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Yuxin Zhou

@yzhouclimate.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Georgia Tech/WHOI. Paleoceanography. Geochemistry. U-series. Bayesian cyclostratigraphy. Ocean modeling. Pronouns: he/his Website: yz3062.github.io

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2026
I've updated my map of El Niño impacts this year to incorporate 13 dynamical models (NMME and C3S, Sept runs); the initial version was simply based on an assessment of the impacts literature for past very strong events. This also let me refine the impacted areas using the model fields:
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A full and chaired professor at UChicago produced 200 papers and 14 books this year. That’s 1.04 papers per business day. wapo.st/4xCaFUf
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One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For those interested in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin or Antarctic Ice Sheet comms in general, I made some visualisations that may be useful. All are from code and traceable to the data. First, an overview of the system. Full video and metadata: youtu.be/kzpCeVsNNwU
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited that our new paper is out @pnas.org! We show that the observed increase in variability of yearly Greenland ice melt over recent decades is not evidence of ice sheet destabilization. Story in 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Update: The students are terrified of using AI and not using AI. The students want to learn. They know AI is a threat to learning. A couple of really good discussion points emerged. For example, an outright ban on all AI use is not practical because AI snakes itself into so many uses.
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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨🚨We have a new paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com led by postdoctoral scholar Na Wang (now @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social), where we identify a last-millennium climate “seesaw” linking extreme #hydroclimate events across both Central Asia & mainland Southeast Asia ☔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Opposing hydroclimate extremes in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over past millennium - Nature Geoscience
Opposing wet and dry conditions in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over the past millennium were controlled by climate variability over the Pacific and Indian oceans, a pattern likely to become mo...
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Joe Levy @colddirt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Love exploring climate change in the geological record? Want to teach about climate change with fabulous undergraduates? Yearning to advance your paleoclimate research in a supportive, scholarship-forward environment? Then come work with us at Colgate University! ⚒️🧪❄️🧪🌊🧪 apply.interfolio.com/188708
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NSF NCAR CGD Laboratory @ncar-cgd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
NSF NCAR CGD scientists joined a Texas A&M workshop on high & ultra-high resolution Earth system modeling. As models sharpen from ~100 km to ~3 km, they can better capture regional detail & extremes but bring big scientific and computational challenges. Proud of our CGD scientists!
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PAGES (Past Global Changes) @pages-ipo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
⏳Coming soon: PAGES Magazine – “The Essence of Time” Explore the challenges and future of geological dating: from biostratigraphy to radioisotopic methods. 📬 Free hard copy available, order by tomorrow! pastglobalchanges.org/form/pages-m... #Geoscience #PAGES #EarthScience
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 18/03/2026
Little coverage of the two big new Nature papers using the Allan Hills blue ice, showing that CO2 may not have been the primary driver of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. This is a super interesting debate about a fundamental process of the past climate, if you haven't covered it before.
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Chandranath Basak @climchem.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Interested in mid-Pleistocene transition? Check out our latest paper 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @us-sciod.bsky.social @kapuge9paleo.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social @julgottschalk.bsky.social #paleoceanography #EXP383
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Southern Hemisphere initiation of the mid-Pleistocene transition
A South Pacific neodymium isotope time series suggests Antarctic ice sheet growth triggered the mid-Pleistocene transition.
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I know science can’t fix the world — here’s why I do it anyway www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I know science can’t fix the world — here’s why I do it anyway
The world faces energy shortages as fossil fuels are phased out. Research can’t go on as normal.
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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Good write-up in Science on our recent paper: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Space dust reveals rapid evolution after dino-killing asteroid
New data detail how tiny forms of life rebounded much more quickly than previously believed
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A suite of benthic δ18O stacks intended as updates to the LR04 has been published. We compiled new data, updated the chronology, and provided regional stacks. gchron.copernicus.org/articles/8/8...
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Global and regional Pleistocene benthic δ18O stacks with a comparison of different age modeling strategies
Abstract. Constructing accurate age models for Pleistocene marine sediments is crucial for our understanding of glacial-interglacial cycles and other climatic processes. Benthic foraminiferal δ18O sta...
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Jiang Zhu @climate-z.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📣 Register & join CESM Paleoclimate Working Group Meeting on Feb 12 Hybrid community meeting on paleo modeling, proxy data, & model–data integration. Talks cover deep-time, isotopes, community efforts & coordination Register for virtual link www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/worki... @ncar-cgd.bsky.social
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Oxygen content was lower than modern throughout much of the glacial Atlantic Ocean, suggests a new study by Costa and Oppo doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Controls on Oxygen Concentrations and δ13C in the Glacial Atlantic
Oxygen content was lower than modern throughout much of the glacial Atlantic Ocean Changes in preformed δ13C and oxygen were critical components of the observed difference between the last glacia...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🌊 Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum - Nature
During the Last Glacial Maximum, the deep Northwest Atlantic was only about 2 °C colder than today, suggesting sustained production of relatively warm North Atlantic Deep Water during the Last Glacial...
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 06/01/2026
⚒️ Article: Glaciers in New Zealand retreated at about the same time as mid-latitude glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere during Heinrich Stadials, indicating strong global teleconnections during the last glacial period @ifremer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synchronous bipolar retreat of mid-latitude ice masses during Heinrich Stadials - Nature Geoscience
Glaciers in New Zealand retreated at about the same time as mid-latitude glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere during Heinrich Stadials, indicating strong global teleconnections during the last glacial ...
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Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy to see our #IODP379 pub post today! Great working with #AmundsenSea and #JOIDESResolution and #IODP #GulfCoastRepository on int‘l collaborative project led by K.Horikawa: Repeated major inland retreat of #Thwaites & #PineIsland glaciers (#WestAntarctica) #Pliocene www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
On Thursday, I’m giving an invited talk #AGU25. We know a lot about how ice ages end, much less about how they start. Come for new data on AMOC, an analogy involving butterflies, and a reference to “2001, A Space Odyssey”
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I’m taking the Amtrak from Atlanta to New Orleans for #AGU25! Follow my journey here, which will be 12.5 hours if there’s no delay 🚊
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
North American ice sheets contributed a lot more to sea level rise during 7 to 9 thousand years ago than previously thought, according to Mukherjee et al. (2025) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets - Nature Geoscience
The melting of the last remnants of the North American ice sheets in the early Holocene led to 14 m of global sea-level rise, higher than prior estimates, according to proxy constraints from the Missi...
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
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What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
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Andreas Schmittner @andreasschmittner.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New publication: how does a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) affect carbon and d13C cycles in the ocean? doi.org/10.1029/2025... doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Impact of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Collapse on Carbon‐13 Components in the Ocean
Simulated collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation affects atmospheric CO2 ${\text{CO}}_{2}$ and δ13CCO2 ${C}_{\mathit{CO2}}$ Largest effect on ocean δ13CDIC ${C}_{\mathit{DIC}...
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Congratulations @sfeakins.bsky.social on becoming the new Editor in Chief of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, and thank you to Matthew Huber for all the years of service that did so much to strengthen this important journal!
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Joey Schnaubelt @jschnaubelt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Quick writeup about our recent paper on atmospheric rivers during the Last Interglacial in @eos.org! eos.org/editor-highl...
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Atmospheric Rivers Shaped Greenland’s Ancient Ice - Eos
New simulations reveal how atmospheric rivers influenced Greenland’s ice sheet during the Last Interglacial—offering clues to future melt in a warming world.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton
🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...
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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚨New work🚨 led by Ph.D. student Dipesh Chuphal (IIT Gandhinagar), shows that the recent drying of the Ganga River basin is unprecedented in 1,300 years—more severe than historical famines. This ~multidecadal drying appears forced, but many models do not capture it. ☔️ 🌧️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Time series of standardized streamflow anomaly for the Ganga River from year 700 to 2020 (derived from a hydrological model and from the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas built from tree rings). The plot shows mostly balanced wet (blue/green bars) and dry (brown bars) years until the 20th century, when the black moving-average line dips sharply after 1990. The 1991–2020 mean (blue horizontal line) is well below the range of previous 1,300 years. Orange dots mark major documented historical droughts, but the recent drying is clearly the most severe.Observed changes in precipitation and temperature between 1951 and 2020. Spatial distribution of change in (A) annual precipitation (%) and (B) annual mean temperature (°C) between 1951 and 2020 based on the Sen’s slope calculation. Grids with statistically significant trends (P <= 0.05), based on the Mann–Kendall test, are highlighted with stippling. The Inset panels in (A) and (B) represent the interannual variability in precipitation anomaly (%) and temperature (°C) averaged
for the Ganga River Basin (blue boundary). The total change in average precipitation and temperature over the GRB during 1951−2020, estimated using the Sen’s slope, is statistically significant (P-value <= 0.05) based on the Mann–Kendall test.
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Unbelievable experience with the journal Palaeo3. Our manuscript was rejected because… they couldn’t find a second reviewer, and it had been in their system “too long” (7 weeks), according to the editor. In other words, just to preserve their review-speed metrics, they rejected our submission.
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Earth scientists know a lot more about getting out of an ice age than going into one. We report an episode of AMOC slowdown at 115 thousand years ago that's likely astronomically forced (via sea-ice) and coincides with a delayed drawdown of atmospheric CO2 @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eALD1
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Abrupt weakening of deep Atlantic circulation at the last glacial inception - Nature Communications
Zhou et al. report an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at the last glacial inception. The observed circulation slowdown could explain the delayed timing of the atmos...
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We all know an AMOC slowdown impacts tropical rainfall, but how exactly? DiNezio et al. point to cooling in the tropical Norht Atlantic as the main pathway. Today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature
An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.
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Jiawei Da @paleoisocw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com! We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene. 🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I think I just did my part but it's nice to be recognized!
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 06/05/2025
⚒️ Article: North Atlantic Deep Water formation was only moderately weaker than present during the Last Glacial Period, even when freshwater inputs were high @paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Schematic illustrations showing source water mixing in the Atlantic Basin during Heinrich Stadial 1 and the Last Glacial Maximum
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klehnert55.bsky.social @klehnert55.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
SESAR2 (www.geosamples.org) is rescuing NOAA's Index of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples. The IMLGS will be hosted by SESAR2 in the future.
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Welcome to the System For Earth Sample Registration (SESAR²) An Allocating Agent for IGSN
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Jesse Farmer @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Just published open-access in @agu.org's Paleo Paleo: A new foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotope perspective on one of geology's evergreen mysteries: The history of the Central American Seaway agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (1/a few)...
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Early Pliocene Shoaling of the Central American Seaway Reconstructed From Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes
Foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes trace the early Pliocene restriction of nutrient exchange across the Central American Seaway Geochemical data indicate four phases of seaway shoaling between ...
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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨Opening of the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office (SODCO). The US' IODP successor is a collaboration between @tamu.bsky.social and @lamontearth.bsky.social. mailchi.mp/ldeo/sodco-a...
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Announcement: Opening of U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/03/2025
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This paper by Barker et al resolves many details about how Earth’s orbital wobbles caused glacial cycles of expansion & contraction of ice sheets over the last ~800,000 years 🧵 ⚒️🧪 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles
Identifying the specific roles of precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in glacial-interglacial transitions is hindered by imprecise age control. We circumvent this problem by focusing on the morpho...
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Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella) @caballerogill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I bet every single one of you have heard "it takes a village to raise a child". Maybe you don't know, but it also takes a village to "raise" scientists. People like Margaret have been pivotal in supporting my work as I grew into a scientist, through rich conversations besides funding. Heartbroken💔
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MARUM @marumunibremen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Not all adaptation strategies to #climatechange will be sufficient for planktonic #foraminifera to survive, an international team of researchers with #MARUM participation comes to this conclusion in the scientific journal @nature.com ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Climate-c... @juliemeilland.bsky.social
Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms that are important for the marine ecosystem. In response to the increasing warming and acidification of the oceans, they are migrating deeper into the sea to preserve their populations. Photo: Sonia Chaabane & Julien Sulpis
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Brian Ricketts @kiwigeolog.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Another in the Pioneering Women in Earth Sciences series - Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924) - Scotland’s foremost fossil collector, spent her life in well-worn boots, wielding a hammer over rocky bluffs and rubble in search of Lower Paleozoic specimens www.geological-digressions.com/elizabeth-gr... ⚒️🧪
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Elizabeth Gray (1831 - 1924)
Elizabeth Gray, spent a life in dusty boots, wielding a hammer over rocky bluffs in search of Scotland's Lower Paleozoic fossils.
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Eric Wolff @wacswain.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period www.nature.com/articles/d41... @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
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Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
An ice core suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost ice 125,000 years ago, but not to the extent proposed by some scenarios.
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Arthur Coquereau @arthurcoquereau.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Does an increase in AMOC variability signal an imminent tipping point? In a recent article in GRL (@agu.org), authors explore the possibility of false positives (increased variance but no bistability) depending on gyre circulation intensity. #AMOC #TippingPoint #Climate doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Slowed Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Not a Robust Signal of Collapse
Critical Slowing Down (CSD) indicators can raise a false alarm of a nonexistent collapse when applied to an idealized Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) model Applying CSD to the ...
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Honored to be featured in this article. It shows the power of journalism to find something remarkable in my circuitous journey as a scientist climatechange.medill.northwestern.edu/yuxin-zhou-a...
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The application is now open for paleoCAMP 2025 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies)! For graduate students in any area of paleoclimatology, our 2 week summer school is timescale agnostic and multidisciplinary - please apply or share widely! paleoclimate.camp/apply
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Application — paleoCAMP
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Ben Riddell-Young @benryoung.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I'm thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper! We present ice core methane isotope data revealing that past abrupt climate changes likely triggered surges in wildfires, simultaneously driving rapid methane—and possibly CO2—rises 🌎🔥 Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period - Nature
An increase in wildfire extent and related greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to abrupt climatic changes during the last glacial period.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda / Happy New Year 2025! Great to see our latest IODP EXP 361 paper out today: Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years
Shifts in the world’s largest ocean current are closely linked to Southern Ocean upwelling during warm intervals in Earth’s past.
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