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

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22h
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

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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 · 1d
"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

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · 1d
"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

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d
‘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."

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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

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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

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
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

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 4d
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

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 5d
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.

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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

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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

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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 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

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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

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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.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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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

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
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.
dominicervolina.com 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

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 9d
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."

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Matt Patterson @mattpattclimate.bsky.social · 11d
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....

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d
“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

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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 13d
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

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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.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 14d
Ah, found it - Figure S1 - really interesting - suggests the volcanic forcing imposes a relatively uniform simulated temperature response for the early 1800s eruptions.