New #ScienceCommunication website blog from me. Here, I look at another recent #megalodon study - one that used zinc isotopes & found that the giant shark wasn't just a whale killer; but probably ate whatever it wanted.

Give a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega... 🦈

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

From ancient rainfall to roaming hominins — we’re connecting proxy records, climate models, and evolutionary stories. Join us at AGU 2025 to rethink how climate shaped human history.
#Paleoclimate #ProxyVsModel #HumanEvolution #30thJuly

The most recent U.S. ambassador to Viktor Orban’s Hungary: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.”

I was also a Fellow. This program brought me from my home country of Australia, providing me resources+networks that paved my career path to becoming a full professor in a US institution. Having now worked with many undergrad/grad/postdocs, I have witnessed CGC benefits to society at large.

🧵 PBS and NPR have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now.

Trump's unusual "rescission" request has been sent to Congress, starting a 45-day clock for Congress to either approve or ignore the proposal.

What is Past is Prologue:
#Paleoclimate constraints on #ECS #ClimateSensitivity #GreenhouseGas sensitivity of Earth's #Climate

First of 3 papers this summer. Next two will rule out some ECS using Data Assimilation of past climate archives

essopenarchive.org/users/921675...

@ccolose.bsky.social

We have a new paper now online in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a group of amazing ECR coauthors reviewing methods and applications of (offline) paleoclimate data assimilation and looking toward the future www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

The near miss on a tarmac in Chicago is small part of a much, much bigger problem. Here's what's happening:

youtube.com/shorts/d4fz3...

Happy Valentine’s Day 😍

A show of support to the scientists and staff at NOAA. This is among the best collection of scientists in the world who provide an invaluable public service via data and forecasting. Their work proves essential for daily operations of the military to commerce to the rest of the private sector.

It's been such a crazy week, I haven't had time to post about it yet...but yeah, we have a new paper out 🎉 in @aguadvances.bsky.social about the Pliocene - the last time Earth experienced CO2 level like we have now. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.