Bor-Ting Jong
@bortingjong.bsky.social
Climate Scientist
Assistant Professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Working on climate and weather extremes & impacts
https://sites.google.com/view/bor-ting-jong/home
Assistant Professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Working on climate and weather extremes & impacts
https://sites.google.com/view/bor-ting-jong/home
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The IRI DL is a uniquely valuable resource for NOAA (and more) climate data. Over the last 27 years it had a huge impact (positive!) on my career. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Columbia University's IRI Data Library (which I still sometimes call INGRID) will be retired iri.columbia.edu/resources/da...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The IRI DL is a uniquely valuable resource for NOAA (and more) climate data. Over the last 27 years it had a huge impact (positive!) on my career. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
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Last days to register 📣 Join us for this 2nd Workshop on #RossbyWaves, compound extremes & their impacts!
📅 19–21 January 2026
📍@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker!
🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...
📅 19–21 January 2026
📍@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker!
🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Last days to register 📣 Join us for this 2nd Workshop on #RossbyWaves, compound extremes & their impacts!
📅 19–21 January 2026
📍@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker!
🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...
📅 19–21 January 2026
📍@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker!
🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...
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📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!
➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.
➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!
➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.
➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.
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Hello Bluesky!
We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱
We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱
October 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hello Bluesky!
We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱
We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱
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Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed
Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.
www.bloomberg.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research.
I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.
I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.
‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work
“Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.
www.notus.org
July 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research.
I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.
I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.
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universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.
ROSES is out
Which i guess is a win
But list for this year
Is looking quite thin
solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025
Which i guess is a win
But list for this year
Is looking quite thin
solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025
NSPIRES - Solicitations Summary
NASA and U.S. Government policies address research and personal misconduct, and provide avenues for reporting potential violations.
solicitation.nasaprs.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.
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I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
I can't believe it's been two months. Somehow I forgot to share, I started as an assistant professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social working on climate extremes and connection to changes in the carbon cycle. I'm excited about the new opportunity to work on interdisciplinary science and teams.
May 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I can't believe it's been two months. Somehow I forgot to share, I started as an assistant professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social working on climate extremes and connection to changes in the carbon cycle. I'm excited about the new opportunity to work on interdisciplinary science and teams.
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NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
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Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.
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Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major European institutes join race to save US science data
As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial data sets on climate and other subjects could disappear.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I'm looking forward to attending @egu.eu next week! I'll be presenting about the response of regional extreme rainfall in the Northeast US to rapid climate mitigation efforts. This is the last project I did at Princeton & NOAA GFDL. Hope to meet many new and familiar friends and colleagues! #EGU25
Abstract EGU25-10906
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
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NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions.
The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:
The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:
'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research
NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions.
The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:
The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:
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🚨 We must make it absolutely clear, to anyone who will listen, that this is unacceptable. You can't just censor life-saving and cost-saving research because the results are politically inconvenient for your wealthy donors!
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🚨 We must make it absolutely clear, to anyone who will listen, that this is unacceptable. You can't just censor life-saving and cost-saving research because the results are politically inconvenient for your wealthy donors!
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Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...
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NOAA just fired us, again 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
NOAA just fired us, again 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
Retroactive to February 🤡
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It has been hard to follow the developments in US (climate) science- thinking of the people affected and the science missed out on.
The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It has been hard to follow the developments in US (climate) science- thinking of the people affected and the science missed out on.
The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
There have been many things going on in the US, but this has been by far the most difficult one to process personally, as someone who was a CIMES postdoc/scholar for 3.5 years — especially the scientifically incorrect reasons stated in the press release …
This administration continues to outdo itself by doing really really dumb things. Princeton has one of the best climate modeling groups in the world, and this administration just cut their funding justified with some anti-science bs.
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There have been many things going on in the US, but this has been by far the most difficult one to process personally, as someone who was a CIMES postdoc/scholar for 3.5 years — especially the scientifically incorrect reasons stated in the press release …
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We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of overshoot scenarios using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #OpenAccess
Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
Large reductions in United States heat extremes found in overshoot simulations with SPEAR
doi.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of overshoot scenarios using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #OpenAccess
Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
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Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"