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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Following our @cbc-conference.bsky.social and the keynote by @lewan.uk I just read the Anti-Autocracy Handbook he and his colleagues wrote: research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati... I found it timely and useful and recommend having a look

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kelly also confirms the importance of attribution: for people's opinion on climate it is not relevant whether they objectively suffered from a climate extreme. But their perception matters a lot, in particular whether or not they attribute the event to climate change

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Insightful keynote, Special-Psychologe perspective by Kelly Fielding: for society to advance on biodiversity and climate, it is essential that people outside the group of 'usual suspects' speak up - farmers, conservatives, doctors @cbc-conference.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de

Kelly Fielding at the Conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour in Leipzig

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Keynote opening the final day of the @cbc-conference.bsky.social on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour by Isabel Martínez Cano: impressive work on coupling tropical forest dynamics with the atmosphere. Danger of transition of the Amazon to grassland

Isabel Martínez Cano speaking at the Conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lewandowsky answering the question whether AI models enhance denialism: they don't, instead seem rather effective in turning around opinions. Why? "Because they are infinitely patient" 😃

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A useful study of Stephan Lewandowsky and co-author on IPCC Reports: the language over time (in newer reports) gets less confident, more cautious. At the same time, denier's language gets more confident and is increasingly taken up in media and even politician's speeches

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now panel discussion at the @cbc-conference.bsky.social conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate and Human Behaviour. Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk cautions against the term polycrisis: "people have an upper limit on what they can worry about" ... "make it specific instead"

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An enlightening keynote by @lewan.uk at the @cbc-conference.bsky.social on how climate denialism works - driven by ideology - and how to move forward to overcome it, where attribution science has a role to play.

Stephan Lewandowsky on the panel at the Conference in Connections between Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Behaviour

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spectacular keynote by @moritzdrupp.bsky.social at the CBC conference @cbc-conference.bsky.social biodiversity and it's increasing relative value imply carbon should be taxed more than twice as much (and certainly not subsidized as the German government intends to do!)

Moritz Drupp in the lecture hall in Leipzig

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In Leipzig solidarity with our fellow citizens in the neighbour state threatened by the right-wing party

Old Town Hall and market place in Leipzig with a crowd protesting threats by the right-wing party

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Leipzig Institute for Meteorology @meteoleipzig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We can actually measure the frequency of insect concentration in the air by radar. Fascinating stuff, now published by an interdisciplinary team at our institute and beyond: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/115... @jquaas.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Histograms of maximum daily insect concentration at 150, 250, 500, and 750 m above ground derived from the three radars.

Four panels with blue bars primarily on the left of the x axis. Green and reddish bars to the left with the latter spreading also to the right of the x acxis. 150m above ground at top and 750m above ground at the bottom.

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Peter Pfleiderer @klimapeter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Der Sommer ist vorbei und wird uns in Erinnerung bleiben! In Leipzig gab es die krasse Hitzewelle Ende Juni. Der Sommer entspricht aber ungefähr dem, was wir beim jetzigen Fortschritt der globalen Erwärmung von einem Sommer erwarten sollten 😬 Deutlich schlimmere Sommer wären möglich 🫣

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Peter Pfleiderer @klimapeter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Kleiner Bericht über unsere Studie. Ich weiß nicht ganz, was mit der Überschrift gemeint ist, oder wie sie zu verstehen ist. Immerhin waren es ja "Forschende", die diesen Denkanstoß gegeben haben ... 🤔 www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...

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Jahrhundertsommer? Warum Forschende neu denken müssen

Ein überaus heißer und trockener Sommer wie in diesem Jahr kann künftig normal sein. Das zumindest sagt die Klimaforschung. Die Frage ist nur: Wie sieht dann künftig ein Jahrhundertsommer aus? Von Flo...

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gestern in Kalbe in einer Kartoffellagerhalle: Vortrag und viel Diskussion zum Klimawandel, u.a. mit Landwirten zu Hitze und Dürre. Teil der Roadshow der Initiative Wissenschaft für Demokratie. wissenschaftfuerdemokratie.de/aktuelles/wfd-roadshow-was-stimmt-hier-eigentlich/ kuenstlerstadt-kalbe.de

Vortrag zum Thema Klima in der Kartoffelhalle in Kalbe

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Expert Review of the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC's Seventh Assessment Report opens today. The review runs from 10 August to 2 October 2026. Experts can register until 25 September 2026: bit.ly/4vi25cq 🔗 bit.ly/WGI7Fod

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If it was 'just' wasting American taxpayer's money! But it is harming energy availability and cost for Americans, and climate for all of us

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Have the people who think renewables are expensive heard how much Trump is paying *not* to build renewables??

headline, reading "Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases"

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New results by Sajedeh Marjani: how do contrails evolve? high-resolution simulations in realistic settings for different weather conditions. They interact with the surroundings, change clouds and humidity. acp.copernicus.org/articles/26/... @meteoleipzig.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Leipzig Institute for Meteorology @meteoleipzig.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New paper alert ‼️ Changes in atmospheric circulation patterns are - to a large part - responsible for the observed summer drought trend in Europe since 1980. The exact cause for these shifts remains uncertain. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Uni press release: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

three panels with yellow and blue colours for soil moisture trends. mostly yellow for the total change in the top panel. light yellow changes in the bottom left panel for thermodynamics. some blue in the north and south but yellow in western and central parts in the bottom right panel for dynamics.

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Danke für den Tipp, @akleidon.bsky.social , ich hab den Urlaub genutzt um euer Buch zu lesen. Sehr gut lesbar und wirklich Neues für mich drin! Besonders interessant fand ich, dass bei exponentiell wachsendem Energieverbrauch auch Kernenergie keine Lösung sein kann (sondern Photovoltaik)

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It gets even better: SpaceX admits ALL 11.500 of its satellites will fail and burn up in the atmosphere within the next 5 years! This global environmental disaster is planned out of pure greed and irresponsibility. Consequences? Zero.

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My local bookstore accidentally ordered two copies for me and I wanted to wait until after reading whether to return the redundant one. But I won't, it will make a good present to an interested friend sometime

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

and ancient myths. And her way to discuss Earth system science comprehensively but in everyday language (for native speakers, I guess, though). I like to think the bit about impressionists and parametrizations originated in my PhD defense talk that I had the great pleasure to repeat at GISS in 2004

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Only during vacation I take the time reading books and the first I chose to read this year was @drkatemarvel.bsky.social's Human Nature. Despite family duties took only two days, although I needed to ask my wife with vocabulary here and there 😃. I particularly enjoyed her references to history

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Natassa Romanou @aromanou.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Review alert: Please consider participating in IPCC-AR7 WGI expert review. Registration will be open until 25 Sep 2026 23:59 (CEST). The First Order Draft will be available for Expert Review between 10 August and 2 October 2026. Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/ar7...

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IPCC Review Comments - AR7WG1

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

PhD position in the IDEAS Graduate School ideas.helmholtz.de/apply/: SoilCloudAI: Interpretable and probabilistic AI for land–atmosphere feedbacks during hydroclimatic extremes with Jian Peng, Josefine Umlauft, me (@ufz.de @scadsai.bsky.social @meteoleipzig.bsky.social), Deadline: 26 July 2026

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Apply - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Axel, das klingt super! Würdest du mir empfehlen, mir das Buch zu holen? Oder ist es mehr für Nicht-Physiker?

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Two professorships at @unileipzig.bsky.social Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences! Professorship Economic Geography and Sustainability: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Professorship Social Geography: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Excellent environment in climate and biodiversity!

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"what look like my best successes as a mentor have resulted from little more than cheerleading and getting out of the way." very much the same here, @adamsobel.bsky.social !

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tropos-de.bsky.social @tropos-de.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#Dragon-6 Insights: #DQ-1 #Aerosol and #Carbon Detection #Lidar (#ACDL).A group of #European & #Chinese scientists met 28-29 April 2026 with representatives of the @esa.int at @tropos-de.bsky.social in #Leipzig: www.tropos.de/en/aktuelles... / @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de #CALIPSO #Aeolus #EarthCARE

On 28-29 April 2026, a group of European and Chinese scientists met with representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) to discuss collaboration in the field of laser remote sensing from space.

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚨Reminder: Apply to the iDiv Fellowship Programme! Spend dedicated time at iDiv to advance your research and collaborate with our biodiversity community. 📅 Deadline: 24 June 2026 🔗 www.idiv.de/research/fel...

A pdf explaining the general rules of the iDiv Fellowship Programme.

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Amazing 250 submissions from 36 countries! So really great interest in this topic! Many thanks to everyone who will contribute!

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Fantastic funding opportunities for biodiversity related research projects👇 1. Synthesis Working Groups 2. Senior Fellows Please spread the words & apply :)

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CBC Conference @cbc-conference.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

📢 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲! 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: cbc-conference.org #CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #BehaviouralScience @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, our international Conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour is taking shape: cbc-conference.org Abstract deadline next Friday, 14 April. Great keynote speakers and nice side-events, please check out the programme or get in touch!

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Since you ask, in the not completely overlapping conclusions with the ones by George Tselioudis - I believe this one, by Ceppi, is a more reliable decomposition. Isolating cloud controlling factors, as Tselioudis et al. did, is notoriously difficult. Clouds are chaotic, and don't obey simple rules.

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sorry for responding late, somehow I got distracted! The discussion on the rapidly increasing Earth energy imbalance is really a very important one, we need to understand what exactly is going on. Ceppi and colleagues have a very useful contribution in my view.

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Strange. We don't use German but Latin (the universal language of former times) normally for the title: Doctor rerum naturalium.

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Eos @eos.org · 19/03/2026

Researchers analyzed 40 years of satellite greenness data and tracked the center of mass of global vegetation. They found that the planet’s center of greenness has been shifting northward and eastward and that this movement has accelerated over the past decade. eos.org/articles/ear...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

@scadsai.bsky.social is offering a position as a junior research group leader in machine learning at @unileipzig.bsky.social. Submit your research concept by April 15, 2026. 👉 Find out more about the application process: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/6...

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You may have read about the threat against NCAR. Now the American National Science Foundation collects arguments in favour of NCAR. I don't know how valuable for them comments from international folks will be but still I left my comments and maybe you could too? agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What does the potentially emerging energy crisis mean for Europe? Yesterday I was in a media briefing with 75 journalists. Here is a snippet of what I told them.

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Heute ist #WorldWildlifeDay 🐦 Kollisionen mit Glasstrukturen töten in Deutschland schätzungsweise 18–115 Mio. Vögel pro Jahr. Im Projekt EcoGlassBird @smartenwinter.bsky.social analysieren wir gemeinsam mit der Wildvogelhilfe Leipzig Vogelschlagnachweise in Leipzig. (1/3)

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