Sarah Cooley

I'm excited that 2026 will be the start of an exciting new chapter for me. Can't wait to join the great folks at ESIP in making Earth science more collaborative and actionable!

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼‍♀️

👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.

Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.

The Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever. Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social eos.org/articles/war...

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers" Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪

If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should! They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching. They're inexpensive and highly effective. Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.

The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...

The national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms." The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.

Looking for trusted science, expert insight, or story-ready resources? Follow Climate Central’s staff on BlueSky for the latest on climate science, data, and storytelling tools 👇 go.bsky.app/2RstRoD

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

I'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager. Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:

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Zero stars, do not enjoy this news

🚨Less than one in 12 African cities is covered by more than one piece of climate change research, and many are completely absent from the evidence base altogether, with major implications for climate assessments. A hugely significant study from @efesce.bsky.social and colleagues, in Nature Cities.

If you are a fan of STEM and compost like I am, you’ll enjoy this post and the comments too.

The #IPCC, established in 1988, is the United Nations body that assesses the science related to #climatechange. The #IPCC has 195 member countries & over 200 observer organisations. Here’s how nations use IPCC reports to shape climate policies in their country. youtu.be/71jiAm1bGJk?...

"There's a lot of evidence that shows that the stronger a community's social cohesion is, the better chances they have of resilience from climate hazards," said Rishi Sugla, a  climate resilience scientist at the University of Washington. www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

I joined my community’s homeowners association last year in hopes I could help build community in my own little corner of the world… this essay speaks to me!

If you are attending the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC, make sure you do not miss the town hall "Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Removal Through Ocean Negative Carbon Emission Approaches". #mCDR #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊

A sea smoothed ball of Goniatite fossils. The shells of ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam the seas over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland.

I asked people for their marine biology career advice questions, and I answered them a long with a team of colleagues. Please enjoy this post, which is by far the longest thing ever published on Southern Fried Science. Please share far and wide. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 www.southernfriedscience.com/marine-biolo...

Frontiers | Development of deep-sea mining and its environmental impacts: a review

🌊 This is why I find the carbon cycle so interesting. Because it’s at the center of everything! Looking forward to reading this.

Reuters: Energy storage "expanding exponentially" thanks to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, which don't require cobalt or nickel.

@co2ley.bsky.social and I just explained ocean alkalinity enhancement to Kim Stanley Robinson, not something one does every day.

Among all the mayhem: truly historic news. Western nations need to understand that China is leading on decarbonisation. Doubtful that govts will concede it publicly, but this is where we are.

What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do... Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.

🧨 New study: #DeepSeaMining isn’t the treasure chest it claims to be. Turns out, it’s more like burning cash at the bottom of the ocean for metals we don’t even need. 💸🌊Nature’s verdict: high risk, low reward, bad idea. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

🌊 Fantastic news! AGU and AMS will help get the messages out that NCA6 was going to convey! news.agu.org/press-releas...

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠

Keep the free press! Donate (if you can) to help make up the loss of the 5-10% funding that this will cause!

🌊 Great big congratulations to @scottdoney.bsky.social as he is elected into the National Academy of Sciences! Scott has been a key mentor for me and so many others, teaching us to always ask hard questions and see through flimsy science. 👏

This is important for people who use Apple AirPlay a lot. Update your devices' software!