Adam Csank

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms - Nature Communications Tree longevity is thought to increase in harsh environments, but global evidence of drivers is lacking. Here, the authors find two different pathways for tree longevity: slow growth in resource limite...

Led by Roel Brienen, our paper in @natcomms.nature.com "Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms" is finally out and formatted.

Other bluesky folks contributing to the paper were @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social and @rmtrr.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

beautiful maps to advertise the GIS for Climate Action web course

Free GIS for Climate Action course starts Feb 18, register today

Meanwhile, Esri's popular climate action MOOC opens on Feb 18. Explore how GIS is uniquely suited to address our changing planet. I’m pleased as hostess to guide you thru this free, 6-week course, that features @globalecoguy.bsky.social + @katharinehayhoe.com

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Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming | PNAS Paleoclimates provide examples of past climate change that inform estimates of modern warming from greenhouse-gas emissions, known as Earth’s clima...

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Trilobite! is a good one.

New online! Why 50-year studies are needed in a 3-year-grant world

"The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries, which conducted its study together with scientists at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social , says the research also shows that financial firms aren’t applying the same rigor to their handling of #climate as they do to other serious risks"

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

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Look, there are exceptions (go follow @sharanjit.bsky.social), but most actuaries have very little climate training.

Still better than the Canadian Common CV

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

It's time to embrace climate conspiracy Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.

Ive said this off-hand on panels and interviews over the last few years sort of as a joke, but after Trump’s invasion of Venezuela I realized I am dead serious

We need to start talking like the chemtrail people

Technically it belongs to the indigenous people who were already here.

I tried to buy one but my university purchasing system made it impossible.

The worst part about this? The NWS people make some damn nice looking maps. AI models are good! They have value! AI generated images? Bad. Absolutely no reason to use them for weather forecasting.

Deadline Friday!

Community college, junior college & city college faculty, are you interested in going to sea for eight days on an Alaska-to-Bay Area route with STEMSEAS? Join me! stemseas.org/2026-2yc-fac...
We have an informational webinar this Friday afternoon. ⚒️🌊

The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.

Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show.

By NYT Lisa Friedman

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/c...

I think you should share this every Halloween from now on.

My guess would be because the ITRDB is dominated by chronologies collected for dendroclimatology. P monticola is a shade species. In my area it tends to occur on north facing slopes co-occurring with red fir, white fir, lodgepole and (higher up) mountain hemlock. It also is less common.

And this will all be sold to us as ”this way you will have more time to do research.”

Got some good news to end 2025. Found out my promotion to full professor was approved and will be effective July 1. Glad to end the year with some good news :)

Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MSc’s on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!

Universities are combining departments, eliminating programs, pushing AI, buying out tenured profs and moving from cheap labor to the cheapest most exploited labor imaginable

Rivers Feed the Trees is a series of works on historic maps where blue is painted into the topography to create an abundance of rivers and streams. Since the turn of the 21st century, Colorado has experienced periods of extreme drought. This inspired me to create works where I imagine a CO with no drought. I hope these images will encourage people to learn more about where our water comes from and to look for solutions to the dire situation we are facing regarding the future of our water.

Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Rivers Feed the Trees #467” by Meredith Nemirov. Year and Medium: 2022, acrylic on historic topographic map

Time to go full Emeliani.

Even at research intensive (R1) universities in the US, "tenure density" is already below 50%.

For geo folks: Barrick and Newmont want to pump groundwater to dewater their gold mines. That lowers groundwater, and groundwater and surface water are connected physically (if not legally).

Happening now! Drop by if you are still at AGU and want to learn what a spatial network of tree-ring Hg has to say.