Big news! New Texas Hailstone Record (7.1") Confirmed by NOAA and Partners www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/new-tex...

Kraft Heinz CEO Pushes Value: ‘Consumers Are Literally Running Out of Money’ #GoldenAge: Build More Ballrooms! Let them eat cake! www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Through the end of April, the Lower 48 is easily in last place for season-to-date snowfall. 🥵

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

I wonder what the overlap is with men who think they can score a point off of Serena Williams.

Cultists gonna cultivate.

Tornado outbreaks catch forecasters by surprise after National Weather Service cuts (with good comments by @johnmoralestv.bsky.social and @wxmanms1.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2026/05/06/n...

The running 12-month average temperature for the Contiguous U.S. continues to be the highest on record. 🔥🔥🔥

An amazing article on the Tracy Arm mega-tsunami from last August. If this had happened at several different times during a 24-hour window, it would have resulted in the greatest loss of life in U.S. history. Instead, it is just a scientific curiosity.

Trump, of course, owns about $1.2 billion in Trump Media stock, while Don Jr. and Eric have gotten involved with several publicly traded companies of late.

Grand Oiligarch Party

As @springernature.com continues to employ tired and costly union-busting tactics, we just wanted to say we’re so grateful to all the subscribers, scientists and journalists who’ve reached out and said they’ll stand with us as we fight to ensure @sciam.bsky.social lasts another 180 years. Thank you!

You. Cannot. Be. F*cking. Serious. #GOPLOL www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

The latest YouGov/Economist poll is picking up a record high in anxiety about the economy for both of Trump's terms, and nearing the high of the 2022-23 inflation panic yougovamerica.substack.com/p/more-ameri...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

Super interesting and it makes sense. AI models have problems predicting extremes outside of their training /pattern recognition of past events and of course as the Earth heats, extremes get more extreme… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. “Shame on you, Jeff Bezos.”

The last California-oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz before Trump attacked Iran is now offloading its crude at the Port of Long Beach: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @blancabegert.bsky.social

FY27 House budget rejects huge Trump Admin cuts NOAA, NASA, NSF - but still proposes significant reductions open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Why wouldn’t you want to save $1.4 billion on your electricity bill? Keep burning gas and burning money. Go wind and solar and save up for that kitchen reno.

He'll try to prove there's no need for a bird flu vaccine.

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

genuine question: as a significant amount of SpaceX's upcoming valuation seems to rest on this being a feasible idea can someone point me to even an back of the envelope estimate of the solar panel surface area needed to make this happen at scale?

Such a coincidence. Analysis of long-shot bets on military actions placed on Polymarket shows that more than half have been successful, showing strong evidence of insider trading by sources within Administration. @financialtimes.com

We must come to terms with the fact that anything that Donald Trump or any member of his administrations says is automatically a lie.

Who's going to buy into the gigantic IPOs of companies with no profits and questionable paths to profitability, such as SpaceX and OpenAI? You will, through your employer's retirement plan, writes @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Also receiving a NAS award was Ilya Sutskever, cofounder of OpenAI whose new company Safe Superintelligence (currently just a webpage) is valued at $32 billion. The current budget of NSF is $9 billion; Trump wants to cut to $4 billion. Make this math make sense. >>

April 2026 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 2nd lowest on record for the month... This was 1,120,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. April ice extent is decreasing at about 2.44% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Your periodic reminder that if you read the Free Press, you would have little idea that Donald Trump is President. It is not a news organization, it is just opinion, and the opinion of the founders. Here are the top pages.

TX Hill Country investigations show - again - why a national disaster safety board is needed via @wxmanms1.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

Why have the Big 3 failed so utterly in their planned phase out of internal combustion engines? Well, it's two things, really. One is consumer sentiment - I'll get to that in a minute - and the other is government policy. The death of the $7,500 EV tax credit absolutely murdered the EV market. 5/x

Stop calling hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes natural disasters. My thoughts in Forbes dot com www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

April 2026 was another cold month in most of Canada. Above-normal temps were observed in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, and BC was overall near normal.

Sabotage >> streamlining NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs defended the President’s budget request as an effort to streamline the agency and move research closer to operations. But the math does not work. scilight.substack.com/p/noaa-budge...

Katrina Declaration signers reinstated! @standupforscience.net www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/p...

We have reached the phase where scientists and public servants are removed from their homes by armed agents and thrown in jail - based on phony charges. Yet, where are the Academies, societies, institutions, and scientific leaders? Deafening silence. Which is a choice. History will not forget.

Then they came for the octogenarian Gmail-using scientists...

Sorry, you can forget about getting that electric Lamborghini. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

The invisible hand of the market strikes again

RFKJ is folically challenged one.npr.org/i/fis-510053...

Though solar (& nuclear ☢️) was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle East www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"Don't be evil!" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Stalin extensively purged top science advisers, engineers & researchers during the '1930s-50s, particularly targeting biology, physics & technical fields. Thousands were arrested, sent to Gulags, or executed. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss in our sadly prophetic book #ScienceUnderSiege:

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

An impressive supercell east of Colorado Springs right now!

The conflict in Iran over the Strait of Hormuz should encourage for Australia to abandon volatile fossil fuel reliance and accelerate towards renewables.