Multiple Democratic-run states got full Nov #SNAP benefits out the door before #SCOTUS paused. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... Is it too much to ask that these payments went out with "Brought to by your Democratic Governor, X" (such as #PA @governor.pa.gov & #WI @govevers.wisconsin.gov )?

Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...

These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

Oh, this /rules/.

Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

One side of this ivory "memento mori" features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown. This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.

"If you say the science isn't real & the technology doesn't exist, then when people begin to feel the consequences of #climate change... if you take the science away, you're taking away the only hope that we have for any kind of resolution to this" - Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

press conf in old city hall station when citylore.org/sight-the-ol...

The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).

I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this: www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

The duty to keep the memories of the World War II generation alive will pass solely to us soon. The work of fighting fascism may never finish.

The official death toll in Jamaica from Hurricane #Melissa has risen to 28, with many communities still cut off from aid.

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

One of my parents had a really terrible childhood, dropped out of HS due to parental abandonment. The other had bad luck approaching a curse. Both smart, hardworking, honest, caring, and drunks. But they treated their children well. We were on food stamps much of my minority, and it *helped.* 1/2

Column by The Most Rev. Timothy C. Senior: "We need to help immigrants overcome their anxieties and find their home among us in a way that allows them to be law-abiding citizens." lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

🍾 We’re proud to share that three senior OUCRU researchers, Lê Văn Tấn, C. Louise Thwaites, and Timothy Walker, have been conferred the title of Full Professor by the @ox.ac.uk - a remarkable milestone reflecting their leadership and contributions to global health 🧵

An excerpt from my new piece for @thebulletin.org on Bill Gates' new climate missive:

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Jamaica, in particular, will likely suffer catastrophic impacts from now rapidly-intensifying (but slow-moving) Hurricane #Melissa. A *Category 5* landfall now appears to be the most likely outcome, & 30-40+ inches of *additional* rain in mountains will lead to extreme flooding.

Amidst a government shutdown in which the White House has proposed slashing federal support of science by billions of dollars, our #SCIMaP team continues to assess the impact of research cuts on communities nationwide. Learn more about our efforts: scienceimpacts.org With more to come... a 🧵

I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: [email protected] #ITeachMath #EduSky

If you are still using NASA's GRACE pages for Antarctic mass budget, you should check out TU Dresden's version - it's a really nice visualisation data1.geo.tu-dresden.de/ais_gmb/inde...

My #1 concern is regarding the possibility of exceptionally intense rainfall--possibly multiple *feet* worth--in mountainous terrain of Jamaica & Hispaniola. But *very* intense hurricane is also possible by this weekend (cat 4/5), along w/high-end wind/surge impacts. #Melissa

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT Register here:

At the risk of angering the Discourse Spirits, I will just say that as a heavily tattooed person who got his first ink 35 years ago, yes, impulse drunk tattoos happen. But an actual fuckin *totenkopf*? Come on, man. Here's why I think the "who knew?" story smells a bit funny:

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A weather balloon launched by private company that uses a bag of sand as a ballast, shattered the cockpit window of an airplane at 36,000 feet last night. Yikes!

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

“We need to stop trusting the experts.”

Giddily excited about this one: I wrote "Taming Carbon" for @milkeninstitute.org in 2023 gwagner.com/taming-carbon, followed by "Tipping Carbon" last year gwagner.com/tipping-carbon Just filed "Cementing Carbon," 4,000 words on how to cut CO₂ from cement, out in the January 2026 Milken Review.

At the No Kings protest in Farmington, MI today. I’ve been signing multiple petitions; good to see democracy being valued!

A little treat going into the weekend: the midterm for my quantum mechanics class was a couple weeks ago, and again the students made memes for extra credit. Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?

A request for weather interested volunteers! Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike. Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

When I decided to go to Ann Arbor to get my PhD, my mom, who lives in rural Colorado, was so concerned that I was going to live so close to Detroit. She was sure I was going to be murdered.

The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Online Programmes Special Interest Group (SIG). This SIG offers a collaborative space for ALT members involved in the design, delivery, and management of online learning programmes. Learn more: buff.ly/IDZEs9p #altc

Even RFK Jr’s gang knows it would be hard to outright ban vaccines for M M and R, so this is yet another step towards the clear goal of ending vaccinations: bsky.app/profile/john...

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” | Whistleblowers Reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... -> www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-d... -> bsky.app/profile/comm... and bsky.app/profile/sola...

We have exciting news! We’re pleased to announce the new SPIE Optical Systems Lab at Monroe Community College, to be built with a $150,000 investment from #SPIE. ✨ This will serve as a hub for hands-on training and workforce development in #optics and #photonics. Read more in the press release. ⤵️

Here's a good article about the DOE climate report. www.politico.com/interactives...

What Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are doing off the coast of Venezuela are war crimes. Intentionally attacking civilians is a war crime and a fundamental violation of international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the laws of war.