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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/06/2026

Heat advisory. Just a warning to my Seattle peeps that it might not drop back into the 40s tonight.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir." --Carl Sagan elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Long time friends and such might remember that I made a record a few years ago titled “Hickory” after the town where my mom’s people lived. The NYT has an article about the town (not the record!) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

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Opinion | The Town That Reveals All of Trump’s Bad Economic Ideas

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Nadine Ruehr @nadineruehr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Oh no! This is my favorite phenology record.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There is a new spiffier interface for xDateR. Since I'm teaching shiny apps this quarter I used it as an excuse to learn new UI and UX stuff. And I'm doing some more work on more graceful error handling that will come soon. viz.datascience.arizona.edu/xDateR/

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hey dendro folks. I did a full redesign of the xDater app. I've heard from several folks that last push busted the canonical link (hosted by UA). Until we fix it you can use it here: andybunn.shinyapps.io/xDateR/

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 29/03/2026

I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter. Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

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NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Exciting new work from Taylor et al in J of Clim. showing tree-ring PDSI reconstructions can identify compound drought-heatwave events in regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling. Clever disentangling of temp and ppt in PDSI recons! journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/...

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I agree. This event has been meteorologically astonishing, and its impacts will be felt long after it ends in terms of record low snowpack, sharply increased wildfire risk, and extreme low watershed runoff/streamflow into summer and beyond.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It is important to remember that the 'Breakthough Institute' is run by terrible people with bad ideas and even worse opinions

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 09/05/2025

Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia. Scientists like Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli (@driscience.bsky.social) work to build a long-term scientific legacy among these ancient trees. longnow.org/ideas/long-s...

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Long Science in the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve

Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Obscure hot take: Having POSIXct and POSIXlt is overkill. POSIXlt should be deprecated.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🧵New paper out in Remote Sensing of Environment led by Katie Orndahl and Logan Berner! In this study, we (really they) mapped aboveground plant biomass and woody plant dominance across the entire Arctic tundra biome—at 30 m resolution. A thread 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Next generation Arctic vegetation maps: Aboveground plant biomass and woody dominance mapped at 30 m resolution across the tundra biome

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, placing tundra ecosystems at the forefront of global climate change. Plant biomass is a fund…

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We are hiring a visiting assistant prof next year for freshwater sci and climate. Great dept! Spread the word. hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

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Careers - Faculty | Human Resources | Western Washington University

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We have a new paper now online in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a group of amazing ECR coauthors reviewing methods and applications of (offline) paleoclimate data assimilation and looking toward the future www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Advances in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation | Annual Reviews

Reconstructions of past climates in both time and space provide important insight into the range and rate of change within the climate system. However, producing a coherent global picture of past clim...

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Paleo poster session in lieu of class final. Here the beringia productivity paradox. So proud.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Paleo folks know @xkcd.com temperature timeline, yeah? xkcd.com/1732/ I have a 12' version printed and once per year the students are always amazed (me too).

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

To the student whose class eval read in it’s entirety, “🔥 🔥 Fr fr on god no cap,” I salute you.

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

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A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In landscape ecology, I emphasize how simple models can illustrate complex patterns—like how dispersal on an environmental gradient can look like species sorting and niche partitioning. So, I make toy models for class.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Classic reading from Wally can be a balm for hard times.

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Scott St. George @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com · 29/01/2025

As a climate scientist in private industry, one of my jobs is to write plain-language notes on physical perils that affect the insurers and businesses. If you're curious about those products, our group just published its latest review of natural catastrophes for 2024: www.wtwco.com/en-ie/insigh...

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WTW Natural Catastrophe Review 2024

WTW’s Natural Catastrophe Review 2024

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are hiring a TT env toxicologist in my department. Research area is broadly defined. Please pass the word: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

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Careers - Faculty | Human Resources | Western Washington University

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Teaching landscape ecol! We are looking pattern/process and how v simple models -- e.g., dispersal mediated by an env gradient can produce species sorting and heterogeneity in ways that look kinda like nature. Initial random start w/ strong neighborhood dispersal and opposite mortality funcs.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Honored to write a commentary recent Pederson et al paper with an AMAZING floating tree-ring chron from whitebark melting out of the ice. The way they use that (unique) resource with ESMs is so well done and gives us a look at the mid Holocene. Freq response y'all! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You can see the history of the landscape everywhere: An oak that probably grew in a pasture with scattered trees, likely savanna before that, now surrounded by younger trees. Within sight of our house, which sits close to the edge of open prairie on the 1830s public land survey sketch map.

Oak with spreading branches, surrounded by younger trees. Trees are leafless and the ground is covered by dead leaves.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Blame view in GitHub is judgy AF. I have enough emotional baggage with you GH.

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Brian Romans @clasticdetritus.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

this is really exciting and I look forward to learning about the science coming out of these new ice-core records in the coming years @millionyearice.bsky.social 🧊🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy perihelion to all who celebrate.

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Desert Research Institute @driscience.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

As resorts and snow sport enthusiasts gear up for winter’s #snowfall, DRI's Dan McEvoy is preparing to figure out just how much snow the slopes will see this season. Read the full @usatoday.com article on their website: bit.ly/1000inchesof... #DiscoverDRI

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1,000 inches of snow? It's possible on the USA's snowiest mountain.

The “snowiest” label could depend on whether you’re talking about where the most snow falls or where the most snow piles up.

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Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Are you interested in understanding the links between climate change, vegetation, and wildfires? Would you enjoy working with computers? I am hiring paid interns and graduate students: jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ Look forward to hearing from you!

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Work with me!

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ouch. "I would ask if you’re interested in being a student researcher, but I don’t know how to hire or pay you, and our department’s administrative associate has been doing the work of three people since the recent budget cuts." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...

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Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

Our most-read article of 2024. - - -Originally published March 27, 2024. - - -Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all cla...

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Betteridge's law of headlines applies: Was there a 4.2 ka BP event in Sweden? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Interesting that this was served up to me today along with the Asian speleothems paper. 4.2 kya is dead, long live 4.2 kya. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Andy Bunn @fakeandybunn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hey #dendros. Left the other place several years back and feel disconnected from the paleoecology and paleoclimate community. Hoping to get back into learning what kind of cool stuff is coming out with dendro, climate, and env data sci. And dogs. Always dogs.

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