Mat Collins
@matcollins.bsky.social
Prof. in Climate Change at the University of Exeter. Head of Department of Maths & Stats. Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Climate. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/4409-mat-collins
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We're Hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology
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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We're Hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology
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New 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow role at the @exeter.ac.uk in our Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions - lnkd.in/ep4fKVkm. Looking for people with strong mathematical and numerical skills with a background in climate and/or health science jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow role at the @exeter.ac.uk in our Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions - lnkd.in/ep4fKVkm. Looking for people with strong mathematical and numerical skills with a background in climate and/or health science jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
New paper from a visiting PhD student, Juying Xu. Seasonality of the South Pacific Meridional Mode: Role of Oceanic Meridional Advection Feedback Beyond Thermodynamics Dominance - Xu - 2025 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Seasonality of the South Pacific Meridional Mode: Role of Oceanic Meridional Advection Feedback Beyond Thermodynamics Dominance
The South Pacific Meridional Mode (SPMM) exhibits distinct out-of-phase seasonality: the SPMM-Wind index peaks in June–August (JJA), whereas the SPMM-SST index peaks in December–February (DJF) La...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New paper from a visiting PhD student, Juying Xu. Seasonality of the South Pacific Meridional Mode: Role of Oceanic Meridional Advection Feedback Beyond Thermodynamics Dominance - Xu - 2025 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Watch our new WCRP video!
See how global climate scientists work together to provide trusted, actionable climate information: https://loom.ly/pZxvxTg
#WCRP #WMO #OceanScience #OceanAction #ISC
See how global climate scientists work together to provide trusted, actionable climate information: https://loom.ly/pZxvxTg
#WCRP #WMO #OceanScience #OceanAction #ISC
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Watch our new WCRP video!
See how global climate scientists work together to provide trusted, actionable climate information: https://loom.ly/pZxvxTg
#WCRP #WMO #OceanScience #OceanAction #ISC
See how global climate scientists work together to provide trusted, actionable climate information: https://loom.ly/pZxvxTg
#WCRP #WMO #OceanScience #OceanAction #ISC
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CLIVAR unveils its new logo!
For 30 years, CLIVAR’s emblem has symbolized discovery and dedication. As it moves into a new era, the updated logo reflects a renewed vision and stronger alignment with the WCRP community.
More information: https://loom.ly/RRpmTjE
For 30 years, CLIVAR’s emblem has symbolized discovery and dedication. As it moves into a new era, the updated logo reflects a renewed vision and stronger alignment with the WCRP community.
More information: https://loom.ly/RRpmTjE
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
CLIVAR unveils its new logo!
For 30 years, CLIVAR’s emblem has symbolized discovery and dedication. As it moves into a new era, the updated logo reflects a renewed vision and stronger alignment with the WCRP community.
More information: https://loom.ly/RRpmTjE
For 30 years, CLIVAR’s emblem has symbolized discovery and dedication. As it moves into a new era, the updated logo reflects a renewed vision and stronger alignment with the WCRP community.
More information: https://loom.ly/RRpmTjE
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Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
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Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate.
Check it out in the post below👇👇
Check it out in the post below👇👇
The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate.
Check it out in the post below👇👇
Check it out in the post below👇👇
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The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
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Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
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Global Carbon Budget 2025
Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...
essd.copernicus.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
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Fascinating new paper from Joe Clarke et al., which addresses the question: could the climate-carbon system suffer a self-sustaining runaway feedback? @gsiexeter.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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Conditions for instability in the climate–carbon cycle system
Abstract. The climate and carbon cycle interact in multiple ways. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the climate through the greenhouse effect, but also leads to uptake of CO2 by th...
esd.copernicus.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fascinating new paper from Joe Clarke et al., which addresses the question: could the climate-carbon system suffer a self-sustaining runaway feedback? @gsiexeter.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
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Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
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With COP30 under way and the 2025 Global Carbon Budget published later this week, it's great timing for Professor Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social to appear on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 🧪🎧👇
The Life Scientific - Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change - BBC Sounds
Pierre Friedlingstein on the pivotal role of carbon in predicting climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
With COP30 under way and the 2025 Global Carbon Budget published later this week, it's great timing for Professor Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social to appear on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 🧪🎧👇
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New Postdoc opportunity with us in AOPP, Oxford!
🌍 Postdoc research opportunity: Predictability and Climate Dynamics - University of Oxford, UK
📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New Postdoc opportunity with us in AOPP, Oxford!
Bridging Ocean-Climate Science and Society in Southeast Asia and Beyond. New @wcrp-clivar.bsky.social Research Topic in @frontiersin.bsky.social in Climate. Please consider submitting a paper.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Bridging Ocean-Climate Science and Society in Southeast Asia and Beyond. New @wcrp-clivar.bsky.social Research Topic in @frontiersin.bsky.social in Climate. Please consider submitting a paper.
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🌍 We’re hiring — help shape the future of health and climate!@UKHSA is recruiting for a role focused on Economics, Health, and Climate Change.
Check it out by clicking: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....
Check it out by clicking: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌍 We’re hiring — help shape the future of health and climate!@UKHSA is recruiting for a role focused on Economics, Health, and Climate Change.
Check it out by clicking: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....
Check it out by clicking: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....
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Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Position available!
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and WCRP invite applications for the position of Director of the CLIVAR IPO, based in Qingdao, China.
🗓 Deadline: 30 November 2025
Submit your application to: [email protected]
and [email protected]
More info: https://loom.ly/v7m8koo
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Come and join us developing AI for solving climate problems. careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear...
Met Office Careers
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September 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Come and join us developing AI for solving climate problems. careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear...
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We are delighted to share that our Honorary Professor Tim Smyth has been appointed as the new Director of Science at @pml.ac.uk!
We look forward to seeing Professor Smyth thrive in this role. 🙌
You can find out more via PML's website here - pml.ac.uk/news/pml-app...
🧪🌍🐟🌊🦑🦤🎣
We look forward to seeing Professor Smyth thrive in this role. 🙌
You can find out more via PML's website here - pml.ac.uk/news/pml-app...
🧪🌍🐟🌊🦑🦤🎣
September 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We are delighted to share that our Honorary Professor Tim Smyth has been appointed as the new Director of Science at @pml.ac.uk!
We look forward to seeing Professor Smyth thrive in this role. 🙌
You can find out more via PML's website here - pml.ac.uk/news/pml-app...
🧪🌍🐟🌊🦑🦤🎣
We look forward to seeing Professor Smyth thrive in this role. 🙌
You can find out more via PML's website here - pml.ac.uk/news/pml-app...
🧪🌍🐟🌊🦑🦤🎣
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Three University of Exeter scientists have been appointed as authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report
Read more here 👇
Read more here 👇
Three Exeter experts appointed for new IPCC report
Three University of Exeter scientists have been appointed as authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report. The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate
news.exeter.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Three University of Exeter scientists have been appointed as authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report
Read more here 👇
Read more here 👇
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Arctic sea ice has melted more slowly for the past 20 years, despite global warming, a study led by @markengland.bsky.social finds.
Climate modelling suggests this is due to ‘natural climate variations’ and will be followed by faster-than-average sea ice decline.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Climate modelling suggests this is due to ‘natural climate variations’ and will be followed by faster-than-average sea ice decline.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Temporary slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice, study finds
Arctic sea ice has been melting at a slower rate for the past 20 years, despite human-induced global warming. This comes at a time of record warming, debates about whether global warming is accelerati...
news.exeter.ac.uk
August 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Arctic sea ice has melted more slowly for the past 20 years, despite global warming, a study led by @markengland.bsky.social finds.
Climate modelling suggests this is due to ‘natural climate variations’ and will be followed by faster-than-average sea ice decline.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Climate modelling suggests this is due to ‘natural climate variations’ and will be followed by faster-than-average sea ice decline.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Our recent paper @natgeosci.nature.com shows that over the Med, marine heatwaves are linked to subtropical ridges rather than atmospheric blocking, the typical cause of atmospheric heatwaves in central Europe.
The brilliant ECRs Giulia Bonino and Ronan McAdam led this work!
🌊Link in the comments.
The brilliant ECRs Giulia Bonino and Ronan McAdam led this work!
🌊Link in the comments.
August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Our recent paper @natgeosci.nature.com shows that over the Med, marine heatwaves are linked to subtropical ridges rather than atmospheric blocking, the typical cause of atmospheric heatwaves in central Europe.
The brilliant ECRs Giulia Bonino and Ronan McAdam led this work!
🌊Link in the comments.
The brilliant ECRs Giulia Bonino and Ronan McAdam led this work!
🌊Link in the comments.
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Don't miss the session at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting convened by members of the Tropical Basin Interactions Research Focus group, which will discuss the importance of teleconnections between tropical basins and the global climate. Submit your abstract by 20 August.
Check more: shorturl.at/3YMne
Check more: shorturl.at/3YMne
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Don't miss the session at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting convened by members of the Tropical Basin Interactions Research Focus group, which will discuss the importance of teleconnections between tropical basins and the global climate. Submit your abstract by 20 August.
Check more: shorturl.at/3YMne
Check more: shorturl.at/3YMne
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Our paper showing the differences between European and African weather forecast accuracy has appeared online. The results will not surprise meteorologists, but the international development community needs to hear this.
Weather forecasting in Africa needs to be done differently.
Weather forecasting in Africa needs to be done differently.
New paper from Richard Keane
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Both physical and machine-learning (ML) models "perform better on smaller scales and shorter lead times at middle latitudes and on larger scales and longer lead times at tropical latitudes."
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Both physical and machine-learning (ML) models "perform better on smaller scales and shorter lead times at middle latitudes and on larger scales and longer lead times at tropical latitudes."
Mid‐Latitude Versus Tropical Scales of Predictability and Their Implications for Forecasting
We show that forecasts perform better in mid-latitudes on shorter scales, and better in tropical latitudes on longer scales (quantified here over Europe and Africa), with a ‘crossover’ at 5–7 days, f....
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Our paper showing the differences between European and African weather forecast accuracy has appeared online. The results will not surprise meteorologists, but the international development community needs to hear this.
Weather forecasting in Africa needs to be done differently.
Weather forecasting in Africa needs to be done differently.
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Apply now to join CLIVAR’s global scientific community!
The 2025 Open Call for New Members of the CLIVAR Panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is officially open. More info: https://loom.ly/AbjLBtI
🗓️ Deadline: 3 October 2025
#CLIVAR #WCRP #ClimateScience #OceanScience
The 2025 Open Call for New Members of the CLIVAR Panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is officially open. More info: https://loom.ly/AbjLBtI
🗓️ Deadline: 3 October 2025
#CLIVAR #WCRP #ClimateScience #OceanScience
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Apply now to join CLIVAR’s global scientific community!
The 2025 Open Call for New Members of the CLIVAR Panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is officially open. More info: https://loom.ly/AbjLBtI
🗓️ Deadline: 3 October 2025
#CLIVAR #WCRP #ClimateScience #OceanScience
The 2025 Open Call for New Members of the CLIVAR Panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is officially open. More info: https://loom.ly/AbjLBtI
🗓️ Deadline: 3 October 2025
#CLIVAR #WCRP #ClimateScience #OceanScience