Some nice media exposure about the threatened whitebark pine that highlights one of our recent studies. 🧪🌎

Democracy may die in darkness, but it also seems you can kill it in broad daylight.

None of what's happening now would be possible without gop enablers. They own all of it. The gop is the party of evil. Vote them all out.

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to prelim figures from the International Disaster Database. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires & droughts. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Smash hit! A whopping eight people are in attendance at the 315 showing of Melania in Missoula

Yet another stroke of genius from POTUS 🔥

OK, as we go into February, I'm officially worried about our snowpack numbers across the Western US. Less snow means dryer soils and fuels heading into the summer and I don't like fire years where the high country comes online early.

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

OMG. I'm at a hotel bar preparing to give a wildfire lecture (the best place to prepare a lecture). The dude next to me starts talking about a conspiracy theory stating there is a laser weapon that started all the recent wildfires in Canada. We've got some whacky people in the US! 🔥

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

Is there a way to specifically pay 1% of your taxes with a promise to send the rest when the Epstein files are released? Asking for America.

Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

This graphic is really great.

I wish two things: 1. Ryanair operated in the US. 2. People would cancel Starlink (I know a lot of people who dislike Musk but still have Starlink; I wish they’d not give that a$$hole their money)

I so wish there was an edit option here. Anyway tagging this as a wildfire post since the paper that was misrepresented in the DOE report was all about fire. 🔥 🧪

I also dismissed the report based on its content The jokers who authored the DOE report totally misrepresented one of my peer-reviewed papers (page 69 of the report). They are either 1) purposely spewing disinformation or 2) not smart enough to understand the paper. I guess it could be both.

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

Get solar panels if you are able!!

Trump watched an actual insurrection on Jan 6th and did NOTHING to stop it. Now he threatens to use the Insurrection Act against law abiding Americans.

I’ll be on @boisestatepublicradio.org’s Idaho Matters (weekdays at 12) tomorrow to talk about my recent insurance reporting. I attended a public forum on the issue since the story published, and you’re going to want to hear some of what I recorded. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.

Say it publicly, you cowards!

Great @boisestatepublicradio.org Idaho Matters interview with @propublica.org’s Mark Olalde. They discuss his important recent reporting on the massively subsidized, lightly regulated and often environmentally damaging public lands ranching industry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase, an expert on the U.S. media and its role in democracy explains. buff.ly/lcUuZZQ By @victorpickard.bsky.social #journalism

He’s concerned about the safety of violent protesters in Iran but doesn’t give a fuck about peaceful citizens being murdered on American streets. 🤬

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

We built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 4, we show how federal investigators found the rioters and built the largest criminal case in U.S. history.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.

Here's the full list of international organizations and UN entities and treaties that the US yesterday announced it is withdrawing from. It includes the IPCC, the UNFCC, IUCN, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). 🌏🌐

In December I received a deeply meaningful recognition for my research from AFE, especially to cap off the unhinged year that was 2025. I dedicate this award to all scientists - especially my fellow feds - who have been vilified and whose work has not been valued. @afe-fireecology.bsky.social

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Videos and eyewitness accounts indicate that a U.S. citizen was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Please be safe out there! 💔

1/3 Which city burns next? Important NYT opinion piece by David Wallace-Wells. I think about this a lot, particularly as fire activity continues accelerate. New fire records are broken every few years (see graphic further down in thread). 🔥

What is perhaps the gravest transgression ever committed by a US president has been airbrushed out of the picture and the perp allowed (by a majority of voters) to return to the scene of the crime. This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

5 years ago, there was a bloody, lawless, and deadly attack on our nation’s Capitol. A group of criminal thugs broke out in riots and stormed our Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election at the direction of the President of the United States.

I Don't Like It. 'The conditions are set to be the worst since the catastrophic 2019-20 summer bushfires that killed more than 30 people directly & burned through millions of hectares.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m so done with #MDPI journals 🔥🧪

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

📢 New study @natgeosci.nature.com on the global impact of wildfires on soil erosion @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @unibas.ch The 1st global estimate of post-fire soil erosion, accounting for cumulative fire impacts. @panospanagos.bsky.social @pborrelli.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Deep budget cuts and massive firing sprees shrank emergency response agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), considered a global crown jewel for climate science.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

Every member of Congress not calling for impeachment and removal is failing their own oaths of office.