Fish recognize faces, seagulls recognize voices & the Chicago rat hole was actually made by a squirrel royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12...

You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊 challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic

What could Trump's closure of NCAR mean for climate science? - No more development/maintenance of "most-used model in the world" - No more improvements to forecasting your weather app uses - No more aircraft research into consequences of pollution/geoengineering www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

This author should do some reading up on infrastructure lock-in www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

After all, Trump Media's deep expertise in advanced energy technology would make it a natural partner for any nuclear fusion company www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To understand this thread, you have to understand that NCAR's models like CCSM and CESM are just... everywhere. There's only so many computers in the world that can run these things, and one of them is here. Where do those data show up? bsky.app/profile/davi...

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Check out these Andean bears at the Queens Zoo. “As young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,” said WCS’s Mike Allen, the zoo’s director. Video taken by a guest. 🌎

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

How many glaciers will disappear by 2100: 79% on our current trajectory (2.7°C) 91% if countries don't meet their emissions targets (4°C) 63% if we meet the Paris goal (2°C) www.newscientist.com/article/2508...

Under Antarctica, the 1st kite-ski expedition across the white continent doing polar science, has reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility. They are dragging ground penetrating radar a total of 4000km 👏 @drheidisevestre.bsky.social www.underantarctica.com/en

bari weiss currently getting her ass kicked by Nice Bri'ish Boys Make A Cheeky Pie, Right, Sorted, 'at Hits The Spot It Does

This talk hit hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZM...

This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. I wrote about the biggest change to global climate politics since its passage: The climate story *is* the China story now, and how countries pursue decarbonization is itself a wager on China’s future. heatmap.news/climate/pari...

Speeding is bad, actually. It kills people. We have speed limits to save lives.

White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the leftovers

Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic

Killer whales are known to eat dolphins, drown sperm whales & sink sailboats off Gibraltar. But a new study observed killer whales & dolphins working together to hunt salmon. I was on the @newscientist.com pod to talk about our often mistaken understanding of these animals: youtu.be/2dJubtCZhow?...

New podcast: 🐬 Orcas and dolphins - an uneasy alliance 🧠 Distinct psychiatric conditions - same root causes? 🎇 The new field of Galactic Ecology 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/6245... with me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @mjflepage.bsky.social, @alexwilkins.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com

ICYMI Here’s your Friday long read: My in-depth profile story of David Stevenson, the man who crushed America’s offshore wind industry. Thanks to @motherjones.com for republishing. 🙏

Don't Look Up was a documentary.

Neanderthals were pretty smart 🔥 www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second hottest year after 2024

Climate change is making us dumber, starting young: Children tend to know fewer words, letters & numbers if they experience an average temperature of 32°C or more www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

Read this expecting to be dismayed by how good AI has gotten at aping literature, but am instead dismayed by how many humans prefer that “writing” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

If the Kremlin says the US national security strategy is "largely consistent with our vision," It's probably not good for US national security www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday I was reading about how a type of PFAS (TFA) has been found in cereals in the EU, which is considering designating it toxic to reproduction. Meanwhile in the US:

Scientists: “The study shows… technologies for harvesting are too damaging.” The Metals Company: “We're ​encouraged ​by these ​data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Critically endangered Sumatran tigers are doing better than expected in an area in Aceh patrolled by rangers. Here a mother grooms a male cub. He was photographed 8 months later successfully living on his own. But we still need more action against poaching. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

I only had to use a wheelchair for 2 months, but I know they are not all created equal. Having to wait 10 months to get a powered wheelchair is insane. “Am I not disabled enough?“ one person asks. Insanity! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Absolutely maddening - and of course private equity is involved www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

fondly recalling when Bill Nordhaus got the econ Nobel for his model that assumed economic damages from climate change would be modest and far in the future heatmap.news/economy/clim...

There’s a lot of angst about climate not being at the forefront anymore but this issue is squarely a climate issue and every climate person should be able to make that case/link. And, hell yeah, public power!

Hard to think of a better image of how humanity is heading into climate breakdown

OMG "The extreme weather system has destroyed nearly 15,000 homes across the country, sending almost 44,000 people to state-run temporary shelters"

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat. By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social 1/5

Good front-paging.

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017

“If enough countries display their intent to move away from fossil fuels, money will follow. Today, global investment in renewables is twice that of fossil fuels … and half of the power-generating capacity of China and India is low-carbon.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"A single, reusable bottle can replace 20 to 50 single-use bottles" Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾

The Congo rainforest may have tipped to become a source of CO2, making it even harder for us to reach net zero. One bright spot: The new TFFF fund will soon start paying countries for every hectare of forest they keep standing. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.” “‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

BBC removes a line about Trump being the "most openly corrupt president"--from a lecture about the "paralysing cowardice" of the elite 😅 www.ft.com/content/07d8...

When the company at the heart of the AI Boom/Bubble has to issue a memo assuring investors that it's not Enron it doesn't leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling about our economy

The battle to save the magnificent but endangered Amur tiger detailed in Jonathan Slaght's Tigers Between Empires is an inspiring look at what collaboration across borders can achieve, finds Adam Weymouth