but also a more cautious approach to critical minerals. @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/critical-min...

Massive nickel mine planned north of Timmins, Ontario | The Narwhal

Amid a critical minerals rush, Canada Nickel’s Crawford mine project offers risks and opportunities for Timmins, in northern Ontario.

thenarwhal.ca

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 16d

Also those awards that land you as chair of the awards committee for the following year.

👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 16d

I learned a new word this weekend:

Congratudolences!

It’s what you say when someone wins a something that is arguably an honor… but will also lead to more work. Like the winner of the pie eating contest & the prize is more pie.

Or being elected department chair.

Hi! I’m the new CUNY Astro chair!

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 16d

I wonder if this would make sorting pollen for isotopes and dating cheape.

Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 19d

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 16d

Just on my way back from a quick scouting trip to see and sample some Great Basin Bristlecone pine.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 18d

Here's a gofundme to help out Josh Bregy, who recently was fired from his tenure-track job at Clemson

Donate to Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy, organized by Steven Lam

My name is Steven Lam, and I am a proud alumnus of Clemson University. It breaks my… Steven Lam needs your support for Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy

www.gofundme.com

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 21d

It was great to chat with @emilypont.bsky.social @heatmap.news about my book EXTRACTION. We discussed why mining is so conflictual, the power relations of extractive frontiers, how organized communities fare better & why we should use the public sector to proactively plan + govern. Link ⬇️

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 22d

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor - Environmental Studies

jobs.sjsu.edu

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 28d

Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology

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