Carol Adair
@ecadair.bsky.social
UVM biogeochemist soils and ecosystems. More coffee please.
Thinking of making submitting an accurate comment an extra credit assignment in my upcoming fall course…
If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below.
Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
Notice of Availability: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) seeks public comment on the draft report produced by DOE's Climate Working Group (CWG), titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emi...
www.federalregister.gov
August 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thinking of making submitting an accurate comment an extra credit assignment in my upcoming fall course…
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Are climate models overestimating the role that northern forests play in storing carbon? New @pnas.org research says yes.
eos.org/articles/war...
eos.org/articles/war...
Warming Winters Sabotage Trees’ Carbon Uptake - Eos
In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter weather—a disparity that climate models may miss.
eos.org
July 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Are climate models overestimating the role that northern forests play in storing carbon? New @pnas.org research says yes.
eos.org/articles/war...
eos.org/articles/war...
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Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
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New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo
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Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!
The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.
Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.
Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
June 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!
The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.
Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.
Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
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We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274.
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
June 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274.
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
If you see this post a flower💐
Pink lady slipper in Vermont.
Pink lady slipper in Vermont.
June 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you see this post a flower💐
Pink lady slipper in Vermont.
Pink lady slipper in Vermont.
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Thanks @docaharper.bsky.social
Indeed we have one (now and another one soon) postdoc position open.
To integrate Earth Observation data and land surface models (JULES) to quantify carbon stocks & fluxes across European and global ecosystems.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk keyword: Q01368
Indeed we have one (now and another one soon) postdoc position open.
To integrate Earth Observation data and land surface models (JULES) to quantify carbon stocks & fluxes across European and global ecosystems.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk keyword: Q01368
February 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thanks @docaharper.bsky.social
Indeed we have one (now and another one soon) postdoc position open.
To integrate Earth Observation data and land surface models (JULES) to quantify carbon stocks & fluxes across European and global ecosystems.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk keyword: Q01368
Indeed we have one (now and another one soon) postdoc position open.
To integrate Earth Observation data and land surface models (JULES) to quantify carbon stocks & fluxes across European and global ecosystems.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk keyword: Q01368
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
February 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
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Postdoc opportunity studying carbon cycling in warming exp in Puerto Rico (www.forestwarming.org). 12-month appointment (may be extended) Remote work possible ($72,000/y).
Links for details and application - questions to Dr. Tana Wood ([email protected]).
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/....
Links for details and application - questions to Dr. Tana Wood ([email protected]).
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/....
Home | TRACE
TRACE is an in-situ field warming experiment located in the eastern part of Puerto Rico, in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Our main goal is to study the effects of climate change on tropical forest...
www.forestwarming.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Postdoc opportunity studying carbon cycling in warming exp in Puerto Rico (www.forestwarming.org). 12-month appointment (may be extended) Remote work possible ($72,000/y).
Links for details and application - questions to Dr. Tana Wood ([email protected]).
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/....
Links for details and application - questions to Dr. Tana Wood ([email protected]).
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/....
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Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...
Week Three: The Pushback
I think of this as primarily a site for more thoughtful essayistic stuff but I was doing one of those news roundup in-the-moment things I do on FB and thought I should maybe try doing it here.
Right ...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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@riverepfl.bsky.social is seeking postdocs performing research on mountain stream biogeochemistry. Please, see advertisement below.
February 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@riverepfl.bsky.social is seeking postdocs performing research on mountain stream biogeochemistry. Please, see advertisement below.
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please share: We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative team of ecologists in studying the integrated nature of forest functions that are critical for productivity, water and energy usage, and nutrient cycling.
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
please share: We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative team of ecologists in studying the integrated nature of forest functions that are critical for productivity, water and energy usage, and nutrient cycling.
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Last chance to apply for the postdoc/junior lecturer position in our group --> Deadline Jan 30th.
January 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Last chance to apply for the postdoc/junior lecturer position in our group --> Deadline Jan 30th.
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Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵
A great place to do research AND be a kid!
Looking for a place to conduct your research? 100 years of place-based data & information, fellowships to help support researchers & grad students, fully funded summer camp for your kids (if you have 'em). Apply today! We are actively recruiting new research teams. Join our incredible community.
January 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A great place to do research AND be a kid!
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Global boreal forests are heading for a unimodal state of open canopy forest (30 to 50%), increasing the risk of forest fires & substantial releases of stored carbon www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Boreal forests are heading for an open state | PNAS
The boreal forest biome is warming four times faster than the global average. Changes
so far are moderate, but time lags in responses may transient...
www.pnas.org
January 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Global boreal forests are heading for a unimodal state of open canopy forest (30 to 50%), increasing the risk of forest fires & substantial releases of stored carbon www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
January 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
January 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM