jobs at Yukon University
*Coordinator-Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining
*Facilitator, First Nations Initiatives
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@arnkeeling.bsky.social @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose
thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...
In case you missed it live, the recording is available below (as always!). There were some great questions from the audience yesterday (which is usually true, but I always like to highlight the participatory nature of these sessions!).
Colorado Water Year 2026 temperature and precipitation compared to 1991-2020 average. Temperature bars show departure from average, maps below it show temperature ranks across the state with statewide ranking. Precipitation bars are accumulated departure from average, with daily precipitation as black bars. Maps below that show precipitation ranks across the state with statewide ranking.
This is my new favorite graphic produced by @climate.colostate.edu and @rschumacher.cloud. It's also been quite fascinating to watch the accumulation of above average temperatures for the water year. Find it here: climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/
reporting about Earthquake near Reno that discusses "officials have not issued any tsunami alerts."
Were they worried there might be a tsunami on Pyramid Lake?
FYI the one on the left is satire.
Headline from Canadian satire magazine “Trump clarifies that civilization he intends to end is America”
NY Times opinion headline “The civilization Trump destroys may be our own.”
It’s getting really hard to tell what is satire anymore.
I would guess if Amy Clement was right that AMV is forced by the Jet Stream and PDV is internally related to ENSO we have arrive back to that.
There is a new spiffier interface for xDateR. Since I'm teaching shiny apps this quarter I used it as an excuse to learn new UI and UX stuff. And I'm doing some more work on more graceful error handling that will come soon.
viz.datascience.arizona.edu/xDateR/
Exciting new work from Taylor et al in J of Clim. showing tree-ring PDSI reconstructions can identify compound drought-heatwave events in regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling. Clever disentangling of temp and ppt in PDSI recons!
journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/...
"Is Lithium Valley really a vision that's going to be a clean energy hub?" said James J. A. Blair, a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, who has studied lithium extraction. "Or is it kind of a Trojan horse for these other industrial harms?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
A bicycle leaning on a fence with a lake and mountains in the background.
Moment of zen on my Sunday bike ride.
More helpful details on the NSF SBE closure from @dangaristo.bsky.social in this thread bsky.app/profile/jeni...
And helpful materials on who needs to hear about this (including template for coordinating w/your gov affairs office) from @amormino.bsky.social at www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
If you want to write about the demolition of the US Forest Service with some historical context, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#envhist
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
agreed
AGU is now accepting applications for Editors-in-Chief across six publications, with terms starting Jan 1, 2027. These roles help shape editorial standards, research quality, and peer review in Earth & space science. Apply by May 1, 2026.
buff.ly/8Mxy8vq
When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence.
They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.
Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology
Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school
I have read countless studies on lake sediment cores from the Holocene and Pleistocene. Here's one from the late Cretaceous! The Lac de Gras kimberlite pipes have a wondrous record of deep past climatic conditions, including one that preserves unfossilized Paleogene aged wood doi.org/10.1139/cjes...
Forget about the ants! Beyond that myth, how much can we trust Pliny the Elder's analysis of Roman gold mining? 💰🐜 A new study by Javier Fernández-Lozano & Enrique Ferrari compares the gold mining in the Natural History to geological & ecological evidence—and Pliny is not bad. Aure(a)search!
Well this is an interesting development. I wonder who our new power provider will be.
calmatters.org/economy/2026...
Fab new review alert! 🔥🤓
There's so. much. data compiled here in one place! ⚛️ On so many different water isotopes proxies. Should be very useful for old hands and water isotope rookies alike. It was so fun to contribute a tiny piece to this joyously epic & careful review led by @isotopes.bsky.social
❤️ Geography
Yes. This.
'These findings underscore the challenge of training AI models exclusively on historical data and highlight the need to account for such biases when applying them to future climate prediction' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
“They have to be maintained in perpetuity. So, we’re leaving our descendants huge piles of waste.” #mining #environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
