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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Macbeth: SHIT

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This was everything. #SuperBowlLX

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming | PNAS

Paleoclimates provide examples of past climate change that inform estimates of modern warming from greenhouse-gas emissions, known as Earth’s clima...

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Who I wonder is an "appropriate operator" for the Trump administration? 🤔 Will we be losing Derecho core hours to an AI company? 🤦‍♀️ #SaveNCAR

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The latest unhinged threat from the Trump administration would destroy the best climate modeling center in the world. It would also be a blow to US researchers (including me) who depend on NCAR's modeling expertise and educational training programs for students. #SaveNCAR www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

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The Trump admin is closing a critical climate research center. Officials believe it’s really trying to punish a governor | CNN

The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for improved weather models to tools that aid hurricane safety. ...

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Laboratory Coordinator I - Geosciences

Maintenance and repair of the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory equipment, including but not limited to gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs & ...

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I do love Reddit for so many reasons. Thanks for accepting me bros!

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A proposed Amazon data center in Tucson (“Project Blue”, FFS) that would have sapped power and water from the city has been REJECTED thanks to amazing community solidarity. The people of the desert have spoken and won ✊🌵🏜️

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

why does coal use she/her pronouns

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This @wired.com article is extremely timely for those of us in Tucson, Arizona, as we face the possibility of Amazon Web Services building a huge data center at our outskirts. Energy and water use for AI data centers are non-trivial. Read my thread below if you want to hear about our local story ⬇️

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Update on the NOAA Fellows situation: as of late last week the furlough has been lifted (phew!). However, there are no new Fellows this year, and we still don't know the future of this program.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...

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Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0

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Becca Dzombak @rdzombak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds. It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

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NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So cool!! The journey started in 2018, I think the photo on the left was 2021 (?) and now the Judd curve is on the wall in the Smithsonian 👍🏻

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The fact that "climate is always changing" should not bring us comfort! @hausfath.bsky.social and I break down common climate denier arguments on @pbs.org Weathered www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2l... Feat. temp and CO2 reconstructions from our lab and @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social

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Did Climate Skeptics Get THIS Right?!

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Useful post here on things you can do to communicate the importance of science to your representatives.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hard to post about ‘normal’ things, but - we had an amazing field trip out to CA with ugrads to learn and practice oceanography this Spring ❤️🌊 when things are dark I get a boost from teaching great students!

A student drops a secchi disk off the side of the boat

Students explore contents of a biological dredge

Panorama of students on an oceanographic vessel

Students learning about sedimentary rock layers at the California coast

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 27/03/2025

We've quickly moved from being the spokesperson for a protest movement to being arrested at a protest to publishing a critical op-ed as the criteria for summary deportation. A slippery slope for free speech indeed. www.nytimes.com/2025...

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE

The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Grijalva was my representative and a legend- defender of the environment, indigenous groups in southern AZ and sensible border policy. Going to be missed 💔 RIP

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I identify with this iceberg. (Also a beautiful video)

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 11/03/2025

"It does not matter if you approve of Khalil’s views. ... If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened here, then no one is safe." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run

The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Saturday is for enjoying Springtime in the desert. Even in years with little winter rain (like this one-less than 1 inch so far 😳) ocotillos will always bloom providing hummingbirds with nectar. A strong and spiky and beautiful plant 💪 #sonorandesert

Bright coral pink ocotillo flowers on a spiky stem against a blue sky

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My term as Editor-in-Chief of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology comes to an end soon. We're looking for a new EIC. Consider applying www.agu.org/Publications...

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This just hit my USGS colleagues while we are at a conference. Some folks were planning on using that card to get home. And if this conference occurred even a few days later all the good science discussed here wouldn’t have happened.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Quietly, my university took down its webpage on diversity (diversity.arizona.edu) and edited its land acknowledgement to remove the clause, "Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives..." We need Universities to stand up for their values, not comply in advance 😡

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

For SuperbOwl day I’ll share this photo of a fulvous owl I took in Guatemala. Very handsome 🦉

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Rest in Peace Professor Andy Cohen @uarizona.bsky.social. I first met Andy as a PhD student working on Lake Tanganyika. He loved lakes and lake drilling projects, and was an incredible educator. His signature look was colorful collared shirts that he used to buy in Africa. We will miss him a lot 💔

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I know people are worried (and rightly so!), but many NOAA NCEI sources were scheduled to be offline potentially through Friday evening

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Eos @eos.org · 04/02/2025

Studies of the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 ppm—during the Pliocene—could offer clues about possible climatic changes in store for the 21st century. New research by @leafwax.bsky.social and colleagues in @aguadvances.bsky.social. eos.org/research-spo...

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Ancient Climate Reconstruction Links Past and Future - Eos

A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts per million—could offer clues about possible climatic changes in store for t...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“The NSF could have a hard time legally terminating grants, because their funds are appropriated by US Congress, meaning they are PROTECTED BY LAW” This is a waste of program managers time. And against the law. So disappointed in NSF leadership.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For my first scientific post here, I want to talk about the Phanerozoic temperature record we published last Fall, which unfortunately has been making rounds in the climate denier circuit 👀 First though hopefully you can appreciate the beauty of this reconstruction ✨...

Earth's temperature history for the past 500 million years

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Uh oh… hopefully just temporary 💔

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hi 👋 I made it over here. My handle is as on the former T/X platform: leafwax. Why? Because I sling ancient leaf waxes to learn about past climate changes to better inform our future. Looking forward to conversations here about science...also food, nature, pets, birds :)

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