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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
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Dario Amodei
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Going forward, the US National Science Foundation research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and Earth sciences is $110 million per year. Trump's illegal war with Iran cost the Department of Defense (i.e., the American taxpayers) $38 billion in the first 5 months, or $220 million per day.

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Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran

CBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects.

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The White House plans to amend the National Climate Assessment to question RCP8.5. Last week, I, @jsmankin.bsky.social, and @vsrikrish.bsky.social commented that this proposal is "scientifically unsupported and procedurally deficient". You can see our comment here: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

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Comment on Proposed Amendment to the Fifth National Climate Assessment | ESS Open Archive

This document is a public comment regarding the proposed amendment to the fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). The amendment directs any NCA5 results that are “dependent on RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, or e...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Terence Tao, who is otherwise quite bullish on AI, had this to say:

Terence Tao writes on mastodon:

Fundamentally, problems in pure mathematics, such as the global regularity problem, serve a different purpose than immediately practical problems, such as that of finding a cure to a specific disease, or increasing the energy efficiency of some engine. In most cases in pure mathematics, the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field through the efforts to solve such problems, and then to digest any partial or complete solutions that emerge for further insights. Prematurely solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods - particularly without full transparency into the solution process - can contaminate this process to the point where it actually becomes a net negative for the progress of mathematics as a whole. (6/6)

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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢 "Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets" by Jesse D. Gourevitch, Karina French, Carolyn Kousky, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Adam Pollack, and Joakim A. Weill. 📎Open access: buff.ly/Rv2hjow 📈📉 #EconSky

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Palok Biswas @pbiswas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🎉 Our paper is out in Nature Portfolio npj Climate Action! 👉 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: The choice of justice framing in climate models fundamentally determines both the global ambition for decarbonization and who bears its burden.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/08/2026

Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price…

Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11
Fans Ask How Ball Club Still Has Heart To Charge Admission At All

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hydrology Paper of the Day @madisoncondon.bsky.social and colleagues on why transparency and open data and tools are required for assessing and dealing with climate risk: the need for data standards to reduce barriers; addressing sensitive data; respecting Indigenous knowledge; and best practices.

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spending 15 minutes per day two-factor authenticating myself is such a unique soul-sucking experience

A cartoon of Waldo in a bar looking sad and talking to nobody in particular, saying "Nobody ever asks 'How's Waldo?'" with an emphasis on "How"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

<Pete Hegseth Mandates Gender-Affirming Care> is the headline you're looking for

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Iowa Flood Center, represent! (Also, great science!)

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Considering starting a new journal w/ a meager open access fee of $1,000 called Nature Slop. All proceeds will fund local infrastructure projects in under-resourced communities

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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Opportunities

BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It was so great to contribute to this solutions-driven review article. Jesse did an amazing job synthesizing evidence across fields and presenting the trade-offs decision-makers are navigating - lots of great "hooks" to motivate the next wave of research in this area!

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Jesse Gourevitch @jgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨 I’m pleased to share a new open-access article published today in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: “Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets” 🚨

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is nice work to expose undisclosed COI in climate-risk research! However, does anyone think wedges is one of the most influential climate papers in history? Claim is not supported by the article. Why not focus on Fossil-funded NZA report by Princeton, which directly influenced Biden policy?

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I haven't really seen anyone ask why individual studies even become this prominent in the 1st place? Isn't science knowledge supposed to be produced collectively? Climate risk research is too much of a Rube Goldberg of implicit values, missing data, and bad models to trust one study this much.

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to share this TT position in Climate Governance and Policy in my department! I hope to collaborate with my new colleague! If this sounds like a good fit, I hope you'll apply. If it makes you think of someone else, I'd be grateful if you'd share it with them or within your network.

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Social Pixel Lab is recruiting a flood justice fellow who works with communities in Wisconsin this fall from Aug-Dec 2026 to learn to make satellite-based flood maps and co-produce flood analysis with students ($5000 compensation) app due June 30 beth-tellman.github.io/floodjustice...

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Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵

A man in a green jersey and helmet and holding a polo stick sits on a horse.

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Tatiana Filatova @tatianafilatova.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🌟 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD positions 🌟 at TU Delft (NL) on how #climate #risks impact our #homes, property #prices, #inequality, #mortgage portfolios and eventually #systemic economic and social #stability. What can different ‘climate risk owners’ do to reduce adverse impacts? Details 👇

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 02/06/2026

Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car bit.ly/4viG6Cj

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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm hiring a postdoctoral scholar to work on quantifying the climate impacts of hydrogen (H2) emissions. Please share and reach out if you are a potential candidate with any questions! More info on our group and the application: viveks.bee.cornell.edu academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32016

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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Excited to present our work (led by my former postdoc, David Lafferty, now at Verisk) on uncertainty decomposition for projections of future climate extremes across the continental US in this @egu.eu session!

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Proud new Iowan (and collaborator with the flood center!). I wish this story mentioned how federal cuts and weak state support is threatening many life, health, money saving operations of the center as well.

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Jessica Meyer @onewellhydro.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Check out the free short course: learn.uiowa.edu/browse/clas/... and teaching materials serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/a... we developed as part of an ESTCP project.

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Improving Geologic Data Collection for Groundwater Remediation Projects - Earth and Environmental Sciences

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🪦 Ghoulian Grave 🪦 @julianday.ca · 18/04/2026

A rare test pressing of Robert Johnson containing an unreleased take of his Crossroad Blues has been uploaded to YouTube a couple days ago by Nick Dellow. The sound quality is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...

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Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)

YouTube video by Nick Dellow

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself: If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey

In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link: shorturl.at/bV2lF You can also tell us if you think we missed any. We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏 In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

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Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/04/2026

The utter, horrid contrast

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.

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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In which @madisoncondon.bsky.social and I expand on our argument that "extreme" climate scenarios, such as RCP 8.5, are actually useful and we should use them as part of climate risk analyses. Thanks to @progressivereform.bsky.social for encouraging us and giving us space!

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Heya friends -- I'm looking for a postdoc! This time we're looking at the ethics of technology deployment for climate change mitigation. Full description in the link! Quick details: CVs and cover letters to me by 1 April; $75k/year for up to 21 months; remote within the US is ok.

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Research Team – Emily Grubert

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sound on, if you don’t mind some justifiably coarse exclamations 😂

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Ben Keys @benkeys.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm hiring! If you're an undergraduate who's interested in applied microeconomics research, please join my colleagues and me at Wharton as a Predoctoral Research Specialist. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

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Pre-Doctoral Research Specialist, Real Estate Center at the Wharton School

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Love this take. Nothing feels more rewarding than the "art" of doing science

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