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Mathew Barlow

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Climate scientist at UMass Lowell: droughts, floods, extreme events, & climate change. IPCC WG1 AR6 lead author. Skunk cabbage fan. he/him/his. Shocked but not awed. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qWV-WIQAAAAJ&hl=e

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Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · Dec 4

The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) is the hub for all things climate at UMass Lowell:

www.uml.edu/research/cli...

To keep current on all our work across 20 different departments and all five colleges, you can sign up for our newsletter at:

signup.e2ma.net/signup/19761...

Climate Change Initiative

www.uml.edu

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve refilled my RA medication monthly for 2+ years without issue. This month, I was repeatedly pressed about pregnancy, which has never happened (I also cannot get pregnant as I lack the required organs). Apparently, this has been a thing since Roe fell:

www.everydayhealth.com/rheumatoid-a...

What Women Can Do if RA Medication Methotrexate Is Denied

Methotrexate treats rheumatoid arthritis, but it can also end a pregnancy. In anti-abortion states, some women can't access this RA medication. Learn more.

www.everydayhealth.com

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 3d

🏘️ The most and least expensive land in the contiguous United States.

It highlights high-value areas, such as major urban centers in the Northeast, California, and the Midwest's fertile agricultural zones, where land prices can exceed $500,000 per hectare. In contrast, remote and arid regions in the Southwest and Western plateaus show significantly lower values, often under $5,000 per hectare.

The map illustrates how factors like population density, economic activity, and local policies shape land values, while public lands and Native American reservations are excluded from the private market valuation.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 6d

A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 6d

Very cool new research from @mekevans.bsky.social and Jamie Yazzie - 'Drought stress detected in tree rings suggests an impending tipping point for forests on the Navajo Nation' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drought stress detected in tree rings suggests an impending tipping point for forests on the Navajo Nation

Forests across the southwestern U. S. face escalating challenges from changing climate. The objective of this study, conducted in partnership with the…

www.sciencedirect.com

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 12d

"Should Universities work together to fend off the administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech?" is a key question that rank-and-file faculty (i.e., @aaup.org) are answering in the affirmative and University administrators are mostly shrugging off. Time is running out.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

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Susan Cosier @susancosier.bsky.social · 11d

USGS scientists tell us about the effects of invasive species & climate change. Yet their fate, like many other federal employees who work in science & the environment, is unknown. My latest for @nrdc.org. Thank you to @meadekrosby.bsky.social, John Organ, Ed Arnett, and others for speaking with me.

The Attacks on Science Continue—This Time at the USGS

From sea level rise to bee populations, the agency’s wildlife and climate programs shed light on the world around us.

www.nrdc.org

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 11d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

History has many painful lessons.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

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Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 12d

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 12d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g

Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts

NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research is already shuttered during shutdown

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 12d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 12d

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
🌊
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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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 12d

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social

rdcu.be/eJiqJ

The Greenlandification of Antarctica

Nature Geoscience - Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of...

rdcu.be

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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GBH @wgbh.org · 13d

Congress told us to “Go Fund Yourself.”
And with your help, we can.

Our federal funding might be gone, but we’re still here. Public media needs your support now more than ever.

A sleek GBH-branded graphic composed of deep blues and purples is displayed on the GBH mural. It reads "Congress told us to 'Go Fund Yourself.' And with your help, we can."

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14d

This will be an essential resource, and my hope is that it makes it easier for academics who are called to public scholarship as a way to fight the encroaching darkness.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 14d

Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Website: airqualitystripes.info

And paper led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social and @jimmcquaid.bsky.social now published which visualises trends in air quality across many global cities: gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...

Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Abstract. This paper introduces the Air Quality Stripes, a data visualisation project which presents historical changes in outdoor particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) concentrations across major ...

gc.copernicus.org

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13d

If you’re a journalist writing about a certain piece of UK climate policy news this evening, please ask the Science Media Centre for the many reactions from expert climate scientists and then please include some of their quotes in your story. Thank you.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13d

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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