David Hsu
@davidhsucano.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate & Research Assistant at Florida State University | Tropical Climatology | Tropical Dynamics 🌧️ (he/him/his)
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“This Is What Fascists Do”: Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/will_potter_civil_liberties_crackdown_antifa
September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“This Is What Fascists Do”: Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/will_potter_civil_liberties_crackdown_antifa
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A Nature special: Universities made the modern world. Now they must survive it.
go.nature.com/4nTooBX
go.nature.com/4nTooBX
The future of universities: A Nature special report
The world's universities are under intense pressure. Nature examines the threats they face and asks how the sector can and must adapt to survive.
go.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A Nature special: Universities made the modern world. Now they must survive it.
go.nature.com/4nTooBX
go.nature.com/4nTooBX
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🧑🔬 Don't miss out on the opportunity to discover how scientists like you can use your volunteer expertise for real-world community impact. Join Thriving Earth Exchange, AGU's Community Science initiative, on August 13th at 12PM ET.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🧑🔬 Don't miss out on the opportunity to discover how scientists like you can use your volunteer expertise for real-world community impact. Join Thriving Earth Exchange, AGU's Community Science initiative, on August 13th at 12PM ET.
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
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I'll be on @democracynow.org tomorrow (Tuesday) morning in the 8am ET hour to discuss extreme heat, the climate crisis, and the assault on climate action by the current administration: www.democracynow.org
Democracy Now!
A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
www.democracynow.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I've added a new graphic to my climate indicators page, which shows the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) used for monitoring El Niño/La Niña conditions. I will update it each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan....
This graphic was thanks to a follower request. Feel free to provide suggestions any time!
This graphic was thanks to a follower request. Feel free to provide suggestions any time!
June 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've added a new graphic to my climate indicators page, which shows the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) used for monitoring El Niño/La Niña conditions. I will update it each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan....
This graphic was thanks to a follower request. Feel free to provide suggestions any time!
This graphic was thanks to a follower request. Feel free to provide suggestions any time!
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When you're living through a hurricane or extreme heat, keeping the lights can be a matter of life or death—but our power grid is woefully unprepared to meet the moment.
How do we get there?
Read our new report:
How do we get there?
Read our new report:
Keeping Everyone's Lights On
The grid today is woefully unprepared to meet our current climate reality.
www.ucs.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When you're living through a hurricane or extreme heat, keeping the lights can be a matter of life or death—but our power grid is woefully unprepared to meet the moment.
How do we get there?
Read our new report:
How do we get there?
Read our new report:
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⚒️ Article: North Atlantic Deep Water formation was only moderately weaker than present during the Last Glacial Period, even when freshwater inputs were high
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This seems bad. Over time, what people have assumed was the physical limit of human heat tolerance keeps going down. It used to be thought it was a wet-bulb of 35C, now it seems it's more like 32C for resting humans and 27C for people doing minimal physical activity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This seems bad. Over time, what people have assumed was the physical limit of human heat tolerance keeps going down. It used to be thought it was a wet-bulb of 35C, now it seems it's more like 32C for resting humans and 27C for people doing minimal physical activity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🌍 Climate Shifts Could Fuel Extreme Storms 💨🌊
A new study finds the North Atlantic Oscillation may hit record highs, worsening storms and floods in Europe & North America - unless emissions drop.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#ClimateChange #Storms #SciComm 🧪
A new study finds the North Atlantic Oscillation may hit record highs, worsening storms and floods in Europe & North America - unless emissions drop.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#ClimateChange #Storms #SciComm 🧪
Mitigation needed to avoid unprecedented multi-decadal North Atlantic Oscillation magnitude - Nature Climate Change
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a key pattern of climate variability for surrounding land areas during winter. Here the authors constrain projections to show that the magnitude of the NAO incr...
doi.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🌍 Climate Shifts Could Fuel Extreme Storms 💨🌊
A new study finds the North Atlantic Oscillation may hit record highs, worsening storms and floods in Europe & North America - unless emissions drop.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#ClimateChange #Storms #SciComm 🧪
A new study finds the North Atlantic Oscillation may hit record highs, worsening storms and floods in Europe & North America - unless emissions drop.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#ClimateChange #Storms #SciComm 🧪
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 490,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊🧪⚒️
• about 490,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊🧪⚒️
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 490,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊🧪⚒️
• about 490,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊🧪⚒️
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Concerned for the future of @noaa.gov, let’s give some love to Ferret - developed by PMEL and every modellers secret go to tool for interrogating / analysing netcdf files. It might not be as ‘a la mode’ as python or Julia, but it gets the job done with minimum fuss 🌊 ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/
Data Visualization and Analysis | Science Data Integration Group - Ferret Support
Ferret is an interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets. It runs on recent Unix and Mac systems, using X windows for display. PyFerret, introduced in 2012, is a Python module wrapping Ferret. PyFerret is an upgrade to Ferret which runs existing Ferret scripts and includes all Ferret functionality with updated graphics capabilities and additional analysis functions. In addition the pyferret module provides Python functions so Python users can easily take advantage of Ferret's abilities to retrieve, manipulate, visualize, and save data.
ferret.pmel.noaa.gov
March 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Concerned for the future of @noaa.gov, let’s give some love to Ferret - developed by PMEL and every modellers secret go to tool for interrogating / analysing netcdf files. It might not be as ‘a la mode’ as python or Julia, but it gets the job done with minimum fuss 🌊 ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/
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Extreme weather can affect the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and cholera. New research explores how these climate patterns can interact with population immunity, affecting disease spread years after the climate event itself.
The Interplay of ENSO and Immunity in Infectious Disease Outbreaks - Eos
El Niño and La Niña events can affect the spread of infectious diseases including cholera and dengue fever. The effects of some diseases may persist over several years.
eos.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Extreme weather can affect the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and cholera. New research explores how these climate patterns can interact with population immunity, affecting disease spread years after the climate event itself.
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Update - my monthly climate change dashboard...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
March 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Update - my monthly climate change dashboard...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
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For the lecture on ocean circulation, I show my students this sea surface temperature simulation from NOAA/GFDL, where scientists were fired recently.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
March 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For the lecture on ocean circulation, I show my students this sea surface temperature simulation from NOAA/GFDL, where scientists were fired recently.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
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Happy to end my paper drought with my first postdoc paper on concurrent megadroughts in the southwestern regions of North and South America. Check it out!👇
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... @ametsoc.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... @ametsoc.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy to end my paper drought with my first postdoc paper on concurrent megadroughts in the southwestern regions of North and South America. Check it out!👇
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... @ametsoc.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... @ametsoc.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
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🌊 Why is the North Atlantic Cooling?
A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study uncovers how a cold patch in the North Atlantic - despite global warming - feeds itself by influencing wind patterns.
Could this reshape our understanding of climate change?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study uncovers how a cold patch in the North Atlantic - despite global warming - feeds itself by influencing wind patterns.
Could this reshape our understanding of climate change?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A positive atmospheric feedback on the North Atlantic warming hole - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A positive atmospheric feedback on the North Atlantic warming hole
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:05 AM
🌊 Why is the North Atlantic Cooling?
A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study uncovers how a cold patch in the North Atlantic - despite global warming - feeds itself by influencing wind patterns.
Could this reshape our understanding of climate change?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study uncovers how a cold patch in the North Atlantic - despite global warming - feeds itself by influencing wind patterns.
Could this reshape our understanding of climate change?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
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🧵These "Sputnik" plots of global ocean properties are now ubiquitous. Have you ever wondered who first made them?
Wonder no more. 1/3
Wonder no more. 1/3
November 27, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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🚨PhD project in paleoclimatology🚨
Come join our friendly team to investigate:
“Tracking the biological response to the ancient South Asian monsoon: lessons from the past to inform the future”
Sediment, foraminifera, geochemistry, biology…
Pass it on!
🧪⚒️🌊🌍
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Come join our friendly team to investigate:
“Tracking the biological response to the ancient South Asian monsoon: lessons from the past to inform the future”
Sediment, foraminifera, geochemistry, biology…
Pass it on!
🧪⚒️🌊🌍
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 2:11 PM
🚨PhD project in paleoclimatology🚨
Come join our friendly team to investigate:
“Tracking the biological response to the ancient South Asian monsoon: lessons from the past to inform the future”
Sediment, foraminifera, geochemistry, biology…
Pass it on!
🧪⚒️🌊🌍
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Come join our friendly team to investigate:
“Tracking the biological response to the ancient South Asian monsoon: lessons from the past to inform the future”
Sediment, foraminifera, geochemistry, biology…
Pass it on!
🧪⚒️🌊🌍
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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🧪📍 🌊 🦑 research specialist or research technician to join the Ocean Biogeochemical Sensing team @mbarinews.bsky.social ; development and production of biogeochemical sensors for underwater gliders, profiling floats, and moorings; open until filled. Details here:
www.mbari.org/job-opening/...
www.mbari.org/job-opening/...
Research Specialist, Ocean Biogeochemical Sensing • MBARI
MBARI has a position open for a Research Specialist or Research Technician to join the Ocean Biogeochemical Sensing (OBS) Team. The ocean is facing unprecedented changes due to human activity: tempera...
www.mbari.org
November 26, 2024 at 8:20 PM
🧪📍 🌊 🦑 research specialist or research technician to join the Ocean Biogeochemical Sensing team @mbarinews.bsky.social ; development and production of biogeochemical sensors for underwater gliders, profiling floats, and moorings; open until filled. Details here:
www.mbari.org/job-opening/...
www.mbari.org/job-opening/...
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For those wanting context, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) keeps Europe relatively warm compared to places of similar latitude (eg northern Canada). If AMOC shuts down due to climate change the UK would rapidly become 5-15C *colder*. Obviously we are not well prepared for this
November 19, 2024 at 11:00 PM
For those wanting context, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) keeps Europe relatively warm compared to places of similar latitude (eg northern Canada). If AMOC shuts down due to climate change the UK would rapidly become 5-15C *colder*. Obviously we are not well prepared for this
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🌊🇦🇶Yichang Liu modelling the Shackleton Denman ice sheet to determine the basal melting of the ice by ocean circulation underneath. See paper by Liu et al 2024
November 19, 2024 at 12:43 AM
🌊🇦🇶Yichang Liu modelling the Shackleton Denman ice sheet to determine the basal melting of the ice by ocean circulation underneath. See paper by Liu et al 2024
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Hey, climate folk! Reef expert and scourge of successive Australian governments, @profterryhughes.bsky.social, has arrived.
Follow for outraged updates on the Great Barrier Reef and coral bleaching from an "art lover in the Louvre as it burns".
FYI @ketanjoshi.co @katharinehayhoe.com
Follow for outraged updates on the Great Barrier Reef and coral bleaching from an "art lover in the Louvre as it burns".
FYI @ketanjoshi.co @katharinehayhoe.com
Hello Bluesky!
I'm another X refugee - looking forward to posting here about coral reefs, nature, conservation and climate change - without Elon's bots, trolls and lunatics.
I'm another X refugee - looking forward to posting here about coral reefs, nature, conservation and climate change - without Elon's bots, trolls and lunatics.
November 15, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Hey, climate folk! Reef expert and scourge of successive Australian governments, @profterryhughes.bsky.social, has arrived.
Follow for outraged updates on the Great Barrier Reef and coral bleaching from an "art lover in the Louvre as it burns".
FYI @ketanjoshi.co @katharinehayhoe.com
Follow for outraged updates on the Great Barrier Reef and coral bleaching from an "art lover in the Louvre as it burns".
FYI @ketanjoshi.co @katharinehayhoe.com
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People are gonna look back in a few decades and wish for the climate we have today. 🥹
Repost this if you’re old enough to remember when they tried to convince us that “global warming stopped in 2008” (or whenever).
November 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
People are gonna look back in a few decades and wish for the climate we have today. 🥹