Paper alert! V pleased to announce my latest paper "The relative role of direct orbital forcing versus CO2 & ice feedbacks on Quaternary climate", in Nature Communications - doi.org/10.1038/s414..., with @natalieslord.bsky.social, @climatesamwell.bsky.social, @thefosterlab.bsky.social + many others!

Excited about our annual varsity staff football game this Sunday vs. Bath, at Twerton Park. Looking to bring the trophy back to Bristol where it belongs! Raising money for Southmead Hospital. www.justgiving.com/page/bigmatc...

The Big Match 2026 | Fundraising for Southmead Hospital Charity

Help Jon Jerrome raise money to support Southmead Hospital Charity

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Our "Climate of Middle Earth" got a shout-out from Stephen Colbert on The Late Show @colbertlateshow.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMue... See here for the "paper" describing the results: www.paleo.bristol.ac.uk/~ggdjl/repor...

Meanwhile... Middle Earth Weather Report | Clooney's Near-Beer | Why Cats Land On Their Feet

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Postdoc position in Oceanography and Paleoclimatology at the University of Oxford - shorturl.at/yTblW The role involves exploring the role of ocean circulation in setting and responding to equator-pole temperature gradients over the Phanerozoic. Deadline is 17 April 2026.

This began years ago when I interviewed Dan Lunt from the University of Bristol about his climate model of Middle-earth (from Lord of the Rings). I released the interview as a trilogy of videos because, of course a trilogy! youtu.be/jJNkd5g6oxI?...

UQx DENIAL101x The Climate of Middle Earth - Part 1

YouTube video by UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

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Just published an article about our paper in @fafnirjournal.bsky.social describing how climate models were used to simulate fantasy worlds like Middle-earth & Westeros as well as for a new world I've developed for a cli-fi fantasy story theconversation.com/do-middle-ea...

Do Middle-earth and Westeros make sense? Climate scientists modelled them to find out

It’s a seemingly whimsical exercise, but it serves serious purposes.

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Recently published in Fafnir - the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "Climate Models as a Retroactive and Exploratory World-building Tool" fafnir.journal.fi/article/view... Thanks to @johnfocook.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social and Alex and Michael Farnsworth.

Just putting this out there again - deadline 8th January: www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

Dan Lunt@climatesamwell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK" For more info, and how to apply, see here: www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!

Just putting this out there again - deadline 19th January: shorturl.at/wKh2W

Dan Lunt@climatesamwell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "Improving future climate prediction through modelling and data of Earth’s past" At the University of Bristol, UK. More details and how to apply: shorturl.at/wKh2W ..or message me here directly.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "Improving future climate prediction through modelling and data of Earth’s past" At the University of Bristol, UK. More details and how to apply: shorturl.at/wKh2W ..or message me here directly.

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK" For more info, and how to apply, see here: www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!

Currently visiting @ncar-ucar.bsky.social for two weeks, as part of their affiliate scientist programme, working with the paleo modelling group, including @climate-z.bsky.social . Amazing views out of the back door of the lab!!

#ICP15 hosts a panel discussion by inviting a Science journalist to discuss aspects of Trust in Science. Our panel members are @carbon8.bsky.social @triptychphrases.bsky.social Dan Lunt Adina Paytan and Sambuddha Mishra Hosted by Sahana Ghosh @nature.com India

CBEP 2026 - sites.google.com/view/cbep202... 2nd-7th August 2026 in Washington. Sessions on: Climate States and Processes Stratigraphy and Surface Processes Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems Biogeochemical Cycles

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The Paleogene Period was a time of extremes and transitions. Bounded by the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous and the rise of modern grasslands, the climate of the Paleogene was globally mu...

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New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....

AGU 2025, New Orleans: session on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates and paleoecology". Submit an abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... @thefosterlab.bsky.social @flimsin.bsky.social @pages-ipo.bsky.social @leafwax.bsky.social @kencaldeira.com

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @climatesamwell.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social

Deadline to register for food/presenting is 10th April!! EGU Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates". Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2 Register: forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf... More info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

For those going to EGU....We are running an EGU 2025 Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates". Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2 Sign up: forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf... More info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

We are really pleased to announce a 3-year postdoc at Bristol to work on tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the tuned model to make future climate predictions. More details available from me, or here: tinyurl.com/mvx5wmet . Closing date: 15th Feb

Well done to my amazing colleagues at Bristol, who have made it into the @carbonbrief.org 10 most talked about climate papers for the second year running. Good work @climatesamwell.bsky.social and Paul Valdes! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief

Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.

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Hi all, just forwarding this in 2025 as the deadline is 8th January...also, the link has changed: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...

Dan Lunt@climatesamwell.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "A unified approach to multiple timescale climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK" For more info, and how to apply, see here: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...

📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢 Just sending this postdoc job advert out again in 2025! The deadline to apply is 15th January. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y

Dan Lunt@climatesamwell.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y @drsturobinson.bsky.social

📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢 "A unified approach to multiple timescale climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK" For more info, and how to apply, see here: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y @drsturobinson.bsky.social