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Nature @nature.com · Aug 11

The order is the latest move by the Trump administration to assert control over US science

go.nature.com/3H6IxVr

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

go.nature.com

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Aug 8

So now, regardless of the scientific merit of your grant proposal, a Trump appointee with no specified qualifications gets to decide whether to fund it or not based entirely on how it aligns with the Trump administrations policy goals…seems real bad.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 6

"A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally stopped updating in May.

The database - which was produced by NOAA - is set to return this fall as a product of @climatecentral.org."

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed

Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

www.bloomberg.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Breaking: US shortage of cherries since so many were picked for the DOE ‘critical’ review of climate science.

A punnet that has only a single cherry in it.

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Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nat Geo would kill for legit science-driven adventure like they found in “For Winter,” over content less credibly grounded in pursuit of knowledge +humans pushing limits. Instead they’ve (Disney?) gotten cold feet & deeply disrespected my colleague Ali & her family. defector.com/why-did-nati...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

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OSU Ice Core Lab @osu-ice.bsky.social · Jul 22

See interviews from lab alum Ben Riddell-Young and PI Ed Brook in this Mother Jones article on the future of ice core research.

The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice

“There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”

www.motherjones.com

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · Jul 3

🚨The Trump Administration is proposing devastating cuts to key national agencies in Colorado that play a vital role in protecting our country, including through cutting-edge research on wildfires, droughts, and more.

Senator Bennet and I are fighting back against the attacks on NOAA, CIRES & CIRA 👇🏾

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Jun 26

Problems don’t exist if you don’t see them! 😐

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 25

The poor "Sea Ice Index" nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 😢

See thread for more on this tragic data loss: bsky.app/profile/zack...

Screenshot for the NSIDC Sea Ice Index, which says "This data set was recently downgraded to a “Basic” Level of Service. Learn more about what this means for users here" and "The Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for this NSIDC-produced data set, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025. Please contact NSIDC User Services if you have questions."

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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · Jun 16

Funding for ice core research is at risk. Ben Riddell-Young, a CIRES postdoctoral researcher in NOAA GML, shares why ice core research is important for understanding past and future climate change. “There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice

“There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”

www.motherjones.com

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Eos @eos.org · Apr 19

About 20 years ago, researchers drilled a 3,260-meter ice core in East Antarctica. Now, scientists are using it to uncover new insights. 🧪🌊

When Ice Ages End, Ocean Circulation Fine-Tunes Ocean Heat - Eos

New Antarctic ice core data bolster model predictions of ocean heat content during glacials and interglacials.

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Apr 14

@noaa.gov just released the 2024 CO2 growth rate and it doesn’t look good. It is more important than ever to continue monitoring how and researching why GHGs are changing and what these changes mean for our climate system.
@climate.noaa.gov

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 5

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 4

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

A screenshot of a text conversation discussing chaotic and troubling conditions at NOAA, expressing concerns about the administration's lack of care and the need for legislative attention.

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · Feb 24

We have an exciting opportunity for postdoc to join our group at @bas.ac.uk and take part in two big ice core projects: www.beyondepica.eu and @fetch4.bsky.social.

Package includes: mugs, stickers, maps, trips to Copenhagen, Grenoble and (maybe) Greenland.

bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · Feb 26

Having fun with new lecture on:

Wendt et al., 2024, Southern Ocean drives multidecadal atmospheric CO₂ rise during Heinrich Stadials | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Riddell-Young et al., 2025, Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period | Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Feb 19

Happening at the NOAA/NIST entrance in Boulder, CO today. Spread the word!

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OSU Ice Core Lab @osu-ice.bsky.social · Jan 30

New lab account! Please share this post to help us connect with our network.

We are a lab at Oregon State University headed by Dr. Ed Brook and Dr. Christo Buizert using ice samples to study past climate. See coldex.org for info on our search for old ice. #science #coldex #oregonstateuniversity

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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · Jan 29

Important paper in Nature today about collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. There is a positive isotope anomaly at Skytrain Ice Rise during the last interglacial, consistent with what we found in our high-resolution water-isotope simulations when WAIS collapses.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial - Nature

Sea salt data from an ice core record show that Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial, the last period of enhanced and sustained global warmth about 125,000 years ago.

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Jan 2

I'm thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper! We present ice core methane isotope data revealing that past abrupt climate changes likely triggered surges in wildfires, simultaneously driving rapid methane—and possibly CO2—rises 🌎🔥

Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period - Nature

An increase in wildfire extent and related greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to abrupt climatic changes during the last glacial period.

www.nature.com

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Jan 7

🚨 New paleoclimate paper published in Nature investigates ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice.
⬇️ Learn about the wide-ranging results from CIRES & Oregon State below.
👏🏽 Congrats to Ben Riddell-Young & his team, which includes REID CLARK from INSTAAR's Stable Isotope Lab

CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · Jan 7

During the last glacial period, rapid, repeating shifts in temperature & rainfall continually altered environments around the world. A new study led by CIRES' @benryoung.bsky.social finds past wildfire activity tracked these abrupt changes.
https://buff.ly/40nA6eY

White text over blue box: CIRES. News. Wildfires accompanied past periods of abrupt climate change. Image shows air bubbles in an ice sample.

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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · Jan 7

During the last glacial period, rapid, repeating shifts in temperature & rainfall continually altered environments around the world. A new study led by CIRES' @benryoung.bsky.social finds past wildfire activity tracked these abrupt changes.
https://buff.ly/40nA6eY

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Jan 2

@tinyicybubbles.bsky.social always making the best animations!

Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · Jan 2

Other than us (see right panel), what causes the fastest increases in CO₂ and the strangest bumps in CH₄ in the ice core record (see left panel)?

@benryoung.bsky.social's new paper may have the answer and it's literally 🔥.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵👇

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · Jan 2

Other than us (see right panel), what causes the fastest increases in CO₂ and the strangest bumps in CH₄ in the ice core record (see left panel)?

@benryoung.bsky.social's new paper may have the answer and it's literally 🔥.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵👇

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Jan 2

Big climate shifts from paleoclimate record (Heinrich and D-O for the paleonerds) may have been associated with

*90–150% increase in global wildfire extent*

which produced a fair chunk of carbon cycle shift associated with those events.

Bazinga.

Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Jan 2

I'm thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper! We present ice core methane isotope data revealing that past abrupt climate changes likely triggered surges in wildfires, simultaneously driving rapid methane—and possibly CO2—rises 🌎🔥

Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period - Nature

An increase in wildfire extent and related greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to abrupt climatic changes during the last glacial period.

www.nature.com

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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · Jan 2

And in case you don't have access to Nature articles, here's a shareable pdf link of the paper: rdcu.be/d5n7h

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