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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

New paper is out! We infer "isolation by environment" across landscape using random forest regression, and show how the resulting model (predicting optimal environment based on genotype) can be used in conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #RDAforest #GEA 🧪🌏

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RDAforest: Identifying Environmental Drivers of Polygenic Adaptation

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Kristina Black @kristinaleilani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🪸🌊 New paper with @heatshok.bsky.social on environmental drivers of genetic divergence in Florida corals is out in Evolutionary Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva.... We investigated genotype-environment associations in two coral species across the Florida Reef Tract.

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Kristina Black @kristinaleilani.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

New preprint on BioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025... We investigate environmental drivers of genetic adaptation in two corals sampled across the Florida Reef Tract. @heatshok.bsky.social

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Kristina Black @kristinaleilani.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New paper on cryptic coral lineages in St. Croix, USVI 🪸🧬 The first five authors are undergraduates- very proud of these rising scientists 🎉 This work was done in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy @nature.org and @heatshok.bsky.social. Check it out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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