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Bor-Ting Jong

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Climate Scientist Assistant Professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social‬ Working on climate and weather extremes & impacts sites.google.com/view/bor-ting-jong…

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Bor-Ting Jong @bortingjong.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Our latest study on the reversal of extreme precipitation trend over the Northeast US in response to aggressive climate mitigation has been published in Environmental Research Letters (doi.org/10.1088/1748...). #OpenAccess via @ioppublishing.bsky.social @iopp-environment.bsky.social
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/04/2026
Very excited to share the published form of our new #OpenAccess study: doi.org/10.1088/1748... (led by @bortingjong.bsky.social). Given significant increases in Northeast U.S. extreme precipitation trends, we then test responses to rapid greenhouse drawdowns using a 25-km resolution climate model.
Figure 3 from Jong et al. (2026, ERL) showing Northeast extreme precipitation frequency difference (2060-2089 minus 2029-2058) for SSP5-8.5 in the warm and cold season and SSP5-3.4OS in the warm and cold season.
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Rebecca Varney @rebeccamayvarney.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We have our final @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social webinar in this series next week, with speakers discussing their personal experiences and tips for getting postdoctoral grants, please sign up below ⬇️
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My first paper had to be mailed to Stockholm, Sweden, and then mailed to reviewers around the world. Everything by mail! It was submitted, reviewed, revised, typeset, and published in 3 months. I feel bad for early-career scientists who can't find a single reviewer after 5 months. It's gotta change.
A two-column status table titled "Stage" and "Start Date" tracks the timeline of a manuscript submission from its preliminary data submission on October 8, 2025, to its eventual withdrawal on March 2, 2026. The log reveals a lengthy and repetitive administrative process, particularly between October 26, 2025, and February 19, 2026, where the status cycled more than ten times between "Contacting Potential Reviewers" and "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment," suggesting significant difficulty in securing peer reviewers. Following these numerous failed attempts to move into the active review phase, the final entry shows the manuscript was officially withdrawn on March 2, 2026, at 09:08:18.
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
📣 Upcoming BG ECS webinar “How to get a European postdoctoral grant” 👤 Speakers: Sílvia Poblador (CREAF, Bellaterra) & Elsa Abs (LSCE, Paris) 🗓️ When: March 11th, 5:00 PM (CET) Register here: www.egu.eu/webinars/735...
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How to get a European postdoctoral grant
<p>From individual stories to the advice on the process of getting funded: This webinar will support and encourage researchers looking to apply for European postdoctoral grants to advance their…
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Michael Tippett 🎃 @mktippett.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The IRI DL is a uniquely valuable resource for NOAA (and more) climate data. Over the last 27 years it had a huge impact (positive!) on my career. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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Vikki Thompson @vikkithompson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes? We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines. Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
Droughts cause a wide range of impacts - this image shows a dry riverbed in France.
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EXPECT Project @expect-project.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Last days to register 📣 Join us for this 2nd Workshop on #RossbyWaves, compound extremes & their impacts! 📅 19–21 January 2026 📍@vuamsterdam.bsky.social 🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker! 🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/10/2025
📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.
Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.
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ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Hello Bluesky! We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events. Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱
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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
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.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research. I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.
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‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work
“Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 10/07/2025
universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/07/2025
I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators
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Bor-Ting Jong @bortingjong.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I can't believe it's been two months. Somehow I forgot to share, I started as an assistant professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social working on climate extremes and connection to changes in the carbon cycle. I'm excited about the new opportunity to work on interdisciplinary science and teams.
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/05/2025
I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Major European institutes join race to save US science data
As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial data sets on climate and other subjects could disappear.
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Bor-Ting Jong @bortingjong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm looking forward to attending @egu.eu next week! I'll be presenting about the response of regional extreme rainfall in the Northeast US to rapid climate mitigation efforts. This is the last project I did at Princeton & NOAA GFDL. Hope to meet many new and familiar friends and colleagues! #EGU25
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Abstract EGU25-10906
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 17/04/2025
The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:
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'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research
NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨 We must make it absolutely clear, to anyone who will listen, that this is unacceptable. You can't just censor life-saving and cost-saving research because the results are politically inconvenient for your wealthy donors!
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11/04/2025
Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/04/2025
NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡
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Karin van der Wiel @karinvdwiel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It has been hard to follow the developments in US (climate) science- thinking of the people affected and the science missed out on. The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎. www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
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Bor-Ting Jong @bortingjong.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There have been many things going on in the US, but this has been by far the most difficult one to process personally, as someone who was a CIMES postdoc/scholar for 3.5 years — especially the scientifically incorrect reasons stated in the press release …
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/03/2025
We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of overshoot scenarios using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #OpenAccess Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
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Large reductions in United States heat extremes found in overshoot simulations with SPEAR
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are. Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/03/2025
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/03/2025
I'd like to share another science presentation, which I gave to a class visiting GFDL almost exactly 24 hours before being fired in the NOAA mass layoffs. Unfortunately, the animations do not work in this format though: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th.... This one has more of an Arctic focus.
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The Arctic through the lens of data visualization
The Arctic through the lens of data visualization - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 03/03/2025
Here is the correct link to the full statement: bit.ly/3XqJs7L
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The U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at Risk
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 28/02/2025
🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It should go without saying* that firing the people you've most recently hired is bonehead move for any organization. Almost by definition, they are the people who you need for your new approaches, products and problems. Bird flu? ✔️ AI/ML? ✔️ Next-gen weather models? ✔️ *it did not go w/o saying.
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Something that deserves recognition: At federal labs such as NOAA’s NSSL, ESRL, or EMC, most employees are first hired on as contractors through a company or cooperative institute. After several years, many get “promoted” by being hired as Feds. These are the “probationary employees” getting fired
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Dr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/02/2025
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 16/02/2025
Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent. "How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance," by @adamsobel.bsky.social.
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How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance
Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent.
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Bor-Ting Jong @bortingjong.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Our latest work on increases in extreme rainfall over the Northeast US has been published in AGU Earth's Future: doi.org/10.1029/2023... We examine the causes of this extreme rainfall change in both current & future climates, based on the latest high-resolution (25km) GFDL climate model (SPEAR_HI)
Bar graph from 1959 to 2100 using SPEAR_HI to show the projected frequency of extreme precipitation days for pure AR, TC-related, and other events. There is a long-term increasing trend projected over this entire bar graph.
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