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Jatan Buch

@jatanbuch.bsky.social
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Scientist studying clouds, wildfires, air quality, with physics and machine learning

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Sebastian Lerch @sebastianlerch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
📣 New preprint "Probabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output" with Tilmann Gneiting, Tobias Biegert, Kristof Kraus, Eva Walz and Alexander Jordan available at arxiv.org/abs/2506.03744. Some details below 🧵
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Probabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output
We introduce a new measure for fair and meaningful comparisons of single-valued output from artificial intelligence based weather prediction (AIWP) and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, calle...
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Useful law for estimating the overall speedup from ML/GPU optimizing subcomponents of scientific code en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%...
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Amdahl's law - Wikipedia
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
AI NWP models will solve this, right? RIGHT?
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ever been told to ""sleep on it""? 😴 @alanajaskir.bsky.social’s research shows how snoozing helps your brain learn! #sleepbenefits #replay #hippocampus #academicsky #standupforscience
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
After losing 2 flight directors (my old job), the NOAA Hurricane Hunters are down to minimum staffing for continuous hurricane flights. And if I still had my old job, I'd be looking for new employment before the next onslaught of cuts. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/03/noaa...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Potentially interesting job for the NOAA crowd - Verisk, one of the biggest modeling firms in the insurance industry, is looking for an experienced atmospheric scientist. Charles Jackson is hiring, who was on my PhD committee and is just a delight to work with, aside from being a kickass scientist.
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Verisk hiring Senior Atmospheric Scientist in Boston, MA | LinkedIn
Posted 12:45:15 AM. Job DescriptionVerisk’s Extreme Event Solutions Research Department in Boston is seeking a…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Mike Pritchard @mikepritchard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Pleased to share my views in a new TEDx talk on how AI offers compelling new ways to simulate the Earth with unprecedented resolution and interactivity: youtu.be/I0nxFLh-iBg?...
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AI is making whole earth simulation possible--why that matters | Mike Pritchard | TEDxBoston
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Pierre Gentine @pierregentine.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excited to share some great collaboration on a new data assimilation framework with transformer encoding arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02884. Exciting times for data assimilation with ML
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LEAP-STC @leapstc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
☀️ APPS ARE OPEN for our Summer'25 MOMENTUM FELLOWSHIP ☀️ - For data sci PhD students @ a U.S. institution - Mentorship of REU students - June 9 - August 1 - 5 research projects based in NYC and/or Boulder, CO 📆 INFO + APPLY by 3/15/25: leap.columbia.edu/education-2/...
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Kyleen Liao did stellar work with @karadlamb.bsky.social, Pierre Gentine, and me a while ago on simulating PM2.5 emissions from California wildfires using graph neural networks (GNNs). Her paper with cool new model validation results is out now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Simulating the air quality impact of prescribed fires using graph neural network-based PM2.5 forecasts | Environmental Data Science | Cambridge Core
Simulating the air quality impact of prescribed fires using graph neural network-based PM2.5 forecasts - Volume 4
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Words of wisdom from @naomioreskes.bsky.social's Science on a Mission.
“Few patrons have ever supported science for the love of knowledge alone; most have had orthogonal (or at least oblique) motivations, be they prestige, power, or the solution of practical problems, and the available evidence suggests that those motivations make a difference.”
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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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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Also consistent with my experience that PNAS is actually a terrible journal. I know of several PNAS papers that were either straight wrong or you could not reproduce their results.
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I should have led off this thread with the statement: this is how to think about wildlife risk and what we can do about it. No safety intervention makes a community perfectly safe. Many reduce risk. It is a layered and cumulative effort. Think about auto safety to understand what I mean:
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Notice power generation - high wind events are bad news for transmission lines. Suspect these statistics are worse for structures/fatalities - high wind fires make up 12% of burn area in western US, but 52% of lives/60% of structures lost, via @climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social research
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Downslope Wind‐Driven Fires in the Western United States
Downslope wind-driven fires accounted for 13.4% of fire occurrence and 11.9% of total burned area in the western United States during 1992–2020 Most structure losses and fatalities in fires 1999–...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/01/2025
Skew-T Log-P xkcd.com/3032
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/12/2024
“With the rising costs of and vulnerability to extreme weather in a changing climate for the United States, dismantling or defunding NOAA would be a catastrophic error” Good op-ed from Ryan Maue in todays @nytimes: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Would Regret Letting Elon Musk Ax Weather Forecasting
Everyone benefits from government weather forecasting. Republicans have the chance to make it better.
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Ashesh Chattopadhyay @ashesh6810.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Arvind, me, and Jonah released a new pre-print on some pen and paper analysis of fundamental failure modes and old school stability analysis for neural PDEs typically used in AI for Science application. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15101. 1/n
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What You See is Not What You Get: Neural Partial Differential Equations and The Illusion of Learning
Differentiable Programming for scientific machine learning (SciML) has recently seen considerable interest and success, as it directly embeds neural networks inside PDEs, often called as NeuralPDEs, d...
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Is there a similar conversation we can have among climate scientists as the new administration freezes or cuts federal funding levels for climate related research? Should we be more private sector focused in our collaborations while also doing more public outreach in non-university spaces?
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We have an opinion piece at the NYT on the need to operationalize some aspects of climate science. 🧪 Thoughts welcome! (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
+1 Williams (2017): "While extreme drought has been rare in the SE U.S. over the past half century, the intensity and rapid onset of the SE U.S. drought in 2016, and its destructive impacts on wildfire...should motivate preparedness for reoccurrences of droughts of similar or stronger magnitude."
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The 2016 Southeastern U.S. Drought: An Extreme Departure From Centennial Wetting and Cooling
New gridded monthly soil-moisture estimates indicate that the southeast U.S. drought in fall 2016 was the second most severe since at least 1895 The driver was low precipitation, but record-high ev...
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LEAP-STC @leapstc.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Thrilled to make LEAP's 1st jump into #Bluesky by hi-lighting our next-gen #climate #data scientists, who spearheaded today's ClimateML Methods Workshop + brought together early-career scientists in the #NYC area to share progress @ the intersection of #climate science + #ML! #community #diversity
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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
#HarveyLab @UW_SEFS is recruiting 1-2 funded PhD students in 2025. Research is part of @NSF project testing mechanisms of forest resilience to fire + changing fire regimes in PNW www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... + opportunities to collab w/ WFFRC westernfireforest.org Apply to SEFS by Nov 15
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
With the (belated) September data now in, the updated prediction is that 2024 is almost certain to be a new annual surface temperature record, and possibly by more than 0.1ºC. 50% change of exceeding 1.5ºC above the late 19th C.
Timeseries of GISTEMP annual temperatures with uncertainties from 1880 to 2023 and including an estimate for 2024 using YTD temperatures. The 2024 estimate is clearly above and distinct from all previous years and straddles the '1.5ºC above the late 19th C' line.
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
For several years, I have been mostly focused on ML models and their climate applications. So it felt good to have contributed something more physically motivated; here's a new algorithm we developed to simulate aerosol perturbations (or seeding) in PySDM: github.com/open-atmos/P...
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Release PySDM v2.75 · open-atmos/PySDM
What's Changed Seeding dynamic and associated initialisation logic (super-droplet injection during simulation) in #1367 Kudos @jtbuch & @claresinger! Full Changelog: v2.74...v2.75
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Bidenomics architect Deese set out a cheaper, green-ish “Marshall Plan” this week. @70sbachchan.bsky.social and I looked at key developments that led to this (a lot has happened!) and what’s wrong / missing (some big things). buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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How Deese got there
Welcome to another Polycrisis Dispatch. This is edition #15! This week the Brian Deese — former WH National Economic Council director of Bidenomics — essay...
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
As the fire season intensifies over parts of the western United States, I wanted to share some results from ongoing work to improve seasonal and subseasonal-to-seasonal scale forecasts of wildfire frequency and burned area with machine learning. The model forecast for July 2024:
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
My colleagues at LEAP STC are organizing a ML for Earth System Modeling workshop at ICML 2024 this July. Please consider submitting and share the call for papers among interested folks! leap-stc.github.io/ml4esm-works...
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Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling
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Robert W. Gray @firebobbc.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
An outstanding report from ProPublica - an indictment of how the agencies are mistreating their most valuable resource and it's not just the woefully inadequate level of compensation but also the failure to attend to cancer and emotional trauma and stress. www.propublica.org/article/wild...
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“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them
Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.
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Hung Nguyen @ntthung.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Last semester, I asked my students to analyze CRU data. Naturally most worked on the country or town they came from, and they found interesting things. Here is the annual mean precipitation over Iraq. A sudden jump in variability?
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Couldn't agree more with this op-ed by Justin Mankin on the importance of public, actionable climate risk information CEA, OMB and Treasury make a similar argument in this public memo on priorities for climate-economic modeling: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/o...
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Opinion | The People Have a Right to Climate Data
Information about climate risks is becoming increasingly valuable to companies that want to sell it.
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Interesting paper quantifying the smoke related trade-offs from different forms of forest management for wildfire mitigation
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Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management - Nature Sustainability
Prescribed burning is a common tool to mitigate the risk of dangerous wildfires. However, careful consideration of the public health impacts should be incorporated into forest management plans.
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
If I'm reading this correctly, climate change projections are overestimating water vapor, and therefore underestimating vapor pressure deficit (VPD), in many regions of the planet. For processes tightly correlated with VPD, like wildfire, we are likely underestimating their future impacts. Crap! 🧪🌏
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
As I pace between the conference center and my hotel, I'm feeling many of the emotions listed here quite acutely!
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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
The Compound Event Network is on bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with the most recent research on compound and cascading climate hazards and risks. ➡️ @compoundnet.bsky.social
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
“Improving insurance markets does little to address the fact that the core drivers of the ‘climate risk doom loop’ rest in the design of capital markets.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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The Doom Loop | Advait Arun
Insurance markets and climate risk
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Jatan Buch @jatanbuch.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
What a gorgeous plot!
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11/11/2023
Very large portions of the Arctic observed temperatures more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 reference period last month! This was especially prominent in areas of missing sea ice. 🧪⚒️ + Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... + Data from cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dat....
Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing actual air temperatures in October 2023 on the left and the temperature anomaly on the right for October 2023. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. All data uses ERA5 reanalyasis. All areas are warmer than average, except for Scandinavia.
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
100% true
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Thrilled to be watching one of my geo heroes Christopher Jackson right NOW on a @novapbs episode about ancient Earth history and the implications for our lives now! Loving the diversity of scientists featured in this episode too! See it online at youtu.be/FabQSRI7kHo?... #BlackSky
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”
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‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.
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Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
This 60 Minutes Episode, "The Age of Megafires" aired 16 years ago. I'll never forget Scott Pelley asking me [at 10:15 min mark] "Wait. Did you just say there's a reasonable chance we could lose half of our forests in the West?" Sadly, we are still on that track... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGdU...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of around 160 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 18/10/2023
Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world A new reanalysis-based approach shows how a severe windstorm that occurred in 1903 would produce more rain & stronger winds if it occurred in a warmer world. Hawkins, Compo & Sardeshmukh: esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/...
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ESD Ideas: Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
For now, the world needs oil. We don't have to get it from $500 billion companies that consistently mislead the public on climate change. That's a choice. Me @newyorktimes.bsky.social on Exxon's new deal. HT @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social @climatesollab.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/o...
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Opinion | Exxon Mobil’s Pioneer Acquisition Is a Direct Threat to Democracy
By doubling down on fossil fuels, Exxon Mobil is choosing to profit through the most harmful way to the rest of us.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 16/10/2023
Heidi Blake has a long piece in the New Yorker on carbon offsets. No matter how bad you think things are, the people involved in big projects keep telling us how much worse things actually are.
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The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia. My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science
Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in scien...
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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
We are recruiting a postdoc or research assistant prof to work on a project modeling vegetation and fire. www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...
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Ecosystem modeling postdoc
The Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to....
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Yan Boulanger @trailgeek.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Rather crazy situation unfolding in northern #Quebec. Thunderstorms, some potentially severe, having the potential to ignite new #wildfires. Conditions pretty dry already. Maximum temperature forecasted on wednesday: 29°C (Check the date...October 2nd...)
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