A fantastic day at Cambo House for our School's Postgraduate Research Away Day – a beautiful setting for science, sunshine, and smiles.
Excellent to see all our research students presenting their work through talks and posters, showcasing a great standard of diverse research.
Well done all! ⭐
IPCC in a Changing Climate: great event yesterday hosted by @earthscista.bsky.social and featuring current IPCC Chair Jim Skea. I gave a talk highlighting major contributions of St Andrews science to the IPCC process @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ipcc.bsky.social
This can only be described as a masterpiece by David Romps. Come for the take-down of climate denialism, stay for the deadpan delivery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNgA...
Climate Dynamics Lab is visiting Schloss Ringberg this week for the inaugural "EUCLIDYAN" workshop, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology! Lots of science, collaboration + building lasting connections with groups working on similar topics @earthscista.bsky.social
We are hiring a Chair in Earth Sci (Full Prof) @earthscista.bsky.social! Very limited teaching/admin for (at least) first 5 years. Atmosphere/oceans/climate firmly in remit. Reach out if you have questions! Deadline 23 March 2026
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
In a warming climate, extreme cold can still occur.
The occurrence of an extreme cold event does not mean that climate change caused it, nor does it mean climate change isn't real.
But on sufficiently long timescales, extreme cold events are occurring less often.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Research Assistant position closing 25th: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... to work on the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract on access to global land meteorological holdings.
Great to be back @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to present a seminar on understanding the physics of climate change over land. Catching 'Playboy of the Western World' @nationaltheatre.org.uk is an added bonus!
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
AI does math proofs. Very interesting thread from a top mathematician.
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
This study shows that the tropical meridional surface #temperature gradient remains stable across a wide range of climates. This robust feature is maintained by solar radiation and tropical dynamics and provides a fundamental law to study #ClimateChange. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heavy snowfall events will occur throughout the 21st century, despite global warming ❄️⛄⛷️
Reason is non-intuitive and relates to the existence of an 'optimal' temp for heavy snow that is insensitive to warming (details: www.nature.com/articles/nat...)
#climate #snow
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Open full Professor position in beautiful Scotland…
We hope so @battalio.com!
Tropical Temperature Distributions Over a Wide Range of Climates 🌡️🥵
Using theory + sims, we explore how temperature PDFs respond to climate change over land vs ocean. Work led by Josh Duffield! @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ametsoc.org
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Starting 2026 with a bang, our paper is published! 🎉🎉🎉
In it, we explored how polar amplification depends on the underlying climate state, with implications for understanding the past and future evolution of polar climate change!
Enjoy! :)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118423
This is interesting -- and has parallels in physics and climate science w.r.t. the balance between science for understanding and skillful prediction.
Comments @alisabokulich.bsky.social?
🚨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/...
Daily global temperature anomalies from 1940 to present, grouped by year, showing gradual global warming
2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
It is likely that 2025 will be the warmest year on record for the UK.
Why does this matter?
Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, including the UK, causing heatwaves to get hotter. For Central England this is happening 2x faster than the mean change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
📣 LEAP IS HIRING! 📣
Spread the word - we're looking to add to our Data + Compute team!
▶️ APPLY TODAY: academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/174775
Linking persistence, predictability and extremes in a changing climate
PhD project through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social with me, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Nick Dunstone (Met Office) & Chris Taylor (CEH)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
📢Submit to our EGU session!📢
We are organizing a session at EGU 2026 in Vienna, with a focus on climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks and the pattern effect!
If you work on anything related to climate sensitivity, we'd love to have you! 🥳🥳🥳 Submit soon! :)
Excited to attend the inaugural Scottish Climate Conference! Organised by @annamackie.bsky.social and Alex Chaudhri, the event will take place over the next two days @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #climate #science
FWIW, here's the scientifically bankrupt image provided by ChatGPT when prompted by the session name... 🫣
