Dan Hodson
@dlrhodson.bsky.social
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Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
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🚅 Bienvenue aux parcelles d'air nous ayant rejoints à bord de ce train #ArcticExpress, désormais sans arrêt jusqu'à #Paris. Nous remercions l'anticyclone polaire d'avoir permis les arrêts en mer de Beaufort, des Tchouktches, de Sibérie Orientale, de Laptev. L'icebar reste ouvert en voiture 3.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚅 Bienvenue aux parcelles d'air nous ayant rejoints à bord de ce train #ArcticExpress, désormais sans arrêt jusqu'à #Paris. Nous remercions l'anticyclone polaire d'avoir permis les arrêts en mer de Beaufort, des Tchouktches, de Sibérie Orientale, de Laptev. L'icebar reste ouvert en voiture 3.
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Next February, we'll be hosting our Introduction to Unified Model course.
Through a series of short lectures and hands-on workshops, this course will cover everything from the fundamentals of the UM modelling system, to using and converting UM data files.
Apply today:
ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
Through a series of short lectures and hands-on workshops, this course will cover everything from the fundamentals of the UM modelling system, to using and converting UM data files.
Apply today:
ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Next February, we'll be hosting our Introduction to Unified Model course.
Through a series of short lectures and hands-on workshops, this course will cover everything from the fundamentals of the UM modelling system, to using and converting UM data files.
Apply today:
ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
Through a series of short lectures and hands-on workshops, this course will cover everything from the fundamentals of the UM modelling system, to using and converting UM data files.
Apply today:
ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
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This ECMWF training course is a great opportunity to learn about how physical processes are represented in weather and climate models, free for anyone in an ECMWF member state. It runs 2-6 March 2026 and the deadline for applications is 30 November. events.ecmwf.int/event/496/
Training course: Parametrization of subgrid physical processes
This five-day course is a combination of lectures, hands-on practicals and group problem classes. During the course each parametrized process is introduced and discusses theory, modelling and verifica...
events.ecmwf.int
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This ECMWF training course is a great opportunity to learn about how physical processes are represented in weather and climate models, free for anyone in an ECMWF member state. It runs 2-6 March 2026 and the deadline for applications is 30 November. events.ecmwf.int/event/496/
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The 2025-26 UK storm season has begun, and this week marks 10 years since the first named storm.
We spoke to NCAS researchers about what to expect for the new season and as the climate continues to warm.
ncas.ac.uk/uk-storm-sea...
We spoke to NCAS researchers about what to expect for the new season and as the climate continues to warm.
ncas.ac.uk/uk-storm-sea...
UK Storm Season 2025–26: Names, causes, and what to expect - NCAS
Find out why storms are named, what causes storms, and what to expect this season.
ncas.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The 2025-26 UK storm season has begun, and this week marks 10 years since the first named storm.
We spoke to NCAS researchers about what to expect for the new season and as the climate continues to warm.
ncas.ac.uk/uk-storm-sea...
We spoke to NCAS researchers about what to expect for the new season and as the climate continues to warm.
ncas.ac.uk/uk-storm-sea...
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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 – reaching a record high, according to new research by the Global Carbon Project.
Read more:
ncas.ac.uk/decarbonisat...
Read more:
ncas.ac.uk/decarbonisat...
Decarbonisation efforts are advancing, but they’re outpaced by rising energy demands - NCAS
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 – reaching a record high, according to new research by the Global Carbon Project. The 2025 Global Carbon Budget projects...
ncas.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 – reaching a record high, according to new research by the Global Carbon Project.
Read more:
ncas.ac.uk/decarbonisat...
Read more:
ncas.ac.uk/decarbonisat...
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Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
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🌍 Postdoc research opportunity: Predictability and Climate Dynamics - University of Oxford, UK
📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🌍 Postdoc research opportunity: Predictability and Climate Dynamics - University of Oxford, UK
📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
🧵
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Operator algebra is beautiful, as argued here. Somehow I feel about the statement [d/dx, x] = 1 the way many feel about Euler's identify.
bristoliver.substack.com/p/ai-symmetr...
bristoliver.substack.com/p/ai-symmetr...
AI, symmetry and beauty
It's just a jump to the left. And then a step to the right
bristoliver.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Operator algebra is beautiful, as argued here. Somehow I feel about the statement [d/dx, x] = 1 the way many feel about Euler's identify.
bristoliver.substack.com/p/ai-symmetr...
bristoliver.substack.com/p/ai-symmetr...
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What's it like to balance caring responsibilities and a career in science? How does it affect professional relationships and opportunities, and what adjustments need to be made?
Our colleagues share their experiences and insights:
ncas.ac.uk/insights-fro...
Our colleagues share their experiences and insights:
ncas.ac.uk/insights-fro...
Caring responsibilities and work in science - NCAS
We asked our colleagues to talk about their challenges, insights and advice in managing their careers with caring responsibilities.
ncas.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What's it like to balance caring responsibilities and a career in science? How does it affect professional relationships and opportunities, and what adjustments need to be made?
Our colleagues share their experiences and insights:
ncas.ac.uk/insights-fro...
Our colleagues share their experiences and insights:
ncas.ac.uk/insights-fro...
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Start 2026 with some practical learning - join our Introduction to UKCA Model course!
🗓️ 14 - 16 January, Leeds
Apply today: ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
This course is free to attend.
🗓️ 14 - 16 January, Leeds
Apply today: ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
This course is free to attend.
Course: Introduction to UKCA - NCAS
Applications are now open for our Introduction to UKCA course, coming in January 2026.
ncas.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Start 2026 with some practical learning - join our Introduction to UKCA Model course!
🗓️ 14 - 16 January, Leeds
Apply today: ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
This course is free to attend.
🗓️ 14 - 16 January, Leeds
Apply today: ncas.ac.uk/course-intro...
This course is free to attend.
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UK weather radar is now being used to monitor trillions of insects in the sky every day – offering a new, cost-effective way to track biodiversity at scale.
Read more about why it matters and what the results are 👉
ncas.ac.uk/weather-rada...
~5 min read
Read more about why it matters and what the results are 👉
ncas.ac.uk/weather-rada...
~5 min read
Weather radar reveal patterns in UK insect populations - NCAS
Scientists have made a breakthrough in monitoring insect population trends across the UK using weather radar.
ncas.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
UK weather radar is now being used to monitor trillions of insects in the sky every day – offering a new, cost-effective way to track biodiversity at scale.
Read more about why it matters and what the results are 👉
ncas.ac.uk/weather-rada...
~5 min read
Read more about why it matters and what the results are 👉
ncas.ac.uk/weather-rada...
~5 min read
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Moving away from livestock towards more sustainable agricultural production & practices along with dietary changes can increasing the resilience & self sufficiency of UK food systems as well as reducing our harmful greenhouse gas emissions: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...
Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient – according to new report by 150 experts
Modelling shows that we will need to change not just how we farm, but what farming produces and what we eat.
theconversation.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Moving away from livestock towards more sustainable agricultural production & practices along with dietary changes can increasing the resilience & self sufficiency of UK food systems as well as reducing our harmful greenhouse gas emissions: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...
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Some of the greatest impacts of human-caused climate change are being felt in the Arctic.
In honour of Arctic Circle Assembly, we are sharing some of our atmospheric research that aims to understand climate change in the Arctic.
Check out our 4 stories of Arctic science:
ncas.ac.uk/arctic-and-t...
In honour of Arctic Circle Assembly, we are sharing some of our atmospheric research that aims to understand climate change in the Arctic.
Check out our 4 stories of Arctic science:
ncas.ac.uk/arctic-and-t...
Arctic and the atmosphere - NCAS
Atmospheric research that aims to understand climate change in the Arctic, as part of the Arctic Circle Assembly week.
ncas.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Some of the greatest impacts of human-caused climate change are being felt in the Arctic.
In honour of Arctic Circle Assembly, we are sharing some of our atmospheric research that aims to understand climate change in the Arctic.
Check out our 4 stories of Arctic science:
ncas.ac.uk/arctic-and-t...
In honour of Arctic Circle Assembly, we are sharing some of our atmospheric research that aims to understand climate change in the Arctic.
Check out our 4 stories of Arctic science:
ncas.ac.uk/arctic-and-t...
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This is definitely something worthy of quantitative analysis and experiments. It is very hard to know otherwise how much of the error was due to the lack of weather balloons. Forecast failures happen, and tropical cyclones moving into the extratropics are a common source of these.
Meteorologists are raising alarms that cuts made to weather balloon launches early in Trump's term may have directly contributed to poor forecasts of the catastrophic storm that recently hit western Alaska.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is definitely something worthy of quantitative analysis and experiments. It is very hard to know otherwise how much of the error was due to the lack of weather balloons. Forecast failures happen, and tropical cyclones moving into the extratropics are a common source of these.
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Research vessels aren’t just giant floating labs🔬🌊
For the scientists and crew onboard, they’re home for weeks - or even months - at a time.
We joined Captain Stewart Mackay for a sneak peek into life onboard the RRS Discovery.
@noc.ac.uk
📽️⬇️
For the scientists and crew onboard, they’re home for weeks - or even months - at a time.
We joined Captain Stewart Mackay for a sneak peek into life onboard the RRS Discovery.
@noc.ac.uk
📽️⬇️
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Research vessels aren’t just giant floating labs🔬🌊
For the scientists and crew onboard, they’re home for weeks - or even months - at a time.
We joined Captain Stewart Mackay for a sneak peek into life onboard the RRS Discovery.
@noc.ac.uk
📽️⬇️
For the scientists and crew onboard, they’re home for weeks - or even months - at a time.
We joined Captain Stewart Mackay for a sneak peek into life onboard the RRS Discovery.
@noc.ac.uk
📽️⬇️
Reposted by Dan Hodson
An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Air temperatures, soil temperatures and reanalyses all agree on how the UK’s climate has warmed & varied over the past decades.
Don’t listen to the usual critics who try to claim otherwise…
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Don’t listen to the usual critics who try to claim otherwise…
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends
climatelabbook.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Air temperatures, soil temperatures and reanalyses all agree on how the UK’s climate has warmed & varied over the past decades.
Don’t listen to the usual critics who try to claim otherwise…
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Don’t listen to the usual critics who try to claim otherwise…
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
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Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Reposted by Dan Hodson
Our Introduction to Scientific Computing training course is coming soon!
From the Linux Shell to Python, this course will prepare you to use computing in environmental science research.
4 November, online
17 – 21 November, Leeds
Apply by 31 October:
ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...
From the Linux Shell to Python, this course will prepare you to use computing in environmental science research.
4 November, online
17 – 21 November, Leeds
Apply by 31 October:
ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...
Introduction to Scientific Computing - NCAS
The Introduction to Scientific Computing course covers the skills needed for effective data management and analysis using Linux and Python.
ncas.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Our Introduction to Scientific Computing training course is coming soon!
From the Linux Shell to Python, this course will prepare you to use computing in environmental science research.
4 November, online
17 – 21 November, Leeds
Apply by 31 October:
ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...
From the Linux Shell to Python, this course will prepare you to use computing in environmental science research.
4 November, online
17 – 21 November, Leeds
Apply by 31 October:
ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.
Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.
Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.
🧵🚨
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.
Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.
Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.
Reposted by Dan Hodson
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends
climatelabbook.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
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Jane Goodall, merci!
Merci pour votre engagement, votre humanité... et merci d'avoir été une figure si inspirante pour tant de jeunes, en tout cas celui que j'ai été. RIP Madame.
Merci pour votre engagement, votre humanité... et merci d'avoir été une figure si inspirante pour tant de jeunes, en tout cas celui que j'ai été. RIP Madame.
October 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Jane Goodall, merci!
Merci pour votre engagement, votre humanité... et merci d'avoir été une figure si inspirante pour tant de jeunes, en tout cas celui que j'ai été. RIP Madame.
Merci pour votre engagement, votre humanité... et merci d'avoir été une figure si inspirante pour tant de jeunes, en tout cas celui que j'ai été. RIP Madame.
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So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)