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Kevin Anchukaitis
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Climate scientist, paleoclimatologist, dendrochronologist, University of Arizona | https://kanchukaitis.github.io/ | Opinions are mine and not that of my employer

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12h
The deadline for graduate student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) summer school is this Friday, January 9th! paleoCAMP is completely free for all students selected to attend paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John Hogan

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Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social · 13h
Want functioning insurance markets and real climate forecasts? Then you want NCAR intact. Post today - for insurance sector forwarding. Banks, too - susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump Targets America's Weather Nerve Center
But the National Center for Atmospheric Research underpins insurance markets as well as disaster planning and climate forecasts.
susanpcrawford.substack.com

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Alan Richardson

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 14h
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.

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Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 16h
Independent Short- and Longwave Pathways for a Zonally Asymmetric Northern Hemisphere Temperature Response to Tropical Volcanic Eruptions agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Independent Short‐ and Longwave Pathways for a Zonally Asymmetric Northern Hemisphere Temperature Response to Tropical Volcanic Eruptions
Longwave and shortwave properties of volcanic aerosols independently cause zonal anomalies in surface temperatures The longwave-induced anomalies are primarily related to altered stratospheric wi...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Wim Thiery, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 22h
🚨Professorship at St Andrews🚨

We are recruiting a Professor in Earth Sci (incl atmos, oceans, climate) @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Ideal candidate is a leading researcher with interests in impact/outreach. Deadline 23/3/26!

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672, Earth and Environmental Sciences Salary: Grade 9/Negotiable Start Date: September 2026 , <p style="margin-right: 22.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: bl...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jason Mittell, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 6 more

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d
all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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rachelruysch.bsky.social @rachelruysch.bsky.social · 3d
The insurance industry—essential to US economic activity, woven into the financial plans of every home and business in the nation—sees NCAR as absolutely, concretely, crucial. @scrawford.bsky.social susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump Targets America's Weather Nerve Center
But the National Center for Atmospheric Research underpins insurance markets as well as disaster planning and climate forecasts.
susanpcrawford.substack.com

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Get Stuff Done At Work Before Everyone Comes Back and Makes You Go To Meetings Week to all who celebrate

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 4d
Peixoto and Oort, The Physics of Climate
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 4d
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce, Lesley A. Hall , and 2 more

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 4d
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Adam Forte @topoismyforte.bsky.social · 7d
The longer you've been teaching, the more your syllabi accumulate the academic equivalents of tidbits from instructional manuals like, "do not stop chainsaw blade with your genitals", i.e., seemingly ridiculous statements that reflect insane things at least one student has done in the past.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Guido Grosse, Benjamin I. Cook , and 1 more

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 7d
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Nature @nature.com · 7d
US federal agencies and universities have spent 2025 in turmoil

go.nature.com/44rwQ46
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 7d
Challenges in global climate models to represent cloud response to aerosols: insights from volcanic eruptions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Challenges in global climate models to represent cloud response to aerosols: insights from volcanic eruptions - Nature Communications
This study uses a multi-model intercomparison framework and a large-scale observational constraint based on a volcanic eruption and shows that climate models strongly underestimate how cloud cover res...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Alan Richardson

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d
The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 1 more

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Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 10d
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; MSc’s on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!
jedokaplan.bsky.social Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 19d
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

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller , and 2 more

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12d
The usual Christmas traditions - reading aloud from the ‘Haters Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalog’ and live tweeting the Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 13d
'The paper is not only excellent, but the second author is devilishly handsome'

Reposted by John Kennedy, Elena Litchman

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 13d
It finally happened. Got asked to review my own paper.

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Peter Thorne, Benjamin I. Cook , and 2 more

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 13d
📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field.

🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026

Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672, Earth and Environmental Sciences Salary: Grade 9/Negotiable Start Date: September 2026 , <p style="margin-right: 22.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: bl...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Peter Jacobs

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 14d
Proud to build and lead a bipartisan coalition with Rep. Jeff Hurd and @bennet.senate.gov & @hickenlooper.senate.gov — joined by more than 80 of our colleagues in the House and Senate — to protect NCAR in the FY26 NSF appropriations bill.

We will not stop until NCAR is protected — period.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce, Robert C. Richards , and 6 more

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 14d
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Tom Clark, Eric Goldman , and 12 more

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14d
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 4 more

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 16d
NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Darío Martin‐Benito

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 16d
At #AGU25, tree ring scientist Caroline Leland of LDEO shared her research on dshared research on climate sensitivity of wood from Siberian Pine and Larch in North-central Mongolia to improve or build upon reconstructions of long-term climate. ➡️ Lamont at AGU25: https://lamont.columbia.edu/agu25
Caroline Leland at AGU: Temperature Signals of Siberian Pine and Larch in North-central Mongolia
YouTube video by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Reposted by Ankur R. Desai, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Flavio Lehner

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Kerry Cook @kerrycook.bsky.social · 16d
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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Kerry Cook @kerrycook.bsky.social · 16d
Please raise your voice to oppose dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research. NCAR provides essential support for university science, including the training of the next generation of atmospheric scientists to predict weather and climate.

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Mathias Disney, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 2 more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17d
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
Application Process Image Woman behind a podium presenting. Jessie Golding, BBCS postdoc, presenting at ICCB 2025. Apply to become a Lovejoy Fellow by submitting your resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references through the University of Arizona Talent Portal (link upcoming) by the first review date of January 30, 2026. Your cover letter should: Identify 1-2 Lovejoy BBCS faculty you would be interested in working with and explain the primary research directions you would want to pursue in collaboration with this faculty member. You are strongly encouraged to reach out to faculty before submitting your application. Describe your experience with or interest in inter- or transdisciplinary research. Explain how this experience will positively impact your career trajectory.