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❓When tipping causes tipping

Ocean currents, monsoons, rainforests, ice sheets – all talk to each other

Next week Anna von der Heydt @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social explains how such #climatetippingelements interact using paleoclimate clues🧩

Join us 3 Mar 2–3pm CET
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#ClimTip

Thanks to @climtip.bsky.social and @esm2025.bsky.social for the infographics!

More details: optimesm-he.eu/2026/02/09/m...

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This Social Media Strategy Wheel grew out of a CRC-net 2024 meeting on social media for EU research projects, held with the contribution of @maiaresilience.bsky.social communications experts.
Collective lessons from EU climate project comms and management teams, distilled into practical strategies!

@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @euclimateaction.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

The wheel summarises strategies for 5 recurring challenges: integrating social media into DEC, translating science, getting scientists involved, reaching diverse audiences, and working with limited time/resources.

More details: optimesm-he.eu/2026/02/09/m...

🛞CRC-net Social Media Strategy Wheel:
“Make social media work for your EU project” is an open resource built from the collective experience of EU climate project communication and management teams.

#ClimateResearchNet
Thanks @climtip.bsky.social @esm2025.bsky.social for the infographics!

What’s new in climate science? 🌍A new synthesis in Global Sustainability highlights 10 recent advances, from record heat and ocean warming to carbon cycle changes and emerging societal impacts. A concise overview for researchers and policymakers.

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Meet Torben Koenigk! 🌍 Head of the global climate group at SMHI, he focuses on Arctic climate & Earth system modeling. As #OptimESM Coordinator & WP8 lead, he champions international collaboration to understand abrupt climate change and its impacts.

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Meet Saloua Peatier🌍Postdoc at the University of Reading. In OptimESM, she studies idealised climate simulations to assess regional impacts of warming levels and abrupt climate change, including AMOC risks.

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Meet Marco Possega🌍 Post-Doc at CNR-ISAC, working on land–atmosphere interactions, droughts, and soil moisture in climate models. In #OptimESM, he evaluates land-surface and soil-moisture processes and studies drought events, with a focus on the Mediterranean. optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...

Meet Sara Octenjak! She brings her expertise in stakeholder engagement & climate services to #OptimESM, helping turn science into urgent, just climate action. 🌍

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👉Temperature overshoot: impacts, (ir)reversibility and negative emission pathways (www.egu26.eu/session/57126).

👉Mediterranean climate regions of the world: changes, risks and adaptation (www.egu26.eu/session/56363).

👉Subtropical weather and climate processes in the past, present, and future (www.egu26.eu/session/56304).

⏰ Abstract deadline for #EGU26 is getting close!

Several sessions are convened by researchers from the #OptimESM project – a great opportunity to share your work on Earth system & climate modelling.

Submit soon! 🌍📊

Meet George Zittis, Research Scientist at the Cyprus Institute (CARE-C) and lead of the Climate Change Downscaling & Extremes Group. His team brings expertise in regional climate modeling and extremes, supporting #OptimESM with ML downscaling benchmarks and climate insights.

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Meet Annalisa Cherchi! 🌍

She is a senior scientist at CNR-ISAC and in #OptimESM, she contributes to improving hydrological processes in EC-Earth, with a focus on water-limited regions and future climate projections under warmer, drier conditions.

🔗 Read more: optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...

Meet the people behind OptimESM 🌍 Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce the team advancing next-generation Earth System Models to better understand climate change, extremes, and tipping points - delivering more credible insights for science, policy, and society. #OptimESM #HorizonEurope

Happy Holidays from OptimESM 🎄✨

Wishing our community a peaceful break and a great start to the new year. Thank you for being part of our journey!

🌡 What happens if we overshoot the 1.5°C target?

🗨️ Explore key #ClimateChange concepts in A Foreseen Overshoot, a #sciencecomic designed to make complex topics simple.

📖 Get your copy here, and don’t forget to share it! buff.ly/8J5ILbB

⏳ Counting down to the #AI4EO Winter School — March 16–20 2026, Athens 🇬🇷
AI, climate extremes & collaboration ahead. One week left to register! 👉 buff.ly/HZcLiTM

#AIWinterSchool2026 #AI4PEX #MeDiTwin #ClimateAction #Networking #CINEA

These insights aim to inform policy, research & action toward a climate resilient future. Projects:
@esm2025.bsky.social
@optimesm-eu.bsky.social
@tipesm.bsky.social
@climtip.bsky.social
@rescueclimate.bsky.social
@nextgems 🌱 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystemModels

↔️ Research Gaps Where do we need deeper investigation to strengthen climate resilience? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateResearch #Innovation #HorizonEU

🌍 Earth System Insights: from our Horizon Projects Briefing 6 European Horizon projects gathered their insights together for an in-depth forum with the European Commission (DG RTD & DG CLIMA). Here’s what they had to say 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystem #HorizonEU

🪾Large parts of the #Amazon face savanna-like dry seasons if deforestations levels reach 25%.

In the next #ClimTip webinar #JuliaPongratz @lmumuenchen.bsky.social talks about the state and future of the rainforest from the latest findings.

👉 Join on 2 Dec 2025 at 2–3pm CET
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New Deep Learning Method Brings Europe’s Climate into Sharper Focus Researchers from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), have developed a new method that uses Deep Learning to generate very high-resolution climate data across Europe. The resu...

This exciting scientific article was written within the OptimESM project!

#ClimateResearch #EarthSystemModelling #HorizonEU

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Six EU-funded climate modelling projects recently met with the European Commission to inform decision-making. A joint briefing with key insights is coming soon. 📝
🔗 optimesm-he.eu/2025/11/12/c...

#ClimateResearch #ScienceForPolicy

Can we really count on land to deliver climate mitigation?

Our new highlight unpacks what AR/BECCS can do — and where uncertainties bite (carbon stocks, permanence, local climate effects).

Full story → bit.ly/4qMYPEy

#CDR #ESM2025research
@euclimateaction.bsky.social

📣 Exciting update — registration is OPEN for Joint Winter School “AI for Earth System, Hazards & Climate Extremes”!
📅 March 16 – 20 2026
📍 Venue, NTUA, Athens, Greece

🔗 More info and registration: buff.ly/kNH2f5B

#AIWinterSchool2026 #MeDiTwin #CINEA #ClimateResearchNet #earlycareer #PhD