Roger Creel

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
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I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024.

Learn more:

US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities.

“A 1.5-foot-tall wave might not seem like much, but #tsunamis are waves that extend from the seafloor to the ocean’s surface,” said Ben Hamlington, an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California." #NASA #JPL

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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

#whoi | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Is Antarctica melting more rapidly than previously thought? 🥶 To predict the future, it's helpful to look at the past. For instance, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which once covered parts of North Am...

Thanks for the boost, @whoi.edu!

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There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it When it comes to rice and pasta, dietitians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.

When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.

Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points Nature Climate Change - It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss...

Perspective: It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss the limitations of such indicators and common pitfalls in their application rdcu.be/ejQfr

North American ice sheets may have persisted into past warm periods --- and this matters for projections of future ice sheet mass loss.

Check out our new preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

With @bobkopp.net , @drandreadutton.bsky.social , and co.

Excellent chance to increase the reach of sea level science -- consider submitting!

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️

Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat

The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels

Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Thanks Hưng!

Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF. This guide is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Please also consult the links contained within this document for the official statutes, regulations, procedures, or any other such guidance. Other experts may interpret the official guidance in ways that may differ from this informational document.

🧪 Whoa this @aaup.bsky.social guide for navigating NSF grant terminations looks amazing!! 👀

And quite timely: there's another EO deadline this Friday (3/28) to "terminate or modify...grants...to advance the policies of my administration."

PDF: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

YouTube video by PNAS How Climate Change Could Accelerate Coastal Erosion in Alaska | Cozzarelli Prize-Winning Research

Parts of Alaska are losing 10+ meters of coastline yearly, and this loss may accelerate over the next century.

Thanks @pnas.org for highlighting our work!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCd...
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Love it when GIA makes it into @nature.com!

A background of ROSES with the overlaid text "April 24, 2025 69 Days Late" and the pirate NASA logo (NASA meatball with 2 crossed swords instead of the swoosh)

ROSES 2025 is now 69 days late. And counting.

Nice! That would be a great contribution. I hope space opens up so you can get it submitted soon.

New preprint on the persistence of North American ice sheets in past warm period and implications for constraining future ice sheet projections, led by @rogercreel.bsky.social

Thanks Evan! Appreciate your kind words about our paper. How are you faring? Still in Japan?

Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: 3. Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning Lower soil volumetric water content associated with deeper active layers suggests that Arctic soil may become drier as the climate warms Burned areas have higher soil water content than unburned ...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning

We analyze a big dataset of airborne L-band SAR data over permafrost in the Arctic-Boreal region

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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique.

“A new review of 50 recent studies finds that protests tend to sway media coverage and public opinion toward the climate cause, without appearing to backfire, even when disruptive tactics are used”.

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New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000...

Did you know that from 2000 to 2020, retreat of marine-terminating glaciers exposed >2,400 km of new Arctic coastline?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations, @mettebendixen.bsky.social, @cpecz.bsky.social, Jan Kavan, Matt Strelecki, and co., on your excellent paper!

Thanks Britt!

Food for thought, mentoring friends.

2024 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients The annual Cozzarelli Prize acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. The 2024 awardees will be recognized at an awards ceremony during the NAS Annual Meeting in April 20...

Honored to announce that our paper on Alaskan permafrost received the 2024 Cozzarelli prize from @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/post/update/...

yahoo!!

Pillbury dogeboys?