Dahami Gunathilake

Open access model and data on blue and green water consumption of crops to help close water data gap IWMI researchers found a 9% increase of global crop blue and green water consumption between 2010 and 2020. The spatially distributed data and the model will benefit decision-making in agricultural wa...

Open access model and data on blue and green water consumption of crops to help close water data gap www.iwmi.org/news/open-ac...

Proud to have contributed to this impactful IWMI-led global study on crop water consumption.

Today's Cartoon- Jane Goodall

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.

AI tools are starting to help scientists fill gaps in our knowledge of how weather and climate has varied in the past, with a focus on instrumental weather observations stored in paper archives worldwide

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates.

Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it

Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.

To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.

go.nature.com/41PkgKn

Professor Michele Dougherty.

The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐

Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

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Making global academic connections from your desk Early-career academics don’t need senior titles or travel budgets to make a global impact. Here’s how to use what you have to build international partnerships from the ground up – starting with your i...

You don’t need a senior title or a travel budget to make an international impact as an early-career #academic. Here’s how to start forming global partnerships using the tools you already have – beginning with your inbox: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin... #highered #academicsky #edusky

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of July in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest at the edges of the Arctic Ocean on the Atlantic and Pacific facing marginal seas.

Changes in July temperatures in the #Arctic by decade...

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation - Nature Analysis of data on six stable crops, capturing two-thirds of global crop calories, allows estimation of agricultural impacts and the potential of global producer adaptations to reduce output losses owing to climate change.

Nature research paper: Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation

https://go.nature.com/44jB3Hb

Students see affording living costs as ‘own responsibility’ Financial pressures changing nature of student experience as higher education increasingly viewed in transactional terms

The cost-of-living crisis and sky-high rents mean students feel there “is much less room for enjoyment” and are organising their university life around “saving and earning”

#highered #EduSky

‘You cannot strengthen a country’s future by weakening its universities’ The shock victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right party in the Netherlands’ 2023 election has led to reduced funding for higher education and research, curbs on international student numbers and concerns ...

The shock victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right party in the Netherlands’ 2023 election has led to reduced funding for higher education and research, curbs on international student numbers and concerns for academic freedom and the country’s reputation as a research powerhouse
#AcademicSky

This is figure 3, which shows projected wellbeing burden of warming-related increase in moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) prevalence.

A study in Nature Communications quantifies how rising temperatures linked to climate change would increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and reports projected losses of healthy life years and workplace productivity due to OSA. go.nature.com/3HMqsMg #medsky 🧪

Administrative boundaries of spatial units used for spatial downscaling in this study. Levels of spatial disaggregation are dependent on the detail provided within each country’s crop statistics and range from the municipal to national level.

"A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century"
#OpenAccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early career scientist extinct since 2025.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Out now! Available in the #C3S data store: ERA5 hourly time-series data on single levels from 1940 to present. As a regridded subset of the full #ERA5 dataset on native resolution, it is designed for retrieving long time-series for a single point.

👉 cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/rea...

Adrien Brody wins Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Brutalist at the #Oscars

This is his second win after 2002’s The Pianist. He has won from 2 out of 2 nominations.