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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/09/2026

If you need to put social media discourse in perspective, this is great!

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 22/08/2026

One of my mantras to students and mentees: you have to be good enough to be in the room/conversation. Lots of people are that good. But if you are in the room/conversation, at least you have a shot.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 14/08/2026

I would have replied, but replies seem to be locked. So now I quote post with an answer: We’re all still here. We are not facing global food system collapse. We’re just choosing to no longer engage with a shouty, anonymous, doomer account because there’s work to do and we’re doing it.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

Final “AI in research” thought for the AM: I was on a team call recently and actually had to write in the chat “We should not be citing articles we have not read.” Forget worrying about hallucinated bibliographies. That can only happen if people aren’t reading. Worry about basic research practice

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

The more AI in academia/research discourse I see, the more I think that original thinkers who work hard (a group in much shorter supply than anyone wants to admit) are going to become even more rare and insanely valuable. What y’all call inefficiency is what I call the foundations of creativity.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

I’ve tried to use AI for drafting simple content (no chance I will use it for my meaningful writing) and it has never added value…in fact it usually wastes my time as I have to rewrite most of the text. But then, I can discern crap from good writing… www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

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Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/08/2026

Whatever you might think about democratic socialism, calling a $15 million effort to discredit it a “war” fails to capture how tiny this amount of money is in relation to any given cycle of campaign spending. It’s basically a rounding error with a press release www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left

One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/08/2026

This is an important point. While some hard limits (cannot be overcome by any means) to adaptation might be identified through biophysical research, identifying most hard limits and all soft limits (we hit because we choose not to do things that are needed) requires actually trying to adapt.

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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 13/07/2026

🌎 SEI US introduces a new research program: Climate and Equity. Combining the forces of three previously separate teams, this program advances policy innovation in just energy transitions, #CarbonMarkets, food systems, #CleanEnergy and more. Read on for details 👀 buff.ly/reW3UvQ

Rear view of a Masai warrior in Nairobi, Kenya wearing traditional clothes watching silhouetted wind turbines at sunset beneath a dark blue and bright orange, lightly clouded sky. White text overlaid reads, "SEI US introduces the Climate and Equity program".

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 12/07/2026

Haaland looks like the lead character of the Pixar movie “The Nice Soccer Giant”

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 07/07/2026

I disagree with this a bit: youth sports went to hell when parents were sold on the idea that professionalizing their children would make them viable college athletes. In admissions, kids/parents drive this far more than colleges. (Informed by my experience as a college athlete/dean/dad/coach)

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/07/2026

While I agree that the conversion of Balogun’s red card suspension into a probationary period is shaky at best, I grow weary of the use of “unprecedented” to describe it. FIFA did the same thing for Ronaldo to let him play the opener in the group stages. Where was the UEFA/global outrage then?

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

A lot of the “Trump got Balogun a pardon” reporting seems rather credulous. I’d believe Trump made a call. But organizing a team of lawyers? To do what, exactly? I’d love a lot more sourcing…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

Brazil doing all it can to lose this game.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

Folks, this is just FIFA being FIFA. Staggering incompetence at many levels, but hard to see US-led corruption here. Balogun is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship and everything Trump et al hate. If this was Pulisic, on the other hand…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 03/07/2026

Treaty of Tordesillas jokes giving me Intro to Human Geography nostalgia from my University of South Carolina days…

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I don't think FIFA refs are biased against specific countries, only against all that is beautiful, good, and pure that flickers briefly into existence in this fallen world.

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Lynsi Burton (she/her) @lynsi-climate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I just want to make this chart my epitaph, my personality, my avatar, my everything

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 15/06/2026

I've long felt we should withdraw a player from each side every five minutes until someone scores. Nothing like a little 5v5 on a full pitch to open things up!

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/06/2026

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Therese Gleason @theresegleason.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thank you to The Poetry Shop for partnering with me to raise awareness about migraine, an often invisible neurological disease that impacts 1 in 6 households in the US. The Poetry Shop is donating 15% of sales of HEMICRANIA in June to @milesformigraine.bsky.social, as am I (dm for signed copy) 🧠💜

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A lot of acronyms here but this is important #sustainability work and @edwardrcarr.com's work on climate-reslient development (IPCC lead in AR6) makes him perfect for the task. See our IPCC AR6 discussion below with @fisherdanar.bsky.social & @avastmachine.bsky.social.

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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 02/06/2026

Following a proposal by UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen at #GEFcouncil71, Council members appointed Edward Carr as an interim Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for one year, retaining the current panel membership for the interim period. #GEFassembly2026

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/06/2026

This is shocking, deeply saddening news. I knew Raúl mostly online, but the one time we overlapped at an Association of American Geographers meeting he ran up to me and gave me a hug. Just a lovely guy dedicated to helping people do good work…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/06/2026

A little professional news! I'm excited to be rejoining STAP and working with the GEF family again!

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 28/05/2026

Actively tearing down the US research enterprise is a disaster for the country.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/05/2026

The team at Reimagining Conservation has released its first issue paper! The first one explores global conservation as an American Value. Have a look and join the conversation informing our efforts to build a reimagined approach to the US role in global conservation.

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Global Conservation: A Reflection Of America’s Values And A Foundation For Its Prosperity And Future

Developed by Anila Jacob and the Reimagining Team. The Reimagining Issue SeriesThis brief is part of a series produced by Reimagining Global Conservation to support a bipartisan Playbook for reimag…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 20/05/2026

Lisa was one of the CLA’s for my chapter in AR6, and she is right on here. She speaks from experience because AR6 was affected by COVID and the last authors’ meeting virtual. It did not go well and it was hard to engage in the homestretch of the report. In person is not ideal but it is critical.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 09/05/2026

I've been at work with @aditimukherji.bsky.social to understand what works in agrarian #adaptation to #climate change-drawing on @cgiar.org research and my work on adaptation benefits with Johanna Nalau, this preprint gives a first look at what works! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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What works in agrarian adaptation: a systematic assessment of CGIAR climate research evidence

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/04/2026

Tax breaks for government employees makes no sense, even on the merits – just give them a raise if you want them to make more money.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 24/04/2026

C’mon now, there were usually landlines around somewhere…maybe even with call waiting!

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 22/04/2026

This is one of those “either lying or astonishingly uninformed” moments and both are disqualifying for a cabinet secretary.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 19/04/2026

I am going to reject the framing of the question - the 90s were a lot of things, but they were not unitary. The start of the 90s was, for American kids, the end of the Cold War, the first Gulf War, a reaction against "greed is good," etc. So sure, Sounds Like Teen Spirit works. But...1/2

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 15/04/2026

There's a really impressive front between Boston and Worcester right now - a 17 degree swing (from 64 in Somerville to 81 in Worcester) on the drive home. It seems quite stationary at the moment...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 14/04/2026

I have no idea if this family has any recourse against Target (or any recourse besides that which would result in an expensive moral victory), but I imagine @kenwhite.bsky.social might have some thoughts.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 12/04/2026

My kids turned my profile pic into a sticker and are beating me with it.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/04/2026

An Iranian colleague was a lead author on my chapter of the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment. Finally heard from him yesterday (thank God). The crux of his message: everything is terrible, what the hell? But since we’re here, how can I help move these key pubs forward? Badass.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/04/2026

I’m struck by the smiles from military staff in these pics. They have a hard job I wish wasn’t needed - and which the administration has clearly abused in recent weeks. These are the smiles of people who know they just participated in a good thing…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 07/04/2026

I generally try to ignore the Trump Show, since he says outrageous things to drive attention to what he wants and forces everyone to react to him, but: Threatening to obliterate a civilization is absolutely threatening to commit genocide. This cannot happen in my name or in anyone's name...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/04/2026

My man, everyone has read Tom Sawyer.

Rant from Trump trying to convince other countries to help him reopen the Strait of Hormuz by saying the job is already done and they should get their own oil.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 22/03/2026

Ref-ing aside, if another Kentucky player picks up their dribble into a double team and turns it over, I will scream.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 22/03/2026

Seriously, every single possession is ending in a whistle. This game will take hours and will end with the managers from both teams on the floor

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