Kevin Schwarzwald
@kschwarzwald.bsky.social
Not all those who wander are lost. Climate variability and impacts by day, cities by evening, rock violin by night (sometimes all three at once).
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I'd make the case that Brooklyn and Queens are the two biggest news deserts in the whole country.
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I'd make the case that Brooklyn and Queens are the two biggest news deserts in the whole country.
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Catch me at #AGU25 next week talking about climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in two ways!
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Catch me at #AGU25 next week talking about climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in two ways!
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
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THIS IS AMAZING!
This Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/on-voie-tous/ by @bovine3dom (who got the idea from @HaTetsu) SHOWS YOU SNCF DEPARTURE PLATFORMS MORE THAN 20 MINS AHEAD
SNCF *does have this data*
But does not show it to […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
This Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/on-voie-tous/ by @bovine3dom (who got the idea from @HaTetsu) SHOWS YOU SNCF DEPARTURE PLATFORMS MORE THAN 20 MINS AHEAD
SNCF *does have this data*
But does not show it to […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
THIS IS AMAZING!
This Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/on-voie-tous/ by @bovine3dom (who got the idea from @HaTetsu) SHOWS YOU SNCF DEPARTURE PLATFORMS MORE THAN 20 MINS AHEAD
SNCF *does have this data*
But does not show it to […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
This Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/on-voie-tous/ by @bovine3dom (who got the idea from @HaTetsu) SHOWS YOU SNCF DEPARTURE PLATFORMS MORE THAN 20 MINS AHEAD
SNCF *does have this data*
But does not show it to […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
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Of course, climate system uncertainties mean that a central estimate of 2.7C warming (e.g. under SSP2-4.5) could actually reflect a wide range of 2100 warming outcomes!
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Of course, climate system uncertainties mean that a central estimate of 2.7C warming (e.g. under SSP2-4.5) could actually reflect a wide range of 2100 warming outcomes!
Catch me at #AGU25 next week talking about climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in two ways!
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Catch me at #AGU25 next week talking about climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in two ways!
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
- Wed: uncertainty from the choice of historical obs. used to train impact models, post-process projections
- Thur: how systemic GCM biases affect impacts projections in the coming decades
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Everyone getting excited about #AGU25??
To keep up with the madness, I've updated my AGU conference feeds! Collects posts from the official AGU account, + #AGU25 and #AGU2025 hashtags
AGU 2025 is chronological: bsky.app/profile/did:...
What's Hot AGU25 for algorithm sort: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To keep up with the madness, I've updated my AGU conference feeds! Collects posts from the official AGU account, + #AGU25 and #AGU2025 hashtags
AGU 2025 is chronological: bsky.app/profile/did:...
What's Hot AGU25 for algorithm sort: bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Everyone getting excited about #AGU25??
To keep up with the madness, I've updated my AGU conference feeds! Collects posts from the official AGU account, + #AGU25 and #AGU2025 hashtags
AGU 2025 is chronological: bsky.app/profile/did:...
What's Hot AGU25 for algorithm sort: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To keep up with the madness, I've updated my AGU conference feeds! Collects posts from the official AGU account, + #AGU25 and #AGU2025 hashtags
AGU 2025 is chronological: bsky.app/profile/did:...
What's Hot AGU25 for algorithm sort: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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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!
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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!
I won’t dare to hope but I’ll dare to dream I guess
Janno Lieber didn't give any timeline specifics for this study of extending the Second Avenue Subway when I asked him about it at the recent CityLaw Breakfast, but he did mention they're also considering tunneling all the way to a new Hudson Line station in Manhattanville 👀
Has anyone heard of any updates on the feasibility study to extend Second Avenue Subway westward along 125th St in Harlem to Broadway?
$16 million was budgeted for it in the last state budget, but I hope process for a simple study of this good idea isn't dragged out for years.
$16 million was budgeted for it in the last state budget, but I hope process for a simple study of this good idea isn't dragged out for years.
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I won’t dare to hope but I’ll dare to dream I guess
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Climate nerds! Make sure you have the newly updated NMME viewer from U. Miami RSMAS bookmarked! nmme.earth.miami.edu/figures/inde...
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Climate nerds! Make sure you have the newly updated NMME viewer from U. Miami RSMAS bookmarked! nmme.earth.miami.edu/figures/inde...
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But *how* will they #PlowTheSidewalks? With what technology?
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
But *how* will they #PlowTheSidewalks? With what technology?
As an Austro-Chicagoan (at least for a while), I honestly wish we’d have the *spirit* of Austrian markets over the, like, crappy versions of the food etc. I miss. Like, allow for each neighborhood to have the bars, birria joints, hot dog stands, etc. to set up outside with fire pits in the winter!
I'm visiting Vienna ATM with family, and the comparison to our christkindlmarket in Chicago is insane, over here everything is half the price and twice the quality, and instead of being wall to wall packed, there's a dozen markets scattered throughout the city.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
As an Austro-Chicagoan (at least for a while), I honestly wish we’d have the *spirit* of Austrian markets over the, like, crappy versions of the food etc. I miss. Like, allow for each neighborhood to have the bars, birria joints, hot dog stands, etc. to set up outside with fire pits in the winter!
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This paper provides strong evidence that downzoning is associated with reduced construction and increased spatialized segregation. Don’t do it if you want a more equitable city!
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This paper provides strong evidence that downzoning is associated with reduced construction and increased spatialized segregation. Don’t do it if you want a more equitable city!
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
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What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
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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.
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.
Apply - Interfolio
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November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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.
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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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 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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I know BlueSky has problems with humour so just to be clear: I, like everyone else, am aware that postdocs aren't real. I'm not spreading misinformation when I refer to them as if they exist, they're jokes and everyone knows that. Chill, ok?
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I know BlueSky has problems with humour so just to be clear: I, like everyone else, am aware that postdocs aren't real. I'm not spreading misinformation when I refer to them as if they exist, they're jokes and everyone knows that. Chill, ok?
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Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year:
—50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide
—8-minute midday headways on rail lines
—24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
—50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide
—8-minute midday headways on rail lines
—24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen’s ambitious plan would also expand — from 20 to 30 routes — the so-called “Frequent Bus Network” that provides service “every ten minutes or better” between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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CTA plans 24-hour service on Orange Line to Midway, thanks to mass transit bailout
Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen’s ambitious plan would also expand — from 20 to 30 routes — the so-called “Frequent Bus Network” that provides service “every ten minutes or better” between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year:
—50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide
—8-minute midday headways on rail lines
—24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
—50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide
—8-minute midday headways on rail lines
—24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
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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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New paper out in @egu.eu's Climate of the Past together with economists (@mbennedsen.bsky.social @erichillebrand.bsky.social) to apply their rate prediction tools to the Cenozoic stack for detecting the timing and duration of breakpoints. Really fun. @au.dk
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Estimating breakpoints in the Cenozoic Era: an econometric approach
Abstract. This study presents a statistical time-domain approach for identifying transitions between climate states, referred to as breakpoints, using well-established econometric tools. Our approach ...
cp.copernicus.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New paper out in @egu.eu's Climate of the Past together with economists (@mbennedsen.bsky.social @erichillebrand.bsky.social) to apply their rate prediction tools to the Cenozoic stack for detecting the timing and duration of breakpoints. Really fun. @au.dk
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
first chinese-built trains in Central Europe about to go live with private operator WESTbahn, which is using them to enable an increase to half-hourly freqs on their Vienna - Salzburg (and beyond) service. (This is on top of the 2-4 tph by the federal railways on the same route)
Die Westbahn präsentierte heute 4 neue hochmoderne Doppelstockzüge. 🚆
Damit wächst die Gesamtkapazität der Flotte um +28% auf knapp 10.000 Sitzplätze.
Damit wächst die Gesamtkapazität der Flotte um +28% auf knapp 10.000 Sitzplätze.
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
first chinese-built trains in Central Europe about to go live with private operator WESTbahn, which is using them to enable an increase to half-hourly freqs on their Vienna - Salzburg (and beyond) service. (This is on top of the 2-4 tph by the federal railways on the same route)
I know this is a result of construction costs and local opposition to construction impacts limiting investment primarily to existing (often former freight) ROWs ; but its just infuriating how many US cities’ rail networks look like they’re doing their best to avoid the people who would take them
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I know this is a result of construction costs and local opposition to construction impacts limiting investment primarily to existing (often former freight) ROWs ; but its just infuriating how many US cities’ rail networks look like they’re doing their best to avoid the people who would take them
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If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me.
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me.
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...
Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus.
sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...