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Posts by Jed O. Kaplan

Yeah that was me, too.

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So honored to be a part of this outstanding group of scientists! Thanks so much to @plosclimate.org for publishing our ideas! Congrats to all authors, it’s been an incredible journey. Hope it continues!

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Canada prevents illegal export of over one million kilograms of waste - Canada.ca During the fall of 2025, Canada intercepted more than one million kilograms of hazardous waste before it was exported, as part of Operation Demeter XI. Operation Demeter is an annual global enforcemen...

"The illegal shipments intercepted included materials such as e-waste, used batteries, waste oil, hazardous scrap metal, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), plastic waste, contaminated scrap paper, and other environmentally hazardous materials."
Textiles, too!

#BaselConvention
#YouWasteItYouOwnIt

1 month ago 1 1 0 0

It’s no longer meeting at the water cooler, coffee machine, or smoke break. Now we chat with our colleagues around the communal trash bins…

2 months ago 1 0 0 0
A look up the massive trunk of the world’s tallest tropical tree: 100.8 m tall Shorea faguetiana, Danum Valley, Borneo.

A look up the massive trunk of the world’s tallest tropical tree: 100.8 m tall Shorea faguetiana, Danum Valley, Borneo.

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

Put them on your students’ term papers when they did a good job.

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

For 200 bucks just take it. You’ll definitely find some use for that nice wood.

2 months ago 2 0 0 0

Assuming this is a manuscript in your area of expertise, I might be able to review it. You can invite me.

2 months ago 1 0 1 0

This was also my experience as an editor at a major journal.

2 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca

Every university in Canada is currently looking for talent from abroad. Reach out to places you might go! www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

3 months ago 0 0 1 0

This is so important, and don’t forget that major land use change and deforestation occurred across Europe, Asia, and Africa long before even 1750.

3 months ago 12 4 1 3

Job seekers: Excellent thread from my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social. If you’re considering applying for any of my open positions, jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ consider reading this first!

3 months ago 1 0 0 0

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!

3 months ago 10 9 0 1

This is truly hilarious.

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Work with me!

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/

4 months ago 9 10 1 2
Work with me!

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/

4 months ago 9 10 1 2
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Increasing late Holocene dust deposition in West Africa is amplified by land use change Changes in dust deposition in West Africa over the mid- to late Holocene have traditionally been attributed to orbital forcing affecting the West Afri…

Could prehistoric farmers and pastoralists have caused skies to be dustier than normal? What feedbacks could that dust have had to societies downwind? This paper was a long time coming, and I am really glad to see it published!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#envhist #envhum

4 months ago 3 2 0 0

Thanks for this detailed comparison. I use freedom mobile and am satisfied with the speed and the included roaming but I don’t stream much video.

4 months ago 2 0 0 0

🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨

Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*

Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026

Details in next two posts 👇

5 months ago 44 40 4 2
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Looks interesting! What’s the paper about?

6 months ago 3 0 1 0

Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!

6 months ago 4 0 0 0

Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!

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The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth on JSTOR Richard Seager, The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth, American Scientist, Vol. 94, No. 4 (JULY...

You assert that "...the conveyor belt of currents in the Atlantic Ocean [is] responsible for Western Europe’s mild climate..." This idea is at the very least debatable. Richard Seager has argued for decades that it is not important at all, e.g., www.jstor.org/stable/27858...

7 months ago 2 0 0 0
A bowl filled with homemade fermented sour pickles.

A bowl filled with homemade fermented sour pickles.

Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?

7 months ago 4 0 0 0
CRC Opportunities | Queen's University Queen’s University invites applications for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).

It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...

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Pink and white cherry blossoms adorning the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington D.C.

Pink and white cherry blossoms adorning the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington D.C.

It was a lovely day in late March.

8 months ago 14 1 0 0
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I have been waiting for you to comment on this fire. I still vividly remember reading “Fire on the Rim” as a teenager. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!

8 months ago 2 0 1 0

Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?

9 months ago 3 0 1 0
Highlighted section from https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/latest-on-texas-hill-country-flood discussing how current cuts to NOAAs research programs will make forecasting extreme weather much harder.

Highlighted section from https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/latest-on-texas-hill-country-flood discussing how current cuts to NOAAs research programs will make forecasting extreme weather much harder.

Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

9 months ago 3 2 0 0

Great explainer from my colleague Dan.

10 months ago 1 0 0 0