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Kelton Minor

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Researching human adaptation to global changes in climate, environment, and technology

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 18

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Sep 1

We warmly welcome @keltonminor.bsky.social as a new Associate Professor in Planetary Behavioral Data Science, in a joint position with the Psychology Dept.

Kelton's research examines how individuals and populations adapt to rapid global changes in the atmosphere, biosphere, and cybersphere.

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks to everyone both near and far who gave me the unswerving courage to continue spinning on the long, dusty road to discovery.

🚲 Persist.

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

"There would be no comfortable houses for the mass of the people, no railway, no wireless, no protection against epidemics, no cheap books, no culture and no enjoyment of art for all...” -Einstein

“The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement.”
-Karl Popper

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

"and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors have won for us after hard struggles. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur and no Lister..."

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today, the ghosts of the past have the present to give. To invoke the words of Einstein:

“If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake ..."

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

🇩🇰 TAK Danmark, for at fremme friheden til at (ud)forske med åbne øjne, sind og hjerter. Det er jeg ekstremt taknemmlig for 🇩🇰

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚴‍♂️ From first hosting me as a wobbly-wheeled Cornell University exchange student in 2010, a US-Fulbright Denmark fellow in 2012, a new PhD student at the University of Copenhagen in 2018, to now welcoming me back as a more steady-wheeled Associate Professor in 2025 🚲....

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

🇺🇸 As an American, I’m also grateful to give back to 🇩🇰 Denmark’s innovative research environment, which has been equally formative for my scientific development as it has my ability to ride a bike!

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is both a privilege and the beating heart of science to be able to ask hard, open-ended questions on the uncertain road to answers without fear, favor or censorship. We all have much to learn from toddlers in that regard 🐥

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌐 My research program aims to monitor and support humanity’s adaptation to growing planetary stressors on the one spaceship we all share 🌍

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today I'm starting a new chapter as a tenured Associate Professor of Planetary Behavioral Data Science at the University of Copenhagen (@cphsodas.bsky.social & Department of Psychology)! It has been an Orwellian kind of year for scientists. But as history shows, science persists.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Jul 26

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links

RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

www.realclimate.org

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 25

Glad this is getting some coverage. I've already had to send over 20 emails and several phones calls about this, with no resolution yet.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jun 25

Some former employees of the NOAA who were fired, rehired and fired again this spring say they have received debt notices from the federal government to pay it back for health care coverage.

Those workers also say the notices are for coverage they never had.

Fired, rehired and fired again, some NOAA employees get letters demanding money

Three former NOAA employees told NBC News they had received debt notices from the federal government for health care coverage.

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations to Environmental Research: Climate @iopp-environment.bsky.social on receiving its first Impact Factor of 5.4! ERCL is non-profit, open access and has no article charges through 2025. Consider for your interdisciplinary climate research!

iopscience.iop.org/journal/2752...

Environmental Research: Climate - IOPscience

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · Apr 17

EU may look like the winner in the US brain drain.

But I'm afraid I'm with @markgongloff.bsky.social & @lararhiannon.bsky.social: "A US Brain Drain Doesn’t Benefit Anyone"
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“The biggest factor here is simply the raw uncertainty of it all,” says Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School. “If you’re a natural scientist with massive labs and post-docs and pre-docs and research assistants, and all your funding depends on one government agency that may be in the crosshairs of DOGE, that uncertainty is even larger.”

In this environment, even many scientists who haven’t yet lost their jobs or funding have one eye on the border. In a recent survey of more than 1,600 scientists by Nature, 75% said they were considering leaving the country.

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Apr 1

New research from Nick Obradovich, @estebanmoro.bsky.social l, @keltonminor.bsky.social shows that people post more on #socialmedia when bad weather hits, sometimes even more than during large social events in the U.S.

Worse Weather Pushes People to Social Media

New research shows that people post more on social media when bad weather hits, sometimes even more than during large social events in the United States.

www.psychologicalscience.org

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · Mar 24

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

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Amanda Fanniff, PhD @amandafanniff.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you had a grant cancelled, consider submitting info about your terminated grant using this Google Form [Contact Scott Delaney with Qs on Signal (sdelaney.84)]
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also, see @scott-delaney.bsky.social 's post below for the database of cancelled grants
#defendresearch

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thanks Ari 😢

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thanks Colin, gut punch of a week.

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 22

Appreciate the support Esteban. Looking forward to catching up soon on the other side of this!

Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thanks Scott. Mostly just looking forward to getting back to doing science wherever and whenever that may be, hopefully soon 🙏

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Mar 20

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!

If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.

www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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