Kevin Anchukaitis

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

Regarding news articles today on a new paper linking the Black Death to post-volcanic cooling in the Mediterranean, our reconstruction shows it was cooler during that time (e.g. 1346 CE, following a 1345 tropical eruption) but not severely so (summer temperature anomalies vs. 1338-1340 CE baseline)

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes Tree-ring and planetary scientists are preparing for the big natural events thanks to a Big Idea Challenge grant and a new laboratory.

U of A researchers are using tree-ring science to study ancient solar storms and major earthquakes. With the TIME Lab’s advanced radiocarbon techniques, the team is uncovering patterns that may improve predictions of space-weather hazards and seismic risks. More: tinyurl.com/5x3mmakh

temperature reconstruction from: 'A Data Assimilation Approach to Last Millennium Temperature Field Reconstruction Using a Limited High-Sensitivity Proxy Network' journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Regarding news articles today on a new paper linking the Black Death to post-volcanic cooling in the Mediterranean, our reconstruction shows it was cooler during that time (e.g. 1346 CE, following a 1345 tropical eruption) but not severely so (summer temperature anomalies vs. 1338-1340 CE baseline)

A few thoughts: More important than any single paper is evidence of a coherent 'research program'; what bigger set of questions are you answering or problems are you solving in your work? What is innovative or unique about your set of methods, approaches, etc. as a whole?

New Orleans updates | AGU25

Important updates from @agu.org for those attending #AGU25 in New Orleans as the city is invaded by federal paramilitaries in operation “Catahoula Crunch”

The Role of Water Demand and Paleo Streamflow in Advancing Reservoir Drought Risk Analysis We develop a new reservoir drought index that addresses risk buffered by reservoir storage to provide more realistic estimates of exposure The application of multi-century paleo-reconstructed res...

The Role of Water Demand and Paleo Streamflow in Advancing Reservoir Drought Risk Analysis agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Remote cameras catch another new jaguar in Arizona Motion-activated trail cameras in southeastern Arizona captured pictures last month of a new, never-before-seen jaguar, according to the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center.

Motion-activated trail cameras in southeastern Arizona captured pictures last month of a new, never-before-seen jaguar, according to the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center.

Chart comparing the number of new grants awarded by the NSF in 2025 vs. previous years.

Chart comparing the funding awarded by the NSF in 2025 vs. previous years.

This year, the NSF funded 35% fewer grants in geoscience, with 25% less money. Meanwhile, the Office of the Director spent almost three times as much money as in a regular year.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: I just wrote up an explainer for the BBC about Airbus's recall of 6,000 aircraft late last week - after a malfunction caused by space radiation.

Includes some detail on why this extraordinary phenomenon can happen and why we need to prepare for it more.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Liner Note 43. Caring for Austerity UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024    Every meeting tells a story as Rod Stewart once sang, more or less.   What stories have UC’s Office of the...

What do you do when your board never asks for enough money to keep academic quality--& has no plan ever to ask for enough money? A new post at the Remaking blog on responding to the hypernormalization of bad university budgets, with U California as Exhibit A utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

Few things will give you some much-needed hope for the future like writing letters of support/reference/nominations for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students. One of the true privileges of the job.

Mediterranean drying by a positive North Atlantic Oscillation trend over the last 65 years is an extreme outlier in the CMIP6 multimodel ensemble journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... 'observed Mediterranean drying and NAO trends are at the very limit of what climate model simulations can do'

InFURiating that we all have to write/think/talk about vaccines this much, outside of celebrating new successes (HPV vax largely *eliminating* cervical cancer, my god), this shit was settled as one of the great scientific and public health triumphs EVER and now these dipshits are trying to ruin it

Best wishes, Dan.

Good to know, Dan. Message received.

You can go back and read what you wrote. Equating anti-vax with doubts about SAI. You’re entitled to your opinion - but I’ve learned something here for sure.

I think equating the evidence for the safety and efficacy of vaccines with the state of knowledge about SAI is irresponsible.

Vaccines have been around since the late 18th century. We have a robust body of evidence including double blind trials and the successful deployment of vaccines to eradicate terrible diseases, including one that almost made it so I never existed. This is a disgraceful comparison to make.

This the false equivalence fallacy. Shameful and irresponsible to draw such a parallel, in my opinion.

This is why i will judge you if you publish in Scientific Reports (by Nature).

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

Assistant Professor in Paleoceanography - Marine Geosciences in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Faculty & Physicians at University of Miami Apply for Assistant Professor in Paleoceanography - Marine Geosciences job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Faculty & Physicians at University of Miami

I hear that University of Miami is looking for a paleoceanography / paleoclimate scientist:

careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

PhD Positions I have three funded projects currently available. Closing date 10 December 2025: Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series (CASE project with Met Office) (main supervisor: Tim Osborn; co-supervisors: Stephen Packman, Met Office, Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, Andrew Friedman, UEA) Closing date 7 January 2026: Causes and Syndromes of Extreme Wildfires in Tropical and Extratropical Forests (main supervisor: Matt Jones; co-supervisor: Tim Osborn) Closing date 7 January 2026: Predicting and Mitigating Megafires under Climate Change (CASE project with WTW) (main supervisor: Matt Jones; co-supervisor: Tim Osborn)

I currently have three funded PhD positions available for applications. Links for more info and to apply are in my profile page: research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/t...

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes Tree-ring and planetary scientists are preparing for the big natural events thanks to a Big Idea Challenge grant and a new laboratory.

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...

Can a smaller U.S. National Academies remain relevant? Loss of federal support leads to staff layoffs and fewer committees of outside experts

A major reorganization and significant downsizing has left scientists wondering about the future of the US National Academies. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Never too late to become a dendrochronologist

Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool