Hot take: people who insist on backing into parking spots are a blight upon the Earth.

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is searching for a tenure-rank faculty in climate science. Candidates must have an exceptional record of scholarly work, be interested in interdisciplinary approaches and demonstrate a dedication to teaching. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Excited to help continue support for this open source model and dataset at Stanford in collaboration with Wes Ingwersen and Watershed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

Have spent most of July in the U.K., soaking up history, natural beauty, scientific ideas (and a fair amount of weak & warm beer). Back home tomorrow.

Submit an abstract to our @agu.org session GC077 by July 30th! Geophysical Constraints of Climate Solutions: -clean energy tech -adaptation solutions -resilient energy transitions agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... @lfreese.bsky.social @stevenjdavis.bsky.social @michaeldavidson.bsky.social

Ignoring news and spending cocktail hour with a Naked and Famous (but subbed out my precious Chartreuse with Maine-made Handshake digestif)

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

New piece from me published in Nature Climate Change: Decarbonization can improve energy security, robust trade and a circular economy increases energy security, and critical minerals are not like oil. 🔌💡 Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Open access link: rdcu.be/eg3lR

Ironically, our new paper on trade risks of net-zero energy systems, ~2 years in the making, has landed on the same day as the U.S. imposes sweeping tariffs on many of its trading partners. rdcu.be/eg1ya

Nice sunset walk at the Dish yesterday. Nature’s first green is gold!

You don’t have the cards, lady.

14 amino acids (left- and right-handed)! Ammonia! Formaldehyde! We are but stardust: mundane and transcendent. My gosh, what a time to be alive! www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new perspective in @science.org imagines a role for Tribal energy resources that is mutually beneficial to U.S. energy security and Tribe’s economic prosperity. With my brilliant colleague @mbazilian.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Replacing conventional building materials with materials modified to store carbon dioxide could move the planet closer to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study in Science.

Our analysis out today in @science.org and led by Elisabeth Van Roijen (of NREL and formerly @ucdavis.bsky.social) shows that building materials--and especially concrete--are an enormous potential reservoir to store carbon (we think >16 Gt CO2 / yr). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post-storm sunrise on the shores of Lake Tahoe this past Saturday.

Some of the Christmas cookies our family made this year!

Nice view from the Marin Headlands after this morning’s storm cleared!

Hanging out in the Pacific NW for Thanksgiving and captured a nice little microcosm yesterday.