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Scott Robeson

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Climate scientist, geographer, and statistician at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) | FirstGen | UDel and UBC grad | Grower of food and lover of trees and birds | Partner of bsky.app/profile/teresarobeson.bsky.social


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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. šŸ§µ

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Scott Robeson 's avatar Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social
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This, along with productive procrastination, have been my path for a very long time

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Very similar here this morning, but better than the 82 F yesterdayā€¦ šŸ˜„

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Remember to give yourself a break from social if youā€™re feeling overwhelmed. Thereā€™s a lot happening right now, and sometimes it helps to connect with people over it, and sometimes it doesnā€™t. Always prioritize your well being!

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Science Friday 's avatar Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social
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Most scientific published studies have ā€œpositive results.ā€ But what about the papers with negative results? Dr. Sarahanne Field, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Trial And Error, joins us to discuss how failure can make science stronger.

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A new study in Nature Communications led by Weiskopf et al. reveals a critical link between #biodiversity loss and global carbon storage.
As plant diversity declines due to climate and land use change, we risk losing vital carbon sinks. ā¤µļøšŸŒšŸ§Ŗ
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Christine S. Lane's avatar Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social
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Weā€™re looking for a *Geospatial and Quantitative Skills Specialist* to join the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
Itā€™s a technical research & teaching support role. Please pass details to anyone who may be interested & well qualified! #geosky #job #GIS
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47152/

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Chris Bataille's avatar Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social
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For context, Canadaā€™s entire electricity generation capacity is just over 150 GW šŸ¤£šŸ‘‡

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Here's the good news, though. When we cut our carbon emissions through efficiency, electrification, and clean energy, we also cut air pollution! Yet another example of why climate solutions are absolutely essential for our health today and our future tomorrow.

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Scott Robeson 's avatar Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social
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Oh, so apparently some members of tbe IU Board of Trustees were not consulted ā€” and donā€™t agree with ā€” the letter expressing the Boardā€™s ā€œunitedā€ and ā€œfullā€ support for President Whitten that came out hours after the faculty vote of no confidence.

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Very cool and I like the important follow-on point about simply increasing replication sample size can often lead to crud.

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What a great line from the early part of this book. Even when we donā€™t see birds, they usually see us. šŸŖ¶

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It'll be a humidity roller coaster this week, but these dewpoints on Thursday are gonna feel so good

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The garden a day after the solstice. Nice time of year: plenty to harvest but not so much that thereā€™s a frantic need to freeze, can, and dehydrate.

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Kim Crayton [She/Her]'s avatar Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social
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We need to retire the narrative that your once fav ā€œliberal/progressiveā€ mediocre, unremarkable tech dude has somehow changed INTO a white suprematistā€¦these dudes were NEVER who their Marketing/PR departments sold youā€¦WHITE SUPREMACY IS NOT A VIRUS ONE CATCHESā€¦ITā€™S TAUGHT

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Yell In a War's avatar Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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the planet is on fire and people canā€™t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

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It really does have one of the best scents ā€” sweet but not too overpowering.

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Ben R Lee, PhD's avatar Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com
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Postdoc position in forest ecology is available to do work with Jordon Tourville and the Appalachian Mountain Club starting this fall (www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...). Jordon and AMC are both great and there will be awesome opportunities for research up and down the Appalachian Trail Corridor!

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Beth Gazley on how and why IUā€™s current president has been a disaster. šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

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When itā€™s hot and the dew point is relatively elevated, it feels ā€œhumidā€ to us mammals. But, to a plant that can lose a lot of water due to large vapor pressure deficits, itā€™s dangerously dry. Many crops prefer VPD to be around 10 hPa.

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Even though the Sun is never directly overhead at latitudes outside the tropics, there's still plenty of extraterrestrial solar radiation (Kex) at higher latitudes because Kex is proportional to sin(solar elevation). Here at 39.2Ā°N, it will be 96% of the solar constant at solar noon today. #solstice

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Something to contemplate when walking along a forested river valley

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Thereā€™s an old saying among organic gardeners: you shouldnā€™t be concerned when there are insects in your produce, you should be concerned when there *arenā€™t* any. šŸŒ±

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I used the phrase ā€œpresents a rosier pictureā€ when comparing two metrics in a recent article and a coauthor kept telling me that it wasnā€™t appropriate. šŸ™„

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Justin Mikulka's avatar Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social
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The transition to clean energy is being driven by favorable economics. And, in all likelihood, it's just getting started as the big money people start figuring it out.

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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness 's avatar Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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Some advice after 25 years of work in Egypt/living in AL: 1) Liquid IV is best electrolyte/salt hydration drink (or Pedialyte) 2)If overheated, cool shower, then colder bath (slow temp decrease) 3) Freeze bottles of water. Put between legs (crotch)+ under armpits+ at neck. Will cool blood rapidly

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When 500 mb heights exceed records, as may be the case this week over the mid-Atlantic region, it means that on no other day (over the last 74 years) has the atmospheric layer from the surface to about halfway up been hotter.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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As @jonathanstea.bsky.social points out here, a strong predictor of trolling is the tendency to derive pleasure or enjoyment from being cruel or demeaning to others. By blocking, it deprives them of that pleasure.

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Jan Rosenow's avatar Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social
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There are claims that solar uptake will lead to "waste mountains".

Research in Nature Physics says:

"35 years of cumulative PV module waste (2016ā€“2050) is dwarfed by waste generated by fossil fuel energy & other common waste streams"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Elizabeth Spiers 's avatar Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social
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Maybe the leftish skew on elite college campuses is a function of the fact that critical thinking got most of those students into college in the first place and they donā€™t feel like they should have to argue against or consume regressive ideas theyā€™re already very aware of

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Mary Branscombe 's avatar Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social
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the first thing I learned about climate change is that when it really kicks in (it's already started, but it can get much much worse) is that it goes non linear and all our models and predictions fail because we've changed the environment so much they're no longer applicable

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That is a nice looking bok choi. I also like that they are cut and come again if you come in from the side and keep several basal leaves on the plant.

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Agree on fresh strawberries (despite growing many of them), but something magical happens when halved, sugared, and eaten with vanilla ice cream.

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Text to a colleague after their promotion was made official by the Board of Trustees

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ApocalypticaNow's avatar ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Never in their wildest dreams did the Founding Fathers intend for a law clerk's googled research on gun parts to determine federal law

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This is the key point for me. I like interacting with students and collabs in summer so I do that, but there's a reason that TT administrators are on 12-month salaries. I'm not paid to do some of that during summer, so I choose not to. Others may not have that luxury so I also help them when I can.

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