Dr Kaitlin Naughten @kaitlinnaughten Twitter profile

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

1 year

We’ve spent the last few years modelling the future of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, and I regret to inform you that it’s not good news.

Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century

Nature Climate Change - The authors use a regional ocean model to project ocean-driven ice-shelf melt in the Amundsen Sea. Already committed rapid ocean warming drives increased melt, regardless of...

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

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I've been researching in this field since 2011 and still have not met a single climate scientist (or oceanographer, glaciologist, etc. etc.) who doesn't think human-caused climate change is happening. Thanks @dana1981

Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change. So do most Americans | Dana Nuccitelli

Dana Nuccitelli: There’s a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming, but most Americans are unaware

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Very few people reading this will still be around after 2100, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a responsibility to the generations alive then. We need to shift our focus to the longer term.

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"How do you tell a bad news story? The conventional wisdom is that you’re supposed to give people hope." My @ConversationUK article on our new @NatureClimate paper about the future of West Antarctica.

Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research

Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.

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6 years

You probably don't realise just how accurate modern weather forecasts are.

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1 year

Unfortunately, even the best-case scenario was still very bad. All scenarios showed a 3x increase in ocean warming and ice shelf melting trends over the 21st century.

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So, it’s pretty bad news. But I would hate for people to read this story and think “we should give up on climate action, we’re all doomed anyway”. We must remember that West Antarctica is just one cause of sea level rise, and sea level rise is just one impact of climate change.

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There was little to no difference between the scenarios. The Paris Agreement 1.5°C scenario (wildly ambitious) and RCP 4.5 (roughly in line with current pledges) were statistically indistinguishable.

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East Antarctica contains about ten times as much ice as the WAIS, and we think it’s still stable as long as emissions don’t rise too much further. This is to say nothing of all of the other impacts of climate change which we could still prevent.

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This study is the most comprehensive set of future projections of Amundsen Sea ice shelf melting to date. Huge thanks to my co-authors Paul Holland and Jan De Rydt, and the media teams at @BAS_News and @NatureClimate for spreading the word.

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1 year

The Amundsen Sea sector is the fastest-changing region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the most vulnerable given the geometry of the bedrock beneath it. But because ice shelf melting by the ocean is hard to model, we have very few projections of how it could change in the future.

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In the meantime, we should think more seriously about adaptation. Some amount of sea level rise is inevitable - in fact, it’s already happening.

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1 year

Climate change is the cause of these simulated trends - but the main determinant of the precise amount of warming is climate variability, not the emissions scenario. The trend can vary by a factor of 2 depending on the timing of natural, unpredictable events like El Niño.

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Reasons Why Being a Scientist is Pretty Great: a thread (1/16)

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@kaitlinnaughten

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A climate denier emailed both me and my (male) co-author. I was addressed as Ms, my co-author addressed as Dr 🤔

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@kaitlinnaughten

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We simulated a range of future scenarios using a regional ocean model with ice shelves. We wanted to know: how much control do we still have over ice shelf melting? How much can still be prevented by reducing fossil fuel emissions, and how much is now committed?

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The worst-case scenario (RCP 8.5) showed faster ocean warming than the others, but only after 2045. This is a crucial few decades for the glaciers in which we have no control over accelerating ocean warming.

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Also, 2100 is just the beginning of the story. We see ice shelf melting beginning to flatten out towards the end of the century in the Paris Agreement scenarios. So we likely still have control over the longer-term - into the 22nd century and beyond.

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4 years

Big paper out today! With new simulations, we found that melting of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf - one of Antarctica's largest - is likely to go down for a long time before it goes up.

Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change

Nature Communications - New simulations find that one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves, the Filchner–Ronne, may be less vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Melting...

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We didn’t have a coupled ice sheet model, so cannot quantify the sea level rise implications, but they are unlikely to be good. The IPCC projected <=1 metre of sea level rise by 2100, and perhaps higher if ice-ocean interactions take off - exactly the process we were studying.

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What we can do is look at the spatial distribution of melting and infer its importance for sea level rise. We find increased melting in all regions of the ice shelves, including those with the highest buttressing (stabilising the inland ice sheet).

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4 years

If you don't stammer, you might not realise that "fluent" is a synoym for "speaks without stammering". When a job ad specifies "must be fluent in spoken English", it is unwittingly excluding people who stammer. I have seen this 3 times today and I'm not even looking for a job.

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Look closely - the additional melting in the worst-case scenario (RCP 8.5) is mostly among the ice shelves with lower buttressing. So the additional losses, which we can still prevent, are mostly in the regions that don’t matter too much for sea level rise.

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4 years

"By making time for people who stammer, we will make space for everybody." My employer @BAS_News asked me write a piece for #ISAD2020 and I'm so glad this conversation is happening.

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@BAS_News

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This #ISAD20 , BAS oceanographer Dr Kaitlin Naughten @kaitlinnaughten discusses her experiences as a #scientist who #stammers , and what we can do as individuals and as institutions to support our colleagues: Part of the #DiversityinPolarScience blog series.

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Under-representation of women in science is no longer caused by a lack of women in the pipeline. It's caused by a blockage in the pipeline that prevents early-career researchers from progressing, and this disproportionately affects marginalised groups.

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@kaitlinnaughten

3 years

My new paper is out, simulating the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica over the 20th century. We find that ocean warming and ice shelf melting respond to long-term changes in the atmosphere - specifically the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds.

Simulated Twentieth‐Century Ocean Warming in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

An ensemble of ice-ocean simulations is used to study conditions in the Amundsen Sea over the twentieth century The simulations show a long-term ocean warming trend on the continental shelf, whic...

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@kaitlinnaughten

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Interviewed by @TimesRadio today on ocean warming and Antarctic sea ice. To be welcomed onto live radio as a person who stammers, and for stammering to not be the subject of the interview or indeed a big deal to anybody involved, feels pretty good indeed.

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@ClimateCentreUK

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"If the ocean decides to release the heat to the atmosphere like this year, that leads to more rapid atmosphere warming," @kaitlinnaughten tells @alexisconran . She warns record sea ice loss in Antarctica has the potential to further warm our oceans. @TimesRadio | @BAS_News

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4 years

On #InternationalWomensDay , why don't we instead highlight women who left the workforce due to structural barriers? The current approach is a bit "let's celebrate the women who navigated this broken system to distract from the fact that it's broken"

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@kaitlinnaughten

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Just received a 1300-word email from someone arguing that climate change is caused by geothermal heat leaking out of mines. Being a climate scientist is weird sometimes.

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

If we want to understand what is causing women to leave academia, we need to ask the women who have left, not the women who remain. Please join me in thanking this anonymous woman for sharing her story.

“On International Women’s Day”, I wrote on 8 March, “why don’t we instead highlight women who left the workforce due to structural barriers? The current approach is a …

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

The silver lining of "fake news" is that climate science is no longer the sole target. Reasonable people are now more likely to ignore climate change denial, because they understand it's disingenuous.

The silver lining of fake news

What exciting times we live in! The UK is stockpiling food and medicine as it charges willingly into a catastrophe of its own choosing. The next Australian prime minister is likely to be a man who …

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

This Sunday I'll be talking with @DanJonesOcean on @ClimateSciPod about disability in the Earth system sciences, particularly my experience of being a scientist who stammers. #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabledInSTEM

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

I feel very uneasy when people who stammer are praised for “passing” as fluent.

Ian Dunt

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Incredible to realise that both Joe Biden and Amanda Gorman had speech impediments, and yet delivered masterclasses in oratory yesterday to a global audience.

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

I've just published the very first CMIP5-forced projections of Antarctic ice shelf melting. Spoiler alert, the melt rates go up.

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@kaitlinnaughten

3 years

My most diverse circle of friends - in terms of age, race, class, occupation, nationality - is people who stammer. We are united by one shared trait, which shows up in all cultures equally. Making friends through your disability doesn't shrink your world, it expands it.

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2 years

We are hiring! Two 3-year ice-ocean modelling postdocs at @BAS_News working with me and Paul Holland:

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@kaitlinnaughten

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I've always imagined science to be like a dark room full of people stumbling around with candles. Sometimes we bash into each other and sometimes we set fire to the curtains but over time more and more of the room is illuminated.

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@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

For #ISAD2019 , here is the story of the worst reaction I ever received to my stammer. It was such a train wreck, “so bad it was good”, that it came full circle and brought me a strange kind of joy. Sort of like Sharknado. (THREAD) #Stammering #Istammer

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|----------------------------| | The Gulf Stream | | and the AMOC | | are not the | | same thing | |----------------------------| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

Weakening North Atlantic Drift could bring colder UK winters

In an ironic twist, global warming could lead to chillier conditions in north-west Europe in coming years

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

Today on @ClimateSciPod , I talk with @DanJonesOcean about disability in the Earth system sciences, and my experience being a scientist who stammers. Available on Anchor (link below) or wherever you get your podcasts. #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabledinSTEM

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@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

I had great fun playing the "Be a Climate Modeller" game at @sciencemuseum . I got two promotions and they gave me a new supercomputer. I wish it were that easy 😅

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

How do you stay sane when your job is to research how the planet is falling apart?

Climate change and compassion fatigue

I’m a climate scientist, and I don’t worry about climate change very much. I think about it every day, but I don’t let it in. To me climate change is a fascinating math problem, a symph…

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@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

Please don't look away when I stammer. Please don't get a terrified expression on your face when I stammer. Please don't jump in with your next statement while I'm still stammering on mine. Thank you @PolarAmelie for asking because people usually don't!

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@kaitlinnaughten

2 years

We are recruiting an ocean-sea ice modeller to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctic sea ice. 3 year position with @BAS_News as part of @DefiantNerc . Please contact me with any questions!

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

People who say 2-3 sentences as fast as they can while I'm completely stuck on a single syllable. They can't stand the silence and want to push the conversation along...but then I never get to finish what I'm saying. #AbledsAreWeird @stammer

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@kaitlinnaughten

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I am a 27-year-old immigrant and today I voted in my first UK general election. #YouthQuake 🇳🇿🇨🇦🇬🇧

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4 years

Why do we erase people who stammer from works of fiction? Growing up, the only stammering role model I had was Professor Quirrell, and he literally had Voldemort growing out of his head. Representation matters.

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@kaitlinnaughten

2 years

Pretending to be a field scientist for the day

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

The solution? Swap "fluent" for "proficient". And while you're at it, add a statement about how your institution supports disabled applicants!

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@kaitlinnaughten

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@EmmaKennedy A tenancy agreement, work visa, and letter from my employer did not convince Lloyds that I was a UK resident. "Do you even need a bank account? You can just get your salary paid directly to your husband," said the (female) account manager.

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@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

This is the story of how I decided to be a scientist. Featuring oxygen isotopes, peer pressure, and eyeballs outside of heads.

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You’re not there to make money for a company you don’t really care about. Instead you’re there to increase the sum total of human knowledge in the world. This is nice to remember when you’re feeling nihilistic. (4/16)

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Quoted by the FT - they included all my profound statements about courage and hope (all credit to @DrKateMarvel ) but none of my fun facts about how you can use bird vomit to reconstruct ancient sea ice concentration

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

Your job never gets boring. You don’t have to do the same thing every work day until you retire/die. By definition your work is always changing and growing. (3/16)

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2 years

What struck me about David, in the few short years I knew him, was his commitment to standing up for the less powerful. (1/4)

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It is with deep sorrow we report the death of Emeritus Fellow, Professor David Vaughan. He was suffering from cancer and passed away peacefully at home on Thursday 9 February 2023.

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If every stammerer who “passes” as a fluent person is a success story, an inspiration, then what does that say about the rest of us who fail to meet that standard?

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5 years

Incredible art installation from @kewgardens at Heathrow today: the "Botanical Tapestry". I love love love how they show the ocean bathymetry and the continental shelves!

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10 months

Now advertising a 3.5 year postdoc at @BAS_News studying ice shelf collapse in the UK Earth System Model. Happy to answer any queries!

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4 years

Never go swimming with a polar oceanographer, because by "warm water" we mean "1°C"

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5 years

Here is an explainer of our recent Nature paper ( @nick_golledge @NatalyaGomezEPS @highlatitude @flimsin and others). Written in collaboration with @sciencebreaker .

Ice sheet melting: it’s not just about sea level rise

Originally published at The Science Breaker Climate change is causing the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to melt, which releases cold, fresh meltwater into the nearby ocean. This meltwater caus…

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It reinforces the idea that the only truly acceptable way to exist in this world is as a fluent person. People who stammer, then, are obligated to do whatever it takes to become fluent.

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"The only cure for stuttering I have found is being quiet and many years ago I decided that wasn’t an option any longer." Fabulous writing as always from @ninagcomedian about how "overcoming" is a troubling way to frame disability.

Overcoming the Concept of Overcoming As a Person Who Stutters

It was about two years into my comedy career when I walked into the new swanky comedy club that recently opened near me. It was plush and clean. The green room had not yet been christened by decade…

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Looking for a PhD in Antarctic ice-ocean modelling? I'm supervising this studentship at @BAS_News joint with @unisouthampton , which will investigate how climate change could impact the Amundsen Sea. Deadline 4 January.

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4 years

Life hack: Before you criticise a woman for something, spend approx. 30 seconds considering whether you'd criticise a man for the same thing.

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6 years

If you’re a woman in a long-term relationship, your partner gets to respond to the phrase “You and the missus” with “No actually, me and The Doctor”. This is an absolute joy to witness. (13/16)

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@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You can wear comfy casual clothes to work every day, because there’s basically no dress code. (8/16)

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@kaitlinnaughten

1 year

Received a very nice parcel in the post today from my first ever supervisor @SMEasterbrook . I've read a few sample chapters and they're excellent. Buy it here:

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@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

So today, for International #Stammering Awareness Day, take a moment to be thankful if you can choose what to say, open your mouth, and just SAY it - almost without thinking about it, and without a momentous physical effort. I can only imagine such a luxury!

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@kaitlinnaughten

3 years

Two years later I am happily back at @BAS_News , and my home office has become a child's bedroom. Life is good.

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@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

One year ago today I had a bit of a cry because I didn't know when I would next be at @BAS_News , and I really quite like that place. One year later, the penguin socks have holes, but I have mended them. Wearing them today and looking forward to better days ahead.

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Here is an example of how extreme fluency affects our society. An algorithm trains you to speak with optimum pace and pitch, speaking off the cuff but never saying "um". This is an unrealistic standard which is profoundly disabling to those of us who speak differently.

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Any students wanting to practice their oral presentations, PowerPoint now has a rehearsal function that gives you live feedback and a report at the end.

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@CColose @leafwax My favourite is when Dennis Quaid's colleagues wake him up from his nap saying "The model is finished, here are the results" and hand him one A4 sheet of paper

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There are many many things to worry about with climate change, but our work suggests this ice shelf is (hopefully) not one of them. So, that's a bit of good news we can hold onto this year.

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@kaitlinnaughten

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@ninagcomedian tore this idea apart quite beautifully. Why should we be expected to spend a large part of every day on rehabilitation? We are busy people with more interesting ways to spend our time.

Overcoming the Concept of Overcoming As a Person Who Stutters

It was about two years into my comedy career when I walked into the new swanky comedy club that recently opened near me. It was plush and clean. The green room had not yet been christened by decade…

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And here is my blog post explaining the paper for a more general audience

Future projections of Antarctic ice shelf melting

Climate change will increase ice shelf melt rates around Antarctica. That’s the not-very-surprising conclusion of my latest modelling study, done in collaboration with both Australian and German re…

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Thanks to peer pressure from @WillemHuiskamp and @ClimateOfGavin I have decided to join Twitter for purely academic purposes

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Snow petrels nest in Antarctica and they vomit *in self-defence*. Hadn't considered this strategy but it sounds effective

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@BAS_News

1 year

@Dr_Gilbz @kaitlinnaughten @DrKateMarvel We are ready and waiting to host your bird vomit thread, Kaitlin.

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@AnnikaJ123 Sometimes I forget that millennial is a real word that actually means something

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This is the story of how the most frustrating part of my PhD eventually led to the best idea for a paper I've ever had.

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This is my new favourite way to describe stammering! #glaciology

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@kaitlinnaughten @BAS_News @ClimateSciPod @DanJonesOcean A+ podcast about stick-slip motion in humans.

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For the most part (within the constraints of competitive funding) you get to study whatever interests you most. (16/16)

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Melting ice sheets cause sea level rise, but they also disrupt ocean currents and weather patterns across the globe. It was a privilege to be a part of this study with @nick_golledge @NatalyaGomezEPS @highlatitude @flimsin and others. #meltingpoint

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Here's a free-to-view link to our recent paper, featuring @NatalyaGomezEPS @kaitlinnaughten @highlatitude @flimsin and others: @VicUniWgtn @royalsocietynz #meltingpoint #antarctica #greenland #climatechange #sealevelrise

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An examination board contacted me, requesting copyright permission to use one of my blog posts in their exams. They are asking how much they should pay me for this. I've never been in this position before - what's the going rate? I plan to donate it to charity.

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@KHayhoe I locked myself out of the supercomputer by holding my RSA fob (which displays temporary passcodes for 2-factor authentication) upside down. Couldn't figure out why my login failed 10 times in a row...and then the server started blocking all traffic from my IP address.

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In a surreal development, my work buddy has been named in the #TIME100 ! Huge congratulations @Ocean_Pete and give my best to Beyonce

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@BAS_News

1 year

We’re so proud that BAS oceanographer Dr Peter Davis and planetary scientist Dr Britney Schmidt are in the #TIME100 ❤️ In February, they shared results from the first ever expedition to measure melting under the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. 👉

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

While we're on the subject, I would like to have a word about Lightning Lectures for people who stammer.

the next generation of geoscience leaders

@nextgengeoldrs

5 years

“The fact that we have disabilities is not a problem. The fact that we work in a setting that was not built for our bodies and our minds is the problem.” thank you @gserratomarks for sharing an incredible talk & giving all of us things we can do to make Geoscience more inclusive.

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You get to solve a lot of mysteries, even if they’re not murder mysteries. This makes you feel a bit like Sherlock Holmes. You may or may not hum the Sherlock theme song to yourself sometimes while you work. (6/16)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

I don't have any fieldwork photos for #WomenInScienceDay , so instead I filled my screen with random code and figures so it looked sciencey.

British Antarctic Survey 🐧

@BAS_News

6 years

Dr @kaitlinnaughten tells us why she enjoys being an ocean modeller #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInScience #PolarScience @WomeninPolarSci

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You end up with friends scattered all over the world, like a sort of global support structure. There is often somebody to visit before or after a conference, and a couch to sleep on. (10/16)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

Fieldwork is often inaccessible for those with caring responsibilities (or medical conditions!) Treating fieldwork as a measure of a "true" polar scientist does a disservice to so many.

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

My Journal of Climate paper "Modeling the Influence of the Weddell Polynya on the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf Cavity" has now been published and is ~open access~

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

2 years

When he spoke up, people listened. He used that power and authority for good: to call out injustices and to stand up for others whose voices were ignored. He personally intervened on two occasions when I was experiencing discrimination. (2/4)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

One year ago today I had a bit of a cry because I didn't know when I would next be at @BAS_News , and I really quite like that place. One year later, the penguin socks have holes, but I have mended them. Wearing them today and looking forward to better days ahead.

Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

Going into work to pick up a few things, for the last time in who knows how long. This occasion deserves penguin socks. @BAS_News

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

I wrote a thing for the British Stammering Association! @stammer

STAMMA

@stammer

4 years

'My goal is no longer to achieve fluency because why should I have to? Instead of trying to conform to the expectations of my listeners, I focus on making things easier for myself.' Read Kaitlin's article at . We'd love to know what you think.

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

For the most part, you get to choose how you structure your time. You’re not tied to a rigid schedule. (14/16)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

5 years

I should probably add Cadbury to the acknowledgements section of my new paper, because the writing process was greatly aided by Mini Eggs

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

What's more, it takes about 7°C of global warming for the melting to start going up. Compare this to the 1.5-2°C goal of the Paris Agreement. If we reach 7°C, we will have failed on a catastrophic scale.

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You get to travel to conferences in all kinds of interesting places you might never have the opportunity to visit otherwise. (9/16)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

4 years

This paper is the culmination of over 2 years of work - from developing a coupled ice sheet-ocean model, to running thousands of years worth of simulations, to writing up the paper veerrrry slowly in my spare room during a global pandemic.

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

You get to hang out with scientists, who are almost without exception very interesting, thoughtful, and energetic people. (7/16)

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Dr Kaitlin Naughten

@kaitlinnaughten

6 years

If you’re researching a field of humanitarian or environmental importance, like climate change, medicine, or ecology, you can also remind yourself that you’re doing some social good. (5/16)

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