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Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

Proposed and ongoing cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service could endanger public safety when disaster strikes. A critically important analysis from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and @bhensonweather.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/cuts...

Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

Another utility, Xcel, says it will be carbon pollution free by 2035. We can do this for the whole country, if we only try! Don't lose faith, folks. Progress is still possible. www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it...

A majority of Americans worry that Elon Musk's drive to slash the federal government could hurt services their communities depend on and believe that billionaires have too much influence on President Trump's administration, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/3EKIE7o

Want to contribute to the @ipbes.net 2nd Global Assessment? Join our webinar on 5 March (13:00 CET). We'll cover IPBES fundamentals, the assessment scope, the author experience, and the application process. Q&A included!

HSBC has delayed its net zero target by 20 years, until 2050.

Great looking R (plus Stan) package for multivariate dynamic GAMs.

Wow, good diplomatic move - Macron reportedly joining in the meeting with Trump by Starmer. Not sure whether anything or anyone can make Trump change course, but this is a strong signal of Europeans moving together to speak to the US.

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon "...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genetic diversity loss detected in 628 species worldwide. "Threats impacted 2/3 of the populations that we analysed, and less than half of the populations analysed received conservation management." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just out in BioScience Monitor social–ecological systems to achieve global goals for #biodiversity and nature's contributions to people academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... #openaccess perspective piece led by Ágnes Vári with @elenabennett.bsky.social

"I think that in California we just saw that, the modeling is flawed... some of these states set up vehicles that become a market of last resort, which sometimes become the market of only resort & then they end up taking on a lot of aggregate," Zaffino added." ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/califor...

🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham. Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows? Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Until mere days ago, President Biden’s industrial policies were surging major investments across the country, particularly in red states. Now, Trump seems determined to kill this progress. Here’s a thread 🧵 on what we know, which we’ll update as more info comes in. www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org

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A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8% www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵

Occasional re-post. Constraining the executive to comply with the law is *central* to the separation of powers... and far from being self-enforcing, it's been under considerable strain for a long time before the current crisis. www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

In these tough times remember a Pom Pom Crab is out there cheering for you.

Last chance #Berlin and #Brandenburg friends of #Causalinference & #DAGs! Be sure to apply by tomorrow (Feb 7th) to join in!

Interesting question! I think another important question is the cost of *NOT* decoupling - given decreasing transparency of financial entanglements, one does not know any longer what one buys into.

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

What motivates forest restoration in the Peruvian Andes and what determines success? Water resources are key - “sowing and harvesting water”. Terrific new paper by former PhD student @tchristmann.bsky.social : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

Remember when Trump and MAGA claimed that the citizens of Greenland wanted to join the USA? Turns out not so much. www.reuters.com/world/poll-s...

South Carolina's refugee resettlement non-profit has *282* refugee families that have lost federal assistance. This aid is for rent/other necessities for recent arrivals. Practical way to help: donate to cover the gap in funding. Link: lscarolinas.net/donate-to-re...

{tinytable} 0.7.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts data frames to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables. Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dep, and the website hosts a billion tutorials. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/ 0.7.0 fixes bugs and adds some cool features. Please update!

At @nature.org we're launching a new monthly webinar series highlighting cutting-edge research and innovation at the intersection of climate, biodiversity, and human well-being. The first webinar is TODAY - click below to register & participate or watch the video later!

Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...

👀We are looking for ph.D. students in Finance! SAFE offers full funding for excellent candidates throughout the program in cooperation with GSEFM. Applications are reviewed in three stages, first deadline is 31 January. 👉Learn more: safe-frankfurt.de/about-safe/c... #EconSky

Postdoc, doctoral student, and summer intern positions, Bayesian methods, Aalto statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/10/p...

Scores of SDM packages for R... what should I do? Out now, lead by the indefatigable Jamie Kass, our paper in @ecography.bsky.social on the SDM Software Universe! doi.org/10.1111/ecog... Alternatively, listen to the paper @ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc...