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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 34m

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Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) @dalees.bsky.social · 51m

PhD Position in Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry at Dalhousie University (Beginning Winter 2026)

Deadline for the application is 31 October 2025

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 15h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 1d

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon

Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

alaskabeacon.com

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 1d

Greenland ice platinum spike - volcano or meteorite? ⚒️🧪☄️🌋
theconversation.com/a-volcano-or...

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

theconversation.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 3d

On second though let’s not go to Portland, it is a silly place.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 4d

My heart goes out to my federal colleagues who work so hard and are committed to their mission.

Science Magazine @science.org · 4d

Federal researchers are confronting growing uncertainty about their future, as the 10-day-old shutdown of the U.S. government is now poised to extend into at least next week. https://scim.ag/4n1uy22

As U.S. shutdown drags on, ‘it’s just one blow after another’

Federal researchers confront growing uncertainty about future

scim.ag

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 5d

You know you are in for a bad week when outlook gives you this warning....

text reads "you have a lot of meetings next week. Would you like to reserve some focused time for work."

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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 7d

The University: We need to become leaders in climate and sustainability and there is an urgent need to develop climate science courses.

Me: Our department has climate in the name and we already offer courses on climate science at every level.

The University: Who invited you to this meeting?

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 10d

🌊 New study overturns the “permanent El Niño” idea for the warm Pliocene

Upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific has persisted for 5 million years, even under ~3°C warmer climates

Future upwelling may be more resilient than feared…

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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 ...

www.science.org

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12d

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

www.latimes.com

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 14d

The German State of Baden-Württemberg is sponsoring 14 fellowships for researchers whose work is under political pressure in the US. Total funding for the fellowships is 3.6 million EUR. Freiburg, Konstanz and Tübingen are the participating universities.
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www.myscience.de/en/news/wire...

Baden-Württemberger Forschungsinstitute erhalten 3,6 Millionen Euro für ’Global Fellowships’

www.myscience.de

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 14d

It could, but the article was specifically about coal and subsidies to the coal industry. There are ways to make mining less damaging but there so far is not a way to stop coal from releasing CO2.

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

This is so true! I have been involved in several committees where we get a handful of applications so PLEASE nominate yourselves or better yet nominate a deserving colleague.

Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 15d

PLEASE NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR ACADEMIC AWARDS.

And ask friends to nominate you. And apply again next year if you don't get it.

I've been on a handful of committees that can give people things. A frequent complaint is that we can't give great people recognition if we don't "see" them in the pool.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 15d

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

Short-term initiatives to rescue industries with no long-range planning are only going to delay the inevitable end when some future government decides that they are spending too much $$ propping up that community. end/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

slowed their transition to renewable (and cheaper) sources of electricity. This story is also not an unfamiliar one to anyone who grew up in a place with a resource based economy. But it should be a lesson that government intervention is never a permanent solution. 5/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

of the coal business. The effects on those communities who depended on mining were devastating. Many of those who lost their jobs coal mining went on to find work in the oil sands our west. NS power was then left with a bunch of legacy coal generating plants that they need to maintain which has 4/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

In the 1980s as cheaper and cleaner sources of coal from western Canada and the US were found NS coal started to suffer but NS power continued to purchase local coal to support the industry. This was coupled with the fallout from the Westray disaster in 1992 and by 2001 the government was out 3/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

This led to coal naturally being used early on for electricity generation. NS started to move away from coal for electricity but then the 1970's oil crisis caused the province to reinvest in local coal with the government stepping in forming DEVCO to boost local coal as a domestic alternative. 2/

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 15d

"Mine, Baby, Mine': Trump Officials Offer $625 million to rescue Coal." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...
This reminds me of something my home province of Nova Scotia did that still has lasting repercussions. Nova Scotia has a long history of coal mining. 1/

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 19d

I love that this particular bristlecone looks like a dragon

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 20d

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

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Climate.us @climate.us · 21d

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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