Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat? | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3ZND907

"No one is without responsibility. We all have our own areas for action." https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pope-leo-urges-world-slow-down-ai-fervent-first-manifesto-2026-05-25/

"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

"It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.” www.404media.co/software-dev...

Time for all the real wage think pieces.

Really looking forward to this. If you're on the @bellingcat.com discord server, hope to see you there.

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote). prioritizing good management + fair pay. read the full series @ctmirror.org (it’s their first Pulitzer!!): ctmirror.org/series/on-th...

The Chronicle was honored for revealing how companies drastically underpay wildfire survivors. Gabrielle Lurie and an investigation of for-profit psychiatric hospitals were named finalists.

Looks good looks nice www.npr.org/2026/05/03/n...

To build Open Climate Risk, and its 30 m raster wildfire risk dataset, we needed a data processing pipeline that could scale alongside our developing science methodology. We wrote about the challenges, and our solutions, in a new blog post.

Dan Eggen was the best editor of polling stories I've ever known. He had great ideas for questions, wasn't afraid of numbers and always found ways to elevate the most important results. Horrible loss for journalism www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

The most useful tips, data, quotes and projects from Perugia @journalismfestival.com. By the great editorial team @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #ijf26 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/interna... Institute for the Study of Journalism

The former president of Neuralink's new company, Science Corp., is preparing for the first US trials of its brain-computer interface technology with Yale's neurosurgery department: techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/m...

Unser Team Daten und Visualisierung bei @zeit.de wächst weiter und wir suchen eine/n Data Visualization Designer! Wir freuen uns auf Bewerbungen. Bei Fragen, sehr gern DM! www.zeit-verlagsgruppe.de/jobs/data-vi...

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116000811728539952 🔓 Week 10's script, a walkthrough on how to build an Instagram-style photo essay, is unlocked and free to anyone at https://palewi.re/docs/coding-the-news/scripts/week-10/

Know of opportunities in journalism, communications, humanitarianism, or anything interesting in mission-oriented work? Please say hi👋 My website (and contact info) is at patrickdehahn.com. My DMs are open, or securely message pdeh.99 on Signal. And my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/patrickde...

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: [email protected]

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

I was laid off from CBS News yesterday. Now I’m looking for my next role in data visualization, news graphics and interactive storytelling. If you’re hiring or know of something that could be a fit, I’d love to connect. taylorfayjohnston.com

Massive 20km long oil spill visible in yesterday's Sentinel-2 satellite image following US strike on Iranian drone carrier Shahid Bagheri near Bandar Abbas.

I have a new story with @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how Meta and others, seeking power for data centers, are building their own power plants. These projects have transformed places like New Albany, Ohio, where farmland has given way to industry. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I find this chart by Anthropic about theoretical vs. actual AI usage, from @pbump.com's latest newsletter, very funny, and I think it's worth explaining why, and also please push back on any of this if you disagree, as I may write about it in the future. 🧵

Aside: Nevada's state engineer (head water manager, basically) actually managed to win a victory in state court that let him manage groundwater along with surface water in 2024. He started telling people No because groundwater levels have been falling for decades. He was fired in January.

Climate models are good at projecting things that haven't happened yet. AI is only good at things that have happened. So what's the use? A lot! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congrats to the editor who created a Faustian bargain that stumped the Mormon Church.

@reemakkad.bsky.social, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.

If someone wants to hire me full-time for my ICE flight reporting, I’m open, but here are my terms: 1. No faux objectivity, I’m not going back to that 2. No billionaire owner 3. No bans on employees going to protests in their off hours 4. No TERFs or TERF-curious 5. I cuss.

A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al

Abortion bans appear to result in lower rents and higher vacancy rates, showing that people are choosing not to live in states w/ restrictive laws "Policies around abortion matter to some people — to enough people to move the needle significantly," one economist said 19thnews.org/2026/03/abor...

Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

Here we go #NICAR26, a zillion and one sessions on the docket! Thurs: No-code AI pipelines with n8n Fri: Analyzing images/video with AI + Wrangling PDFs with Natural PDF Sat: Browser automation with Playwright + Ethical AI in Investigations Sun: Build your own AI Benchmark

satellite imagery and data reveal the breadth of destruction to military and civilian targets from the US-Israeli strikes read here 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

curious when D.C.'s cherry trees will be in full bloom this year? i've built a statistical model and tracker page that updates daily: tinius.github.io/blossoms/ now waiting for NPS and @capitalweather.bsky.social predictions to compare

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth. Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

Years ago at the height of pandemic shutdowns I wrote a book about supply chains and why they break. I'm not going to make any projections about what comes next but, obviously, if this war drags on, it means more inflation.

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Incredible front-page story from Ukraine by a reporter and photojournalist that the Post just laid off wapo.st/4rKFape

Using data on half a million wildfire starts, researchers are working to predict them (by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social) www.kjzz.org/science/2026...

'Twas a great blizzard for the books. Hope everyone is safe and warm.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”