@jorkussmellington.bsky.social On coffee (and really, I would say most other food-related questions OTHER than unchecked consumption of red meat, which the biggest single food-related source of emissions and unsustainable use of land/water resources), this post makes an excellent point!

Love this quote at the end: "No acceptable explanation for the miraculous identity of particles of the same type has ever been put forward. That identity must be regarded, not as a triviality, but as a central mystery of physics." - Physicists Charles W. Misner, John A. Wheeler, and Kip S. Thorne

Mentions and reminds here that Louise Webster, an Australian scientist, was the co-discoverer of black holes and she shouldn’t have been forgotten about

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA. Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮 www.iea.org/commentaries...

#India recorded its LARGEST ever increase in both #solar and #wind in the first half of 2025 ☀️🌪️🇮🇳 Solar rose 17 TWh (+25%) and wind 11 TWh (+29%) 📈 Solar growth alone was bigger than demand growth, while wind matched it. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

How does one write about China's plans - solar or whatever else - in Tibet without recognising that the people have been marginalised and pushed out? The lack of understanding of land and resource rights issues among (mostly Western) climate reporters is sadly not new www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Over 20 yrs of flying insect counts at a remote high(3000m)-mountain meadow in Colorado (by a very dedicated observer) shows insect counts fell by an average of 6.6%/yr, overall a 72.4% drop. The main culprit was rising summer temperatures, especially warmer nights. ½ www.earth.com/news/remote-...

Someone in Russia filmed how the subway (train) doors close over there and it’s deservingly going viral with the most hilarious comments. Yes, it’s typical. The voice says: “This is (name of the station). Careful, the doors are closing.”

Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. nos.nl/l/2573446

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Germany has ended up in a situation where they're building new fossil fuel power stations (yes, gas is a fossil fuel, folks) Slapping "hydrogen" and "CCS" onto the PDFs procuring 20 freaking gigawatts of new fossil fuel plants doesn't make it any less bad www.cleanenergywire.org/news/new-ger...

I thought it was :: and had been referencing " we eat 1 credit card/5 grams of plastic per year", not per week. If you take the lower bound of the average quoted by @hankgreen.bsky.social here (0.1g to 5g) per week that's roughly 5 grams per year. Unintentional (or was it?) SciComm win on my part.

Apollo 10 launched from Complex 39-B at Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1969. The Lunar Module separated from the Command and Service Module, and approached within 16 km of the surface before the crew returned to Earth. The next mission would deliver astronauts to the surface. 🧪 🔭 Images: NASA

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

Thank goodness the strike landed on that hill and not the one I was standing on. This shot is tack sharp and you can see the aperture blades in the bends of the bolt. So much detail in the landing point as well, you can see the ocotillo nearby.

Massive snow accumulations in the western Alps!

My first chart showed the revisions of LULUCF over various editions. Here's what the 2025 report shows in some more detail for forests.

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

Sweden has reduced its GHG emissions 38% since 1990 when excluding LULUCF (removals on land). When LULUCF is added, Swedish GHG emissions have risen 11% since 1990! Careful if including LULUCF in your GHG target... Learn more here (I updated the Swedish figure): www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...

My latest article on Our World in Data, looking at foreign aid and the difference we can make with personal donations: ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-...

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Australian newspapers might as well not bother covering US politics if this is how they present things

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

New sunlight beats old sunlight! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Thomas Bugynar, Professor für Kognitive Ethologie an der Uni Wien, erforscht an der Forschungsstation Haidlhof gemeinsam mit seinem Team die intelligenten Fähigkeiten von Kolkraben. 🧠 🔍 Mehr über die schlauen Raben vom Haidlhof hier: ⤵

Love me some Danube-adjacent forests ... 💚🎄🌳

Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Big problem. Underrated by most. If you want a role with an outsized impact, do check out LEEP's openings.

Japan sees nuclear and solar as the cheapest energy sources in 2040⚡️ Source > www.enecho.meti.go.jp/committee/co...

Scottish engineer James Nasmyth imagined what light and dark might look like on the Moon, many decades before cameras were sent into space. 🧪🪐 #PlanetSci www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

100%. Plus, the discourse has convinced many that 1.5 C is a “tipping point” as opposed to a policy milestone that signifies that we are already experiencing dangerous climate change, and the discourse is laying groundwork for a loss of credibility when 1.50 C turns out to be nothing special.

This cool visualization of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa by @robbieandrew.bsky.social will be very messy when we reach net zero, but fortunately we don't have to worry about that anytime soon. robbieandrew.github.io/ppm/

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Atlantic circulation collapse? "In short, it’s a climate scientist’s nightmare come true." Here's a good 'deep dive' into this risk, from Yale Climate Connections. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atla...

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

While Putin's puppet Orban has looted Hungary to the point that it's now the second poorest country in the EU, the way he spends the stolen loot rivals even the golden kings of Europe. From French media. 1/2

The first images coming in from Sentinel 1C! With these first examples over Svalbard offering a glimpse of the boon it will be for sea ice monitoring and process understanding www.esa.int/Applications...

Journalists writing about liquefied natural gas, LNG, should know this study. Not just any research paper, but a peer-reviewed study from Cornell University, an Ivy League School: "Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal" news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Despite the headline…. “Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”

Want to learn more about mitigating climate change? Then take our series of four online courses "Designing a Climate-Neutral World": 1. Introduction 2. Buildings and Transport 3. Industry and Electricity Generation 4. Taking Action online-learning.tudelft.nl/programs/cli... #energysky #climatesky

Ok team your assignment: make @beyondmeatofficial.bsky.social followers blow up so they focus over here. Seriously FOMO of this account's hilarious sassy punny posts is the main thing I miss after switching over from threads. Let's get them to move their hilarious presence to @bsky.app

We are hiring 3 tenure-track assistant professors in ESE here at UNC! This is the time to apply as we never have this many openings all at once. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/291...

Learning a lot at #AGU24 @Climatologist49

USDA Forest Service Lands, Minerals & Geology office, along with Conservation Legacy & Geological Society of America, announce a GEOSCIENTIST IN FORESTS Program offering PAID workforce devlpmt opportunities (heavy on field studies) to early geoscientists. stewardslegacy.org/geoscientist...