I have been collecting funky folk-art fish figurines on various trips & finally strung them together to make a reef fish mobile that reminds me of snorkeling as they spin in the breeze 🐟🐠🎏 🤿 🌊

glad this is one thing I don't have to worry about

Hunter Armstrong, a non-juiced, "non-enhanced" athlete won the 50-meter backstroke at the Enhanced Games, beating two athletes who spent the last few months taking PEDs under stringent medical supervision. www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

Grain flow on the lee face of a dune, fed through breaching (Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park) 🧪⚒️

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

if anyone asks for my cause of death just tell them i saw pedro pascal being mauled by puppies

Hellgate Osprey, Neighbors Edition: Iris is startled by the sudden appearance of a European Starling fledgling on her nest. She calls and New Guy arrives to provide backup. Both seem unsure how to react but are also careful not to harm the young starling as it toddles around the nest.

According to this, consumer sentiment is lower than 1980, a year that consumer sentiment was so low that Americans abandoned the New Deal for Voodoo Economics (aka trickle-down, aka Reaganomics aka Neoliberalism, profit over people).

While El Niño is expected to bring a quieter than usual Atlantic hurricane season, the reverse is true in the Pacific. I give a brief preview of the forecasts for the Pacific tropical cyclone season in today's post. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/el-n...

"The objective evidence here comes close to establishing that but for Abrego’s lawsuit, the Gov would not have indicted him. The reopening of the investigation, Blanche’s unrebutted statements, and Singh’s sustained oversight together support that inference."

16 states are on track to set new all-time Memorial Day gas price records this year, surpassing the highs set in 2022: AK, CO, HI, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NM, OH, OR, SD, WA, WV, WY. A couple states could narrowly escape it: KY (+1.6c right now), MO (+2.3c right now)

I contributed a short piece reflecting on need for flexible, innovative, & nature-based water management practices amid an increasingly volatile hydroclimate to this One Earth series on "Stewardship under shifting drought baselines." www.cell.com/one-ear...

Painful but necessary. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

WOW! A camera is lowered to the 11,000-meter depth of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth. 🌎 #Oceanography #Photographer #WildlifeWednesday

Not all bees are honey-bees. 🐝 Wild bees are most of the +20k bee species in the world. 🌍 They are essential for biodiversity and food systems, yet are declining in many regions. 🏡 On #WorldBeeDay let’s #SaveTheBees guided by ILK practices: more flower diversity and habitat preservation. 🧪

SIGN OF THE DAY…

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

You know they tried to hang your predecessor, right?

Scientists and artists practicing their craft until the very end at the eruption of Mt St Helens. For all the STEM vs humanities discourse, today's stories of geologists and photographers are a reminder that we're all just trying to get a little closer to understanding something about the world.

Hello from Japan, where I have just watched a bus turn into a train!!

Large smoke plumes billow from several massive wildfires burning in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma yesterday. These and other recent fires in the region have collectively scorched tens of thousands of acres of land.

warm night in most places: “hey this is nice!” warm night in San Francisco: “what forest is going to catch on fire”

I believe that wind is the least favorite weather attribute overall, and today is proving that to be true according to everyone today. #CAwx

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.

We start losing daylight in 35 days.

re-watching Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Holds up

I am baking a lemon blueberry cake. That is all.

In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.

Here is a graph of the daily temperature anomalies above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline over the last 20 years using Copernicus data. As you can clearly see, the trendline shows the planet passing 1.5°C within a year. Get on the boat, people!

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

This is what the climate crisis looks like. Our beautiful homes, luxurious cars, and money has no value on a dead planet. There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables

Kids playing yesterday. 🪶

Highly encourage folks to listen to Dr. Topol's conversation with @donmilton.bsky.social and read that NYT piece. Spillover events will continue happening with increasing frequency, public health must adapt and adopt maximally cautious approaches to transmission to contain future outbreaks.

Bloomberg reported yesterday that a new financial filing shows that in the first quarter of 2026, Trump or his investment advisors made more than 3,700 trades—over 40 a day—“totaling tens of millions of dollars and involving major companies that have dealings with his administration.”

The first clear skies and moonless night in over a month got me up for this 4:30 am shot of our magical MIlky Way at Pigeon Point Lighthouse. 5/16/2026

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

This year’s El Niño could be absolutely brutal. And the worrying part is that it won’t just be a relatively local phenomenon, its effects are likely to be felt across the globe, from extreme weather to disruptions in ecosystems and agriculture. 1877 was extreme. 2026 may redefine the scale.

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

New job posting to join our team for an early career scientist(s) interested in the intersection of wildfire, electricity, insurance and resilience policy. If this sounds like you, please apply! If not, please share with your contacts. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/electri...

Friday will mark the earliest seasonal opening of Tioga Pass in more than a decade. www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...

“What we decided to do was keep that containment and then transition to more hand tools so we could conserve water.” This is in Utah. It’s going to be a long fire season. ksltv.com/environment/...

This is a really great article (a meta analysis of “leadership” research) that explains why the “heroic great man” approach to leadership studies is not only bunk, but is authoritarian bunk. >>

California wildfire resilience funding on the brink. open.substack.com/pub/cepp/p/c...

We start losing daylight in 39 days.

So not only did TN Republicans strip Memphis of representation, Speaker Sexton is also stripping Dems of committees for protesting it. Watch fascism work. www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/m...

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