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From @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social: Elevated atmospheric lead levels during the Los Angeles urban fires www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

I don’t like the press knowing what read only means

With AI about to render a lot of industry jobs obsolete (decadal time horizon) and the federal gov’t looking to nuke your field… good time to plan a career

@caltech.edu on #ASCENT www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Trump has ordered the government to stop all permits for wind energy heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...

@caltech.edu’s Haroula Baliaka on the composition of smoke from the Eaton Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...

Surely dei and woke caused this

Written 18 years ago. from Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

A Santa Ana wind can flush out the PM almost entirely from the LA basin. And in the presence of strongly wind-driven sources, it can generate unprecedented PM. Of course, the bigger health concern is getting everyone at the urban-forest interfaces out. Hoping everyone stays safe😪

This will be one of the all-time work-ending social media events of my lifetime

Has isoprene not given us enough… let her rest

Relevant for like 3 ppl: upon inspecting Science Advances info for authors, there was very coincidentally an example citation for a paper I have recently spent a lot of time with, and ironically the example citation is wrong💀 Should be I. N. Tang (respect to atmospheric science legend Ignatius Tang)

Important points from Brian Deese. We need a national strategy for AI and energy demand. Both to ensure we maintain progress on decarbonization, and also to make sure we build the infrastructure we need to stay competitive internationally. heatmap.news/technology/a...

Things are unfortunately getting very real

THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine

Learned about a lake the size of Burkina Faso today😵

Random used book store find to discover caltech had a department of meteorology in the 30s/40s run by a con artist… what’s that saying about street vs book smarts