Sarah Cooley

I'm excited that 2026 will be the start of an exciting new chapter for me. Can't wait to join the great folks at ESIP in making Earth science more collaborative and actionable!

a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?

You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.

Happy talk like a pirate day!

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

So you’re saying I should have also bought a lottery ticket today?! Darn it! 🎰

TIL that my annual leave payout is still being processed. On the plus side, the email reply from talent management came the same day I asked, which is a new and exciting development.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼‍♀️

👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.

I think they were dead for a different (explainable) reason but it made me think hard about what happens if more go away.

I’d have to dig back but they were OCADS related, specifically SOCAT I think.

Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.

Warming Gulf of Maine Buffers Ocean Acidification—For Now - Eos Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were surprised by what they didn’t find: a strong anthropogenic signal.

The Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever.

Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social

eos.org/articles/war...

Women may be discouraged from becoming climate scientists if they perceive the field as male-biased, but little is known about gender in climate science. An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success, and connectedness with other scientists, and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers, which leads to cumulatively fewer publications. Scholars have long been concerned about gender representation in scientific research but there has been little work on gender differences in participation and performance in climate science, a field that engages with both male-majority disciplines (e.g., geosciences, engineering) and female-majority disciplines (e.g., life sciences, medical science). This has implications for both gender equity and viewpoint representation. Sampling over 400,000 publications and a similar number of authors, we examine gender differences in several scholarly outcomes including publication count, career survival, coauthor gender, journal status, and mean citation count. We find men and women are similarly productive, successful, and connected, though women have shorter research careers and thus fewer papers. We also find gender homophily effects in collaboration, but no evidence of gender bias in peer review.

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should!

They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.

They're inexpensive and highly effective.

Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.

Our town is filthy with ‘em. And they’re all a little suspect. And none of them play my ringtone.

True confession: Years ago I made this my cell phone ringtone.

The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and North America, with millions of people sweltering in heat and humidity well above "normal" for days on end.

The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...

The national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms."

The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.

RZA came up with a new ice cream truck jingle because the old one was used in minstrel shows | CNN As it turns out, the jingle we grew up hearing has a problematic past.

However! RZA did an upgrade/antidote! Because Wu-Tang is for the children. One of my favorite stories: www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/e...

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Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

I know! I want everyone to realize though that it’s literally not a failing of everyday people in the agencies to not know every minor detail about these bills, bc they’re busy trying to “keep the patient alive” from everything else done to the agencies to date.

CHAPTER 13 Downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Valerie J. Karplus and Costa Samaras Carnegie Mellon University The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plays a vital role in the United States' ability to anticipate and respond to short- and long-term threats to security, health, and resilience. NOAA is an agency within the Department of Commerce that tracks and predicts changes in weather, climate, coastal lands, and oceans, enabling actions that prevent damage to life and property. From avoiding deaths due to extreme weather, to averting collisions of objects in space, to informing decisions of farmers and fishers, NOAA offices constantly generate trusted, open information that has profound, tangible benefits for people and businesses. NOAA is facing the potential of losing more than 25% of its current $6 billion budget.' Without NOAA, the US economy will be no match for everyday events, and woefully unprepared for climate change. As one of the world's premier weather and climate change research agencies, NOAA provides data, tools, and information to help advance the scientific understanding of climate change and its impacts.? Essential weather data used widely across both the public and private sectors in the US originates with NOAA.' Helping the public and businesses understand how heat,* drought,' floods," sea level rise,' and other hazards are changing can allow communities to better prepare for climate change and manage impacts. However, risk from climate impacts is a combination of how hazards change, if people and infrastructure are in harm's way of these hazards, and how vulnerable these communities are to damages when extreme weather shows up. NOAA connects these concepts and serves as a critical climate resilience agency, enabling communities to assess climate risks and take action.® NOAA provides on-the-ground resources for communities to build up the local workforce and capacity

Here’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book.

In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~

cepr.org/publications...

I'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)

Most likely: things are moving so fast related to this bill; and people inside NOAA are trying to stay focused on keeping the science going despite huge #s of staff lost and tons of contracts delayed. Inside the agencies, people are bailing water as fast as they can and can’t look up.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.

Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead: