Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭🐡🧪

A new paper shows how social media accelerates extremism by flooding users with emotionally charged, divisive content that algorithms naturally amplify, making extremist narratives far more visible, engaging, and persuasive than they would be otherwise.

Love to see #GMA breaking down what an abstract is, how conferences are different from papers, and how to mindfully/critically read sciencey clickbait 🤓 #medialiteracy #misinformation

Spoiler alert this is why I just say “Eastern” when I’m scheduling meetings or sending reminders. Literally cannot keep it straight 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Is Taylor Swift selling Nazi merch? No. Is the rise of fascism making us more susceptible to rage bait? Definitely.

Eunice Newton Foote, presented her research to the Eight Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1856, showing co2 caused heating.

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

“Brian Kilmeade spits Nazi talking points with a smile. Fox News isn’t journalism—it’s the propaganda arm of American fascism. #TrumpWatch #Resist”

The propaganda is already so bad, man. FB acquaintances who never post about politics are already posting he was murdered "by the far left" and "for his Christian beliefs". We don't know even know if they have a suspect yet. Country is so completely beyond fucked.

“I only won Alabama by 47 points, that didn’t influence my decision at all 😏” we’re not even pretending anymore folks

If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us. Follow @climate.us for launch updates.

Scary situation near 34th & West #OCNJ during high tide tonight 🫠 We turned around, didn’t drown! #HurricaneErin #wxsafety

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Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Just talked with an anthropologist doing ethnographic work in tandem with an engineer doing water sampling and how after a short time together they had both improved their ability to do things that directly benefit actual households. That’s the good stuff, not whatever this article is trying to say.

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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is. (cheating with my best photo instead of my last)

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Two things: 1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything. 2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

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This is an unprecedented time in our nation's history. Conspiracies, lies, and gaslighting are running amok. We need more scientists in Congress. I was born and raised here, and I am running to represent all Virginians from Chesterfield County to the Chesapeake Bay.

Great post by @kathiedello.bsky.social's folks at NC State Climate Office on monitoring humid heat and why WBGT is largely the best metric for it. Also features one of our (cc @wxkels.bsky.social) plots showing why @jjrennie.bsky.social is increasingly miserable! climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/07...

Hi, it’s me, the reviewer who always recommends using the Oxford comma.

Rachel Carson would not be surprised at our collective amnesia. But she would be disappointed.

Beach read, mis/disinfo nerd edition… Excited to get this party started @matthewfacciani.bsky.social

Back in 2023, I presented at @ametsoc.org and said, "Hey, we have a flood scale & people love it, but we did it ourselves. Can we do better?" And Dr. Steven Woods at UH reached out to me. The rest is history (find out more later today). We now have a flood scale rooted in social science.

This whole thing about Colbert being canceled for “financial reasons” is BS. He has the top spot in network TV in his time slot. He’s not second to anybody. This was “Fire Colbert OR (quid pro quo) the FCC doesn’t approve of your sale.” Don’t overlook these things.

The party of limited government.

Enable wireless emergency alerts on your phone and use this app that directly accesses NWS forecasts and watches/warnings for your location apps.apple.com/us/app/every...

No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

holy shit lmao

Keep the beaches beautiful with no windmills (that you won’t even be able to see) but sure, let’s have giant light-up billboard boats cruising by a few times a day! That’s totally fine! (I continue to despise this timeline) #ocnj

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

Need more accounts like this to counter false narratives out there about warnings

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The two biggest weather killers are: heat and floods. Tornadoes and hurricanes come to mind, but they're not it. Climate change is making heat waves hotter (drought and fires are byproducts) and floods are more severe, sometimes as a result of a tropical system, but not always. Nobody is safe.

Flood Watch issued yesterday at 1:18 pm. WPC had mesoscale discussions throughout the event. NWS issues Flash Flood Warning at 1:14 am. NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency at 4:03 am. NWS was on the ball. The challenge is always getting the warning the last mile and getting people to respond.

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

AOC here with a digital literacy lesson of the day: we’re all vulnerable to manipulation, especially when we’re outraged, and even when that outrage is warranted. I’ve had politically left friends reach out to me this week w/ some pretty wild & very scary scenarios… & they cited BlueSky as a source.

While Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill was huge, it's focus was taxes and mandatory spending programs. There are still at least a dozen departmental appropriations bills to consider this year, including the one that will potentially slash NOAA. That fight and others sre still to come.

Everything is awful and I’m exhausted but I’m seeing more fireflies than I have the past few summers, so I’ll take that little win

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

The number of times I have wanted to do exactly this while out walking the dog…

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

I know we need to act. But we need to sense and understand too. What's lost? What's true? What can be saved? Where we can we walk away, divest, stop pouring our own energy into what is devouring who and what we love? What's emerging?