Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

As @naomioreskes.bsky.social documents here, there are good reason to think the drafters of the Clean Air Act of 1970 understood greenhouse gases to be air pollutants www.ecologylawquarterly.org/wp-content/u...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

nevermind, towel got cold, back to normal :/

under a large warm towel that just came out of the dryer and it’s amazing how much it’s improved my outlook on life

I consider it a promising sign of weakness that the rhetoric from the gentry indulging "ai" is shifting a bit from "it's inevitable! Shut up!" to "can't we have a reasonable discussion?" The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, along with more than half of the county’s commissioners, have called on Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neil Burke to file charges against federal immigration agents involved in shootings that took place last year in the Chicago area.

Good to see this collective climate action from athletes! "One of the most coordinated winter athlete-led challenges to Olympic sponsorship policy to date [...] Signatories say they are now seeking a formal process through which athlete perspectives can inform sponsorship policy."

This happened in 2018, but apparently dismantling this fucking shitshow wasn't a priority for anyone in power over the next eight years.

I lost it today cos U New Brunswick Admins are telling fac LLMs are fine for writing ‘first drafts’. 💀 bsky.app/profile/wtfi...

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This!

Spend FIVE MINUTES protesting the genocide of Palestinians, and 1) be forced into hiding 2) have Google share your bank and credit card info due to a secret subpoena with ICE

There is a very linear relationship between cumulative fossil fuel emissions vs. global mean surface air temperature from 1850-2024.

And the corrollorary to that is that whatever temperature you ae at when you hit net zero CO2 emissions is what you are stuck with for 1000 years, with only moderate declines in the further 10,000 and 100,000 years or more before you return to the pre-industrial climate (or longer, depending on how

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So I realize that stopping fascism is #1 on the menu, but we must push HARD for Medicare for All. Our taxes should be for the health and common welfare of the people. Prevention is the best cure. We don't need another billion dollar bomber. We need billion dollar healthcare.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

My friend created a new product that combines laxatives with laughing gas. It’s just for shits and giggles.

In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:

Wooooo tomorrow I’m finally going to the Tucson Gem show for the first time! Most of my stuff from childhood was thrown out, including my rock collection, so maybe I can get a few minerals to replace what I had ☺️

it's wild how much time and energy is dedicated to threatening people with AI destroying their livelihood as opposed to actually demonstrating how AI could benefit anyone. it really is all about sticking it to those smug [checks notes] passenger attendants

We did this in the 60s when we transitioned from a manufacturing to a service economy, but there was also a huge effort in reskilling the workforce. Now they’re just telling us computers are going to buy shit from other computers for the benefit of 9 people and the rest of us can die.

Like it takes a village to raise a child sort of thing? It takes the right place to be successful?

This article lists the JFK Federal in Boston as the planned site for more ICE in Massachusetts @universalhub.com

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

I can't repost this enough. Incredible outrage. This is a good article.

Thinking about applying for funding again at the moment. The things I find most challenging are that I want to work with so many people! And then which of the ideas! It's like you could get anything funded or nothing funded. So any tips or tricks are welcome.

It can be done… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

you know you work in Norway when it is -8C outside and we are having a meeting with a huge window open...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Guy at the airport tried to dunk on me and my respirator by saying that I looked like a Mortal Kombat character... but that's cool? You think I don't want to look like Sub-Zero???

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Once, I pulled the plastic sheet off of the sapflow sensors, which turned out to be full of big spidery things that fell on my head,and in my failing, I fell off the ladder, electrocuted myself on the sapflow sensor and fell through the drought experiment :/ There are good reasons I do modeling now!

Nice article about our recent 'hypertropics' paper, with a very, very old photo of me installing stem psychrometers at Caxiuana. The trick was to make them airtight with two different types of dental putty and then insulate them with about a foot of fibreglass... cicero.oslo.no/no/artikler/...?

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

I already said my piece about why colonizing Mars is bullshit, but may now have to write a sequel about how mining/exploiting the Moon is also bullshit, since we're all doing bits about Moon cities after the Musk news

Oh, also - if your vision for the future of space exploration is dependent on mining the Moon for resources - think of a better future! Use your imagination! We don't HAVE to do anything, and that includes mining the Moon

I'd love to see a piece from Adeene on this but while we wait, may I suggest my commentary of viewing space mining as an extension of extractivism rather than anything 'new': www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

nobody has ever convinced me that humans "own" the Moon, or that an unspoiled unexploited Moon is less valuable than one stripped of its "resources"

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"