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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 10h

Hi everyone! New equitable climate futures job at Brown working with ecf.brown.edu. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Equitable Climate Futures | Brown University

Equitable Climate Futures is an initiative that will build Brown’s capacity for climate research, with a strong focus on under-resourced and historically marginalized groups.

ecf.brown.edu

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you senator. You do your work and I'll do mine.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 20d

A quick summary by me of a new instance of an old story.

@realclimate.org Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman

RealClimate: Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merc...

www.realclimate.org

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 20d

Biject this you ingrates!

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 20d

One to one AND onto?

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29d

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582

Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...

www.nature.com

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Aida Alvera-Azcárate @aida-alvera.bsky.social · 28d

It's about time we start organizing the Liege Colloquium for 2026! Submesocale Processes in the ocean will be the topic, a revisit of the Colloquium of 2016. 10 years of advances!

I'll try to document here the journey towards organizing such an event, maybe there's interest? #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪

Satellite image showing the ocean in shades of blue and green, with swirls and filaments. The land is in green. The image is located in the southeast coast of Norway, measured by Sentinel 2 on 19 May 2025

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hot weiners all the way

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Paul Higgins @phiggins.bsky.social · Aug 28

AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report

Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025

www.ametsoc.org

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Aug 25

More bad news for Rhode Island wind farms. Now they are going after transparency in funding of activists:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Jennifer Weeks @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hell yes, we should (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We Should All Be Biking Along the Beach

Oceanfront bicycle paths aren’t just a joy to ride on. They can help relieve beach traffic and mitigate the ill effects of overtourism. Why are they so rare in the US?

www.bloomberg.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Portal to help support the NASEM fast-track effort to assess the EPA endangerment finding (deadline for submissions, Aug 27)

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/ant...

www.nationalacademies.org

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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · Aug 8

Small advertisement for the session on emulators convening by me & @baylorfk.bsky.social , Helene Hewitt, @shrutinath97.bsky.social , Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, @cwomack101.bsky.social.

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Anson Cheung @ansonhcheung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excited to (finally) share my new paper on Pacific SST and western North America hydroclimate during the Holocene! TL;DR They are connected, CO2 and precession both affect hydroclimate. Thanks @xiaojingdu.bsky.social @meredithparish.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social+others
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...

The Influence of Carbon Dioxide and Precession on Western North American Hydroclimate and Pacific Sea Surface Temperature During the Holocene

A network of proxy records shows western North American hydroclimate and Pacific sea surface temperature co-evolved during the Holocene The western North America became wetter while the eastern e...

dx.doi.org

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jul 17

Go team SIMCoast!

www.uri.edu/news/2025/07...

URI awarded $7 million NSF grant to boost research excellence in environmental microplastics

KINGSTON, R.I. – July 8, 2025 – Microplastics can be found everywhere. They’re not just in waterways like Narragansett Bay but they can be found in shellfish, drinking water, and the human body. Resea...

www.uri.edu

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jul 17

You can do what I do, use en dashes in the place of em dashes because I am too lazy to click 3 times--or do parentheses--2 clicks will do. Too lazy to be a bot.

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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jul 7

I was thinking of that song, too. It took so long to bake it.

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Michael White @mwclimatesci.bsky.social · Jul 7

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12840758

Job Title: Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience Location(s): New York, Shanghai, or Beijing (Internal candidates from hub locations are welcome to apply...

www.nature.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification" | My blog post on our new article (@xuekeli.bsky.social, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social, Shannon Christiansen & yours truly) out this week in @pnas.org: michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...

Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification | Michael E. Mann

Here’s the press tip from PNAS on our new article demonstrating an increase over the past 70+ years in the occurrence of planetary wave resonance events […]

michaelmann.net

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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · Jun 12

Conveners for the session on emulators: Helene Hewitt, @baylorfk.bsky.social, @shrutinath97.bsky.social, myself, Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Christopher Womack

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jun 9

It's important to learn (& teach) peer reviewing! Here are my notes on that:

fox-kemper.com/classes/EEPS...

It's important to teach how to read scientific papers alongside teaching how to write them:

fox-kemper.com/classes/EEPS...

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jun 8

Every time a Brit I know has lost weight, they report the tally in stone. They then refuse to clarify what a stone is in any other system.

Because of the peculiarities of the imperial system, I suspect every Brit has their own personal stone kept in a vault which constitutes their own standard.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 5

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
theonion.com/fema-ch...

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind

‘How Come I Feel Something But Don’t See It?’ Asks Department Head

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