🧵After 7+ years, I'm taking a buyout from . It's been a wild and immensely fun ride. What comes next still undecided, so DM if you'd like to help me hatch a plan!
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Increasingly grim news from Kentucky as flood toll rises
The flooding situation in Eastern Kentucky is ongoing, with a flood watch in effect through today. Heartbreakingly, we can confirm at least 15 deaths, but we expect that number to grow. Over 23,000 Kentuckians are without power. 1/3
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Without human-caused climate change temperatures of 40°C in the UK would have been extremely unlikely, concludes
worldweatherattribution.org/without-human-
In Kentucky, at least 8 people are dead after torrential rains flood Appalachia
The world we live in: Weather forecasters trolled for explaining dangers of UK heat wave and linking to climate change
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Why efforts to make better, more universal coronavirus vaccines are struggling
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Here's the video of my session from on reporting on climate change during COVID
youtube.com/watch?v=AAWrJ8
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That’s the company renaming, not the IDE
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Big announcement that RStudio is renaming to Posit as they focus in investing in tools for working across programming languages, but don’t worry about #rstats - @hadleywickham promises he’s not learning Python #rstudioconf2022
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Also great to recall some (2004 vintage) reporting of mine from Indonesia in the Q&A session:
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Thanks to for inviting me to talk about covering climate change during the COVID pandemic!
#ddj #ddjindonesia
Here are my slides (you can click through to stories and resources):
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Looking forward to speaking to about covering climate change on the science desk during the COVID pandemic!
#ddj #ddjindonesia
I'll be discussing stories including collaborations with the great :
buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrah
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James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday
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The western drought delivers more grisly findings
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Given what we are seeing in the middle of a La Niña, I'm not looking for forward to the next El Niño year (2024?).
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La Niña is the low-temperature counterpart of El Niño.
The blue patch in the Pacific on this map of June's average temperature anomalies shows a particularly well-defined La Niña.
Despite the relative cooling effects of La Niña, June 2022 was the second warmest June on record.
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Another consequence of #CAdrought
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The alkali flats that are emerging from Mono Lake’s surface, ghost white, aren’t just another nod to the uniqueness of this ancient place.
They’re a sign of trouble. sfchronicle.com/climate/articl
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Fun fact: When I looked at "contributed" papers, the inside track for academy members to direct their own peer review, Carlo Croce was the biggest power user.
nature.com/articles/51033
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Exclusive: 5 yrs ago, Ohio State University opened inquiries into work from high-profile cancer lab headed by Carlo Croce. @nature has learnt that this led to findings of misconduct (back in 2020 & 2021) for 2 scientists. Croce was cleared but ... (1/2)
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Sadly interrupted by pancakes
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Just two Love Islanders tackling the biggest questions in geomorphology:
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There was no containment Sunday of a destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park that has grown into one of California’s biggest blazes of the year. Some 2,000 firefighters were battling the Oak Fire, which has forced thousands to flee. apne.ws/BcwIu7p
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JWST has found the oldest galaxy we have ever seen in the universe
How Boeing created a nature preserve that may also preserve pollution
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Exclusive: 5 yrs ago, Ohio State University opened inquiries into work from high-profile cancer lab headed by Carlo Croce. has learnt that this led to findings of misconduct (back in 2020 & 2021) for 2 scientists. Croce was cleared but ... (1/2)
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Here are the weather extremes from the day the UK recorded temperatures above 40 Celsius for the first time
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Records fall as extreme heat bakes Western Europe
Useful thread on how deadly UK heat wave may be
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Given the extreme temperatures forecast over the coming days, I thought I’d share the key takeaways from my master's thesis that examined the epidemiological evidence for the UK heatwave alert system, and why this heatwave could be so deadly.
#UKheatwave
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📈 It's provisionally the hottest day on record in Wales
🌡️ Gogerddan has reached 35.3°C so far today, exceeding the previous record high of 35.2°C, recorded at Hawarden Bridge, Flintshire on 2nd August 1990
#Heatwave2022
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UK records likely to fall in dangerous heat wave
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The UK record is not the only one likely to be broken during the extreme heat today and tomorrow
Wales and Scotland will also see some exceptionally high temperatures that could come close to records as well #Heatwave2022
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Europe heatwave: Deadly wildfires spread in Mediterranean
Several devastating #wildfires curently around the Mediterranean region, especially in Portugal, Spain, France & Morocco. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data (based on 🛰️active fire obs) shows sharp increase in daily total intensity & total estimated emissions cf 2003-2021 #IIFF
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