Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)
🌍🔮🌡️☣️🦟🏳️🌈 Prof. Medical Geography, Co-Director, FL Climate Institute, Assoc Dir, APPEX, building tools to anticipate climate-health impacts to prepare us for the future! Mum and wife, enjoyer of cheese. Rarely serious. She/her. Queer. All opinions are my own.
- TGIF has been replaced by high volume One Day More.
- Great talk on insurance - what? No really, this is a great talk on the insurance industry in the face of climate change. 2026 Climate Communications event today at UF.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8 Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
- What climate insights are policymakers missing? If you’re working on new or emerging climate research, now’s the time to surface it. Help shape the 2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science. Submit by 31 Jan 2026: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)all these emails between academics and Epstein are more testimony of what women in academia have to contend with 😡
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)While there *is* evidence of both "wetter wets" & "drier dries" in warming climate, temperatures are going almost universally in one direction: Up. We're just not seeing "colder colds." Some interesting potential Arctic-related caveats still remain TBD, but that doesn't change big picture.
- Is climate change responsible for increasingly frequent or severe cold events? The evidence suggests it is not. Instead, the impact of climate change is warmer winters and less severe cold events. @hausfath.bsky.social has a great post on The Climate Brink talking about this.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey showed 25% of respondents had actually applied for a job in another state. Now a Chronicle survey says half of faculty nationwide have at least considered it. Deep morale issues. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)One of the most surprising things I've learned from my research is that "how hot it's gotten so far" doesn't tell us much about "how hot it's going to get eventually". Long-ago, really weird climates can tell us a lot more about where we're headed.
- Recent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/... And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10.... Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.
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- The only ice on campus I want to see.
- Great thread on a new measles x vaxn modeling study - lots of Oh! moments in here. Really great communication, @malar0ne.bsky.social. Thanks.
- In a new preprint, we combine modeling with school-level vaccine data to contextualize the risk of 'breakthrough infections' and impacts on the ongoing US measles outbreak. #idsky #episky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)NSF's "Dear Colleagues" letter about NCAR omits any mention of climate science, opting for language around 'critical weather infrastructure' etc. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Some 2,255 measles cases were recorded last year, marking the highest point in over 30 years.
- New @carbonbrief.org post about the 10NICS - communicating climate science of all kinds is hard, and this is a great thing explainer for our 10 insights. Thanks @krisebi.bsky.social and Prof Fuss! Really pleased for my dengue map contribution to be in a CB post, and communicated so nicely
- NEW – Guest post: 10 key climate science ‘insights’ from 2025 | @krisebi.bsky.social and Prof Sabine Fuss Read here: buff.ly/RuEa0Nl
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Congratulations to @standupforscience.bsky.social for receiving a 2025 prize from the 'Union Rationaliste' in France, for their work in service of science and democracy. The award is deserved recognition to the team who propelled this organization in <1 year. union-rationaliste.org/remise-du-pr...
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Bluesky has actually been remarkably successful as an app within a relatively short time frame. Expecting it to have the same metrics as some of the biggest apps in the world is stupid. What really matters is having content that people care about, especially if it travels outside the platform itself
- Every sentence of this speech snippet is loud at the moment. I'm trying to live the last sentence the best I can. Nourish your piece of this.
- We are growing frozen veg. It's colder here than I've ever experienced - but I won't make claims about patterns or outliers since it's not my place to do it. Delightfully un-normal frost in the garden. The hawks are out and about and the day is progressing.
- Admiring various cranes at @epi.ufl.edu today
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
- Pleased to have contributed to this one, presented at UNFCC COP meeting in Belem - now published in Global Sustainability. Don't even start with me on the horrific irony of the timing. We must keep producing evidence and communicating science.
- Ten New Insights in #Climate Science 2025 published @universitypress.cambridge.org Global Sustainability: doi.org/10.1017/sus.... Report @futureearth.bsky.social 10insightsclimate.science
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)The bar for keynote speakers at ESA just went stratospheric
- I am sad and angry. I have many things to say, but not yet. I need to manage my sad first.
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- Happy penultimate! The weather shift is making a nice sunset this evening.
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- This is a very valuable thread. Learn something.
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- Yayyyyyy
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- Sir Idris Elba. I'm so here for this. Would rather be there for it, but I'll take it.
- Hi from the Ocklawaha river, aka the drawdown of the Rodman Reservoir, and the drowned forest.
- Merry Christmas from us to you - wandering downtown after midnight. Yes, I'm the shortest. By a lot.
- Everybody else gets renewbles. "You could tell watching the climate talks this year in Belém, Brazil, that people are sort of moving past the US, like we’re sort of receding into the rearview mirror." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Happy Solstice - may your long night be restful, and the promise of longer days raise your spirits.
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- Me: oh look, there must be funding over there.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
- Still unclear on my feelings about taking 6-7 hours to take two very short flights north (NC) then south (LA) to get somewhere I could drive to on sketchy highways in 15 hours, and cannot take a train or bus to. (Probably could string buses together and get there in 2.5 days)
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- Really pleased to share this website with you all for our Wellcome Trust funded TACTIC project developing tools, analyses, engagement, and communication around health impact assessment. Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more! www.tactic-tools.org
- It is that time of the year where I have to update my password for all work applications. l33t saved me again so I can rock a totally appropriate password. <ahem>
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Learn about using the VectorByte Databases, VecTraits and VecDyn, to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!!
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- Imagine paying for Netflix every month, then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly. That’d be STUPID right? This is a post about health insurance. (h/t Salaam Bhatti)
- Getting into the spirit of the season.
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)I think about this tweet a lot
- I attended a lovely invited @wikipedia.org page editing meeting today. It's been a while since I did one, and relearning how it works was great. Apologies for topic vagueness, but just giving a shout out to such a highly used resource in health. Yes, really.
- Great to see this one out - one of the original questions on this #NSF BII journey - are wildlife more or less 'zoonotic' as they become more endangered? Read on below... Congrats to Kayla and the OG team!
- NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)A fantastic effort from the @carbonbrief.org team pulling this together. A great resource summarising major outcomes and process at COP30. A must read 👇👇👇 And just a day after the gavel came down. Impressive. I bet next year, they'll beat the COP closing plenary :)
- NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX #COP30
- More of this.
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- Tis the season - got flu and covid shots as a family on Friday evening. Software upgrades are being installed.
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said. Read more: cnn.it/4o796sL
- While this is a bit of a harsh way to put it, it is not a false scare. The importance of resource allocation to health, to health infrastructure, to basic staffing, is misunderstood by the people with the resources. I appreciate the efforts to retain core services.
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Environmental Scientist position available with the City of San Diego #WSN2025 www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...
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- It's great to be back on campus!
- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)An important post about the climate science-policy interface: 👇👇👇
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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- Reposted by Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)Today @who.int released their 2025 #tuberculosis report, and figures remain unacceptable: 1.2 million children and young adolescents fell ill in 2024, and a staggering 43% were never diagnosed and thus missed lifesaving treatment. Act now to close the deadly gap! msfaccess.org/msf-responds...
