Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsKen Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 10/10/2026The United States is the world's biggest exporter of diesel oil. Trump and the Republicans want to blame Zelensky and give money to Putin. They want to import Russian diesel while we export diesel to others. If you want to decrease diesel exports, put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies. 02012
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 10/10/2026Fascinating and disturbing story about how precarious our open source software infrastructure is. 0346
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsProf. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Please take a look at this well-researched & well-reasoned argument by Matt Pawa on why Dems should turn away from oil and gas. He pays close attention to polls & what voters want, and refers to work by @leahstokes.bsky.social and by me. mattpawa.substack.com/p/a-response...mattpawa.substack.comA Response to Robinson Meyer. Why Democrats should reject the latest high-profile call to embrace oil and gas.The latest in a multi-part series on why Democrats should run on climate. 064
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up. 541131533
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsAlejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"🌿 We're hiring at @econovoau.bsky.social! Postdoc position forecasting how land-use change, climate shifts & rewilding will reshape European plant diversity. Biodiversa+ REDESIGN project, Aarhus Uni. 2 years. Closes 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #ecology #postdocau.dkPostdoctoral researcher in biodiversity forecasting, vegetation dynamics and rewilding - Ledig stilling på Aarhus UniversitetLedig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Økoinformatik og biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet 01322
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsInternational Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We’re bringing conservation paleobiology to Instagram with a new INCP science communication competition. This is your moment to share your conservation paleobiology work through visual storytelling— and be featured as part of our network re-launch. 146
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsInternational Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The International Network for Conservation Paleobiology (INCP) is offering funding for students and early career researchers in the network to participate in events related to conservation, management, and restoration. 🧪 245
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsSeth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/ppfp.ucop.edu University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 02334
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵newrepublic.comDid the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting. 15126
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsWilliam Gosling @ecologypast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City Open access: Bush, M. B., Sales, R. K., Neill, D., Valencia, B. G., León-Yánez, S., Stanley, A., Sinkler, W., Bennett, I., Gomes, B. T., Land, K., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2025). Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the…ecologyofthepast.infoEcological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost CityOpen access: Bush, M. B., Sales, R. K., Neill, D., Valencia, B. G., León-Yánez, S., Stanley, A., Sinkler, W., Bennett, I., Gomes, B. T., Land, K., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2025). Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City. Nature Communications, 16(1), 7408. 011
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026NEW 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. 🧵doi.orgResearch Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United StatesA 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, ... 114984
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsKelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270 03144
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsEos @eos.org · 03/09/2026Today, the USGS released a new version of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories. www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...usgs.govUSGS Cooperative National Geologic Map Now Covers 50 States, U.S. TerritoriesRESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey today released Version 2.0 of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories. 1289
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJaishri Srinivasan @jaishrijuice.bsky.social · 30/08/2026researchgate.net(PDF) Escalating wildfires in a warming world: a systematic review of climate change influence on fire regimePDF | The rapid growth of primary research on wildfire-climate linkages creates new opportunities for global synthesis and integration. Using a double... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee... 021
John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As someone who works on both sides of data generation and synthesis, I see an interdependence: you can't do big data well without knowing your data, and scaling up insights from local to global requires big data. Agreed tho that many big data analyses are too thin and more primary data is critical 030
John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Excited to share a new paper in Scientific Data, that describes the efforts of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Open Context, and the Florida Museum's Environmental Archaeology Program to advance best practices in open data, following the FAIR and CARE Principles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comInterweaving the CARE and FAIR Principles in Open Quaternary Data Resources: From reflection to initial action - Scientific DataScientific Data - Interweaving the CARE and FAIR Principles in Open Quaternary Data Resources: From reflection to initial action 063
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My department is hiring a biology lecturer to contribute to our intro bio sequence and an online summer course (applications due September 1!): fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.comUMS Careers 12632
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 25/08/2026The Trump Department of Interior is forcing out dozens of its most senior career staff, giving them two weeks to accept involuntary reassignments or leave. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and more. www.notus.org/agencies/int...notus.org‘They Want Us All To Leave’: Interior Reassigns Dozens of Senior StaffAround 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise. 36463
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsThe Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 24/08/2026‼️🌎 Submit your comment by MIDNIGHT to stop the politicization of the NSF! 🌍‼️ New rules would require all grants and grantees to pass ideological tests. You deserve the truth about the weather and climate of your world, uncensored. Read more and submit your comment here: www.aps.org/initiatives/...aps.orgProposed changes to NSF proposalsShare your feedback about concerning, proposed, updated changes to National Science Foundation funding guidance. The comment period will close on Aug. 24, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET. 044
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026📢 8th PAGES Open Science Meeting 2029 | Santiago de Chile & Online The 8th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place in Santiago de Chile, Chile, and online in April or May 2029. Exact dates will be confirmed later. pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/139... 072
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In addition to the potential unfolding WUI wildfire disaster in Spokane, WA, numerous other large & fast-moving fires (existing & new) are blowing up under extremely critical fire weather conditions & severe drought conditions from eastern slopes of Cascades eastward into ID/MT. 5241109
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking. 8236452099
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am pleased to announce that we are inviting applications for a Lead Laboratory Coordinator at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2026. For details and to apply, visit arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...arizona.csod.comLead Laboratory Coordinator, Tree Ring LaboratoryIn this role, you will:Lead the oversight of a dendrochronology laboratory in collaboration with the Director, including the mentoring, training,... 02024
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsLena Struwe @drgentian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well." 018491
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsNature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 21/07/2026⚒️ Article: Fern savannahs especially susceptible to wildfires spread rapidly following the collapse of forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comContinental-scale fern savannah wildfires during end-Triassic greenhouse warming - Nature GeoscienceFern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the d... 2106
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsAndrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Looking for collections experience? Love plants? Living in the Chicago region? If YES! then be an @mortonarboretum.bsky.social short-term research technician position in the Herbarium and Forest Ecology Lab's wood collection. Msg with questions, apply today: careers.hireology.com/themortonarb... 0129
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Chaco Canyon in modern New Mexico, a major urbanized cultural center of the Ancestral Puebloan culture between 900 and 1150 AD, has had previously protected areas around it opened up for fracking under a new Trump plan via the Bureau of Land Management, threatening an archaeological and sacred site.azcentral.comBLM fast-tracks proposal to open Chaco Canyon to oil and gas drillingThe Bureau of Land Management wants to repeal a buffer around Chaco Canyon that barred oil and gas drilling. 11716
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. 1/ 4257103
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsKen Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 16/07/2026If you don't drill for oil or gas this year, it will still be around next year. If you destroy an irreplaceable treasure this year, it won't be around anymore or ever again. This asymmetry suggests erring on the side of protection of irreplaceable assets. www.npca.org/articles/114...npca.orgTrump Administration Moves Closer to Revoking Chaco Canyon ProtectionsThe Department of Interior is giving only 14 days for the public to weigh in on a proposal that could devastate the landscape surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park 12316
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsDr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa... 1184497910
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 14/07/2026🚨reporters working on stories about the NAS extreme event attribution report 🚨 DO NOT FRAME ANY STORY AS "CAN WE BELIEVE EXTREME EVENT ATTRIBUTION RESEARCH?" THE ACTUAL STORY IS: FOSSIL-FUEL INTERESTS ARE WETTING THEIR PANTS ABOUT THIS AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO TRY TO STOP IT. 312134
John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Attn paleoecologists & community ecologists: July 23, 3-4pm BST there will be a workshop about multinomialTS, a new state-space time-series model for testing hypotheses about the environmental and biotic drivers of community dynamics. Register now! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mult...britishecologicalsociety.orgmultinomialTS: a state-space approach for modelling multinomially distributed community time series - British Ecological SocietyJoin Methods in Ecology and Evolution for their next MEE live! And learn more about the R package multinomialT. 031
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsBrian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Prevent damaging changes to the federal grant process Submit your comments by July 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET www.aps.org/initiatives/... 🧪🌐aps.orgComment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistanceMake your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat. Submit your comments by July 13,... 0108
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsChris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 12/07/2026We tend to think of EVs as just transportation. Increasingly, they're distributed energy assets. Every battery on wheels can provide backup power, run equipment or help communities during disasters. As millions more EVs hit the road, that resilience scales automatically. #Bettrification #EVs #V2Lcarnewschina.comHow EVs, hybrids are powering China's flood victims via V2L techWith widespread power outages, residents are turning NEVs into makeshift power stations, giving them a lifeline to the outside world. 415051
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsGulf Coast Repository @gcrepository.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Take a look inside the GCR and see how it supports the scientific community through world-class facilities, advanced analytical equipment, and one of the world's largest collections of ocean drilling core samples. Thank you to the TAMU DOR Communications team for putting together this video! #GCR 043
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsENDS Report @endsreport.com · 08/07/2026Academics at the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute have been placed under threat of redundancy, with the university proposing to scrap its geography degree course, it has been revealed ⬇️endsreport.com‘Damaging cuts’: University of Exeter environmental academics face redundancy threatAcademics at the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute have been placed under threat of redundancy, with the university proposing to scrap its geography degree course, it has... 027
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsSean Pang @seh-pang.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 27441
John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026New paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social that presents multinomialTS, a state-space model to test hypotheses about environmental and biotic drivers of community dynamics. Designed for irregular time series. Led by Quinn Asena&Tony Ives, me, et al besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comStatistical analyses of ecological multinomial time series to identify environmental drivers and biotic interactionsUnderstanding the drivers of change in communities is a major goal of paleoecology and community ecology, but statistical inference from multivariate time series is challenged by relative (rather ... 043
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/07/2026June 2026 was the second warmest June on record (after 2024) in the ERA5 dataset, at 1.39C above preindustrial levels. While we expect warmer temperatures later this year as El Niño kicks in, 2026 is now increasingly likely (~86% chance) to be the second warmest year on record. 35919
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Each Friday night, I write a briefing on US science & higher ed. 🧪 June 26 (Year 2, Week 26) made me angry: - dismantling programs to prevent teen pregnancy & fatal overdoses - Texas adds Bible stories to mandatory school readings - bad $$ news from NSF, NIH & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...buttondown.comYear 2, Week 26Jun 20-26, 2026 – intercropping 22912
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and action www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...cell.comDefining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and actionDefining an Anthropocene epoch from the mid-1900s allows representing human environmental impacts’ triphasic nature within the International Geological Timescale. Such an epoch captures humanity’s cur... 053
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Two weeks left to apply! 03429
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsProf Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660arxiv.orgRelativity for Retired EngineersWe provide some guidance and examples to clear up common misconceptions about special relativity. These misconceptions often come from trying to express the truths of special relativity in Newtonian t... 11377102
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5% 32561457
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Really makes no sense to extend the natural gas grid for new residential neighborhoods. A single mile of new gas distribution line can cost $500,000 to over $1 million to install, with maintenance costs compounding over decades. Xcel is funding whole-home electrification for approximately 2,200..open.substack.comThe Last Gas Line: Why Utilities Are Betting on All-Electric CommunitiesA quiet revolution is reshaping how America builds neighborhoods — and the cheapest infrastructure decision may be the one utilities never make. 37125
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsDoug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱 819245
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Looks like a very informative seminar on the historical phylogenetic biogeography 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology #Paleobio 0237
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/05/2026"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."reneweconomy.com.au"Blows your mind:" Regulator says boom in home batteries and PV puts 82 pct renewables within reachRegulator says surge in home battery and rooftop PV installations puts the 82 pct renewables target back in reach because it reduces the burden on large scale projects. 211332404
Reposted by John (Jack) WilliamsDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.democrats-science.house.govRanking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and TechnologyThe House Committee on Science, Space and Technology 581055762