Elizabeth Patterson

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Larger teams worsen academic career prospects As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers

As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers, according to research from last year. https://scim.ag/3JHinJs #ScienceMagArchives

Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico Stalagmite record reveals 1- to 13-year droughts in NW Yucatán from 871 to 1021 CE, a time of profound Maya cultural change.

Interested in #Maya history, #climate change, #stalagmites and #drought, and the #SYP autosampler? Read the latest in our detailed work on a sample from #Tzabnah cave! 😎 kudos to all our collaborators in #Mexico!
@andy-baker.bsky.social @mwclimatesci.bsky.social

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Great to see our work in @eos.org ! A good read for the evening! 😇 kudos to all our friends & colleagues that contribute to this ongoing endeavour - there is so much to learn! 🤩 together - always! @thomasopel.bsky.social @juvmcburst.bsky.social @pucicu.de @scitobias.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

The switch to the new SI units (international Shaq units) has begun. Shaq is inevitable.

Picture, created by the Creepcast podcast people, of a big fun squid swimming in the ocean taken from a submersible. On the side, a scale line made of photoshopped Shaquille O'Neals is added for scale.

At some point, during grad school, @paleopatt.bsky.social, me, and other people joked on using Shaq as an unit system (distance, isotopic composition, etc). Glad to see the #Creepcast podcast having the same idea.

Speleothem science is cool 😎🦇💧 - come join the party at #AGU25!

Submit your abstract to our session by July 30:

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From ancient rainfall to roaming hominins — we’re connecting proxy records, climate models, and evolutionary stories. Join us at AGU 2025 to rethink how climate shaped human history.
#Paleoclimate #ProxyVsModel #HumanEvolution #30thJuly

The Influence of Carbon Dioxide and Precession on Western North American Hydroclimate and Pacific Sea Surface Temperature During the Holocene A network of proxy records shows western North American hydroclimate and Pacific sea surface temperature co-evolved during the Holocene The western North America became wetter while the eastern e...

Excited to (finally) share my new paper on Pacific SST and western North America hydroclimate during the Holocene! TL;DR They are connected, CO2 and precession both affect hydroclimate. Thanks @xiaojingdu.bsky.social @meredithparish.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social+others
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We are pleased to have @cavemangriff.bsky.social and Sam Bova as invited speakers for our 4th #PaleoSEA session at #AGU25.

Last week to submit abstract: tinyurl.com/paleoSEA2025
AGU Student Travel Grant: www.agu.org/honors/fmstg

@sayakbasu.bsky.social, @calenrubin.bsky.social , @sarahpederzani.bsky.social

Speleothem science is cool 😎🦇💧 - come join the party at #AGU25!

Submit your abstract to our session by July 30:

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Complexity and mediating factors in farmers’ climate perceptions and agricultural adaptation strategies in the Guatemalan Dry Corridor - Climatic Change Projected precipitation decreases due to anthropogenic climate change will have serious consequences for the millions of households in Central America that rely on rainfed agriculture. However, a sign...

Pleased to share a new paper from our socio-ecological research in Central America, led by Dr. Talia Anderson - Talia used a mixed methods approach to understand how perceptions & socio-economic factors mediate farmers' adaptations to climate variability and change link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).

I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

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Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.

New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume

Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)

Argh. The P4CLIMATE program solicitation will be archived (the program website itself hasn't been updated) www.nsf.gov/geo/updates/...

What is Past is Prologue:
#Paleoclimate constraints on #ECS #ClimateSensitivity #GreenhouseGas sensitivity of Earth's #Climate

First of 3 papers this summer. Next two will rule out some ECS using Data Assimilation of past climate archives

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@ccolose.bsky.social

Cool! Alex has gotten really into foraging and hackberries are high on his list to try. We scoped out some on the Palisades overlook. I'll have to tell him that they're useful for dendro too!

NASA outreach event NOW by Toms diner

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.

Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

I talked to NPR earlier this week - along with several other scientists - about how devastating the impacts of these NSF grant terminations have been (and it has only just begun...). #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience #NSF

www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Will US science survive Trump 2.0? President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts f...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Received some awful news about a major project (sites.ps.uci.edu/climatejusti... ) I have led for the past 2+ years. So many people have worked incredibly hard to realize our vision and this immediately cuts the funding for 15+ students and staff, as well as for our community partners

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup

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DOGE lease cancellation list updated again: See how NY is affected While the amount saved through federal lease cancellations by the Trump administration has decreased nationwide, New York's contribution has increased. Here's the latest.

Big news: this EO will result in the end of the NASA GISS building above the Seinfeld diner (but the mission is ongoing)
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Almost five years of cave climate monitoring in Australia and New Zealand

It was back in 2020 and COVID lockdowns that ACKMA, the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association, decided to lead a volunteer, citizen science project to measure the 'baseline cave climate'. That is, to collect…

Hi #speleothem folks, April is the month for third episode of ICCP speleothem lecture series. Dr. @annabelwolf.bsky.social will share her insight about Southeast Asian monsoon in past, present and future using water isotopes. E-see you on 21st April, 09:00 am KST

@clairerubbelke.bsky.social ‘s second PhD chapter is out in @natcomms.nature.com ! Her work shows a state shift in Southern African climate during the mid Pleistocene transition, with implications for understanding the future. (1/2)