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rruusu.bsky.social
Computational software developer. News addict. Husband. Father of two.
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Badly injured Ilia woke up next to her mother’s lifeless body. Then they abducted him to live with strangers in Russia. He is only one of thousands, and very lucky to be found and brought back by his brave and tenacious grandmother.

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"The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said on Tuesday that about 8,000 food boxes had been distributed in the enclave so far, with each one feeding “5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 462,000 meals.” The flow of aid is expected to increase daily, it added." A drop in the bucket for 2 million people.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“[Current tariff levels are] little bit lower than Smoot-Hawley probably on average, but not much, but it comes from a baseline that's really low, and with trade as a share of the economy, something like three times what it was. So this is an order of magnitude bigger than the Smoot-Hawley shock.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

> The reality is that we’ve gone from a completely insane tariff rate on imports from China to a rate that’s merely crazy. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is a huge achievement, but personalized gene editing is pretty scary. How long will it take until it’s taken to use in sports?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Is there something missing from this story of lengthy deportation proceedings for undeclared frog embryos? > He said he had never seen [smuggling] charges brought in a case involving academic research material.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Made an animation of the May 1 Arctic sea ice thickness and volume plots from @polarportal.bsky.social, to highlight the unprecedented situation this year, especially on the eastern coast of Greenland.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

#Arctic climate rankings are in for April 2025: zacklabe.com/archive-2025/. Low ice volume continues as we move into the melt season. #OpenScience #OpenData #SciComm #DataViz

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

#Haemanthus looks like #Theranos v2. > Haemanthus’s materials say the long-term goal is to develop a stamp-size, wearable version of the product for humans. “Based on our experience and partner input,” it says, that will require three years and $70 million.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that what has been dismantled in just days can take years to build back. The headline only mentions tariffs, but other changes are even harder to reverse. The people and resources that are diverted away from US research institutions will have consequences that will last for decades.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

“While the proposed cuts claim to only be directed at climate change research, which would be disastrous on its own, the scientific institutions on the chopping block are imperative for the prediction and research of extreme weather events, including tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods.”

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Is there a European university of other research institution that could recruit these NOAA scientists, if the US really decides to discontinue the GFDL? @eumetsat.int

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

“And speaking of the Cultural Revolution, don’t the escalating Trumpist attacks on universities and science have a very Maoist feel?” Absolute rulers frequently put themselves above reality itself. It is seldom to the advantage of anyone. Everyone loses eventually; the poorest are just hit first.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This sounds ominously like a step in shutting down GISS entirely, or at least reducing its workforce drastically.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Serbia puts in its entry to the competition for the most self-destructing public policy of the year. Looking good, but Trump's tariff policies are still far ahead in the competition. www.chemistryworld.com/news/serbia-...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

In recent years, I've had the impression that some NYT reporters seem to be primarily focused on showing off their vocabulary and sentence construction skills instead of sharp analysis of actual issues. And really, Santos? Self-effacing? When? Where?

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

substack.com/profile/3166... I wrote a bit about how I view the forthcoming consequences of Trump's unstable tariff policy on China. The element of surprise in Trump's tariff policy is bad, but big movements that are anticipated in advance might actually be even worse.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This is a pretty scary precedent.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This is just pure insanity.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump regime action against student protesters is driven by instructions from the Netanyahu government. It is perfectly understandable that they see people like Mahdavi as a grave threat to their project of conquest. Peace has never been a real target for Likud. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard to fathom how appalling it must feel to be a Nobel laureate for work on international trade economics in this day and age. Luckily @pkrugman.bsky.social still seems to be able to hang on to his trademark sense of humor.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

submitted 64 days ago • 1512 comments

Evolution of lower atmosphere (at 925 hPa level) temperatures during the #Arctic freeze season (averaged over October to February). 2025 is a new record. *Note: map shows temperature anomalies (for 2024-2025), while the line shows the actual temperature. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... ⚒️

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments