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(machine) learning @ MPI BGC ✨ https://vitusbenson.github.io/

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How should decision-makers address extreme weather hazards when considering complex climate risks? At #EGU26, Ben Newell, @vitusbenson.bsky.social, @janasillmann.bsky.social and I are convening a session on interdisciplinary approaches. Abstract deadline 15 Jan! www.egu26.eu/session/57683

01.12.2025 03:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Vitus Benson on atmospheric transport and inverse modeling of CO2. #aicc #eurips #eurips2025

06.12.2025 13:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Our preprint is now live and open for discussion on Open Research Europe!

Empowering ECRs to Make Research Projects Flourish: Lessons from a European Research Project

Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.12688/ope...

17.10.2025 05:47 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
David Greybeard, a wild chimpanzee, gets a handout of bananas from author Goodall, who studies the apes under a National Geographic Society grant. This scene near
her camp represents a triumph for Miss Goodall; at first the animals fled if she came
within 500 yards. Knapsack holds camera and notebook. She carries a whistle in her
pocket to summon searchers in case of accident in the rugged Tanganyika hills.

David Greybeard, a wild chimpanzee, gets a handout of bananas from author Goodall, who studies the apes under a National Geographic Society grant. This scene near her camp represents a triumph for Miss Goodall; at first the animals fled if she came within 500 yards. Knapsack holds camera and notebook. She carries a whistle in her pocket to summon searchers in case of accident in the rugged Tanganyika hills.

Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...

01.10.2025 20:15 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1

An amazing bunch to follow. If you’re interested in latest science, events or webinars about emerging risks from climate extremes, have a look at the @riskkan.bsky.social starter pack.

@iiasa.ac.at @climate.columbia.edu

16.09.2025 11:33 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Open Call for Risk KAN Steering Committee Members

Open Call for Risk KAN Steering Committee Members

Open call for new Steering Committee Members at @riskkan.bsky.social.

We invite experts in relevant fields to self-nominate for the next term: www.risk-kan.org/about-riskka...

Find out more at www.risk-kan.org and feel free to reach out in case of questions!

@iiasa.ac.at @climate.columbia.edu

04.09.2025 08:11 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
W1-TT-W2 Artificial Intelligence - Georg-August-University Göttingen Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

📢 We have an opening for a tenure track assistant professor position (W1 t.t. W2) in AI in our CS dept @uni-goettingen.de, Germany.
⏰ Application deadline: Sept 19
🗣️ Please share!
uni-goettingen.de/en/697924.html

15.08.2025 10:46 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
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🚨New paper 🚨

We are happy to announce that our paper “Deep Learning meets Teleconnections: Improving S2S Predictions for European Winter Weather” has been published at Machine Learning: Earth @ioppublishing.bsky.social

📄 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

💻 github.com/philine-bomm...

05.08.2025 07:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

30.06.2025 23:11 👍 869 🔁 638 💬 40 📌 112
We don't know what's happening with forests
We don't know what's happening with forests YouTube video by Simon Clark

So @esa.int invited to watch their new Biomass satellite launch, and it's one of the most amazing pieces of science I've seen
youtu.be/YfqvsVgtThQ

20.06.2025 16:04 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

🚨Preprint alert 🚨

Why limit our view to a single concept when neurons potentially encode multiple concepts? 👀

Check out 🔎PRISM🔎, our new multi-concept interpretability framework for LLMs.

Congratulations to @lkopf.bsky.social and the team!

📄: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538

20.06.2025 07:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

In general i agree, i do wonder though, don‘t you think in this case its not so bad because they do not produce a global map, but just one for england, and they do use a lot of survey samples from all over england?

20.05.2025 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Constraining the time of emergence of anthropogenic signal in the global land carbon sink Abstract. The global land carbon sink has increased since the preindustrial period, driven by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change. However, detecting these anthropogenic signal...

How long does it take until we detect forced signals in global and regional land carbon fluxes?

And can we use dynamical adjustment to reduce the noise and shorten the detection time?

Check out LiNa's paper 👇
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Co-advised by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social

20.05.2025 10:28 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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New paper from our group!
Winkler & Sierra propose a new path forward to Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) for Earth system modeling—capturing time- and state-dependencies critical for understanding carbon–climate feedbacks.
🌍🌀 Read more in Geophysical Research Letters: tinyurl.com/bdff3b6y

13.05.2025 08:33 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

You‘re not alone 😅

09.05.2025 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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📯Calling all AI x Climate researchers!

The CMCC Workshop on AI for Carbon (June 30-July 2, Lake Como) just opened their poster submissions!

The venue and list of speakers are absolutely stunning 😍
More info: www.cmcc.it/lectures_con...

#AI4Climate #CallForPosters @climatechangeai.bsky.social

11.04.2025 12:18 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 4

It‘s not just that the CO2 curves tell us how much CO2 is rising, but crucially, with the global network (I guess ~50% from noaa stations), we can estimate how the ecosystems and the ocean are responding to this increase. Loosing this would be like going back 30yrs in time…

06.05.2025 17:06 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...

Must-read @thebulletin.org article by Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling: The Keeling curve, which has continuously tracked atmospheric CO2 levels for *67* years, has always been vulnerable to funding ebbs and flows—but under Trump II, is facing its most dire threat yet

thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...

06.05.2025 14:27 👍 64 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 10
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Thank you to all the speakers and attendees to our #EGU25 session on interdisciplinary approaches to climate risk for weather extremes. Here is @janasillmann.bsky.social giving her excellent invited talk and outlining the importance of considering impacts when connecting science and decision making.

30.04.2025 08:52 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Our #EGU25 contribution for tomorrow: 🌍
🗓️ Wed, 30 Apr | 16:15–18:00 CEST |📍 Hall X5 | Poster X5.93
📊 Recalibrating neural network estimates of net ecosystem exchange in a Bayesian synthesis inversion
Poster by @vitusbenson.bsky.social et al. | EGU25-17329

29.04.2025 15:05 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday @egu.eu :
- ITS2.6/CL0.4 with fantastic contributions on Extreme Climate Risks: Assessments & Forecasts @janasillmann.bsky.social @timraupach.com
- AS3.44 with amazing studies about Greenhouse gases, in many cases leveraging AI @sanamnv.bsky.social @kaihcohrs.bsky.social

Come by! 😇

29.04.2025 15:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great @riskkan.bsky.social symposium and working group kick-off at @iiasa.ac.at yesterday.

In case you are at @egu.eu feel free to reach out to me or @marleenderuiter.bsky.social to learn more and get involved.

@futureearth.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social
@lamont.columbia.edu

29.04.2025 07:33 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

the threat to long term observations to me seems the worst of this all. It will be difficult for europe or china to step in on this one

13.04.2025 07:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the Fluxers Podcast · FLUXNET Outreach Working Group · Bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and those whose work or lives are influenced by flux data.

Just discovered that @fluxnet.bsky.social has a podcast now! 🤓🤩

open.spotify.com/show/5Czt3zA...

09.04.2025 08:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow this looks cool! Now I want to be a student again :D

03.04.2025 09:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats!!

27.03.2025 18:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats!!

25.03.2025 09:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How AI may improve Early Warning Systems. Curious to hear your thoughts!

18.03.2025 07:53 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

14.03.2025 19:43 👍 984 🔁 553 💬 127 📌 185

Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

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