Hydrology Paper of the Day @madisoncondon.bsky.social and colleagues on why transparency and open data and tools are required for assessing and dealing with climate risk: the need for data standards to reduce barriers; addressing sensitive data; respecting Indigenous knowledge; and best practices.

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Spending 15 minutes per day two-factor authenticating myself is such a unique soul-sucking experience

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

<Pete Hegseth Mandates Gender-Affirming Care> is the headline you're looking for

Iowa Flood Center, represent! (Also, great science!)

Kelly Hereid@kellyhereid.bsky.social · 4w ago

Major bottleneck for improving flash flood forecasts in the National Water Model? You guessed it, streamflow assimilation. Can't get the payoff in progressively fancier modeling and forecasts without on-the-ground investments in solid observational data. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Considering starting a new journal w/ a meager open access fee of $1,000 called Nature Slop. All proceeds will fund local infrastructure projects in under-resourced communities

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Opportunities

BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

gavinmjones.com

It was so great to contribute to this solutions-driven review article. Jesse did an amazing job synthesizing evidence across fields and presenting the trade-offs decision-makers are navigating - lots of great "hooks" to motivate the next wave of research in this area!

Jesse Gourevitch@jgourevitch.bsky.social · last mo.

Read the full article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 I’m pleased to share a new open-access article published today in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: “Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets” 🚨

This is nice work to expose undisclosed COI in climate-risk research! However, does anyone think wedges is one of the most influential climate papers in history? Claim is not supported by the article. Why not focus on Fossil-funded NZA report by Princeton, which directly influenced Biden policy?

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

I haven't really seen anyone ask why individual studies even become this prominent in the 1st place? Isn't science knowledge supposed to be produced collectively? Climate risk research is too much of a Rube Goldberg of implicit values, missing data, and bad models to trust one study this much.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Excited to share this TT position in Climate Governance and Policy in my department! I hope to collaborate with my new colleague! If this sounds like a good fit, I hope you'll apply. If it makes you think of someone else, I'd be grateful if you'd share it with them or within your network.

Hey earthquake types - Swiss Re is hiring an entry grad level earthquake catastrophe modeler. Strong science shop if this is your thing:

#hiring #catastrophemodeling #earthquake #reinsurance | Adam Hatzikyriakou

We are hiring! The Cat Perils team at Swiss Re is looking for an enthusiastic Natural Catastrophe Specialist with experience in earthquake modeling. This position is located in Armonk, NY. Do you wan...

linkedin.com

I especially love this diagram.

Excited to share this TT position in Climate Governance and Policy in my department! I hope to collaborate with my new colleague! If this sounds like a good fit, I hope you'll apply. If it makes you think of someone else, I'd be grateful if you'd share it with them or within your network.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

The Social Pixel Lab is recruiting a flood justice fellow who works with communities in Wisconsin this fall from Aug-Dec 2026 to learn to make satellite-based flood maps and co-produce flood analysis with students ($5000 compensation) app due June 30 beth-tellman.github.io/floodjustice...

1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵

🌟 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD positions 🌟 at TU Delft (NL) on how #climate #risks impact our #homes, property #prices, #inequality, #mortgage portfolios and eventually #systemic economic and social #stability. What can different ‘climate risk owners’ do to reduce adverse impacts? Details 👇

Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car https://bit.ly/4viG6Cj

I'm hiring a postdoctoral scholar to work on quantifying the climate impacts of hydrogen (H2) emissions. Please share and reach out if you are a potential candidate with any questions! More info on our group and the application: viveks.bee.cornell.edu academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32016

Excited to present our work (led by my former postdoc, David Lafferty, now at Verisk) on uncertainty decomposition for projections of future climate extremes across the continental US in this @egu.eu session!

Kai Kornhuber@kornhuber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don’t miss our @egu.eu session ‘Physical Climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors’ Thur May 7th, orals 8:30 - 15:45 in room D1🟪, posters 16:15-18:00 in X3🟪 @mattpriestley.bsky.social, A. Ciullo, @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, @natalieslord.bsky.social @riskkan.bsky.social

Proud new Iowan (and collaborator with the flood center!). I wish this story mentioned how federal cuts and weak state support is threatening many life, health, money saving operations of the center as well.

Kelly Hereid@kellyhereid.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great story highlighting the value of the Iowa Flood Center 🎁 In a Small Iowa Town, a Solution to a National Crisis www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o... Puts a little mustard on the "small town" part though, it's part of the Quad Cities metro.

Check out the free short course: learn.uiowa.edu/browse/clas/... and teaching materials serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/a... we developed as part of an ESTCP project.

A rare test pressing of Robert Johnson containing an unreleased take of his Crossroad Blues has been uploaded to YouTube a couple days ago by Nick Dellow. The sound quality is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...

Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)

YouTube video by Nick Dellow

youtube.com

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself: If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey

In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

docs.google.com

Epistemic Virtues for Science in the Age of Automation statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/14/e...

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link: shorturl.at/bV2lF You can also tell us if you think we missed any. We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏 In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey

In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

shorturl.at

NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

The utter, horrid contrast

people may have noticed that @vsrikrish.bsky.social and I worked ourselves into a real tizzy last month over something called "RCP 8.5." Thank you to @progressivereform.bsky.social for giving us space and words to explain why! TLDR: RCP8.5 is totally useful and not deceptive or misleading actually

Center for Progressive Reform@progressivereform.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The climate scenario RCP 8.5 is unfairly understood as "misleading," "controversial," or deceptive. This is unfortunate, write @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @vsrikrish.bsky.social — even if its predicted emissions are unlikely, it's incredibly useful for all kinds of climate modeling