Abigail Swann, PhD

Has @agu.org ever solved the disagreement with @egu.eu where EGUsphere preprints were treated as prior publications? This seems baffling to me that it would be an issue when other preprint servers are fine.

A strong acceleration is usually seen as very positive. In that way new work is really important! If a letter writer knows some of your work they will hopefully read more and can make their own judgment about your newer (totally field changing) papers.

I agree that your personal statement is the place where you get to write the narrative of the relevance of your work. Tell the letter writers that story! Hopefully they are familiar with some of your work, and they might discover and get excited about the newer parts.

Good questions to be asking! I remember @profdesai.bsky.social had some really good advice for me on how to write these letters but it is lost to the ancient history of twitter.

Headline from NYT: losing the climate information war

Oh interesting, whose fault is that?

Thank you for serving as an IPCC author!

For home we have gone with a full boom box and old binders of cds. That has been great! We tried giving kid an old phone with all the apps deleted to use as a camera…. It did not go great. They still find things to fiddle with because it has a screen.

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

Yay for coupled PPEs! And the surprising things they show…

Did you have *that* cd tho? (I did not, but I’m sure it was on the shelf in my grad school office)

I definitely am!

The photosyn. response to higher water use efficiency varies spatially, AND completely reverses sign depending on if the atmosphere is allowed to repsond or not. This suggests that *many* plant parameters will likely need to be calibrated, tuned, etc in a coupled system.

Specifically, we modified the stomatal slope parameter in the CESM to simulate different stomatal functioning. We *thought* that this we would get a fairly straightforward response, with more higher photosyn. with higher water use efficiency. But no!

This means that we can't evaluate the sensitivity of photosynthesis across large spatial scales to things like stomatal functioning unless we include the effects of the atmosphere, which is really important to know for setting up Earth system models!

Atmospheric Feedbacks Reverse the Sensitivity of Modeled Photosynthesis to Stomatal Function Atmospheric feedbacks reverse the direction of photosynthesis sensitivity to stomatal function in the tropics and high latitudes Stomatal function with higher water cost per carbon gain leads to ...

New lab paper: How does photosynthesis respond to assumptions about stomatal functioning? We find that including atmospheric feedbacks reverses the direction of photosyn. response => stomatal cond. changes temp. & water stress. Led by Amy Liu, w/ many collaborators! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Making a climate model that works well is really, really hard. So hard, in fact, that the people who do make it happen rarely have the time or energy to talk about how hard it is on the internet. So most other people have very little understanding about how hard it is... But boy is it hard #NorESM3

If you do only have one large burner you can get a big pot of liquid boiling and then move it to a smaller burner. Easy to keep it going once it is hot.

The burner I use most is the largest diameter one. I wish I had a second. Turns out that matches more of my pan sizes and wider cast iron pans don’t heat as evenly on the smaller burners.

I don’t have either of those specific models but I love (love!) my induction range! Not a huge fan of the touch buttons though, would prefer knobs even if they are harder to clean.

Postdoctoral Scholar: Remote Sensing to FATES: Wildfire Impacts on Western U.S. Forests University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

New #FATESmodel job focused on fire modeling at UCIrvine :) recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09965

Didn’t mean to imply that your paper was the same! And very excited to see runs like this in emissions-driven mode.

Multi-century dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios Abstract. Future climate projections from Earth system models (ESMs) typically focus on the timescale of this century. We use a set of five ESMs and one Earth system model of intermediate complexity (...

Looking forward to reading this. This paper seems relevant, just making sure you have seen it! esd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include:
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.

Last week, my Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction class covered an older paper about “social translucence” where they explain how the design of online systems shapes the norms & behaviors w/in those systems. But the framework they create can be applied more broadly, eg to our political moment.

The lawn digging seems really extensive this year compared to recent years. Do you know if there is some inherent cycle in the beetles or just a good year for growth?

This totally happened to the kids Halloween haul last year 😭

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

An international phenomenon.

I love biking!