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#Climate & sea level science + policy. Rutgers University. All views my own. www.bobkopp.net
@costasamaras.comReposted by @bobkopp.netIn @rollingstone.com, I talked with @thorbenson.bsky.social about the new climate assessment priorities work led by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, and me. I said, “Just because a threat is not articulated by the federal govt doesn’t mean the threat’s going away”. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
@bobkopp.netFACULTY JOB ALERT:
@bloustein.rutgers.edu assistant professor position in climate change + planning law
@jessemkeenan.comReposted by @bobkopp.netIf you are at @princeton.edu today and tomorrow, please come by for a visit. I'm honored to be delivering the Bradford Seminar tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing so many great colleagues and learning plenty along the way. environment.princeton.edu/event/north-...
@cdelawalla.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netAt @standupforscience.net we aren’t just talking about a better future…we are forging it.
OUT NOW from the SUFS Foundation Policy & Research Team: @irenesufs.bsky.social @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social @wondersofnature23.bsky.social
@annakornbluh.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.net"The counseling office checks graduation requirements.
Wash U has been working to get software to do the same job. System cost the school $99M to implement. At that price, the school could have hired 20 work-study students for well over a century."
@donmoyn.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netCLAIM: we engaged in deceptive and dangerous practices befitting a secret police in an authoritarian state FACT: see above
@janrosenow.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netNEW BRIGHT SPOTS: How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar.
Not because of policy. People and businesses voted with their feet.
@ipcc.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.net📣 The review of the First Order Draft of the Working Group II contribution to the #IPCC Seventh Assessment Report has started.
Interested experts can register until 20 Nov 2026: https://bit.ly/4y1LI58
The review ends on 4 December.
More info👉 https://bit.ly/4y97yn6
@npr.orgReposted by @bobkopp.netThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M
@greatdismal.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netHaving long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
@bobkopp.netPam is a critical player in the grassroots efforts to sustain US scientists' involvement in the IPCC despite federal withdrawal, and is the founding steering committee chair for the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC, a network of observer universities hosted by AGU that facilitates such involvement
@bobkopp.netFor @agu.org members --
I am excited to see that my Rutgers colleague @pammcelwee.bsky.social is a candidate for AGU's Board of Directors, ballots for which just went out.
@bobkopp.netDoes this mean UA researchers can’t publish papers about the Gulf of Mexico in journals that (like @agu.org journals) require use of internationally recognized geographic names?
@bobkopp.netIs this process just SBE, or is it happening in other directorates too?
@dangaristo.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
@andycraig.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netThe Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
@nbedera.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netWhenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
@aaronjbecker.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netEvery river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
@philplait.bsky.socialReposted by @bobkopp.netGoddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
