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Benjamin Cook
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Climate scientist studying drought, land surface processes, climate extremes. https://www.drbenjamincook.net/

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Benjamin I. Cook is an American climatologist with a number of publications to his name. Along with the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, for instance, he used paleorecords to reconstruct land cover in Mexico’s Yucatán and other Central American regions. .. more

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Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 8d
I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/
Work with me!
jedokaplan.github.io

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 9d
NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 13d
World War Hulk (and Planet Hulk) were absolute bangers, and the first stories that actually made me care about the Hulk as a character

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 13d
I love this also because of the complete lack of self awareness that, if using AI for this was so much MORE work, then why not just do it the normal way?
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14d
This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
Gardening.club 556 followers 1w Our team at The Gardening.Club have been pouring in the hours to achieve something that we finally feel ready to put our name to, and while Al film might be dividing opinions, we want to open the process up and reveal just how much human expertise and craft went into this campaign. There's this idea floating around that Al will do all the work for us. Let's set the record straight: the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional Production. Yes, this ad is 100% Al. But it was built with the same care that we bring to any live-action film. The brief was tightly prescribed, with a clear mandate for every single scene, so complete control of each shot was essential and pulled off by our team using proprietary workflows, and pulled off spectacularly well, this was not a prompt-and-pray process. Just like a traditional shoot, the film needed a director, real storytelling instincts, and intentional casting, we selected and shaped each Al performer, their look, energy, and emotional presence, to meet the brief just as we would in live action film. It required virtual location scouting, solid references, screen tests, and a countless amount of takes to maintain true cinematic continuity. Our in-house Gardening.club Al and Post team, spent seven intense weeks refining every single frame. They rebuilt shots, debated composition, shaped shadows, and tuned emotional microbeats with precision all overseen by Sweetshop director duo MΑΜΑ. Many scenes had ten or more specialists, with each shot running through a tightly engineered pipeline, Google Earth base plates, style-transfer passes, pixel-level refinements, custom LoRAs, control nets, and bespoke ComfyUl workflows. We composited, fixed physics, balanced lighting, and cleaned artifacts in Flame. New tools, same goal: a film that feels real. Of course, we came across roadblocks. There were many times we were challenged, but the team was able to problem-solve on the spot. This project demanded a team willing to push further than the tech was ready to go. But that's exactly why it works. So no Al didn't make this film. We did.

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 14d
FWIW, I've been fairly happy with the always titanium pro pan. Very versatile, in my experience (a bit pricey, but for me serves a bunch of purposes so was easier to justify)

Reposted by Benjamin I. Cook

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14d
This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
Gardening.club 556 followers 1w Our team at The Gardening.Club have been pouring in the hours to achieve something that we finally feel ready to put our name to, and while Al film might be dividing opinions, we want to open the process up and reveal just how much human expertise and craft went into this campaign. There's this idea floating around that Al will do all the work for us. Let's set the record straight: the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional Production. Yes, this ad is 100% Al. But it was built with the same care that we bring to any live-action film. The brief was tightly prescribed, with a clear mandate for every single scene, so complete control of each shot was essential and pulled off by our team using proprietary workflows, and pulled off spectacularly well, this was not a prompt-and-pray process. Just like a traditional shoot, the film needed a director, real storytelling instincts, and intentional casting, we selected and shaped each Al performer, their look, energy, and emotional presence, to meet the brief just as we would in live action film. It required virtual location scouting, solid references, screen tests, and a countless amount of takes to maintain true cinematic continuity. Our in-house Gardening.club Al and Post team, spent seven intense weeks refining every single frame. They rebuilt shots, debated composition, shaped shadows, and tuned emotional microbeats with precision all overseen by Sweetshop director duo MΑΜΑ. Many scenes had ten or more specialists, with each shot running through a tightly engineered pipeline, Google Earth base plates, style-transfer passes, pixel-level refinements, custom LoRAs, control nets, and bespoke ComfyUl workflows. We composited, fixed physics, balanced lighting, and cleaned artifacts in Flame. New tools, same goal: a film that feels real. Of course, we came across roadblocks. There were many times we were challenged, but the team was able to problem-solve on the spot. This project demanded a team willing to push further than the tech was ready to go. But that's exactly why it works. So no Al didn't make this film. We did.

Reposted by Benjamin I. Cook

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Southwest Drought Learning Network @swdln.bsky.social · 14d
Please join us on December 19th at 12 MT for an informative session on current #drought conditions, climate outlooks, and regional #snowpack updates across the Southwest. Register here: tinyurl.com/DLNDec19

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Benjamin I. Cook

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 14d
Our newly opened faculty position now has a flyer that'll be shared at the AGU Fall Meeting next week and the AMS Annual Meeting next month. Please share with your networks!

This QR code links to the position details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Flyer advertising the Radar Meteorology faculty position linked in the post. The title text says "We're hiring!" and the three images show a Tucson sunset backlighting a saguaro-covered landscape, a view of the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, and a thunderstorm seen via campus webcam in July 2022.

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Casey Ivanovich @ccivanovich.bsky.social · 15d
Excited to be giving two invited presentations on the influence of monsoon systems on extreme (humid) heat at this year's #AGU25! Stop by NH44B-02 Thursday afternoon and A51H-01 Friday morning to learn more and chat!
Flyer for Casey Ivanovich's two AGU 2025 presentations. The information for the first presentation reads: Dry versus Humid Heat Seasonality and Drivers in the North American Monsoon Region. Session: NH44B Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management I Oral. Thursday, December 18, 2025, 4:30PM-4:40PM CST, Room 297. QR code links to the following webpage: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1849473 The information for the second presentation reads: Subseasonal Variability of Humid Heat during the South Asian Summer Monsoon. Session: A51H: Weather and Climate Extremes over South Asian Monsoon Regions II Oral. Friday, December 19, 2025, 8:30am-8:40am CST, Room 271. QR code links to the following webpage: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1897447

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 15d
Rainfall data can be hard to come by in the tropics. @anaigmendez.bsky.social leads a new paper taking a deep dive into the quality and potential biases in gridded precipitation data in Central America. CHIRPS comes out ahead, but be wary of trends! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Impacts of Spatial and Temporal Station Availability on Gridded Precipitation Products in Central America
There are significant differences between gridded precipitation products in Central America in both variability and trends CHIRPS consistently outperforms Global Precipitation Climatology Centre ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 16d
A new paper led by Dr. Talia Anderson and arising from our NSF-funded research in Central America. She find that both the quality and usability of seasonal forecasts in the Guatemalan Dry Corridor need substantial improvement journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Benjamin I. Cook

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 16d
Climate science job opportunity @cerfacs in Toulouse :) cerfacs.fr/en/offer/ful...
Full-time Research Scientist Position in Climate Science - Cerfacs
cerfacs.fr

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Benjamin I. Cook, Caroline E. Farrior

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 16d
Happily, there will be a CESM tutorial again this year @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Also, much like learning a Scandinavian language, once you can run CESM, you can probably also run NorESM, CMCC and E3SM, so it's like a 4-in-1 deal... :) www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...
CESM Tutorial Application | Community Earth System Model
www.cesm.ucar.edu

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 21d
is there a link to the paper? I can't find it in the shared article. thanks!

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 21d
🚨 New job alert! 🚨

Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences!

Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena.

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (T/TE)
Research Focus: The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain an externally funded and internationally recognized research program...
arizona.csod.com

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 21d
The Role of Water Demand and Paleo Streamflow in Advancing Reservoir Drought Risk Analysis agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Role of Water Demand and Paleo Streamflow in Advancing Reservoir Drought Risk Analysis
We develop a new reservoir drought index that addresses risk buffered by reservoir storage to provide more realistic estimates of exposure The application of multi-century paleo-reconstructed res...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Gavin A. Schmidt, Benjamin I. Cook , and 1 more

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 21d
I think you’re supposed to say you’re humbled by things like this and you know what? absolutely not, this is amazing and my ego has swelled five sizes and I’m going to be insufferable for the foreseeable future

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From Climate Catastrophes to Space Romance––Scientific American’s Favorite Science Books of the Year
Scientific American unveils its first-ever best fiction and nonfiction books of the year, spotlighting stories that blend science, imagination and unforgettable voices.
www.scientificamerican.com

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 23d
Just published to wrap up the year: “Response of Tipping Elements to Different Strategies of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection”

We analyzed the response of various climate metrics relevant to a set of climate tipping element under SSP2-4.5 and under a set of SAI scenarios modeled using CESM2.
Fig 2 from the linked paper, showing how different SAI strategies would affect different climate tipping elements.

Reposted by John Kennedy, Gavin A. Schmidt, Benjamin I. Cook

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 24d
Recently, @berkeleyearth.org expanded our temperature database by integrating the HCLIM data set.

nature.com/articles/s41...

The additional data rescued by HCLIM helps improve early reconstructions, but doesn't fundamentally change the large uncertainties due to sparse sampling.

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12-month moving average time series of land-average temperature anomalies 1750-2025 relative to the 1850-1900 average, with 95% uncertainties shown. Two curves show the Berkeley Earth land average with and without the recent addition of weather station data from the HCLIM dataset.

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 24d
silly kau, that's what the MASTER R0KSUN is for!

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 24d
when i tell my students that generative AI is the death of scholarship, this is what i mean

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 24d
tag yourself, i'm the "mudroom+laundry with no washer/drier, but two bathtubs and one coat closet that includes a sink"
windows98support.bsky.social matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 24d
Oh shit waddup

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 24d
Oh shit waddup

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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 24d
USF’s new ice sheet modeler extrodinare, Dr. Dan Lowry, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Students to join his research group. For more details: ice2oresearch.org. Join Dan and our growing Antarctic/ Southern Ocean research group. #Antarctica #glaciology #oceanography
The USF ICE2O Research Lab
From ice sheet change to ocean impacts: connecting Earth system processes.
ice2oresearch.org

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 24d
🔥🔥🔥 Fall (Sep-Nov) was the 3rd warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S. (2016 & 2024 tied for 1st/2nd). 🔥🔥🔥

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Benjamin I. Cook, Emma L. Tompkins

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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 25d
If you’d like to hear Ben Santer talking about this “arc of history” from the IPCC’s discernible influence finding 30 years ago to the present, then his talk at CRU’s 50th anniversary is a nice intro to climate fingerprinting youtu.be/ZinW-m2GDvU?...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook, Neil Pederson

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Nov 25
Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...
Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes
Tree-ring and planetary scientists are preparing for the big natural events thanks to a Big Idea Challenge grant and a new laboratory.
research.arizona.edu

Reposted by Benjamin I. Cook, Jussi T. Eronen

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Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social · Nov 25
📢📢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.

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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · Nov 25
AGU Journals Stop Asking Us to Do the Work of Checking Compliance With Your Open Science Policy Challenge

(difficulty impossible)

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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · Nov 24
Dartmouth is hiring climate science postdocs through the prestigious Provost's Fellowship!

Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090

Applications are due February 15, 2026.

Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me (mankin@dartmouth.edu) with questions.
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