Attention Bluesky - @noupside.bsky.social & @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social say, "To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts & nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence." Do you agree? What change is most important? 🧵🧪

"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?" I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

How guaranteed are the ESA page fee grants if I apply? I want to submit, but don't really have money for publication fees. @esajournals.bsky.social

Vitally important thread.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Oxford commas are important @nature.com

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments. scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

NASA administrator proposes to eliminate Earth science, climate science, and anything else that's not "exploration"

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

Farthest I've been: N: Edinburgh (55.9° N) E: Shanghai (121.4° E) S: San Juan, PR (18.4° N) W: Kona, HI (156° W)

My take: Science gives us knowledge but not wisdom. Wisdom = knowledge + values. So science can tell you what's true, but not what's important. Your values tell you what's important, but those are far more subjective. Your wisdom is your combination of what is true and what you think is important.

Today I learned that Python alphabetizes based on Unicode values, where all capital letters are before all lowercase letters. So "Z" will be sorted before "e".

Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

Only a couple more days to submit to our #AGU25 session on Conservation Ecohydrology! It's a very fun session with lots of interesting applied ecohydrology studies. 🌲💧🚜 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

At some point, I wonder if it makes sense to have newspapers and other longform media outlets supported by endowments in the same way that foundations and universities are.

Please consider submitting to our #AGU25 session Conservation Ecohydrology (H053). There are always interesting presentations on fun and novel applications of ecohydrology methods. Past presentations have covered everything from beavers to gold mines to power plants. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Excited to be a part of this effort!

I believe this is the "don't look up" approach to environmental policy.

Just found the greatest scientific article of all time

Thermal infrared remote sensing, both from space and near Earth’s surface, is unlocking new ways to study ecosystems, from individual leaves to entire landscapes, write @mostafaj.bsky.social, @stephpau.bsky.social, and colleagues. eos.org/science-upda...

It was great to be a part of this effort. I'm really excited for the new infrastructure and protocols that are going to help standardize and scale proximal remote sensing over the next few years.

During COVID times, I had charts like this for my asynchronous lectures. They looked similar, although the initial drop off wasn't as steep.

Each of us contributes incrementally to a future we may never see. If it is in our lifetime, if our science, or our contribution, is part of a practical solution, it will likely be one sentence in a vast tome with contributions from thousands of authors across dozens of (not just science) fields.

Thanks to everybody who stopped by my poster this morning! It will be up all day. #AGU24

If you care about #forests and #fire and will be in DC for #AGU24, join us for a Forest & Fire mixer on Wednesday! #AGU2024

The scar of the 2020 Creek Fire is hard to miss when you're driving around Shaver Lake, CA. Lots of stand replacing burns as far as the eye can see. #FireScarFriday

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This is a great approach. I think more climate change communication needs to emphasize that it is caused by simple, observable processes that emerge from basic physical principles. Too often, we get caught up in the nuances of empirical methods that are not necessary to establish the basic facts.