Femke de Jong

This is what climate change looks like... The evidence is here. We need to make it impossible to ignore. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

We will keep working An open letter from authors of the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report "We call on the countries of the Panel to overcome their political differences so that we can deliver the IPCC reports the world needs to hear." zenodo.org/records/2346...

Ok yeah since multiple people asked, I'm personally fine. But no, Indonesia as a whole is not fine. We haven't been fine for a while. I'm actually surprised this didn't make international news earlier.

Super El Niño transforms colour of the Pacific Ocean as vital plankton vanish www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

FYI - fewer phytoplankton can mean less carbon sinking out of surface waters...with consequences for how our planet stores carbon. During the 2016 El Niño, carbon export dropped by ~50% in the central equatorial Pacific. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊 How the ‘Super El Niño’ is changing the colour of the ocean ...it's turning bluer El Niño weakens the winds that bring nutrients to the surface. Fewer nutrients → fewer phytoplankton. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Aarde warmt met huidig wereldwijd klimaatbeleid veel sterker op dan afgesproken www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

"The default position when it comes to communicating #overshoot should be that we expect temperatures to remain at whatever level for not just decades but centuries." #ClimateEmergency

The report is now available here: wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/cor...

During COVID emissions fell by ~5% 2026? 👇🏻

Today in London (10am) the UNEP releases its Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return They say the chance of holding warming to below 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot is gone. To get on the "lowest possible" scenario pathway (ie 1.7-1.8°C) emissions must fall by ~6.4% annually until 2030.

(Exclusive, from me) An all-staff work review reveals some angst about what the public is not being told… reneweconomy.com.au/wandering-to...

Scientists, fishermen want feds to keep funding deep-ocean observation system

Although formal DEI practices and programs in the US have largely been dismantled, your interactions with your colleagues still matter, and our paper suggests they may matter a lot more than you may think.

Have an LLM summarize the paper for you if you must, but please read the quotes yourself (p.8-9). We included dozens in the paper and many more in the supplement.

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.

And many women described a second harm: reporting devaluation and having their institutions ignore it or make it worse.

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

Learning how to do careful qualitative research was one of the highlights of my PhD. It was emotional and often difficult to read these responses, but it gave me a clearer view of the problem than my work analyzing employment records did.

We enlisted help from senior author and sociologist @larivera.bsky.social, who patiently taught me how to do qualitative research and convinced me of its importance.

6,500 academics across 300 US institutions responded to the prompt. I was absolutely floored. As a computer scientist, my instinct was to analyze these responses with NLP-based methods. But after I read a few, it didn’t feel like we could do justice to these responses without reading them ourselves.

We wanted to understand why academics leave their jobs (doi.org/10.1126/scia...). We asked: “Tell us your story: what needs/needed to be different about your position?” I thought we would get a few hundred responses and I’d learn a bit more about the context of academic retention for myself.

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...

2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits eos.org/research-and...

2026 global SST anomaly has now broken the previous (Jan 24) record by 0.04C. Given 3 years of warming ~0.3/decade, we should expect it to beat the old record by ~0.1C before the El Niño peaks (~Dec/Jan): pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

5. Modification of Biogeochemical Flows 6. Ocean Acidification, and 7. Introduction of Novel Entities These are outside the Safe Operating Space. What have we done. Report: publications.pik-pot... 2/2

ICYMI The current assessment shows that SEVEN of the nine Planetary Boundaries have been transgressed. They are: 1. Climate Change 2. Change in Biosphere Integrity 3. Land System Change 4. Freshwater Change 1/2

🌍 We zadelen onze kinderen op met een klimaatcrisis die zij niet veroorzaken. Nature onderzoek: bij 3,5°C opwarming krijgt 92% van de kinderen geboren in 2020 te maken met ongekende blootstelling aan hittegolven. Klimaatactie is gezondheidszorg én onze morele plicht. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

October 10, 1977 – famous scientist Solly Zuckerman writes to top UK Civil Servant, warning about climate change allouryesterdays.info/2022/10/09/o...

The AMOC is a circulation of ocean currents that shapes the climate of the Northern Hemisphere. Iceland will be greatly affected by the changes. Hildigunnur Thorsteinsson, Director General of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, attended a seminar today ... 1/2

A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. Just out — my long read on European governments waking up to the threat of a possible collapse of the AMOC, the ocean currents that keep our continent's climate mild: www.politico.eu/article/clim...

🌊 SWMS www.swmsmarinescience.com

ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

🌊 Workshop: "Towards a synchronized Antarctic circumpolar moored ocean observatory" 📅 4 December 2026 | 09:00–12:00 CET 💻 Online 📝 Register by 18 October 🔗 buff.ly/5iwCfiG #SYNCHRONY and #AntarcticaInSync are bringing together teams operating long-term ocean moorings around Antarctica

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.