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🌋Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction📷. New research in @ScienceMagazine on how mega-El Niño solve a decades old problem in unifying both land and marine extinctions. The deadliest extinction in Earth's History. #sciencetwt #sciencetwt science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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RT @KHayhoe: This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week. As a climate scienti…
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If your preference is your own race, it’s fine. If you love someone from another race, suddenly it’s a fetish? We invent rules that don’t matter. Find someone who loves you the way you love them. You’re the one building a life with them, not the people criticizing you.
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Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric? go.nature.com/49J2Ioj
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Stochastic and deterministic sampling strategies for diffusion models produce strikingly different trajectories, but both ultimately achieve the same aim. I had a great time presenting our work, Diffusion Explorer, this week at IEEE VIS in Vienna.
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When I went into science 35 years ago, I was extremely idealistic. I believed that being a scientist required the highest moral standards, that scientists cared only about advancing human knowledge & benefiting humanity, & made sacrifices for it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Yes. I learned early in graduate school that scientists aren’t operating at any higher moral standard than anyone else. Some were outright nasty - and over the years I met some of the worst people imaginable, all parading as valiant defenders of science. Once I learned that, it became much easier to stomach the bullshit.
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#Halloween2025 Really scary.
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New online! Ocean stratification in a warming climate bit.ly/4gSFPQE
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tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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By 2050, ozone could heat our planet more than we thought. Professor Bill Collins from @UniRdg_Met found it could cause 40% more warming than originally thought. But what does this mean for us? Read more: rdg.ac/45Olvec
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A recent survey of nearly 900 postdocs at the Max Planck Society reveals: 🔹 28% show signs of severe depression 🔹 25% struggle with severe anxiety 🔹 More than half oppose contract caps that force them out after 4–6 years 🔹 International researchers (75% of the cohort) face extra hurdles: bureaucracy, language barriers, even bullying Postdocs carry much of the research load, yet remain overworked, undervalued, and uncertain about their future. If global research institutions can’t retain talent, support mental health, and offer real career pathways, how sustainable is the system? Link to the Nature article: f.mtr.cool/amjakpixqx
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We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall. Does he *really* not know better? Brief 🧵1/4
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New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @MapasLab PhD student @sofiaGA96 and out now in @GEB_macro: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
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[1/7] New paper in @NatureEcoEvo co-lead by @emmadnn, Davide Foffa & me: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Simulations at the lower range of future warming projections may be unrealistic as they are unable to capture the large observed global increases in absorbed sunlight & infrared greenhouse effect since 2000 - @gunnarmy et al in @ScienceMagazine: doi.org/10.1126/science.adt0…
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🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑‍🔬🔍 I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
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