Alex Ruane
@alexruane.bsky.social
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Impacts Group co-Director making Earth information useful to people and systems at risk; IPCC AR6 WGI CLA + SYR Core Writing Team Member; Columbia University; AgMIP Science Coordinator & Climate Team Lead
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A new #AgMIP paper in Nature Climate Change presents a novel framework for integrating nutrient dynamics into crop models, offering key insights into targeting and strengthening nutrition interventions in a changing climate.
Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling - Nature Climate Change
Climate change influences not only crop yields but also crop nutritional content, which is currently not simulated by process-based crop models. This Perspective proposes a way forward to integrate nu...
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A new #AgMIP paper in Nature Climate Change presents a novel framework for integrating nutrient dynamics into crop models, offering key insights into targeting and strengthening nutrition interventions in a changing climate.
Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.
It methodically goes through each problem in the review.
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It methodically goes through each problem in the review.
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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”
While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.
It methodically goes through each problem in the review.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism
It methodically goes through each problem in the review.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism
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🌍 Our new review shows how:
(1) Climate shocks hit food, water + health systems
(2) All forms of malnutrition are at risk
(3) Near-term events + long-term warming both drive risks
(4) Building resilience through food, social + nutrition systems is urgent. 🔗 shorturl.at/WmZki
August 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🌍 Our new review shows how:
(1) Climate shocks hit food, water + health systems
(2) All forms of malnutrition are at risk
(3) Near-term events + long-term warming both drive risks
(4) Building resilience through food, social + nutrition systems is urgent. 🔗 shorturl.at/WmZki
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HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.
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The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)
July 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)
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The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
July 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
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The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...
May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...
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Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!
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If you are looking for climate visualizations using a "pre-industrial" baseline (1850-1900) for calculating anomalies, I update quite a few each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... (updated through April 2025)
Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…
zacklabe.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you are looking for climate visualizations using a "pre-industrial" baseline (1850-1900) for calculating anomalies, I update quite a few each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... (updated through April 2025)
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Full sympathy for brillant climate scientists at NASA/GISS, literally expelled from their building. I still remember the depth of stimulating scientific discussions during my 1997 visit.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Full sympathy for brillant climate scientists at NASA/GISS, literally expelled from their building. I still remember the depth of stimulating scientific discussions during my 1997 visit.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
May 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
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Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...
AgML Info Page
mail.agml.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...
Excited for publication of our new piece (led by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social) describing vast potential and substantial challenges at the intersection of process-based crop modeling & machine learning. @agmip.bsky.social AGML team has identified many opportunities to merge existing & new expertises
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning
Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience
of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the
critical challenges of agr...
www.cell.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Excited for publication of our new piece (led by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social) describing vast potential and substantial challenges at the intersection of process-based crop modeling & machine learning. @agmip.bsky.social AGML team has identified many opportunities to merge existing & new expertises
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Achieving similar (or greater?) crop yield with less mineral fertiliser and pesticides? this new paper proposes a useful framework – with examples - to quantify the contribution of ecosystem services.
In a new paper, we propose the 'ecological yield gap' as a framework to strengthen collaboration between agronomists and ecologists in our quest to enhance on-farm ecosystem services in ways that effectively sustain crop yields while minimising input use:
doi.org/10.1016/j.gf...
🧪🌱🌾🧑🌾🐞💚🤎
doi.org/10.1016/j.gf...
🧪🌱🌾🧑🌾🐞💚🤎
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs
Sustainable production of sufficient and healthy food requires efficient use of agricultural inputs. In many regions of the world with intensive agric…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Achieving similar (or greater?) crop yield with less mineral fertiliser and pesticides? this new paper proposes a useful framework – with examples - to quantify the contribution of ecosystem services.
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Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍
April 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍
NASA SVS is a massive benefit to everything we do at NASA, helping us scientists communicate our findings in understandable, accessible, and creative ways that show off the wonder of our world and the amazing power of NASA capabilities!
Museum and Planetarium Friends,
Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact.
Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov).
Thank you!
Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact.
Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov).
Thank you!
Scientific Visualization Studio
The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Science ...
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
NASA SVS is a massive benefit to everything we do at NASA, helping us scientists communicate our findings in understandable, accessible, and creative ways that show off the wonder of our world and the amazing power of NASA capabilities!
Important perspective on food systems risks given accumulating and overlapping present day challenges. Without coordinated planning, individual responses may trip all over each other
1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...
Investor Memo - Inside Track.pdf
drive.google.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Important perspective on food systems risks given accumulating and overlapping present day challenges. Without coordinated planning, individual responses may trip all over each other
Thrilled to be one of many virtual participants on first day of #AgMIP10 at CIMMYT for packed agenda of plenary panels, working sessions and paper and poster presentations. Big challenges to food and Ag systems need bold scientific advances and collaborations across borders and disciplines.
#AgMIP10 is underway! This morning, we welcomed 160+ people both in-person and online to CIMMYT in El Batán, Mexico. To view the agenda and learn more about the various sessions taking place throughout the week, go to AgMIP.org/AgMIP10
April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thrilled to be one of many virtual participants on first day of #AgMIP10 at CIMMYT for packed agenda of plenary panels, working sessions and paper and poster presentations. Big challenges to food and Ag systems need bold scientific advances and collaborations across borders and disciplines.
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Dangerous wildfire outbreak unfolding, as predicted, across Southern Plains amid widespread wind gusts of 70-90 mph. In side-by-side satellite images below, numerous fast-spreading fires (black areas, left) & widespread blowing dust (brown areas, right) are apparent. #TXwx #OKwx
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Compound-events community! Please join us Aug 4-6 in Portland, OR for a workshop connecting research and practice through systems-focused storylines. More info at cccriskworkshop2025.org, including a chance to provide input on priority themes. We're also on Bluesky: @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Compound-events community! Please join us Aug 4-6 in Portland, OR for a workshop connecting research and practice through systems-focused storylines. More info at cccriskworkshop2025.org, including a chance to provide input on priority themes. We're also on Bluesky: @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social
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The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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A study in Nature Food assesses the future climatic suitability of global croplands for 30 major food crop types, quantifying the changes in potential food crop diversity given climate conditions across four global warming levels. https://go.nature.com/3Dp5LEk #foodstudies 🧪
March 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A study in Nature Food assesses the future climatic suitability of global croplands for 30 major food crop types, quantifying the changes in potential food crop diversity given climate conditions across four global warming levels. https://go.nature.com/3Dp5LEk #foodstudies 🧪
Fortunate to attend last night’s early access party for MoMA Pirouette exhibit featuring @edhawkins.org Climate Stripes and Climate Spiral alongside other iconic designs (like original I❤️NY, crocs and first emojis). I can’t share inside photos but climate stripes prominently visible from 54th St!
January 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fortunate to attend last night’s early access party for MoMA Pirouette exhibit featuring @edhawkins.org Climate Stripes and Climate Spiral alongside other iconic designs (like original I❤️NY, crocs and first emojis). I can’t share inside photos but climate stripes prominently visible from 54th St!