Sarah Cooley
@co2ley.bsky.social
Ocean advocate, community builder, climate scientist. I make sure the ocean interior is healthy so you don't have to.
I'm excited that 2026 will be the start of an exciting new chapter for me. Can't wait to join the great folks at ESIP in making Earth science more collaborative and actionable!
We’re pleased to share that Dr. Sarah Cooley will join ESIP as Executive Director in January 2026!
Sarah is an ocean carbon cycle scientist by training 🌊, focusing on ensuring Earth system science is used to inform decision making and drive effective, real-world action.
@co2ley.bsky.social
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Sarah is an ocean carbon cycle scientist by training 🌊, focusing on ensuring Earth system science is used to inform decision making and drive effective, real-world action.
@co2ley.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm excited that 2026 will be the start of an exciting new chapter for me. Can't wait to join the great folks at ESIP in making Earth science more collaborative and actionable!
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What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...
theonion.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
thebullshitmachines.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html
How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼♀️
The National Climate Assessment may have been deleted but the planet keeps reminding us what it said
July 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼♀️
👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.
July 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.
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Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.
Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome.
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
eos.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.
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The Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever.
Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/war...
Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/war...
Warming Gulf of Maine Buffers Ocean Acidification—For Now - Eos
Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were surprised by what they didn’t find: a strong anthropogenic signal.
eos.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever.
Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/war...
Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/war...
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"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should!
They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.
They're inexpensive and highly effective.
Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.
They're inexpensive and highly effective.
Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
Hey y’all - heads up that mosquito-borne viral diseases in the US are off to an *early* start this summer. Make sure to cover/bugspray up and reduce standing water around your home (or treat with products like Mosquito Dunks that kill developing larvae!)
July 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should!
They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.
They're inexpensive and highly effective.
Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.
They're inexpensive and highly effective.
Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
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The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...
The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought
Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and North America, with millions of people sweltering in heat and humidity well above "normal" for days on end.
www.sciencealert.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...
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The national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms."
The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.
The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.
The federal website for the national climate reports and other climate change information went dark Monday afternoon, the latest ripple of the shutdown of the legislatively mandated Global Change Research Program.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms."
The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.
The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.
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July 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Looking for trusted science, expert insight, or story-ready resources?
Follow Climate Central’s staff on BlueSky for the latest on climate science, data, and storytelling tools 👇
go.bsky.app/2RstRoD
Follow Climate Central’s staff on BlueSky for the latest on climate science, data, and storytelling tools 👇
go.bsky.app/2RstRoD
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Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
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Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...
The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.
The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
n.pr
July 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...
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Here’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book.
In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~
cepr.org/publications...
In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~
cepr.org/publications...
June 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book.
In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~
cepr.org/publications...
In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~
cepr.org/publications...
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I'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)
We are searching for a Group Leader in Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry! You can find details in the link; please share with qualified colleagues! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Group Leader in Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
jobs.ethz.ch
July 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)
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This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
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Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
June 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
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Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
June 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Zero stars, do not enjoy this news
The US Global Change Research Program a next target of Trump's destruction campaign. My sources report that globalchange.gov will go dark Monday. NOAA is archiving the National Climate Assessment at NCEI.
U.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.gov
globalchange.gov
June 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Zero stars, do not enjoy this news
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🚨Less than one in 12 African cities is covered by more than one piece of climate change research, and many are completely absent from the evidence base altogether, with major implications for climate assessments. A hugely significant study from @efesce.bsky.social and colleagues, in Nature Cities.
Systematic global stocktake of over 50,000 urban climate change studies - Nature Cities
This study provides an evidence database on climate change in cities, highlighting that small and fast-growing cities, especially in Asia and Africa, are underresearched, which has contributed to bias...
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚨Less than one in 12 African cities is covered by more than one piece of climate change research, and many are completely absent from the evidence base altogether, with major implications for climate assessments. A hugely significant study from @efesce.bsky.social and colleagues, in Nature Cities.
If you are a fan of STEM and compost like I am, you’ll enjoy this post and the comments too.
Fascinating: Did you know that the Sun's energy output per cubic meter is only about the same as that of a compost heap? ☀️🍂
About 277 watts per m3
(277 watts per m3 doesn't seem very impressive. But the sheer volume of the Sun generates an immense output.)
About 277 watts per m3
(277 watts per m3 doesn't seem very impressive. But the sheer volume of the Sun generates an immense output.)
June 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
If you are a fan of STEM and compost like I am, you’ll enjoy this post and the comments too.
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this is an utter delight
Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -
June 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this is an utter delight