Sometimes fieldwork is the most magical old growth forest you’ve ever seen, bathed in mist and echoing with birdsong … and sometimes it is the steak place near the airport in Zona 10
Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.
There's a laudable effort here collecting responses to the NSF on NCAR, since NSF won't make them public. 24 letters so far, likely only a small fraction of the comments submitted -- and all supportive of NCAR continuing in its existing form.
‼️New paper alert ‼️
We combined 16S amplicon sequencing and brGDGT analysis to look for correlations between microbial communities in water intubations. Our work also takes advantage of the latest studies in brGDGT producers to strengthen our findings using a bit of bioinformatics.
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Academic publishing and how it functions in academia is deeply broken in important ways. 'Gold' (aptly named) Open Access made it worse. 4/4
High profile publications are important for students/postdocs career advancement, but outlandish APCs mean these publications have an opportunity cost and are not available to everyone. 3/
Society journals are less outlandish, but still impose a cost on research dollars that could have gone to students. Diamond/Platinum Open Access is much better, but still relatively rare. APC in high profile journals/publishers impose another costs: 2/
The push for open access (which turned out to be 'Gold'), first from the grassroots and then top down from governments, has created a situation where big publishers now feel they can (and do) charge outlandish APCs. That $ could more than pay for a graduate student stipend for an entire summer. 1/
'These findings underscore the challenge of training AI models exclusively on historical data and highlight the need to account for such biases when applying them to future climate prediction' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Yikes!! Support your societal journals!
AGU is thrilled to welcome Sarah Feakins as the new Editor-in-Chief of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.🎉
In @eos.org, we asked Dr. Feakins some questions about her own research interests and her vision for the journal.
🔗 buff.ly/JIxneWC
#AGUPubs #Paleoclimate #STEM #EarthScience #Publishing
Babe, wake up, a new programming language just dropped
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
The influence of historical sea-surface temperature patterns on regional precipitation trends - '[the] observed pattern of SST changes has shaped regional precipitation and SLP trends' journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Thank goodness we’ve given over our entire economy and all of our science funding to this valuable tool
Thank goodness we’ve given over our entire economy and all of our science funding to this valuable tool
A Maya settlement in today’s northwestern Belize persisted past the abandonment of many contemporaneous Classic Period urban centers. The community used raised earthen, stone, and wood structures to access the rich resources of the wetland. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/JKA250Yq7n2
Hmmmph. Fine, I guess.
I know everyone is very excited, but
A small update to my long and unjustifiably profane blog post on the rollercoaster that is global temperature and the interpretations of its wrigglin' innards.
ENSO is coming
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Would have liked to see some more outside reporting on these surface temp acceleration stories. Like discussion of the shortwave rise, the uncertainty if a cloud feedback is at play, whether you can remove the triple-dip La Nina to El Nino combo like a normal ENSO signal...
Does this include a free set of flying monkeys?
Fair - just seen a number of blown forecasts in my days
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It was the worst of times, it was the… yeah, no, it was just the worst of times.
Fortran and MATLAB (my first two languages) are 1-indexed, so it was (is) a particularly difficult transition
Zero-indexing is the Devil’s work though
NOAA CBRFC's Mar 1st official forecast for Lake Powell April-July inflows is out, so here's an update of my "spaghetti" plot.
Despite better snowfall in February, the most-probable forecast remains bleak at 36% of average. Even an unusually wet Mar-May would only get us to ~65% of average.
Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
