Adam Csank

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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I think this is interesting. Curious to know if Canadian First Nations groups are also seeking to have a say in Alaskan resource projects.

Made a quick presentation at the last minute for #GISDay showcasing my journey of map making....through MAPS!

Check it out!

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If you are a dendrochronologist, you will also find this depressing.

Text overlay: "Making Spaces of Possibility" on top. "Geography Awareness Week Events. November 17 - 21 | #GeoWeek2025" center bottom. Photo in foreground is a person with thumbtack with map on table and globe in background.

It's the first day of #GeographyAwarenessWeek! How’re you celebrating? Let us know and check out over fifty events happening worldwide on our StoryMap. buff.ly/bKhXzko

#GeoWeek2025 #GeoSky #GISChat

Geography Awareness Week American Association of Geographers | Geography Awareness Week 2025 | November 17 - 21

It's Geography Awareness Week #geography and GIS Day is Wednesday. A great many activities happening. Check out some of them storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2426...

California’s rule book on El Niño and La Niña is broken La Niña is back, but week-to-week jet-stream chaos really decide whether California floods or stays dry.

Highly recommend this article by @gporterwx.bsky.social f/ @ggweather.bsky.social and others describing the influence of El Niño / La Niña events on CA weather and other factors that can override the “El Nino wet, La Niña dry” common in public understanding.

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Not bad for Northern California

Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.

In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."

www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...

And this contributes to why many in rural California are opposed to mandates for heat pumps, induction stoves, and EVs. If you have an unreliable grid electrification seems like a bad idea.

Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.

Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers

go.nature.com/4hNDvuN

Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...

Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Geographies, preferably with a focus on Human–Environment Relationships.

Read more 👉 www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Assistant Professor, Human-Environment Geography The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

One week to go before review begins! U Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography. "We seek a dynamic scholar with research and teaching interests that engage with current issues in environmental justice, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability."

Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Yes, but I only notice after I already sent the emai.

The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...

Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...

"The researchers explain that the current uncritical adoption of AI at the top level of universities actually is counter to what most students and staff want."

Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire

I’m sure this will be fine…🙄

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!)

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.

this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

Resolution and Frequency‐Dependent Climate Signals in an Arctic Tree‐Ring Temperature Reconstruction of the Last Millennium Tree-ring density measurement resolution affects low-frequency trends in temperature reconstructions High-resolution anatomical maximum latewood density has stronger correlations with instrumenta...

Dr. Julie Edwards (@julieedtree.bsky.social) leads a new paper showing that high-resolution cellular-scale measurements (Quantitative Wood Anatomy) yield better temperature signals in Alaskan tree rings than even conventional MXD across all frequencies agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals. The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Building Community Power Community Benefits Agreements Across the Global Energy Supply Chain James J. A. Blair, Emmett Hopkins, Tai Kondo Koester, Kate Berry, Alida Cantor, Dustin Mulvaney, Thea Riofrancos, Toni Symonds, Noel Vineyard, Bryce Sprauer, Bethani Turley, Thien-Kim Bui, Reva Butensky, and Lorena De F La Puente Burlando Climate & Community INSTITUTE

Proposed CBAs in California's Opt-In certification process.

Building Community Power - our new report looks at community benefits agreements, intended to increase social acceptance. Read about California and New York’s programs to approve renewables and energy storage projects at the state level with community support. climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

it is very sad to see science infrastructure that was just abandoned. Easy to get $$ to install but no $$ to maintain or de-mob.