Less summer sea ice - more moisture in the air… 🤷 @mariabox.bsky.social @scitobias.bsky.social

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 2w ago

The entire #Arctic Ocean region is getting wetter in the month of July, as estimated by long-term trends in GPCP data... + Source: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded... + More info: doi.org/10.25923/11n...

🚨🚨We have a new paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com led by postdoctoral scholar Na Wang (now @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social), where we identify a last-millennium climate “seesaw” linking extreme #hydroclimate events across both Central Asia & mainland Southeast Asia ☔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Opposing hydroclimate extremes in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over past millennium - Nature Geoscience

Opposing wet and dry conditions in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over the past millennium were controlled by climate variability over the Pacific and Indian oceans, a pattern likely to become mo...

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2023 / 2026 what an incredible PhD journey I've had

I face the same problem as a scientist that I do as a caver... I'm irresistibly drawn towards very small niches.

Oh Maria! It definitely brings great memories back. The fun we had in- and outside caves. Amazing scientific and cultural experience! ⚒️🇲🇳

That @theguardian.com article inspired a #FieldworkFriday throwback from 2024: the frozen caves of northern Mongolia. These caves allow us to reconstruct permafrost conditions over thousands of years ago. With thaw occurring so rapidly today, understanding the long-term history is important!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Very good piece on the rapidly changing world of permafrost in northern Mongolia. Very timely too, with the Asian Conference on Permafrost being held in Ulaanbaatar from next week!

The changing face of Mongolia as, beneath the grass, permafrost thaws

The warming caused by climate breakdown in the landlocked east Asian country is transforming its fragile ecosystem

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not that sort of dating, powerpoint 😅

🌋 New Paper 🌋 I’m thrilled to share our latest paper, out today in Nature Communications. All the manuscripts I write mean a lot to me, but this one feels particularly special. What a privilege to work with this team of co-authors on this topic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#dogsofbsky #academicbsky after listening to excellent talk by @mariabox.bsky.social about her work in Mongolian caves (do not be fooled, Pebble was all ears 😅) it is important to stretch your legs! @speleoseb.bsky.social ⚒️🇲🇳🌳🌲🐾💨🙂

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

A rediscovered tracksite in northern Mongolia shows large dinosaurs ranged there 120 million years ago, extending their known geographic reach. Image credit: Okayama University of Science phys.org/news/2026-04... #fossils #paleontology

New laboratory experiments from the University of Leeds shows that thawing permafrost can become 25 to 100 times more permeable, allowing greenhouse gases to escape into the atmosphere much more easily than when frozen. www.earth.com/news/thawing...

Study shows thawing permafrost releases much more greenhouse gas than expected

Thawing permafrost emissions could accelerate climate change as Arctic soils become 25x to 100x more permeable, releasing much more gas.

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New 🌎 just dropped! Just look how thin and fragile our atmosphere is! And also the aurora! Amazing. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Oh it's Autism Acceptance Month? Hi, I'm a PhD student with ASD. From dyspraxia (clinical clumsiness) making certain lab tasks tricky, to always interpreting instructions too literally, it's not always easy. But my love of small repetitive tasks certainly helps with weighing out for the irms 😂

Took a day trip to see the pictish carvings in Wemyss Caves, Scotland. Such a special, spectacular site, sadly under threat from vandalism and coastal erosion; if you're in the area, I highly recommend a visit!

Join our session: “ *Bridging Proxy Records and Climate Models: Toward Robust Paleoclimate Insights Across Timescales* ” We invite contributions tackling the mismatch between proxy records and climate model simulations—one of the key challenges in paleoclimate science.

mines a kangaroo. my first easter in Australia was spent trying to remove a kangaroo from our house. it's doable but takes some teamwork 😅 emus on the other hand are impossible to remove from anywhere. you cant chase them out, they're too dumb to understand what a door is.

LRB Bookshop@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5mo ago

what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin

Trends in March temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)

Have some Free Time! small print: use Free Time responsibly! @olakwiecien3.bsky.social @drjosephgraly.bsky.social @mariabox.bsky.social

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 5mo ago

"You want to buy a big pretzel from that German food truck and eat it for twenty minutes, even though that sounds like way too long? Go for it. This is Free Time. Dip it in cheese and stand around like an idiot while you chew your pretzel and watch everyone run around like rats."

Paper alert ‼️ 🧪Our very own Dr Jade Margerum just published her 2nd PhD paper on International Women’s Day! 💐🌻🌹🌷 15 years of monitoring of #Botovskaya Cave in #Siberia! Kudos to our women & an amazing team! @olakwiecien3.bsky.social @annabelwolf.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol54/is...

Lately, in the face of the AI debate and struggling to wrestle my own data into manuscript format, my thoughts keep coming back to this essay on play, thought and existence by David Graeber. thebaffler.com/salvos/whats...

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible…

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okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

"Holocene Hydroclimatic Variations Over Western and Central Asia as Inferred From Speleothem Isotope Evidence" | Pleased to be among the authors of this new article in @agu.org #JGRatmos led by my former student Liang Ning: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Holocene Hydroclimatic Variations Over Western and Central Asia as Inferred From Speleothem Isotope Evidence

Enriching δ18Op trend over WA and ACA with precipitation decreases over WA and WCA but increases over ECA during the Holocene These δ18Op enrichments mainly result from decreases in precipitation...

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my folks in Alice Springs are already dealing with flooding and supermarket shortages as major highways are cut off 😬 shame that the most remote, understudied regions are left the most vulnerable as global heating continues

Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just another weather forecast at 1.5C global warming... "A lingering monsoon low could deliver a year’s worth of rain in a week to parts of inland South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, just weeks after record-breaking heat, with a high risk of flash flooding."

From the depths of the Ice Age, there's nothing quite as romantic as mammoth. Cueva El Pindal, Asturias. 🦣♥️

Our recent publication featured in @awi.de news! 🔥 Full paper currently available as in press here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... Will share more on it once the final version is online 🧪⚒️🌏

Alfred Wegener Institute@awi.de · 6mo ago

AWI researchers have found evidence suggesting that humans may have influenced fire activity in eastern Siberia more than 5,000 years ago — earlier than previously assumed. 🔥 By analyzing charcoal particles from sediment cores, they were able to reconstruct a 10,000-year history of wildfires.

🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.

Some tropical land may experience stronger-than-expected warming under climate change

A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s.

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