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erikgulbranson.bsky.social
Scientist, educator, studying Earth’s climate ⛈️ and ecologic history through the lens of soils⛰️and tree-rings🌳🪵. Courage, Sacrifice, Devotion. Gustavus Adolphus College. Ed. Board Mbr., Scientific Reports. Posts, re-posts, views and opinions are my own.
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🌳☁️Tree restoration has greater climate mitigation potential when atmospheric chemistry such as organic aerosols and cloud effects are considered Read more here 👉: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A well needed perspective

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Who the fuck wants this

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise. It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations. www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Just let AI do whatever the bees do, amirite? 🫠

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Welp…

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Dr. Normal apathy: Or, how I learned to worry and fear the bomb

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I just can’t even anymore with these Silicon Valley tech bros

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

All the soils of the world put together in one image! They are categorized into their main defining traits. Do you have a favourite one?

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

This isn’t the quicksand I knew, and lived in mortal fear of, as a child…

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

It’s giving “we’re entering a new dark age” vibes, along with *waves vaguely at everything else*

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” ― Annie Proulx #WritingSky #AcademicSky

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...

submitted 61 days ago • 51 comments

For so many years have I existed on this hulk of rock, bereft of the knowledge that such a sandwich could exist. Braise be.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Many living have their own "tree rings", including fish; the magnificient otolith! Learn more about this fantastic structure in this @theconversation.com article, written by our dear @otolithgirl.bsky.social #otolith #fish #treering #dendrochronology theconversation.com/most-animals...

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Must read from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

submitted 68 days ago • 99 comments

Super interesting comparisons to be made of this technique and clumped isotopes/U-Pb chronologies in carbonates.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

“My job as a leader of the university is to speak up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.” — Wesleyan University’s President Michael Roth in @newyorker.com (proud to have him continually and publicly defending #HigherEd)

submitted 69 days ago • 13 comments