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PhD student 🧠 Even here might keep opinions to myself 🕊 Praying for our Climate Future 🙏
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I feel like it's not talked about that the internet never really got to keep a "third space" style environment once data became the new gold rush. Makes you wonder what could have been.

Trump's new energy secretary, fracking exec Chris Wright, went on Fox Business yesterday and argued that there are "pluses" to climate change The DOE then posted the video on its official YouTube. heated.world/p/trump-ener...

I am soooo excited for this. Maybe even enough to put up with AppleTV+ lol

My groans right now can be heard for miles

Sources at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are saying that Musk, DOGE, and Trump's actions are already hurting ability of the United States to maintain a functioning public weather service. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

Chevron is leaving California so it doesn’t have to pay for all of its abandoned wells and oil fields, and possibly to avoid more suits like the one it lost last year where it was ordered to pay tens of millions to a guy who got cancer living atop a mountain of drilling waste they never disclosed.

I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be! How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...

Boston Dynamics Dog Unstoppable At Puppy Bowl theonion.com/super-b...

MUSTAAAAAAAAAAARD!

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Oh no! #art #embroidery #handmade #economy #funny #pop #ukpolitics #climatepolitics

Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations. Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim. The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.

Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology.

In an effort to keep tabs on climate stuff happening during the second Trump term, we've got a running tally going. Please send updates and tips if you've got em! drilled.media/news/trump2

“Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites” by Oliver Milman for The Guardian. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm losing my mind

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

Let's gooooo that's one more barrier gone to enable my bad TBR habits lol

In equal part incredibly articulate and sobering, good science should never be ignored.

Nothing quite like the pressure from getting sick in the week leading up to my comps. Luckily I learned how not to need sleep year 2 of grad school 👍

Why the heck did it snow so much on the Gulf Coast? Basically a perfect confluence of events. 🧪

New article – Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways ✍️ By @richardabetts.bsky.social from @metoffice.bsky.social Read here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4hjNiHm

Learned about the Santa Ana winds in class 2 years ago. Never imagined I'd be getting such a horrific reminder with what has happened over the past few days. Fire is so scary man...

I wrote this while wildfires were engulfing nearly all of Australia

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The global surface temperature anomaly has now been released for last year. According to Copernicus, 2024 was 1.60°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline! climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2...

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

No, we’re not on Mars. These barchan (barkhan) sand dunes formed on the beach when a strong and steady wind blew for a weeks, coming from just one direction. The barchans travelled 3 meters per day and after a night without wind, a thin layer of sublimated water ice formed on the surface.

Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

As expected honestly, still immeasurably disappointing

At those prices, I won't even feel guilty when I buy them all! *cries into TBR pile bigger than my bed

The proliferation of plastics and especially the thin film variety has happened so gradually that you don't notice it until you look The Drilled! season (by the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social ) on this is a great summary Plastics are everywhere and they did this on purpose

I can't believe there's people finding out about THE ODYSSEY because of the new Nolan film and complaining about spoilers. Sir please it was written almost 3000 years ago what spoilers are you talking about.

gonna tell my grandkids this was iron man

One of the very cool things about this case is that the court called one of the original framers of the MT state constitution to help interpret it because our constitution is only 50 years old and Mae Nan Robinson Ellingson was 24 years old when she helped write it.

Government drones above my barn: How long will the radical left liberals cover this up? They keep calling it “the big dipper” but I know it’s just drones.