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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc, often for @oaklandreviewofbooks. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
The Contrarian @contrariannews.org Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social Science journalist (for hire!). Book person, cat person, Georgetown alumna, etc. In NYC. Signal: mbartels.07. she/her http://meghanbartels.github.io/portfolio/
Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social Currently: National politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME Magazine. Always: Trying my best. Sometimes: Coming up short.
Email me at avesoulis@cir[dot]org
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social Contributor @washingtonmonthly.com. Bylines @theprospect & elsewhere. Elected DNC Member from CA. Progressive reformist. Dad of two. I run a qualitative research firm.
Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 physicist, philosopher, lead https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/, author of Climate InJustice https://greystonebooks.com/collections/current-affairs-politics/products/climate-injustice, she/her
kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering corruption, government, and public accountability. Reach me at kali.bomeli.reporting@gmail.com
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social U of Winnipeg ecologist; behavioural ecology; wildlife biology; fisheries; families; birds; climate change; naturalist.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social - Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News
- Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero
- Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast
- Book https://akshatrathi.com/book
- akshat.rathi@pm.me
Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social climate/energy journalist
author of GASLIGHT and FIRE AND ICE
words in @nytimes.com @nybooks.com @yalee360.bsky.social
@undark.org and more
website: jonathanmingle.com
signal contact: jmingle.74
Steven Kahn @sekahn.bsky.social Physician-scientist interested in diabetes. Opinions are my own.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com Lifelong sky watcher • Publisher of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) each month since January 2000: skymaps.com/tesm/ • Interests: Astronomy outreach • Astro-imaging • Supernovae | Career scientist (retired)
Kym Thalassoudis PhD
Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social climate scientist | extreme temperatures, atmospheric dynamics, water cycle | Reader @ U. St Andrews, PhD from MIT | he/him | 🇮🇪 in 🏴
https://sites.google.com/view/climate-dynamics-lab
Beni Stocker @stineb.bsky.social Heliocentrist human being. Soit béni.
https://geco-group.org
Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social prof. climate science & policy | Imperial College London | 1.5C/net zero/carbon budget/pathways/justice | IPCC & UNEP lead author | ESABCC member | father
Seraphine Hauser @seraphinehauser.bsky.social Postdoctoral research scientist working in Atmospheric Sciences at ETH Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭| Former Postdoc at OU and UW-Madison 🇺🇸| PhD at Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology 🇩🇪| Views are my own! (she/her)
Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social Asst. Professor at Wageningen University. Investigating worst-case heat and drought and its impacts.
Former MSCA Fellow at ETH and IPSL, PhD at MPI for Meteorology. (She/her)
Laibao Liu @laibaoliu.bsky.social 
Quentin Lejeune @qlejeune.bsky.social Climate scientist with an obsession for making climate information actionable, both within and beyond the climate science community. Also fan of bikepacking, David Bowie, mushroom picking...
Dominik Büeler @dombueeler.bsky.social Atmospheric scientist at MeteoSwiss | Previously at ETH Zürich and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social Lecturer in Atmospheric Dynamics at ETH Zurich 🇮🇹🇨🇭
Tackling climate research problems from a weather-centered perspective 🌦🌀🌡
Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social Group leader - EawagㅣTrust in science, science-policy interface, environmental psychology
Konstantin Weber @konstantinweber.bsky.social PhD in Climate Science @ethzurich.bsky.social | 🌍 Understanding what's going on and what to do about it | 🏔 Mountain lover | Opinions = my own | ❤️ or 🔄 ≠ endorsement
Also here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantin-weber/
Lukas Brunner @lukasbrunner.bsky.social Climate scientist @uni-hamburg.de: future projections, extremes, uncertainties | Formerly @ethz.ch @univie.ac.at | PhD @uni-graz.at | Python nerd | Hiking enthusiast
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange #OpenScience
More: https://lukasbrunner.github.io
Mark Liniger @markliniger.bsky.social Switzerland-wide, science based operational weather and climate services for society and authorities.
HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social Rene Orth's research group on Modeling Biogeochemical Systems & Hydrology-Biosphere-Climate Interactions @uni-freiburg.de
https://ecoclim.uni-freiburg.de/team/prof-dr-rene-orth
https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/bgi/hbci
Massimiliano Zappa (it’s fun again) @hydrologywsl.bsky.social share here mostly thoughts with the hydrologist community - #NaturalHazards #Hydrology #Drought #Flood #HEPEX #Trockenheit - My opinions - www.drought.ch- D dbresch @dbresch.bsky.social Professor at ETH, views my own
Andreia F. S. Ribeiro @afsribeiro.bsky.social Climate researcher @UFZ with focus on climate extremes and compound events. http://www.afsribeiro.com/
@sarahschoengart.bsky.social @sarahschoengart.bsky.social 
Fulden Batibeniz @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at OCCR, University of Bern, climate scientist, travel enthusiast, nature, animal, book lover...
🌡️Climate change isn't a distant threat—it's a public health crisis now
Jonathan Wille @jonathanwille.bsky.social ❄️ Polar meteorologist and climatologist.
Studying #polar #meteorology #climatology with focus on atmospheric rivers, mass balance impacts, and high-res climate modeling.
Post-doc researcher at Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté.
Peter Greve @hydroclimpeter.bsky.social Hydroclimatologist @GERICS @hereon | Leading the UWaRes Project | Interested in water-human-climate feedback
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social Earth system data sciences Prof. @UniLeipzig @RSC4Earth related to @UFZ_de @iDiv @SCADS.AI, worried about climate extremes, biodiversity, the human-environment nexus and the 🌎's future in general. Editor with https://www.earth-observation.net/
Sebastian Sippel @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social Junior Professor for Climate Attribution at @meteoleipzig.bsky.social 
Jakob Zscheischler @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social Earth system scientist @UFZ & Prof @TUdresden, expert on compound weather and climate events
Francesco Giardina @francescogiardina.bsky.social Researcher at ETH Zurich focusing on plant-water interactions. Alumn at EPFL and Columbia University. Alpinist, yogi, dancer (he/him).
#Ecophysiology #Climate #AI
Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social Climate scientist. Postdoc at ETH Zürich, former postdoc at IIASA
Speciality: #climate, #emulators, #extremes, interface human/Earth systems
#TIME100 Climate
LinkedIn: YannQuilcaille
Posts are my own.
Cornelia Schwierz @corneliaschwierz.bsky.social Working for climate at MeteoSwiss.
🧀🥨⛈🌤🌬🏔🎿🚴🏻♀️🧘🏻♂️🎬
Born 328ppm 📈
http://linkedin.com/in/cornelia-schwierz-27a8134
Isabelle Bey @isabellebey.bsky.social 
Olivia Martius @omartius.bsky.social Working at the interface of weather and climate research at the University of Bern, Professor for climate impact research, Co-director of the Mobiliar Lab for Natural Risks, interested in everything related to atmospheric dynamics
Mischa Croci-Maspoli @croci-maspoli.bsky.social Head Climate Division MeteoSwiss
Markus Ammann @mammann63.bsky.social Scientist, atmospheric chemist, concerned about environment and climate, mountaineer
Robin Noyelle @robinnoyelle.bsky.social Post-doc @ETH, climate extremes under climate change, heatwaves and droughts, use of rare events algorithms
Claudia Mohr @morecloud.bsky.social Atmospheric scientist, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at @psich.bsky.social, Professor of Aerosol Chemistry at @ethzurich.bsky.social
Basil Kraft @bask0.bsky.social Scientist@ETH | Deep learning in hydrology
Gergana Gyuleva @ggyuleva.bsky.social PhD Student in Climate Physics
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich interested in atmosphere-ocean dynamics of climate variability & change; nature enthusiast; amateur photographer
Nora Fahrenbach @norafahrenbach.bsky.social PhD student in Climate Dynamics @ethzurich.bsky.social | curious about forests, atmosphere-biosphere interactions and aerosols | sport enthusiast 🧗♀️🏒⛷️
@ryanpad.bsky.social @ryanpad.bsky.social 
Yasser Haddad @yasserhaddad.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷, born at 364 ppm || PhD Student in Climate Science at ETH Zürich || data science, climate science, energy and policy || he/him
Manuela Brunner @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social Professor for Hydrology and Climate Impacts at ETH Zurich and SLF.
Interested in hydrological extremes and their changes.
#hydrology, #extremes, #floods, #droughts, #wildfires, #heatwaves
https://www.slf.ch/en/staff/brunnerm/
Michael Windisch @michaelgwindisch.bsky.social Climate scientist @ ETH Zurich
Trees - Mountains - Carbon
Cyril Brunner @brunncy.bsky.social Klimaforscher @ETH #NettoNull #netzero Strategien, #CO2Entfernung #CDR #CarbonDioxideRemoval #Negativemissionen
Luna Bloin-Wibe @lunabloin.bsky.social Hi, I'm new here! || PhD student in Climate Physics at @ethzurich.bsky.social || Franco-Norwegian, she/her
Lukas Gudmundsson @lukasgudmundsson.bsky.social Climate and freshwater scientist
Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social Climate scientist investigating weather and climate extremes, professor at ETH Zurich (@ethzurich.bsky.social), fascinated by weather and climate, IPCC AR6 lead author
Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦, ETH professor🇨🇭, atmospheric chemist, researcher, educator, wanderer, and wonderer
Reto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social Professor for climate physics at @ethzurich.bsky.social.
Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich, IPCC WGI Vice-chair.
#Climate #Extremes #Land.
Citizen/mum/scientist. Personal account.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf
Twitter/X: @SISeneviratne
https://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/sonia
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Katie Worth @katieworth.bsky.social Reporter etc
Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Author "Brought To You By" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on the fossil fuel industry. I also write about the science of Star Trek.
Read my latest at ProPublica:
https://www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Emma @emma99520.bsky.social 
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social A project of @gadflypod.bsky.social that tracks fascist bills, explains why they are fascist, and notes which Democrats vote for them. Check out our work at fdt.beehiiv.com
Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. Jesus Fan. She. | cmclymer@gmail.com | I write about politics, religion, and culture in my award-winning blog/newsletter Charlotte's Web Thoughts: charlotteclymer.substack.com
Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social Working to make stuff without baking the planet. Penchant for well-informed opinions. Industry Program Director, ClimateWorks Foundation. Views my own.
Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social Combat veteran (Marines + Army). Friend of the working Mainer, foe of the oligarchy. Husband. Candidate for U.S. Senate.
www.grahamforsenate.com
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
Institute for Energy and the Environment @iee-vermontlaw.bsky.social Home to Vermont Law and Graduate School's nation leading energy law and policy program. Educating students to change our energy systems since 2005. Can be found in Eaton House and anywhere energy nerd conversations are happening. 
Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud "an upbeat atmospheric science professor" -- theverge | sometimes it snows in April | Fort Collins, Colorado | personal account
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social Climate scientist, geologist, and catastrophe modeler, Liberty Mutual. Posts on all things hurricane, wildfire, flood, earthquake, tornado. Sassy takes are mine not employer's.
📍Oakland, CA
Website: hereidk.strikingly.com
Luke Runyon @lukerunyon.bsky.social Here for watershed moments. Journalist covering water in the western U.S. Co-director of The Water Desk at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism.
📍 Grand Junction, Colorado
waterdesk.org
Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social Mainly focused on covering extreme weather events worldwide. Also interested in climate dynamics, geohazards and satellite remote sensing.
Also on X: x.com/wxnb_
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Emily Sandoval @sandovalemily.bsky.social Trying to make the world better connected, more sustainable and equitable. Posting from Longmont, Colorado.
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social Texas State Rep, mom, attorney, and advocate, running for governor to fight back against the corruption that’s robbing working families of the Texas we deserve.
Texans first.
🔗 ginafortexas.com
Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social We're a news service that helps you understand climate change and what you can do about it. Get climate solutions in your inbox: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/newsletters/
Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social Executive Director of Campaign for New York Health, VP Legislation National Organization for Women NYS, LGBTQ+ nonprofit co-founder, and former congressional candidate in NY03
Brian Eckhouse @brianreports.bsky.social Head of Bloomberg’s power, weather and natural disasters Americas team | Dad/concierge to a loquacious toddler | New Yorker in Los Angeles | Thoughts on the Mets and bagels mine and mine alone
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social Politics reporter, guitar botherer. Luckiest hub and dad to Mr. Bugs aka The Moopus aka Mr. Moops or Mr. Moopus. Former @thedailybeast
Tips: roger.sollenberger@protonmail.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44