Phil Calvin
@pcalvin.bsky.social
Every day a step closer to being a codger. Dutch speaker, learning Spanish and Italian, lover of all things French.
Impatient Buddhist.
Impatient Buddhist.
Fungi and Bats! In CZ!
One of our student offices is ready with desks and chairs. There are some unoccupied seats, but not for long... The lab has open positions for 1 postdoc and 2 fully funded PhD students!
Postdoc: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/266
PhD: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/271
#hiring #newPI #LFEE #TeamLaboul
Postdoc: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/266
PhD: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/271
#hiring #newPI #LFEE #TeamLaboul
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fungi and Bats! In CZ!
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Please pass this on to any potential PhD applicants. Thanks.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
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 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Please pass this on to any potential PhD applicants. Thanks.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
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Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Doomscrolling in the past three days has just been so so bad for my health. I’m going to take a day or two off, do a lot of walking and studying, and just cook for a bit. Focus on Italian. Riboletta yesterday, some fall vegetables today. Endive, pumpkin maybe, some more kale. Dark stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Doomscrolling in the past three days has just been so so bad for my health. I’m going to take a day or two off, do a lot of walking and studying, and just cook for a bit. Focus on Italian. Riboletta yesterday, some fall vegetables today. Endive, pumpkin maybe, some more kale. Dark stuff.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
Idea: An opposition spokesperson daily press conference where someone - doesn’t really matter who - stands up every day to answer questions with the honest truth so journalists aren’t so quick to publish awful Karoline Leavitt’s daily lies.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Idea: An opposition spokesperson daily press conference where someone - doesn’t really matter who - stands up every day to answer questions with the honest truth so journalists aren’t so quick to publish awful Karoline Leavitt’s daily lies.
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Watching Karoline Leavitt spew her usual misinformation and divisive nonsense makes me wonder, why isn’t there a People’s press secretary?
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Watching Karoline Leavitt spew her usual misinformation and divisive nonsense makes me wonder, why isn’t there a People’s press secretary?
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
Might be worth looking into a 100M real-estate fraud and tax grift involving Pulte, Trump and the Russians?
If only we still had a Justice Department.
If only we still had a Justice Department.
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Might be worth looking into a 100M real-estate fraud and tax grift involving Pulte, Trump and the Russians?
If only we still had a Justice Department.
If only we still had a Justice Department.
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Realizing we didn't need all this fucking red string at all
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Realizing we didn't need all this fucking red string at all
Im not sure of the allowable punishment, but after conviction I would hang him from the gallows for pedophilia and rape. It’s beyond time. Let the victims cut the rope.
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Im not sure of the allowable punishment, but after conviction I would hang him from the gallows for pedophilia and rape. It’s beyond time. Let the victims cut the rope.
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Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
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If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
What a disaster my country has become. So depressing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What a disaster my country has become. So depressing.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
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Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
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The pettiness of our racist regime is unspeakable. How threatened all these white men must feel by any man not like them that they can't even abide the heroism of the dead.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The pettiness of our racist regime is unspeakable. How threatened all these white men must feel by any man not like them that they can't even abide the heroism of the dead.
It needs to be asked if this is because the politics of Florida are so fucked up that only old racists want to move there. And with global warming kicking its ass, only people who have tons of cash can afford to forego homeowners insurance there.
Page One in Palm Beach:
“.. in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, more than one out of every four residents is over 65.”
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“.. in 23 of Florida’s 67 counties, more than one out of every four residents is over 65.”
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November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It needs to be asked if this is because the politics of Florida are so fucked up that only old racists want to move there. And with global warming kicking its ass, only people who have tons of cash can afford to forego homeowners insurance there.
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I've just finished listening to a massive 11-part series on the history of Gaza (it starts with the Philistines!) on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social and I have to say it's extraordinary. Start here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 17/09/2025 · 45m
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November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I've just finished listening to a massive 11-part series on the history of Gaza (it starts with the Philistines!) on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social and I have to say it's extraordinary. Start here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
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"Historian William Dalrymple: British politicians bear responsibility for the destruction of Palestinian lives. In this country, no one is taught anything about Palestine”
“History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten."
#NZPol
“History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten."
#NZPol
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Historian William Dalrymple: British politicians bear responsibility for the destruction of Palestinian lives. In this country, no one is taught anything about Palestine”
“History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten."
#NZPol
“History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten."
#NZPol