Adam Csank

More food for thought when choosing a global gridded precipitation product #climate

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

But it requires *doing the physical work* of finding and dating a continuous series of overlapping trees *that's only valid regionally*. Like most actual data collection it's not a stylish thing and takes effort, care, and archiving.

In a new paper out today in Science Advances with my USGS colleagues, we describe the climate and environment of the White Sands playa when early humans walked on it 23,000 years ago. We also have an even tighter chronology with a lock to the Greenland ice core! news.arizona.edu/news/footpri...

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Happy to share our new study shows stronger growth declines and weaker water-use adjustment in Norway spruce than Scots pine in southern Finland. Species and site matter for future forests.

Paleobotanists, come be our colleague at the wonderful Yale Peabody Museum! apply.interfolio.com/194803

I urge you—especially if you are in a leadership position—to sit with the stories of women (particularly those of color) and non-binary faculty who took the time out of their incredibly busy days to share them with us.

Actually here is the freely readable version rdcu.be/a842YdGP66ba

Great thread. Really gets to the heart of what models actually are. Stories of possible future climates based on physics but changeable based on actions we take.

Just in case anyone wants to learn about the Art & Science projects at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve and the importance of long-term data and long-term monitoring. Thanks to @longnow.org for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C28...

Fossil taxa are sometimes considered island weirdos without any actual evidence that island effects were important in their evolution. So we wrote a paper on how we could do actual island biogeography in deep time. If you want a copy but can't access it, email me: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

When the Rains Don't Come: Legacies of North American Monsoon Failure on Tree Growth agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

International students in the US would face a $100,000 price tag to work a science job in the country after graduation under a proposal made public yesterday by the Trump administration go.nature.com/4AWqQi8

Career goals.

A kind of nurture vs nature for trees study. Kinda academic.oup.com/treephys/adv...

Striking, and appropriate, that this piece comes from a professor from a business school. The business world relies on public research and universities for its talent pipeline. Cutting off international students with an unachievable degree deadline cuts that pipeline. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Enraging. Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress. The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

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If a drought (Mega or other) never ends is it really a drought? www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...

🌏🌲Do trees produce more #wood as a result of #globalwarming? Not necessarily, according to a new study led by the WSL and published in @science.org. Annual wood production depends more on growth rate than on duration of growth – with implications for carbon storage. www.wsl.ch/en/news/more...

Well this is going to screw over large swaths of the western US. River's like the Salt and Verde don't necessarily make the cut under these rules.

I’m not from the US but as a Maritimer this put me the closest of any of these I have ever taken.

Bhuta’s training as a #geographer brings a valuable perspective to his work as a Natural Resources Specialist: “Thinking about space and place and how different states operate in maintaining forests is important ... because it helps bring context.” 🌲 Read more about his journey: buff.ly/a7ywI2k

If you haven't already seen this we are recruiting for a new position in my department, in Evolutionary Biology. I can answer some questions or direct you to someone else who can. Please share widely. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years, which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study. <6/n>

#gischat

NSG GEO email: "I hope to see many of you at our upcoming virtual office hours on Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss this funding opportunity, among other topics. I encourage you to register for the Zoom event and submit questions ahead of time." We're all gonna be on this Zoom? Right? RIGHT???

The Trump Department of Interior is forcing out dozens of its most senior career staff, giving them two weeks to accept involuntary reassignments or leave. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and more. www.notus.org/agencies/int...

Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet

Radar reconstruction of today's (8/22) plume development from the #HawkFire in Reno, NV. Notable transition to a hydraulic like flow late in the day (~00 UTC) linked to dangerous run into town. We were conducting onsite lidar scans during the transition.

Britain's universities are changing. Far more of their 18-21yo undergrads will have to live in the parental home. Yet whole regions are becoming subject deserts and are going to have far less HE. So stupid: no plan, no policy, no-one in charge. Dumb as rocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’” www.wired.com/story/the-su...

Arguments about AI among people who experience it as 1) a tool used by students that completely devalues a career's hard work on effective teaching, 2) fast solutions to coding problems, or 3) identifying customized cancer treatments are not going to be very productive.

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

moving somewhere off grid is look better and better.

My office last Friday :)

SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

“Washington is looking at the Imperial Valley and saying that’s just a desert, that’s just wasteland.” A classic example of what @tracibrynne.bsky.social calls Wastelanding: rendering places extractable & pollutable by defining them as waste places.

Newsom has done a lot of shady stuff while in office, but working with utilities to limit liability for fires their equipment caused (usually due to poor maintenance or some other form of negligence) is just a major betrayal to the people he’s supposed to serve. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I may borrow this for next time I go to the field off grid.