Jonathan Bamber
@jlbamber.bsky.social
Professor of Earth Observation and glaciology at University of Bristol and Technical University Munich. Open Access advocate, sports fanatic, European.
Although written with some irony, this article so captures the commodification of scientific publishing in the last few years. It sometimes feels like a publications arms race, not in a good way
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Although written with some irony, this article so captures the commodification of scientific publishing in the last few years. It sometimes feels like a publications arms race, not in a good way
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I love this grassroots student-driven movement that is encouraging a positive change in universities across Europe. Hopefully it will grow to a global one. Worth your support:
plantbaseduniversities.org
plantbaseduniversities.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I love this grassroots student-driven movement that is encouraging a positive change in universities across Europe. Hopefully it will grow to a global one. Worth your support:
plantbaseduniversities.org
plantbaseduniversities.org
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Conservative Peer Lord Deben calls on all MP & Peers to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis.
Please check if your MP is attending this critical non-partisan briefing, and if not, urge them to 👉 www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB
Please check if your MP is attending this critical non-partisan briefing, and if not, urge them to 👉 www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Conservative Peer Lord Deben calls on all MP & Peers to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis.
Please check if your MP is attending this critical non-partisan briefing, and if not, urge them to 👉 www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB
Please check if your MP is attending this critical non-partisan briefing, and if not, urge them to 👉 www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB
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Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations
Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...
gmd.copernicus.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
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@joeroganhq.bsky.social is spreading climate denial and disinformation. Let’s help get him on board saving a livable climate — spread this widely. Send it to people who listen to him. #climate
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@joeroganhq.bsky.social is spreading climate denial and disinformation. Let’s help get him on board saving a livable climate — spread this widely. Send it to people who listen to him. #climate
Just one month left to nominate your favourite EO scientist or team or you can nominate yourself for this ESA award that comes with a really nice research fund. Don't delay, nominate today!
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Just one month left to nominate your favourite EO scientist or team or you can nominate yourself for this ESA award that comes with a really nice research fund. Don't delay, nominate today!
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
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Over the last decade, glaciers in the European Alps have lost more than 15% of their area.
New study by Codruț-Andrei Diaconu, introducing automated tool to map and quantify glacier area changes (+uncertainties)!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Together with @jlbamber.bsky.social
New study by Codruț-Andrei Diaconu, introducing automated tool to map and quantify glacier area changes (+uncertainties)!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Together with @jlbamber.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Over the last decade, glaciers in the European Alps have lost more than 15% of their area.
New study by Codruț-Andrei Diaconu, introducing automated tool to map and quantify glacier area changes (+uncertainties)!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Together with @jlbamber.bsky.social
New study by Codruț-Andrei Diaconu, introducing automated tool to map and quantify glacier area changes (+uncertainties)!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Together with @jlbamber.bsky.social
New ML hydrology benchmark datasets, code zoos and case studies just published by my colleagues at TUM. Super useful resource for anyone working on hydro-ML. All open source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
hydropml.github.io
github.com/HydroPML
hydropml.github.io
github.com/HydroPML
Physics-aware machine learning revolutionizes scientific paradigm for process-based modeling in hydrology
Accurate hydrological understanding and water cycle prediction are crucial for addressing scientific and societal challenges associated with the manag…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New ML hydrology benchmark datasets, code zoos and case studies just published by my colleagues at TUM. Super useful resource for anyone working on hydro-ML. All open source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
hydropml.github.io
github.com/HydroPML
hydropml.github.io
github.com/HydroPML
Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners:
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners:
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
Plant Based Universities Summer Camp 2025 chuffed.org/project/1386...
Plant Based Universities Summer Camp 2025
Plant-Based Universities has active campaigns at 70 universities in 9 European countries and we've already won votes for 100% plant-based catering in 23 universities. This camp is crucial to helping u...
chuffed.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Plant Based Universities Summer Camp 2025 chuffed.org/project/1386...
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
Looks like staying below 1.5 degs warming is in the rear view mirror. Let's hope that 2 degs doesn't end up the same.
Here's the latest comparison of global surface temperature observations (red) with IPCC climate model simulations (through March 2025, via @hausfath.bsky.social):
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Looks like staying below 1.5 degs warming is in the rear view mirror. Let's hope that 2 degs doesn't end up the same.
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Last September, I reported exclusively this analysis by Pesticide Action Network
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
- Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
- Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
Exclusive: Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Last September, I reported exclusively this analysis by Pesticide Action Network
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
- Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
- Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is sad, scary and deeply depressing at the same time. It takes decades to build the best and most important scientific institutions but just days to destroy them
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’
Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is sad, scary and deeply depressing at the same time. It takes decades to build the best and most important scientific institutions but just days to destroy them
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
- Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
- Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Just published, free to read. www.nature.com/articles/s43....
Currently trajectory => dangerous levels of sea level rise from the ice sheets. Will this influence policy? Unlikely, but important to keep banging the drum. As declared by almost all nations: it's an EMERGENCY.
Currently trajectory => dangerous levels of sea level rise from the ice sheets. Will this influence policy? Unlikely, but important to keep banging the drum. As declared by almost all nations: it's an EMERGENCY.
May 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Just published, free to read. www.nature.com/articles/s43....
Currently trajectory => dangerous levels of sea level rise from the ice sheets. Will this influence policy? Unlikely, but important to keep banging the drum. As declared by almost all nations: it's an EMERGENCY.
Currently trajectory => dangerous levels of sea level rise from the ice sheets. Will this influence policy? Unlikely, but important to keep banging the drum. As declared by almost all nations: it's an EMERGENCY.
Nice summary on some recent work we did on ice loss in Svalbard: Scientists use AI to track rapid glacier loss in Arctic Norway yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/scie...
Scientists use AI to track rapid glacier loss in Arctic Norway » Yale Climate Connections
They found that the melt rate has accelerated in the past two decades.
yaleclimateconnections.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Nice summary on some recent work we did on ice loss in Svalbard: Scientists use AI to track rapid glacier loss in Arctic Norway yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/scie...
Congrats to the winner individual (Marcello Passaro) and winning team (The Decentralised Damage Mapping Group).
ESA - Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners www.esa.int/Applications...
ESA - Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners www.esa.int/Applications...
Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners
In recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific advancement and innovation using Earth observation data, the ESA Earth Observation Excellence Award is presented annually to early-career rese...
www.esa.int
April 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Congrats to the winner individual (Marcello Passaro) and winning team (The Decentralised Damage Mapping Group).
ESA - Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners www.esa.int/Applications...
ESA - Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners www.esa.int/Applications...
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...
act.ucsusa.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
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EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all www.esa.int/Applications...
EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all
With ESA’s EarthCARE satellite and four measuring instruments all working extremely well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available.By combining data from ...
www.esa.int
January 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all www.esa.int/Applications...
And here's the UoB press release for the paper:
A new study has exposed for the first time the huge loss of glaciers in a global warming hotspot over the past four decades.
It also shows the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.
Find out more❄️⬇️
t.co/w1tyZ0GfVt
A new study has exposed for the first time the huge loss of glaciers in a global warming hotspot over the past four decades.
It also shows the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.
Find out more❄️⬇️
t.co/w1tyZ0GfVt
January 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And here's the UoB press release for the paper:
A new study has exposed for the first time the huge loss of glaciers in a global warming hotspot over the past four decades.
It also shows the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.
Find out more❄️⬇️
t.co/w1tyZ0GfVt
A new study has exposed for the first time the huge loss of glaciers in a global warming hotspot over the past four decades.
It also shows the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.
Find out more❄️⬇️
t.co/w1tyZ0GfVt
Really nice paper just published by my post-doc Tian Li, on the controls and processes influencing calving for marine terminating glaciers in Svalbard. A lot of info. in the paper and supplement and a huge team effort. Free to read (of course!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pervasive glacier retreats across Svalbard from 1985 to 2023 - Nature Communications
This study analyses 124,919 glacier calving front positions to reveal widespread retreats and seasonal cycles across Svalbard since 1985, emphasising the crucial role of ice-ocean interaction and glac...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Really nice paper just published by my post-doc Tian Li, on the controls and processes influencing calving for marine terminating glaciers in Svalbard. A lot of info. in the paper and supplement and a huge team effort. Free to read (of course!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, June 2025 is now open for abstract submission. Always a fantastic meeting showcasing the latest in EO missions and groundbreaking science from them:
www.esa.int/Applications...
www.esa.int/Applications...
Living Planet Symposium 2025: time for abstracts
ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025 will take place from 23–27 June 2025 at the Austria Center Vienna, Austria. As this prestigious event approaches, now is the time to submit your abstracts for a chan...
www.esa.int
October 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, June 2025 is now open for abstract submission. Always a fantastic meeting showcasing the latest in EO missions and groundbreaking science from them:
www.esa.int/Applications...
www.esa.int/Applications...
Applications now open for the European Space Agency EO excellence awards. Go and nominate your amazing colleagues now at
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
September 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Applications now open for the European Space Agency EO excellence awards. Go and nominate your amazing colleagues now at
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com