I have some of this glass design from my grandmother's house and I never knew the name! I love it too especially for entertaining.

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

Ok I kind of get it now

"Is this your card?" "No" "Is this your card?" "No" "Is this your card?" "No"

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

FINAL REMINDER Are you interested in working in atmospheric science? Would you like to learn more about weather systems, air quality, and climate? Don't miss out on our Introduction to Atmospheric Science training course this February! Apply by 23 January: ncas.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Exploding SpaceX rockets cause chaos over the Caribbean www.propublica.org/article/spac...

Yass

My look now that another male member of my household has taken up learning card tricks

Another contender Color is all around you, gentlemen

Repeating to correct an error: There's no such thing as super #flu. But there is a doozy of a flu season underway right now. Here's what you need to know about subclade K, the #H3N2 variant making so many people sick. (Earlier I said H5N1. This is not that!!!) www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f...

21. McSqueegy-McQueeg 22. Reticulated Thong Snatcher 23. Very Normal Bird #86 🦉🦅🦆

Pantone ... For your consideration

Pantone ... For your consideration

enbeigeification

Fluid mechanics says it's all about maximizing the "Worthington splash." theconversation.com/manu-jumping...

Thinking long and hard about declining a manuscript review because they sent it to me on December 30, and when I didn't respond I got a personal follow up from the editorial staff at... 1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY. @plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.

I spoke with @carlzimmer.com about our terminated grant on wildfire smoke and homes:

The retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...

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My latest, after spending time with garment workers in Bangladesh: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Posting my way through the nadir of 13 hour jetlag, what could go wrong

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

"In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, like the inhabitants of Gaza; with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, like the Yemeni people ..." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Welsh cookies 2025 (gluten free for the old folks, whose wish is my command)🎄🎄

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

Do I have any followers who are serious lipstick collectors/scholars and might be able to recognize the brand of a shade from just the name? I’m looking for an old fashioned classic formula drugstore lipstick called “Well Red.” Likely Revlon? Circa 2006 or so.

Doing a little digging and finding that these cookies are so popular/common in this area (NE PA near Binghamton NY) that there were three competing recipes in the church cookbook

Thin Pritzker would be a passable name for the next private school rapper

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (March)

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

I love how the winter solstice just sneaks up on you right when you think you can't take anymore 4:30 pm sunsets but are too busy to keep track

Is "dish soap + rat in the toilet" not like a "dish soap in the dishwasher" type situation

A massive new report by over 100 scientists modeling the climate effects of the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption finds "The record-high global surface temperatures in 2023/2024 were not due to the Hunga eruption": juser.fz-juelich.de/...

I saw a man wearing this talking to some workers on the street* this week and instead of subconsciously reading it as "appropriate/classy" my brain read "out of date." Have academic men transcended the Brooks Brothers uniform? *Recall there is an Ivy League university on my street

My dog isn't allowed to jump on the sofa and in exchange I'm not allowed to go in his laboratory

Are you kidding me, atmosphere?

I want to know which one of you multiphase atmospheric chemists forced them to add "until opened"

lol

Maybe he was hiding a hickey, you don’t know his struggle

Bill Gates story: I overlapped with his advance team when they were prepping for a site visit in Nigeria & they asked if the hospital could be sure to lower AC settings for his visit because "Bill would be wearing a sweater that day"

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

Compound atmospheric drivers of the 2025 Los Angeles urban firestorm…Analysis shows driven by rare “jet-forced Santa Ana” wind wextreme northerly flow, subsidence & mountain waves. While extreme sfc winds not unprecedented, occurrence before 1st rains was uncommon. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Blessing us with dirty air today as well! bsky.app/profile/dwes...

"Do you ever want to just pick up a knife and stab him in the neck? Poison his food?" Because I mentioned this during a phone call today, I ought to share my favorite essay, which is by @alexanderchee.bsky.social. longreads.com/2015/06/18/m...

I knew I had this same feeling roughly a year ago... Walking into a tropical 45 ⁰F

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.