After 3 years of applications, the CCST fellowship and I have officially parted ways! I am now a *completely* free agent on the job market. I'm looking for heavyweight, structural climate policy roles to deploy my ag methane expertise. DMs are open.

My 2 cents: "Without adaptation, extreme heat will cut crop & livestock yields, forcing more land into agriculture to maintain food production. That would drive even higher emissions from land use change, which in turn would make climate impacts on agriculture even worse..." 1/2

DON'T FEED WILDLIFE! GODDAMN IT!

Fabulous panel yesterday focused on efforts to reduce methane from rice paddies, incl. @ecomarci.bsky.social (UNEP), Jennifer Norfolk (Global Heat Reduction Initiative), and Brian Segal (IndigoAg). @waiterich.bsky.social (WRI) did an incredible job moderating!

Moving back from Thailand to the US last year, this is one of the biggest changes I noticed. And yes, I am exhausted that I cannot check into a flight without creating and account and downloading the app.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

Moderated a fun panel on reducing methane emissions while increasing rice production at DC Climate Week today featuring @ecomarci.bsky.social (UNEP), Brian Segal (IndigoAg) and Jennifer Norfolk (Global Heat Reduction Initiative). A few things I learned: 🧵 1/

📊 Billions of people depend on synthetic fertilizers. Track how they're produced, traded, and used. Fertilizers have played an essential role in feeding a growing global population. It's estimated that just under half of the people alive today are dependent on synthetic fertilizers.

I think this was a fundamental misstep by AI platforms. A more clear demarcation of model limits would help build trust.

To be clear- what should have happened is this software should have returned ERROR - LANGUAGE MODELS CANNOT PERFORM CALCULATIONS, instead of using several watt hours of energy to fabricate an answer The reason it didn't is because it's more profitable for Anthropic to burn energy to fake capability

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Important. This drives a lot of climate action fights on social media. Some folks think anything but “reduce fossil CO2” is a distraction. Meanwhile, 1/3 of emissions are from food systems. Also beware “solutions” that reduce fossil CO2 but increase land use CO2 even more (eg crop-based biofuels).

Almost 7 years later he finally has an answer and I think that’s beautiful

The Living Seed Banks of the Alps www.botany.one/the-living-s... Fourteen botanical gardens across the Alps collectively grow a third of the region's flora, including species found in no seed bank anywhere. #Botany #PlantScience

This happened to my friend when she did her post-doc in astrophysics. In office assignments, not seats, but it was explicit and she fought it.

Yes come join please! RSVP below if you want to talk rice and methane on April 21 👇

DC folks - I'm on a panel for DC Climate Week moderated by @waiterich.bsky.social Register at the link below! luma.com/ikt0gkmh

The US heatwave melted much of the already thin mountain snow cover, leading to a snowpack that is the lowest on record across much of the Western USA. This will undoubtedly lead to reduced water availability for agriculture and other uses in coming months. 18/

can i repost this 1000x please? learning to develop "good" research questions is so important, and so undercut by the "move fast break things" vibe coding mentality. (yes, i also vibe code... for weekend projects!) shameless plug for my recent paper on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My white whale is fixing the UI/UX of DC's Metro System. Yesterday had to help a man in a motorised wheelchair find the elevator as he was about to go up the escalator because the signage was so unclear. Don't get me started on navigating L'Enfant station with the stroller.

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

We've been in DC almost a year and I can definitely saw that it feels way more dangerous as a pedestrian here than Bangkok. Walked by this crash this morning on the way to meet a friend. Super scary and really lucky the restaurant was not open for brunch yet.

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Baby has lots of toys, but her favourites are: toy box lids, the furnace grate, my house slippers, and the cat door on the baby gate 😂

‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control - More than 30,000 objects are now in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially Great animated article by @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social et al www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

How meat became a measure of manhood www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I just spoke to a pediatrician who confirmed this: In youngest US kids, uptake drops for flu, hepatitis B, 3 other vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Watch as two bumblebees throw a pollen party on a magnolia petal, showcasing their vital role in pollination and plant reproduction. It's nature's celebration!

I like the new Harry Styles album so far (also like the previous 2) but partly because it is VERY 2010s indie-electronica. Heavily influenced by LCD Soundsystem it seems.

Some ways to reduce fertilizer prices & demand: - Increase nitrogen use efficiency (eg precision application, shifting fall applications to spring, nitrification inhibitors incl. thru crop breeding) - Reduce excess crop demand (minimize food waste, eat less meat/dairy, cut crop-based biofuel use)

We burn ~100 million barrels of oil every single day. 🌍 The good folks at @rockymtninst.bsky.social have been saying we can cut that by 20% — without switching fuels, changing behavior, or retiring any infrastructure early. We can. Here's how — and what it would cost.

Strap in. All signs point to an ever lengthening conflict. Bloomberg Exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Springtime in DC -- bombing down Connecticut Ave on my mountain bike then stopping at Teaism in Dupont. AMAZING 🌸🌸🌸

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

"Food systems consume at least 15 percent of total global fossil fuel use. Roughly 40 percent of all petrochemicals produced worldwide end up in #FoodSystems, primarily as synthetic fertilizers on farms and as plastic in food and beverage packaging." civileats.com/2026/03/17/o...

We're hiring? *checks notes* WE'RE HIRING! Check out these opportunies to work at NCEI. I'm a "USA Jobs Survivor" so happy to impart wisdom (and rants) if you want them www.usajobs.gov/job/861144500 AND www.usajobs.gov/job/861144700

beginning to suspect we could run this headline every day for the foreseeable future

Turns out today was not a great day to fly into DCA. Waiting in Grand Rapids for the incoming flight to leave the tarmac. At least they have good beer here!

“If we don’t capture that biodiversity in a much more strategic way and work with scientists in Africa, Asia and Latin America, we won’t have a food-secure future.” Another tragic casualty from USAID funding cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/s...

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Hell yeah, brother

DID YOU KNOW that emissions from manure management in the U.S. are likely even higher than official EPA estimates? A thread about 💩 1/

I've been carrying my cello for weeks through snow, ice, wind, and rain so that YOU can hear us play on Sunday March 1st! DC, get your tickets here! dccos.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

Although her first attempts were punching her fist into her hand, which made her look more like a baby mob boss 😅

My baby learned to clap while listening to some Dvorak with me. What can I say, she is a baby genius!

We are giving up streaming services for Lent. I admit it means I'm on my phone more in the evenings, because I get sleepy from reading.

Toddler just shone a flashlight at the cat’s butthole and told me, “It’s weird in there.”

Husband is so sick of me talking about Punch the adorable Japanese macaque. IFKYK.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...