Willem Huiskamp
Oceanography and paleoclimate scientist at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social |formerly @ccrc.bsky.social | Loves photography | AI hater
- OpenAI crashing *this* year?! Don't make me hope...
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampA study at U Mass Amherst finds that Elon Musk manipulated Twitter to bolster the voice of the Neo Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) before the German 2025 parliamentary elections. No surprises here. groups.cs.umass.edu/equate-ml/20...
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampAntarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampIf you still support fossil fuels, bioenergy fuels, nuclear, carbon capture, or bioenergy fuels, you are on the wrong side of science and history.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampAbout 80% of 🇦🇺's contribution to global emissions comes from 🇦🇺's MASSIVE Coal & Gas exports "the September quarter in 2025 saw Australia’s highest volume of thermal coal exports: EVER" Coal Australia spent nearly $4M at the last election & there're 42 NEW coal mining projects in the pipeline 🤯
- I still stand by this quote from @carlbergstrom.com "Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth doing by the scientist."
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampJust out today: The report “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping” reviews the current state of science on the risk of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) shutdown. 🌊 Conclusion: it's "a serious risk which requires a dedicated risk management framework". pub.norden.org/temanord2026...
- There's a new paper assessing an LLM paper-synthesis tool. I give you one of the most hilarious caveats I've ever seen in a paper: "...annotators may have focused more on the overall quality of writing instead of carefully evaluating factual correctness or citation accuracy. "
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampWilliam Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- "The climate crisis could trigger a global financial crash as temperatures rise beyond 2C" Where's mister '15 degrees would be a small GDP hit' these days?
- Climate crisis could cause global financial crash as economic models fail to capture risk @stuti.bsky.social
- Reposted by Willem Huiskampjournalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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- Reposted by Willem HuiskampHow should climate science and policy respond to a potential exceedance of 1.5°C? We provide our perspective on this in a new @Nature comment 🔗 nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00247-y led by Gaurav Ganti with Sabine Fuss, @joerirogelj.bsky.social, @setupelz.bsky.social & Keywan Riahi 1/
- If you ever needed another reason to boycott OpenAI, here is hopefully the last one.
- Remember, in any issue, the media is always half the problem
- While this was blatantly obvious for years now to many, to those in the U.S. still thinking that elections will save you, I think Mark Carney said it best: "Nostalgia is not a strategy".
- And it's going to keep getting hotter, and hotter, and hotter...
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampThe anger people have at media institutions and college administrators can’t be detached from this, it’s not just that people can perceive cowardice it’s that they see others with more on the line doing more to stand up for their values than the people who have been trusted to safeguard things
- He was threatening invasion of a NATO partner nation, boycotting the world cup should be the bare minimum
- "After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts" lol. lmao even.
- Reposted by Willem Huiskamp[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampCoalition can’t agree on how to be racially intolerant but not antisemitic, falls apart under the strain
- Reposted by Willem Huiskamp"European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensions" We in the climate space have been warning against this for years now. The Adults In The Room all kept insisting we had to switch gas providers for "energy security". Well, look
- Wonder what's happening back in Austra... 😐
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampFrom the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free. Israel is an evil nation led by murderers.
- “Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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- Reposted by Willem HuiskampOkay look - the dunking on this as self-serving etc is all good (really) but I think there is actually a meaningful insight here into why X becoming a child abuse material generator basically had near-zero impact on a huge chunk of the progressive / left base still using it as a comms platform
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- Reposted by Willem HuiskampScientist sackings ... 130-150 to go from the 715 Environment scientist pool? @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social in an FOI fight on #CSIRO (No funding issues for #AUKUS !) #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-science-...
- That's essentially what their selling point to the electorate has been the last few years "Hey, could be worse. Be thankful for what you get".
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampToday’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!
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- It's hard to process that we're somehow living in a discount Tom Clancy novel. Frankly, I'm terrified.
- [looking at my apartment which rarely drops below 26 in the summer]
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- Reposted by Willem HuiskampI'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here! earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well. And, like the website: no ads! Links below ⬇️
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- Reposted by Willem HuiskampBloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse
- Reposted by Willem Huiskampone takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampAs @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.
- Whew, and here I thought aviation emissions were going to be a problem
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampSo little was known 18 years ago when I started researching climate comms. I'm blown away by how much we now know. This study, led by the incomparable Jan Voelkel with his all-star band, and released today in @natclimate.nature.com confirms that many distinct message strategies can work...
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampFrance at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
- Reposted by Willem Huiskamp2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
- Reposted by Willem Huiskampthis is why you must always oppose every act an imperialist country does, because then they’ll soon come for everyone
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- Just incredibly spineless. If this is the standard of response to a blatantly illegal invasion of a sovereign country, you can bet it won't stop there. I hope the EU has plans to defend Greenland beyond stern words.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampWe had a good run
- This includes conferences!
- Incidentally, someone check on Greenland because they must be sweating bullets right now.
- Given that Trump's is an authoritarian regime, this is correct.
- This whole thing really feels like it will be the definitive failure of American democracy. Not looking forward to what follows.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampRemember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampThe Australian government must unequivocally condemn the lawless aggression of the US if its position in the international community is to be taken seriously.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampThis is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampMy New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.” A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.
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- Reposted by Willem Huiskampit's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.
- Heartbreaking news. I was lucky enough to know her while I was working at UNSW and she was one of the nicest and most capable people you'd hope to meet in this job. What a tremendous loss.
- Reposted by Willem Huiskamp"60% of oil, gas and coal power plants slated for retirement in PJM postponed or cancelled those plans this year" www.reuters.com/business/ene...
- No matter how much you hate 'AI', you don't hate it enough.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampPainted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.
- The better question is, why is anyone?
- New pre-print from some fantastic Master students we supervised in the last couple of years. Here we look at the interactions between the AMOC and Nordic overturning in a box model and GCM 🌊 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampIt is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampNCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampIt’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampThe idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
- Reposted by Willem HuiskampAI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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