New paper: Explaining and predicting the Southern Hemisphere eddy-driven jet @marleneclimate.bsky.social www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai... "The researchers found that 50 percent of the observed shift in the SH jet stream is directly attributable to global warming." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ICYMI: With wildfire season looming, insurers have even abandoned California neighborhoods at low risk of burning, forcing tens of thousands of homeowners to obtain bare-bones coverage from the state’s insurer of last resort, a Bloomberg analysis shows. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I HATE LaTeX

@ukhadds.bsky.social, any indication of how virions (e.g. SARS2, measles, flu, etc.) in suspended respiratory droplets decay in an environment with chlorine gas (e.g. natatoriums)? Higher acidity favours slower decay rates (IIRC), but I wasn't sure how the Cl- tampers with things.

The cost of my reporting stared me in the face last week, when two Nazis showed up to try to intimidate me for my journalism on a private night out. But that’s far from the only fallout of my latest investigation. I took a few days, watching the reaction -- and now I’ve got much more to share:

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention “believes that the U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. & globally”

"I worked my way up from admin assistant to senior vice president in less than a year. My dad's company is proof that upward mobility is possible with just a bit of hard work."

COVID-19 infection is associated with a 2.3-fold risk of developing acute kidney injury, a 1.4-fold risk of chronic kidney disease, and a 4.7-fold risk of end-stage renal disease compared to influenza, reports a study published in Communications Medicine. 🧪

"There's something going around" Yeah. It's COVID. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

TIL Mark Hamill was the scientist in my favourite movie! Thank you @markhamillofficial.bsky.social!

Can't go to war crime prison if you nuke the Hague.

We need to be building a grid for the 21st century. Mechanical gas peaker plants, which requires ~10 minutes to respond to a grid crisis, cannot complete with electronic, grid-scale battery energy storage which responds almost instantly. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.utilitydive.com/news/the-phy...

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened:

Right wing propaganda works...

Is this a good thing?

This story is nuts The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱 retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

I’ve unmasked a white nationalist fight club in my city: Montreal. After weeks of work (with help!), I can reveal an Olympian as a member of the Frontenac Active Club — one who, unbeknownst to the owners, brought them to a local gym for training and propaganda photos. Here’s my investigation:

It is Joe Biden's fault the Republicans are doing bad things.

Is UoT's Prof. Siegel on BSky?

This is the message Mark Carney should have written, not some realpolitik pablum. If you stand for nothing, you have no values.

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

"They said students are more sociable, bullying has significantly decreased, and the change can even be seen in school hallways." A lesson for adults, too? yle.fi/a/74-20212749

What accounts for the progression from healthy aging to Alzheimer's disease over an extended period of time? The critical role of the immune system, particularly T cells and microglia. A new, excellent review www.cell.com/immunity/abs...

There has been a lot of interesting research on the pH of respiratory droplets and how it affects flu virus. We looked at large saliva droplets exposed to low and high CO2 and only saw a difference in viability at 80% RH with low CO2. pH changes were small. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Since measles is coming back, here's a question: What is the "half-life" of airborne decay of measles? Answer: We have no idea. People think it's long (1 to 2 hours). Why don't we know? Funders largely felt there wasn't a need to measure it since it was managed with vaccines.

3. I agree entirely with Dr. Nath - dementia will increase in prevalence in the coming years and will also start to develop at younger ages than would otherwise be expected. This is the primary reason I mitigate against infection: to protect my brain. /end

This comes across as "I don't like the results from these peer reviewed articles in well respect journals so it must be untrue". Was that the intent?

Long Covid ruled as occupational disease in nurses https://www.europesays.com/ch/17407/ Long Covid confirmed as an occupational disease in nurses. Keystone-SDA Baloise Insurance must recognise the Long Covid disease…

AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED?? fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

Don't trust LLMs.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Our latest paper shows that most aerosol sampling methods may underestimate infectious virus in air. We observed 100x more infectious flu virus and SARS-CoV-2 if it deposited directly on cells (more realistic) rather than in liquid first and then transferred to cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Long COVID blood signal in this study: Many more tiny “microclots” plus higher markers of some overactive white blood cells. The two also often show up stuck together in the same clumps. This pattern may help with measurement and subgrouping.

At some point it ceases to be vaccine skepticism. It becomes a a cult-like conviction to shun vaccines and science against all evidence or reason. Even if it means maiming your own child or worse watching them die from a preventable illness. This is unbelievably tragic and this is where we are.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

So I saw this Air Quality notice and thought: that's odd. I had never heard of poor air quality from melting snow. So anyway, pulled out the PM2.5 meter and here we are: high PM2.5. Has it always been this way, or is something different?

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

Has anyone investigated whether the 90's satanic panic was pre-emptive disruption to mask Epstein's activities? A lot of the allegations back then align with revealed materials from the files.

One of the greatest fears for Canadian engineers is to find your name in the Blue Pages: the disciplinary section of the engineering journals. Here they list out everything you have done wrong and why it is contrary to professional practice and ethics.

"Data not available"? How many centuries ago did we establish that it's a good idea to have accurate, timely data on factors that can contribute to major infectious disease outbreaks?

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

Oh hey!!!

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...