Kevin J. Anchukaitis

Kevin Anchukaitis

@thirstygecko.bsky.social

4.3K followers 680 following 470 posts

Climate scientist, paleoclimatologist, dendrochronologist, University of Arizona | https://kanchukaitis.github.io/ | Opinions are mine and not that of my employer

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, I am behind on everything.

On the other hand, this waking nightmare is exhausting and I'm amazed I'm accomplishing anything.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Peter Jacobs

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato in Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff (& author of the novel ‚War with Russia’) in an op-ed in the 🇬🇧Mail yesterday:
“My message to European leaders is this: America is no longer our ally but a predator and a bully. Stick together and prepare for war.“

GENERAL SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF: US is no longer our ally but a predator

It may have sounded like a joke when in 2019 Trump raised the prospect of acquiring Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. But seven years on and the rubber has hit the road.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 2d

"It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes."

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 2d

"Minnesota is under siege. It might not yet be a civil war, but what the White House has dubbed “Operation Metro Surge” is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Inderjeet Parmar

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

‘It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Frankel had observed the rise of Nazi rule as a working lawyer and committed social democrat and noted that ordinary Germans enjoyed the benefit of what Huq describes as a "capitalist economy governed by stable laws" even as other parts of the German system changed into an engine of genocide and war.
The two components of the dual state are the normative state - the seemingly normal world that you and I inhabit, where, as Huq writes, the "ordinary legal system of rules, procedures and precedents" applies - and the prerogative state, which is marked (in Frankel's words) by "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees."
"The key here," Huq writes, "is that this prerogative state does not immediately and completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Frankel argued, dictatorships create a lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state."

Reposted by Anna O. Law, John W. Williams, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 12 more Anna O. Law, John W. Williams, Gavin A. Schmidt, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Jason Stajich, Scott L. Greer, Michael A. Clemens, Jill Marshall, Iikka Korhonen, Silvia Secchi, Caroline T. Schroeder, Zen Faulkes, Kate Starbird, Kristina McElheran, Jesse R. Lasky

Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 3d

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Michael D. McDonald

Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 4d

More unaccountable thuggery, via the AP Twitter account. After being screamed at not to knee him in the face, the agent...knees him in the face again. See for yourself

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Andrew Kydd

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.

Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.

nyti.ms

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to see Dr. Bryan Black's research using dendrochronology to establish an exact date (and season!) of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound/Tacoma/Seattle region featured in the NY Times today! 'If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...

If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, A. E. Dessler, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 3 more Scott C. Doney, A. E. Dessler, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John Fasullo, Joseph Schafer, Brian Medeiros

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 6d

Per Senate Press Gallery, CO
senators Bennet and Hickenlooper just spoke on the floor about NCAR. Sen Bennet tried to raise their amendment to protect NCAR through unanimous consent, but Sen. Susan Collins objected, killing the motion.

Thursday, January 15, 2026 2:23 p.m. Senator Hickenlooper spoke on the National Center for Atmospheric Research and health research.
1:36 p.m. Senator Bennet spoke about the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He then asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to call up
amendment 4153 to H.R.6938, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations.
Senator Collins objected to his request.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Elizabeth Saunders, Matthew Bunn , and 11 more Stephen M. Walt, Elizabeth Saunders, Matthew Bunn, Norbert Schwarz, Carl T. Bergstrom, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Bryan D. Jones, Joshua Goodman, Lesley Bartlett, Jacob T. Levy, Anne Norton, Ann Bartow, Nils Zurawski, Greg Linden

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.

And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Kimberly A. Prather, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 29 more Anne Applebaum, Kimberly A. Prather, Stephan Lewandowsky, Shadd Maruna, Adam H. Sobel, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John McLaren, Richard Ashby Wilson, Caroline Krafft, Amir Attaran, Elizabeth Stokoe, Melissa Johnson, Alison Phipps, John Foot, John Collins, Rosanna E. Guadagno, Clyde W. Barrow, Melanie C. Green, Alan Richardson, Iveta Silova, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Jacob T. Levy, Nazita Lajevardi, Samantha Brennan, W Grant, Mark Rice, Lisa Diedrich, Federica Genovese, Olivier Mannoni, Magda Teter, Timothy D. McBride

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Silvia Secchi

Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management
Adam B. Pollack https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-0591 adam.b.pollack@dartmouth.edu, Lisa Auermuller https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3696-6491, Casey D. Burleyson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-9361, Jentry Campbell https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8615-5094, Madison Condon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8764-2249, Courtney Cooper, Matteo Coronese https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4134-1971, Sönke Dangendorf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3679-5234, James Doss-Gollin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3428-2224, Prabhat Hegde https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-346X, Casey Helgeson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5333-9954, Robert E. Kopp https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4016-9428, Jan Kwakkel, Corey Lesk, Justin Mankin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2520-4555, Robert E. Nicholas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-2574, Jennie Rice https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-9456, Samantha Roth https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-4426, Vivek Srikrishnan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0049-3805, Moira Scheeler https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9675-7694, Nancy Tuana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5449-6097, Chris Vernon, Mengqi Zhao https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5385-2758, and Klaus Keller https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5451-8687 -20Authors Info & Affiliations
Edited by Stephen Pacala, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; received November 25, 2024; accepted December 5, 2025
January 14, 2026
123 (3) e2422157123

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe an unpopular opinion (?), but making your own Biosketch and Current & Pending documents following the described format was much better than dealing with the SciEnCV/NCBI interface

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John McLaren , and 24 more Anna O. Law, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John McLaren, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Aaron Sojourner, McKenzie Wark, W. Andy Knight, Roopika Risam, Lesley Bartlett, Gerald Friedman, Sarah Roberts, Henry Jones, Susan Strasser, Nelson Flores, Seth Masket, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Steven S. Taylor, Brooke Harrington, Pádua Fernandes, Brendan O’Rourke, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Martin S. Flaherty

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 8d

wildfiretoday.com/us-wildland-...

US Wildland Fire Service launched, despite lack of funding and without majority of nation’s firefighting resources – Wildfire Today

wildfiretoday.com

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Tina Dura @diatomdura.bsky.social · 8d

We have a new paper out in QSR!

Paleoseismic evidence for the 1730 Mw ≥9 Chile earthquake in a former coastal lagoon: an infrequent, shallow, tsunamigenic rupture with plausible near-term recurrence

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Led by Dr. Marco Cisternas from the PUCV in Chile

Paleoseismic evidence for the 1730 Mw ≥9 Chile earthquake in a former coastal lagoon: an infrequent, shallow, tsunamigenic rupture with plausible near-term recurrence

We report the first paleoseismic evidence jointly documenting coseismic subsidence and tsunami inundation from the 1730 Chile earthquake (Mw ≥ 9) and …

www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Reece Jones, Ben H. Ansell, Nandita Sharma , and 8 more Reece Jones, Ben H. Ansell, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Tom Clark, Michael A. Clemens, Steven S. Smith, David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman, Sarah Roberts

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 9d

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Joshua Goodman, Scott A. Imberman , and 1 more Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Joshua Goodman, Scott A. Imberman, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10d

NEW from me:

Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one.

That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

The 'No Hire' Economy

US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest

www.apricitas.io

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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Matt Patterson @mattpattclimate.bsky.social · 12d

This is an interesting result, but we argued in a paper last year that North Pacific jet trends are not inconsistent with observed low frequency variability. A southward trend ended just as the satellite era began.

Patterson & O'Reilly, GRL, (2025)

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Mark D. White , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Mark D. White, Fabián Muniesa, Samantha Brennan

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12d

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 12d

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Kevin J. Anchukaitis

Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 12d

* JOB ALERT* Join our team at @brown-ibes.bsky.social as Program Manager for a cross-campus research initiative "Equitable Climate Futures". ecf.brown.edu Apply by 1/15 for full consideration. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff-career...

Equitable Climate Futures | Brown University

Equitable Climate Futures is an initiative that will build Brown’s capacity for climate research, with a strong focus on under-resourced and historically marginalized groups.

ecf.brown.edu

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John Horgan , and 5 more Nina Jankowicz, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John Horgan, Fabián Muniesa, Naomi Priest, David R. Miller, Pádua Fernandes, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13d

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, David R. Miller, Henry Jones

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14d

“Kill someone else!”

After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces.

Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Anders Nilsson, Kevin Carey , and 5 more Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Anders Nilsson, Kevin Carey, Janet Murray, Michael W. Kraus, Michael J. Taylor, Anne Norton, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 14d

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, David R. Miller , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, David R. Miller, Woodrow Hartzog

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14d

Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.

‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho

Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.

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