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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · 5d

Storm Amy is litterally giving Norway the finger, according to this weekend's forecast. 🌬️

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 5d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · 7d

The mountains are cloudy today.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 9d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15d

At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’

Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.

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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 20d

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

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Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year than car crashes. It’s about to get worse.

The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Pernille Bonnevie Hansen @pernihansen.bsky.social · 20d

Jeg er rasende.

2023: De tvinger ny firefelts motorvei gjennom Lågendeltaet naturreservat spesifikt verna mot veibygging. De framstiller det som at dette omtrent går i pluss for fuglene, for det kommer ei hel pakke miljøtiltak som kompensasjon.

2025: Det viktigste miljøtiltaket faller.

Skulle veie opp for E6-utbygging, nå vil Nye Veier droppe miljøtiltaket

Restaurering av Gausaelva skulle vurderes som kompensasjon for E6-utbyggingen gjennom Lågendeltaet. Nå foreslår Nye Veier å skrinlegge prosjektet.

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Eos @eos.org · 22d

Where my nerds at? ⤵️ 😊

NPR @npr.org · 22d

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 22d

Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 26d

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary AGU’s JGR: Biogeosciences!🎉

For two decades, the journal has published original research, methods, and data articles on the biogeosciences of the Earth system.

🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/RcwG5Ty

#AGUPubs @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · 28d

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 28d

Online chatter suggests that the DOE Climate Change (Denying) Working Group has been disbanded and the report will be withdrawn. 😂

Seems that violating FACA and the Information Quality Acts have consequences.

Not seen any official announcement though.

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 29d

To rehabilitate the general view of women's contributions to the history of science, the CNRS is part of a commission that aims to inscribe the names of 72 female scientists on the Eiffel Tower. 🗼 #WomenInScience

Women scientists to be showcased on the Eiffel Tower soon

To rehabilitate the general view of women's contributions to the history of science, the CNRS is part of a commission that aims to inscribe

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · 29d

Yep. There's no way around reducing fossil fuel emissions, despite people pushing their creative ideas: “no current geoengineering idea passes an objective and comprehensive test regarding its use in the coming decades”.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29d

Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

New research debunks some speculative climate fixes.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Sep 4

CICERO is searching for a new Director
@cicero.oslo.no
www.finn.no/job/ad/42528...

Vil du lede et av Europas fremste fagmiljøer innen klimaforskning? | FINN.no

CICERO er et tverrfaglig og internasjonalt forskningsinstitutt som produserer kunnskap av høy vitenskapelig kvalitet og stor samfunnsmessig betydning.

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 2

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · Sep 1

Scrapping DOE's Earth system model would be a disaster for climate science, also abroad. The Norwegian Earth system model has a similar origin and we use the same vegetation module. This will set us back years, unless we pick up the pace here in Europe.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 31

Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their own

One of the world’s foremost climate models now faces funding threats.

arstechnica.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 29

More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down.

We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.

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Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · Aug 29

A reminder that Biogeosciecnes DEI committee is hosting a travel grant for the 2025 AGU meeting! Apply at the link below by September 10th.

Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · Aug 8

AGU Biogeosciences DEI travel grants ARE OPEN and close September 10th. Find info to apply here: connect.agu.org/biogeoscienc...

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · Aug 29

I've sampled a similar ice wedge collapse before, also on Svalbard, but that was years after it happened. This time we caught it on time! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Rapid Ice‐Wedge Collapse and Permafrost Carbon Loss Triggered by Increased Snow Depth and Surface Runoff

A decade of raised snow depths led to strong local thaw subsidence, while increased runoff triggered the downstream collapse of ice wedges The abrupt thaw process mobilized about 1.1–3.3 tons of ...

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · Aug 29

Good article (in Norwegian) highlighting how Arctic climate change is impacting ecosystems and permafrost in Norway. Working with a team at UNIS, those collapsed ice wedges on Svalbard will be sampled next week to determine how much carbon is lost to the atmosphere. With @ketilisaksen.bsky.social

Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Arktisk natur går fra klimagass-lager til utslippskilde

Ny forskning tyder på at Arktis har nådd et kritisk vippepunkt. Naturen som før lagret klimagasser, slipper dem nå ut.

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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Arktisk natur går fra klimagass-lager til utslippskilde

Ny forskning tyder på at Arktis har nådd et kritisk vippepunkt. Naturen som før lagret klimagasser, slipper dem nå ut.

www.nrk.no

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Aug 28

Come work with us!

Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · Aug 29

Planting trees is not the solution to the climate crisis, because there are so many ways in which it can be done wrong. The adequate solution is (surprise, surprise) to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · Aug 29

New assessment on the biophysical potential of forestation to sequester carbon. As expected, we found just a fraction of what other assessments found, because we considered the obvious no-nos, such as risk to biodiversity, excess water use, and regional warming.

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The climate case for planting trees has been overhyped — but it’s not too late to fix it

Reforestation can contribute significantly to tackling climate change, but research found its global potential is only a fraction of what’s been claimed.

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