Mathew Barlow
@mathewabarlow.bsky.social
Climate scientist at UMass Lowell: droughts, floods, extreme events, & climate change. IPCC WG1 AR6 lead author. Skunk cabbage fan. he/him/his. Shocked but not awed. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qWV-WIQAAAAJ&hl=e
🌎 Join the USAA-IPCC for a webinar this Friday on how to become an expert reviewer for AR7 First Order Drafts. 🖥️ Dive into the reviewer registration process and practical advice on writing constructive comments. 🔗 Register today: spklr.io/63321ETZ4S
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
science.org
Come join our team! The UW Climate Impacts Group is searching for a research scientist to support applied climate resilience projects in our water management portfolio. This is a fabulous opportunity for a scientist who enjoys collaborative work with real-world impact. Please share widely!
We’re hiring a research scientist specializing in water management – apply by 9/27 | Climate Impacts Group
The UW Climate Impacts Group has an outstanding opportunity for a mid-career research scientist who specializes in water management systems to join our team and play a critical role in advancing clima...
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On The Climate Brink: The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record. Aug. 2026 probably had more water vapor in the atmosphere than any month in the last few thousand years, if not a 100,000 years. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record
More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news
theclimatebrink.com
We’ve pushed the climate to a higher-energy state where more heat and moisture are available to power stronger storms. Thus, the future is bound to hold some unpleasant surprises for the behavior of Atlantic hurricanes. I cover the worst-case scenarios: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/10-w...
10 ways climate-change-altered hurricanes may come to bite us » Yale Climate Connections
What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected?
yaleclimateconnections.org
“Whatever they say about it, it’s clear that this is indoctrination,” said @andrewdessler.com, a Texas A&M University atmospheric sciences professor who has taught a climate change course that regents recently voted to remove from the core curriculum. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
How University Core Curriculums Are Getting Political (Gift Article)
Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.
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Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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On this day, a guide to personally short-circuiting Islamophobia assaults seems appropriate. via @sojo.net www.tumblr.com/maeril/14966...
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
🌎 Apply for the AGU26 Faculty Travel Grant! Open to early- to mid-career geoscience faculty at under-resourced institutions, including Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs). Apply by 18 September: spklr.io/63324ET19g
Imposed-heating experiments, along with/two national-scale phenological observation networks, show plants w/thinner leaves & higher nutrient concentrations are more sensitive to warming, in terms of earlier leaf out & later leaf fall —> longer growing szns. 1/2 www.usanpn.org/news/article...
"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
theverge.com
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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🌎 Scripps Oceanography is accepting applications for institution-wide #postdoc positions across research areas, including ocean, Earth, and atmospheric sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, environmental policy and more. Apply by 10/23: https://bit.ly/3SSWR9C
🚨OSTP, on behalf of USGCRP, seeks public comment on proposed amendment that would clarify the interpretation and Federal use of NCA5 results that rely on RCP8.5 Are you a scientist with expertise? Read more and submit a comment by 9/9: spklr.io/63329ErW5S
United States Global Change Research Program; Availability for Public Comment on the Proposed Amendment to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)
OSTP, on behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), announces the availability of a proposed amendment and clarification to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) for public comment. The proposed amendment addresses the interpretation and Federal use of NCA5 results that...
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Most Americans Misjudge Health Risks of Climate Change/Extreme Weather—@Eos eos.org/research-spo... chenlab-yale.github.io/Misperceptio...
What's it like inside the new NSF headquarters? Scroll down to logbook to find out why you're unlikely to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
ScienceAdviser: Sex reversal could land frogs in hot water
Today in Science and science: Digital twins aren’t ready for primetime, a new idea for treating jelly stings, and more
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The new IPCC7 generation of emissions scenarios are out. Updating key assumptions, they represent a markedly narrower & more optimistic ensemble of futures…w/heavy reliance on future CDR. These scenarios will dictate the next IPCC projections & assessment. www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-th...
Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change - Carbon Brief
Every few years, climate modelling groups run a coordinated set of simulations that explore climate change in the future. Carbon Brief unpacks how the new scenarios were designed and how they differ.
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Permafrost is thawing deeper and it’s happening worldwide. A new study of 156 monitoring sites found that the active layer, the soil that thaws each summer, increased significantly at many sites from 2000–2024. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Long-term monitoring of active layer thickness confirms global permafrost degradation - Communications Earth & Environment
Active-layer thickness increased at 55% and 38% of Arctic and Antarctic sites, and >90% in European, Asian, and South American mountains, driven by increasing thawing degree-days and rainfall, acco...
nature.com
“A review of meeting minutes, local reporting, state opioid expenditure disclosures, and invoices obtained via public records requests reveals that at least twelve sheriffs’ offices and police departments have since 2024 spent their opioid funds on Flock cameras.”
Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...
2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
The footage of this flash flood, circulating on social media, is possibly the most horrifying I've seen of any climate impact. Great to see NPR highlighting the cause without any hedging.
NPR@npr.org · 3w agoThe disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather. n.pr/4cvl1On
NEW: The Timber Fire has entered a new and dangerous phase. It's now burning through vegetation that has not seen a major fire in nearly 20 years. And as of last night, it's slowly tracking westward, up Manual Peak. History tells us that this path could put Big Sur at risk again soon.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 3w agoThe most dangerous period for California’s Timber Fire may lie ahead — and Big Sur itself is not in the clear.
🚨 FINAL DAY TO COMMENT 📝 OMB is already asking federal agencies to implement it's harmful federal grantmaking rule. We have until 24 August to submit comments. Read more and take action today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/hnvotzeb
US Supreme Court will hear Suncor Energy v Boulder County case at beginning of October, to decide if fossil-fuel companies can be held liable for climate-change damages from their product, at local scale. (Could have implication for other products/damages too.) insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
Boulder, Colorado, and Big Oil Prepare for High-Stakes Clash in Supreme Court - Inside Climate News
The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.
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Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 4w agoThree more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪
