Good discussion of how to think about trust in science (and pursue it in practice) youcanknowthings.substack.com/p/trust-issu...

Fun fact: Clean energy costs keep getting cheaper as technology improves and more capacity is deployed. Fossil fuels stay roughly the same cost to deploy, while volatile commodity costs spike whenever global markets tighten.

It's that time for recommending Books of the Year. I seemed to spend a heck of a lot of my time reviewing this year, so I have quite a few to choose from. In no particular order...

"Call me impractical or romantic, but for my money, the hunger for meaning is as basic as the craving for food. The fundamental questions aren’t luxuries, and people will always find a way to ask them..."

All of this. So much hypocrisy, and still, it will not help.

What is priced and not priced is so destructively dissonant

Working on research ethics and/or societal impacts of science and technology? Consider responding to this request for info from the NSF. Deadline is Dec. 13! Help shape the future of responsible research. www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...

I have always found bucket lists unappealing and a bit oppressive. Thanks, Helen, for illuminating why!

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

Working on AI governance or AI ethics? Royal Society Open has a call for work in this area. (Just found out about it, but the call is still open!) royalsociety.org/blog/2024/09...

Next week I'll be on one of my bundled trips that, in addition to teaching 7 classes, 1 workshop, and 4 other events, also includes 3 public talks - Sun Dec 1 in Shepherdstown WV, Wed Dec 4 at Dickinson College, and Thurs Dec 5 at UPenn. www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-co... www.dickinson.edu/Hayhoe

⚡️Gazprom plans for end of gas transit via Ukraine after 2024, Reuters reports. Kyiv has indicated it will not extend the transit deal, ending over 50 years of gas flows from Siberia to central Europe — a vital revenue stream for Russia since the Soviet era.

Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵

Breaking: Cassava Sciences Topline Phase 3 Data Did Not Meet Co-Primary Endpoints $SAVA CEO: "(T)he loss of cognition in the placebo group was less pronounced than ... in other placebo-controlled studies in AD. We are working to understand this better". www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

A piece of good news for the day-- a win for energy and climate justice and climate mitigation! #energy #climate energynews.us/2024/11/25/m...

Great talk at COP by Al Gore and great new tool for tracking emissions globally. As he said, despite setbacks, we can do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2d... #climatesky

If you use Microsoft Word to write work that is creative, proprietary, or really, any writing at all, some versions of Microsoft Office will now use your writing to train its gen AI algorithm. You have to opt-out. medium.com/illumination...

AI-based social services in the US are largely hidden, unchallenged, unregulated, and decentralized, and yet affect 27% of the most marginalized among us. I think often about Virginia Eubanks' important point, that marginalized communities often deal with risky and discriminatory technologies first.

Why would people buy a natural gas generator when home batteries cost the same to install (about $15k), have no need to upgrade gas metering, operate seemlessly, and can be recharged with solar panels? Both systems require some selection of critical circuits. #climate www.wxyz.com/news/local-n...

New paper on #trustinscience, specifically trust in expertise. Hanna Metzen argues that "the proper attitude is vigilant trust in expertise". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧪 Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks

My essay from the MIT 2018 Frankenstein volume, about the Manhattan project and the downside of technical success! Lovely to see in this format. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bitter-a...

Frustrated about climate emissions from conferences? Airline travel one part of it, but the facilities for the conference are another. These can be electrified! Something for PSA to think about for future conferences? #PSA2024 yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/11/the-...

Some depressing news about H5N1 is mid way on this post (also why egg prices are spiking again). It seems to be getting closer to jumping to humans. Sigh. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-dose-n...

Lots of great papers are now out from PSA 2022. Here is where I disagree with what I said in 2021, and argue that not every responsibility in science should have an accountability mechanism! #philsci #sciencepolicy #philsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Paper on public engagement with science, showing that there are different kinds of publics that can be engaged, with normative differences and important implications for democratizing science #philsci #philsky #science #sts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....