Baylor Fox-Kemper

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URI awarded $7 million NSF grant to boost research excellence in environmental microplastics KINGSTON, R.I. – July 8, 2025 – Microplastics can be found everywhere. They’re not just in waterways like Narragansett Bay but they can be found in shellfish, drinking water, and the human body. Resea...

Go team SIMCoast!

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You can do what I do, use en dashes in the place of em dashes because I am too lazy to click 3 times--or do parentheses--2 clicks will do. Too lazy to be a bot.

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work

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I was thinking of that song, too. It took so long to bake it.

Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12840758 Job Title: Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience Location(s): New York, Shanghai, or Beijing (Internal candidates from hub locations are welcome to apply...

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification | Michael E. Mann Here’s the press tip from PNAS on our new article demonstrating an increase over the past 70+ years in the occurrence of planetary wave resonance events […]

"Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification" | My blog post on our new article (@xuekeli.bsky.social, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social, Shannon Christiansen & yours truly) out this week in @pnas.org: michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...

Conveners for the session on emulators: Helene Hewitt, @baylorfk.bsky.social, @shrutinath97.bsky.social, myself, Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Christopher Womack

It's important to learn (& teach) peer reviewing! Here are my notes on that:

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It's important to teach how to read scientific papers alongside teaching how to write them:

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Every time a Brit I know has lost weight, they report the tally in stone. They then refuse to clarify what a stone is in any other system.

Because of the peculiarities of the imperial system, I suspect every Brit has their own personal stone kept in a vault which constitutes their own standard.

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind ‘How Come I Feel Something But Don’t See It?’ Asks Department Head

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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Ugh.

Top think tanks
Think top tanks
Think tank tops

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.

Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...

Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪

My bike is so much more efficient. It spends 99% of its time being leaned against different things that look like my bike lock will fit around them.

May the Five Fourth be with you!

This means my research, teaching and service came at no net cost to my university. Obviously, my university expected this when they hired me. #WithoutNSF my job and team just wouldn't exist.

Along with me from the overhead, this means NSF has paid for most of over a dozen PhD students, a dozen postdocs, over four dozen undergraduate research jobs, and a bunch of staff and software engineering time. These are real jobs for people in a state that has been struggling.

I would not be a scientist or a professor #withoutNSF.

Some think that overhead charges to grants are just free money for universities to waste. Since I began as a professor, I have gauged my grant funding so that my overhead covers my 9 month salary--the largest expense I cause my university.

I saw Bad Brains at Hampshire when my sister was a student. Amazing show...

Yep. Great thing to set up if you can and participate in.

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Fantastic!! Great news!

Global climate and ice sheet modelling scientist The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) opens a 4 year, full-time position for a scientist to work on global climate modeling with a particular focus on how c

Who wants to work on coupling #IceSheet models into #GCMs? We have a 4 year position open @dmidk.bsky.social -come and join us in Copenhagen... (Part of the @icelink-project.bsky.social )

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How climate change will affect Rhode Island’s drinking water, and how we can better prepare - TPR: The Public's Radio This story is part of our series One Storm Away: How climate change is threatening drinking water on the Ocean State’s islands As Rhode Island’s climate continues to change, scientists expect big chan...

@baylorfk.bsky.social — an IBES fellow and professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences — spoke to @jeremybernfeld.bsky.social about how climate change impacts the ocean and how RI communities can better prepare for conditions that could negatively impact water utilities.

Sorry, Jeff.

I wish this was an exaggeration.

I agree with David.

Does he actually play video games or just hire ringers to play for him?