Jed O. Kaplan
@jedokaplan.bsky.social
Researcher, naturalist, educator, cook, father, explorer, traveler. University Professor and Canada Research Chair in geoscience. πΊπΈπ§πͺπ¨ππ¨π¦ https://jedokaplan.github.io/
Assuming this is a manuscript in your area of expertise, I might be able to review it. You can invite me.
January 31, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Assuming this is a manuscript in your area of expertise, I might be able to review it. You can invite me.
This was also my experience as an editor at a major journal.
January 31, 2026 at 12:50 AM
This was also my experience as an editor at a major journal.
Every university in Canada is currently looking for talent from abroad. Reach out to places you might go! www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
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January 17, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Every university in Canada is currently looking for talent from abroad. Reach out to places you might go! www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
This is so important, and donβt forget that major land use change and deforestation occurred across Europe, Asia, and Africa long before even 1750.
Published today: Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Defining pre-industrial to be 1750, rather than 1850, produces different (simulated) historical climate changes after 1850. Pre-1850 volcanoes & land use matter.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Defining pre-industrial to be 1750, rather than 1850, produces different (simulated) historical climate changes after 1850. Pre-1850 volcanoes & land use matter.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This is so important, and donβt forget that major land use change and deforestation occurred across Europe, Asia, and Africa long before even 1750.
Job seekers: Excellent thread from my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social. If youβre considering applying for any of my open positions, jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ consider reading this first!
January 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Job seekers: Excellent thread from my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social. If youβre considering applying for any of my open positions, jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ consider reading this first!
Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MScβs on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!
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
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MScβs on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!
This is truly hilarious.
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is truly hilarious.
Reposted by Jed O. Kaplan
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
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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/
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
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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/
Could prehistoric farmers and pastoralists have caused skies to be dustier than normal? What feedbacks could that dust have had to societies downwind? This paper was a long time coming, and I am really glad to see it published!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#envhist #envhum
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#envhist #envhum
Increasing late Holocene dust deposition in West Africa is amplified by land use change
Changes in dust deposition in West Africa over the mid- to late Holocene have traditionally been attributed to orbital forcing affecting the West Afriβ¦
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Could prehistoric farmers and pastoralists have caused skies to be dustier than normal? What feedbacks could that dust have had to societies downwind? This paper was a long time coming, and I am really glad to see it published!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#envhist #envhum
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#envhist #envhum
Thanks for this detailed comparison. I use freedom mobile and am satisfied with the speed and the included roaming but I donβt stream much video.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Thanks for this detailed comparison. I use freedom mobile and am satisfied with the speed and the included roaming but I donβt stream much video.
Reposted by Jed O. Kaplan
π¨ Postdoctoral opportunities! π¨
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts π
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts π
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
π¨ Postdoctoral opportunities! π¨
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts π
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts π
Looks interesting! Whatβs the paper about?
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Looks interesting! Whatβs the paper about?
Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if youβre interested!
π¨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
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Opportunities
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Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if youβre interested!
Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!
There are many ideas I agree with in this thread. But @mliebreich.bsky.social gets his guidance to science wrong.
6. Science. Scientists need to stop trying to scare people and focus on informing them. IPCC scenarios need to be plausible from an energy systems perspective, and they need to focus on the landing zone to which we might actually be headed. 24/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!
You assert that "...the conveyor belt of currents in the Atlantic Ocean [is] responsible for Western Europeβs mild climate..." This idea is at the very least debatable. Richard Seager has argued for decades that it is not important at all, e.g., www.jstor.org/stable/27858...
The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth on JSTOR
Richard Seager, The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth, American Scientist, Vol. 94, No. 4 (JULY...
www.jstor.org
September 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
You assert that "...the conveyor belt of currents in the Atlantic Ocean [is] responsible for Western Europeβs mild climate..." This idea is at the very least debatable. Richard Seager has argued for decades that it is not important at all, e.g., www.jstor.org/stable/27858...
Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?
It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...
CRC Opportunities | Queen's University
Queenβs University invites applications for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).
www.queensu.ca
August 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...
It was a lovely day in late March.
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It was a lovely day in late March.
I have been waiting for you to comment on this fire. I still vividly remember reading βFire on the Rimβ as a teenager. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!
July 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I have been waiting for you to comment on this fire. I still vividly remember reading βFire on the Rimβ as a teenager. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!
Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?
The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This π§΅reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
July 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?
Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
July 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Great explainer from my colleague Dan.
There was a tragic rockfall yesterday afternoon at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Here's a recent story from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about it. I'll try to explain my understanding of the event here over the next few minutes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... π§ͺβοΈ
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/one-dead-three-injured-in-banff-national-park-rockslide/π§ͺβοΈ
June 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Great explainer from my colleague Dan.
Cool diagram. Will use this next time I teach intro meteorology.
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Cool diagram. Will use this next time I teach intro meteorology.
Mixed severity burn from 2022 at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. Photo taken in spring 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Mixed severity burn from 2022 at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. Photo taken in spring 2025.