Jonathan Ulrich

Looks like sci-fi but the future is here now. Let's embrace the transformation!

📈Why is there is upward trend in billion-dollar disasters?
1. There is a growing number of people, homes, and businesses exposed to these hazards.
2. Climate change is causing an increase in frequency and intensity of certain types of extreme weather.
That's a bad combo.

And there are various versions in German dialects - I highly recommend the Kölsch one :D

Medical breakthroughs in 2025 ... and a happy new year.

New post!

There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.

Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

Perfect timing :) I have been looking for a reference for exactly this information just now. Great work

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation

What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬

@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Eine exklusive Forsa-Umfrage für Table.Briefings zeigt: Auch unter CDU/CSU- und SPD-Wählern fordern viele mehr #Klimaschutz. Und selbst in der wirtschaftlich schwierigen Lage soll das deutsche Klimaziel nicht aufgeweicht werden, so die Befragten. 1/3

table.media/climate/them...

Bild des Berichts Klimawende Ausblick 2025

⏰ Neue Publikation⏰
Wird Deutschland klimaneutral bis 2045?

🌍 Im #KlimawendeAusblick2025 bewerten wir 7 gesellschaftliche Schlüsselprozesse, die für erfolgreichen Klimaschutz entscheidend sind.

⚠️ Wir kommen zu dem Schluss, dass ein Erreichen der Klimaziele derzeit wenig plausibel ist.
Warum?

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Some small signs of hope in Germany too: People in Hamburg voted for a more ambitious and socially just climate law a few weeks ago

Yes, I wonder about that too

Thanks for sharing. I think many people find it difficult to relate to "600-700 times more likely", particularly as the baseline is missing, i.e. how likely were those storms before climate change.

If I may ask, what do you think about the imprecision in the info (600-700 times more likely)?

To my followers: What do you think about messages like this? Are they understandable, useful and credible?

Really curious to hear your thoughts :)

Focusing on Sweden, this study finds that PhD students begin their programs with similar psychiatric medication use as other master’s graduates, but usage rises sharply to about 40 percent higher by the fifth year before declining after graduation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Hamburg just said YES in the climate referendum! ♥️
Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
This vote matters for Hamburg – and sends a strong signal far beyond.
The climate issue is alive: we can set the agenda and win!

Another lesson: climate action must go hand in hand with social justice.

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Bin zum 8.10 können die Briefwahlunterlagen noch abgegeben werden. Also jetzt nochmal schnell Freund*innen und Familie mobilisieren. Wir können das schaffen

Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid Gemeinsam machen wir Hamburgs Klimapolitik sozial, planbar und verantwortungsbewusst. Stimme am 12.10.2025 beim Volksentscheid mit JA für ein besseres Klimaschutzgesetz.

Liebe Hamburger:innen! Jede Stimme zählt. Ich hoffe, eure gehört dazu:

„Mindestens 265.000 Menschen müssen am 12.10. mit JA abstimmen, damit Hamburg ein besseres #Klimaschutzgesetz bekommt.“

zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Erst für den #Zukunftsentscheid und sozialen Klimaschutz in Hamburg geworben. Und jetzt beim #ExtremWetterKongress nochmal mehr dazu lernen, warum genau das nötig ist #EWK2025

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Da könnte man ja direkt gewisse Plagiatsjäger, die in der Union großes Ansehen genießen, drauf ansetzen...

📣PhD scholarships!📣 @leuphana.bsky.social offers several PhD scholarships in #EnvironmentalPsychology in "Embracing Transformation“, which aims to advance our understanding of societal transformations worldwide. Deadline: October 1 2025.

More info: www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

Of course I heard a bit about it before but only today I really started looking into the business of academic publishers. Omfg. It's one of the most absurd appropriations of public money and voluntary work for insane private profits that I ever heard of. How are we all participating in this system?

Electricity demand growth in IEA scenarios, in TWh between 2024 and 2030, due to data-centre expansion (dark blue) – including a scenario in which expansion happens faster (light blue) – as well as from other sectors (grey). Source: IEA energy and AI report.

NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/vJ5juMa

We all know there's a gender gap in support for the populist radical right. Where there is debate is on the why

In this new ✨OPEN ACCESS✨ paper, Kathina Mehring , @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @katarzynawojnicka.bsky.social use cross-country data to explain "protective masculinity" plays a role