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Eric Steig

@ericsteig.bsky.social
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Glaciologist and isotope geochemist. Research focus is the climate of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 22/03/2025
after reading this, I subscribed to @theverge.com we need to support outlets who are holding those in power to account www.theverge.com/policy/63339...
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We ran the wrong headline about Trump firing the FTC commissioners
Our readers have a point.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Read this and weep. Use Google translate if you don't speak French. Short version is: French researcher not allowed to enter US because he had personal texts or emails criticizing Trump. This was equated with "terrorism" by the US officials. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Skillful weather forecasting, along with the increased preparedness it allows, is a landmark achievement of not only the US but of the human race. There are few other fields in the sciences where skillful prediction has had such an immense impact on our society. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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RealClimate: We need NOAA now more than ever
RealClimate: Guest commentary by Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel, & Lance Bosart The National Weather Service (NWS) and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA), deliver...
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The New York Times reports that American business leaders are surprised Trump is following through on tariffs. But he's expressed his love of tariffs for the last 40 years! I would dearly love to know: Are American business leaders greedy because they are stupid, or stupid because they are greedy?
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Pleased to announce the publication of the study led by Ben Hills on crystal fabric at Hercules Dome, Antarctica. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Radar‐Derived Crystal Orientation Fabric Suggests Dynamic Stability at the Summit of Hercules Dome
We constrain present and past ice dynamics at Hercules Dome, East Antarctica, using measurements of ice flow and crystal orientation fabric (COF) We find evidence of divide flow in both vertical ...
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Prediction: Other countries are going to require US citizens to have proof of various vaccinations which are currently not required because the US has previously been certified as a measles-free (meaning very very low incidence) country by the WHO. That certification will expire, and not be renewed.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come." www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Les chercheurs abasourdis par le déni sur l’effondrement de la biodiversité : « C’est nous qui avons raison, et non les lobbies »
Alors que les négociations de la COP16 sur la biodiversité reprennent mardi en Italie, des scientifiques disent leur stupéfaction devant les reculs qui affectent la protection de la nature, mais essai...
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Trump administration's attacks on science are a national security threat.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited the rich? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and Elon lay off thousands of federal workers." -- former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful. The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action. The truth is bad enough!
Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather
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Dr Joanne Johnson @geologicaljo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🔥New paper alert! 🔥🧪❄️🥼 Ever wondered what to consider when drilling through an ice sheet into rock? We take you through how we chose a drill site in West #Antarctica using field observations, samples, radar survey, modelling & satellite imagery. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @bas.ac.uk 🧵1/n
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Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance
Abstract. Unambiguous identification of past episodes of ice sheet thinning below the modern surface and grounding line retreat inboard of present requires recovery and exposure dating of subglacial b...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There are no "natural" disasters.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Important paper in Nature today about collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. There is a positive isotope anomaly at Skytrain Ice Rise during the last interglacial, consistent with what we found in our high-resolution water-isotope simulations when WAIS collapses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial - Nature
Sea salt data from an ice core record show that Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial, the last period of enhanced and sustained global warmth about 125,000 years ago.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is a "must read" essay, from @climatehuman.bsky.social (Peter Kalmus). www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
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Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Congratulations to my great friend Richard Alley, who was awarded the National Medal of Science today. nationalmedals.org/stories/the-...
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The White House Awards National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation - National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
On January 3, 2025, President Biden presented 23 individuals and 2 organizations with the National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Just a quick note to say I'm not using X or Bsky much, and probably won't. If you are interested in the Hercules Dome project, note that we have a workshop planned for May in Minneapolis. See herculesdome.org and consider joining our mailing list.
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Over the next several years, a group of U.S. researchers will drill a deep ice core from Hercules Dome, Antarctica to help provide fundamental information about Earth’s climate and to learn more about...
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
We are hiring. Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, has a new assistant professor position in Geomorphology. apply.interfolio.com/147791
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Grateful to the Guggenheim foundation for supporting my work. www.gf.org/announcements/
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Daniel @danielrembrandt.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Go give a warm Bluesky follow to @ericsteig.bsky.social This article titled: “Deep ice samples extracted from the glacier could help explain the string of climate-related events buffeting Western Canada” is about Eric’s work over the last 20 years Worth a follow: @ericsteig.bsky.social
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 02/01/2024
Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Nice article about my work over the last 20 years on Mt. Waddington, British Columbia, with colleagues @icy_pete Peter Neff (ESS alumn at UMN) and Brian Menounos (UNBC). www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Fguring out how to use this platform. Trying to make sure I'm in the right science feeds. 🧪⚒️ @danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
This will be my first actual post on this platform. I want to highlight the recent paper by Naughten and others, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a really important paper, but I want to mention a couple of minor caveats.
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Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
This will be my first actual post on this platform. I want to highlight the recent paper by Naughten and others, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a really important paper, but I want to mention a couple of minor caveats.
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