Baylor Fox-Kemper
LightNews LightNews
banner
baylorfk.bsky.social
Baylor Fox-Kemper
@baylorfk.bsky.social
2.2K followers 2.2K following 100 posts
Oceanography, Climate & Music all at #BrownUniversity. Opinions my own, facts are everybody's.

https://fox-kemper.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
emckean.bsky.social
Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)
A black metal box on a post. On the front is a decal that says little free ossuary: take a bone, leave a bone surrounded by cartoon bones
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
brown-ibes.bsky.social
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is leading a team of Brown faculty members involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.

Learn more about Brown's role in the project ⬇️
Modeling microplastics: Brown’s role in a $7M coastal initiative
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is the leading Brown faculty member involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea, and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.
ibes.brown.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
baylorfk.bsky.social
On it
baileyandbrawny.bsky.social Bailey & Brawny @baileyandbrawny.bsky.social · 17d
Here’s an idea and you want to help people in you area, turn your itty bitty book library 📚 into a tiny food pantry.

Again, please repost.
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
baileyandbrawny.bsky.social
Here’s an idea and you want to help people in you area, turn your itty bitty book library 📚 into a tiny food pantry.

Again, please repost.
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
plosclimate.org
Just published in PLOS Climate:

"Towards provision of regularly updated climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project"

🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

@wcrp-cmip.org @juliearblaster.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social @tatianailyina.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
baylorfk.bsky.social
Hi everyone! New equitable climate futures job at Brown working with ecf.brown.edu. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
Equitable Climate Futures | Brown University
Equitable Climate Futures is an initiative that will build Brown’s capacity for climate research, with a strong focus on under-resourced and historically marginalized groups.
ecf.brown.edu
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
climateofgavin.bsky.social
A quick summary by me of a new instance of an old story.

@realclimate.org Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman
RealClimate: Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merc...
www.realclimate.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
rahmstorf.bsky.social
Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582
Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...
www.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
aida-alvera.bsky.social
It's about time we start organizing the Liege Colloquium for 2026! Submesocale Processes in the ocean will be the topic, a revisit of the Colloquium of 2016. 10 years of advances!

I'll try to document here the journey towards organizing such an event, maybe there's interest? #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪
Satellite image showing the ocean in shades of blue and green, with swirls and filaments. The land is in green. The image is located in the southeast coast of Norway, measured by Sentinel 2 on 19 May 2025
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
phiggins.bsky.social
AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
www.ametsoc.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
baylorfk.bsky.social
More bad news for Rhode Island wind farms. Now they are going after transparency in funding of activists:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
baylorfk.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/XgSUc7Q2c5tw...
August 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
climateofgavin.bsky.social
Portal to help support the NASEM fast-track effort to assess the EPA endangerment finding (deadline for submissions, Aug 27)

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/ant...
www.nationalacademies.org
August 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
yannquilcaille.bsky.social
Small advertisement for the session on emulators convening by me & @baylorfk.bsky.social , Helene Hewitt, @shrutinath97.bsky.social , Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, @cwomack101.bsky.social.
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
baylorfk.bsky.social
🌊
July 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
baylorfk.bsky.social
Go team SIMCoast!

www.uri.edu/news/2025/07...
URI awarded $7 million NSF grant to boost research excellence in environmental microplastics
KINGSTON, R.I. – July 8, 2025 – Microplastics can be found everywhere. They’re not just in waterways like Narragansett Bay but they can be found in shellfish, drinking water, and the human body. Resea...
www.uri.edu
July 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
maratimes.bsky.social
Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
July 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
mwclimatesci.bsky.social
I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12840758
Job Title: Chief Editor, Nature Geoscience Location(s): New York, Shanghai, or Beijing (Internal candidates from hub locations are welcome to apply...
www.nature.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
michaelemann.bsky.social
"Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification" | My blog post on our new article (@xuekeli.bsky.social, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social, Shannon Christiansen & yours truly) out this week in @pnas.org: michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...
Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification | Michael E. Mann
Here’s the press tip from PNAS on our new article demonstrating an increase over the past 70+ years in the occurrence of planetary wave resonance events […]
michaelmann.net
June 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
yannquilcaille.bsky.social
Conveners for the session on emulators: Helene Hewitt, @baylorfk.bsky.social, @shrutinath97.bsky.social, myself, Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Christopher Womack
June 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
theonion.com
FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
theonion.com/fema-ch...
FEMA Chief Confused By Wind ‘How Come I Feel Something But Don’t See It?’ Asks Department Head
June 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
baylorfk.bsky.social
Top think tanks
Think top tanks
Think tank tops
June 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
climatescibreak.bsky.social
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
baylorfk.bsky.social
I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.
solilyquy.bsky.social Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · May 31
I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪

www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...
Celebrating 20 Years of MPOWIR—A Community Driven Effort | Published by ADVANCE Journal
This blog post is part of ADVANCE Journal's blog series on the impacts of NSF Grants and their terminations.
www.advancejournal.org
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Baylor Fox-Kemper
davidho.bsky.social
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM