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Rosie Fisher

@rosieafisher.bsky.social

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Land surface modeller, because the land is where most of the fun things happen. @CICERO, Oslo. Co-chair of the Community Land Model. Open science enthusiast. Humanist. Partly functioning ears & eyes. Talks lots to compensate... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇧🇻 .. more

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · Nov 10

I made a list (or 'starter pack') of Land Surface Modelers, because that's the kind of thing one does on #bluesky. Please tell your friends and also (v. important) TELL ME if you want to be added. We need more people here! go.bsky.app/Mw4tJ3t

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

LOOKING FOR A NEW ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY?

Regius Professorship in Meteorology & Climate Science - a role awarded to the University of Reading by Queen Elizabeth II

Seeking an exceptional academic leader who will shape the future of meteorology & climate science.

jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Regius Professorship in Meteorology and Climate Science:Whiteknights Reading UK

Interview date: from 23rd March 2026 onwards

jobs.reading.ac.uk

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 3d

Is it? Or isn’t it time it just stopped burning dinosaur juice?

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Surprise! Britain's most popular newspaper fervently believes that ICE are the good guys. By an extraordinary coincidence, the same newspaper supported the Nazis in the 1930s.

A Daily Mail headline that reads "The sinister network of agitators unmasking ICE agents ... and its chilling message to America"

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 4d

This will be an excellent conference for anyone interested in climate data and data visualisation.

Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 4d

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

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Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 4d

Artificially offsetting greenhouse gas warming using solar geoengineering to reflect away sunlight may be more costly than without if cut off suddenly, leading to “termination shock” of rapid warming: @iopp-environment.bsky.social study via @newscientist.com

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Economic assessment of SRM under socio-political and geophysical tipping dynamics

Economic assessment of SRM under socio-political and geophysical tipping dynamics, Estrada, Francisco, Bastien-Olvera, Bernardo A, Calderon-Bustamante, Oscar, Altamirano, Miguel A, Muñoz-Sánchez, Rodrigo, Moreno-Cruz, Juan, Botzen, Wouter

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Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 4 more Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz, Rosie A. Fisher, Peter Jacobs

Eos @eos.org · 4d

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 5d

Genuinely heartwarming. Well done everyone 🤣 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’

Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy

www.theguardian.com

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 7d

I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 7d

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 8d

This is just spectacularly, dizzyingly awful.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.

Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

Reposted by Rosie A. Fisher, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

A FR24 map showing a 767 descending toward Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. This is Omni N486AX.

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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · 8d

GOOD! meanwhile... www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure

www.nsf.gov

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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 8d

My colleague @bobkopp.net has a nice thread rundown of the many problems and illegal actions of the Dept of Energy Climate Working Group report based on the emails that came out yesterday from @envdefensefund.bsky.social lawsuit: www.edf.org/media/newly-... I would just add a few things re NCA5 1/

Newly Disclosed Records Show Trump Administration’s Unlawful Actions Related to Secretly Formed “Climate Working Group”

The records are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by EDF and the Union of Concerned Scientists as as the result of a lawsuit.

www.edf.org

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 10d

"No non-radical pathways" is a climate soundbite I think we should all talk about more... @kevinclimate.bsky.social

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10d

Speaking tomorrow evening (Thursday 22nd January) in Shrewsbury. Details here: greenshropshire.org.uk/news/shrewsb...

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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 10d

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Big Oil declares war on climate lawsuits

The American Petroleum Institute will prioritize shielding oil companies from climate liability in 2026.

open.substack.com

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 10d

Tbf, this is probably the actual best thing in 2026 so far… youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum

YouTube video by National Post

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 10d

Exactly…

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10d

Speaking tomorrow evening (Thursday 22nd January) in Shrewsbury. Details here: greenshropshire.org.uk/news/shrewsb...

Reposted by Rosie A. Fisher, Markus W. Gehring

British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 10d

It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!

If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.

Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, just look at him... Way to make lemonade out of a squinty eye.

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 10d

It's admittedly not a very high bar, but #davosmacron is my favourite thing about 2026 so far 🔥

President Macron, wearing Aviator shades, talking at the World Economic Forum

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11d

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

'A national project to turn the tide': Government unveils £15bn Warm Homes Plan

Long-awaited plan aims to help millions of families to cut energy bills by installing solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, and insulation

www.businessgreen.com

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 12d

Remember, the Republicans in the House and Senate could stop this in a minute. Actually it would only take a few of them. But no, they're either all in or cowards.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13d

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 17d

Because the world is far from perfect, SRM research needs to do much better at looking non-idealized futures.

Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 17d

Preprint out today in ESDD.

SRM's biggest risk is us.

'Peak-shaving' is a best-case scenario, with strong governance and international cooperation.

We propose a framework for messier geoengineering futures, which look more like, you know, the news. /1

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Robust assessment of Solar Radiation Modification risks and uncertainties must include shocks and societal feedbacks

Abstract. Conventional climate scenarios omit fast-timescale human-system dynamics like policy rollback or economic shocks. The climate system's slow response to GHG emissions allows these `fast' ter...

egusphere.copernicus.org

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 17d

Robust assessment of Solar Radiation Modification risks and uncertainties must include shocks and societal feedbacks

egusphere.copernicus.org

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · Dec 22

Can we do a sweepstake on which 'thinktank'-employed retired geologist they are going to wheel out to be in charge of USGCRP?

Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · Dec 22

BTW we have been through the 'dirt drying in the sun' merry-go-round in NorESM the last couple of months. The degree to which the soil evaporation changes (introduced to reduce runoff & arctic salinity) altered the climate was a little distressing for all concerned. But it wouldn't have made good TV