For Governor, @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social wants to unwind California from the stranglehold of the car and oil lobbies. He is a progressive who wants to deliver more housing and better mobility options across the State

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

California's biggest programs for affordable housing and public are on the chopping block this week. We need Governor Newsom and the legislature to step in and stop this ASAP. Come out Wednesday to help make sure they get the message actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

The Trump administration is actively opposing global climate accountability while continuing to deny established climate science. We’re standing up against the pseudoscience and political attacks that hurt our health and future. Help fuel our fight for science here: zurl.co/fG6gr zurl.co/lmEeF

This is an insane story, what are we doing here California? If you want to reduce forest fire risk, phase out fossil fuels, don't douse the forest with Roundup so that nothing grows back.

I work in the largest academic HVAC research lab in the US. Tons of my prof and grad student colleagues have worked for years to characterize low-GWP refrigerants and adapt equipment to use them. In collaboration with most major manufacturers. That train is moving, fast. Trump lackeys won't stop it.

Biked my second grader to her field trip at the @ucdavis.bsky.social raptor center. Couple of miles mostly on protected bike lanes and along Putah Creek. Saw red-tailed hawk, turkey vulture, some hare and a frog being chased down by a hungry bird. Her classmates were driven and saw none of this...

Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ran a tour of our all-electric home yesterday when the power went out. No power, no problem, as our Impulse induction cooktop has a built-in battery with enough juice for several meals ;-) #ElectrifyEverthing @damico.bsky.social @volts.wtf

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Huising Lab showed up at the 2026 @ucdavis.bsky.social Undergraduate Research Conference with 7 undergraduates presenting posters!! Congrats to all of them for excellent presentations, and to their graduate students for mentorship and support!!

Tonight at the Davis city council meeting multiple city staff just scrolling on their phones while the rest of us heard from several close friends of the student who was killed in a collision with a car - hit from behind by a driver while biking on campus last week. Such indifference.

I'm so jealous. Lime, Spin, etc are fine but SO expensive. We need a more affordable bike share system in Minneapolis. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/b...

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

The UC Davis Academic Senate adopted our resolution for a Climate Change Literacy GE requirement!!! Second UC to do so!! Plenty of details on implementation to iron out, but grateful to the many colleagues who support efforts to teach all #Aggies about their Climate Future. @ucdavis.bsky.social

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

[ ROUND 1 RESULTS ] Starting with Region 2 this time... + Fort Collins beat Oakland 174-10 and is now facing off Davis in the 2nd round + Davis beat Salt lake city 63-24 + San Jose beat Calgary 52-4 and is now facing off against Alameda in the 2nd round. + Alameda beat UofC Davis 79-0 Cont'd

“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.” We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth

Writing away surrounded by American robins and cedar waxwings all morning, feasting on berries. #backyard_birding

The one pipeline I will support. I hope you will donate as well.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Today we won. A U.S. District Court ruled that the administration violated federal law when it secretly convened a group of climate contrarians to produce a thoroughly debunked report to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The science still matters. We won't stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

As an American urbanist, here the top 5 things I hope we can learn from Germany: #5 Bollards at corners to protect pedestrians #4 Raised crosswalks with cobble on either side #3 S-Bahn & U-Bahn system thinking #2 Public seating in plazas (even in the rain!) #1 Denazification

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

E-bikes are an amazing transportation tool. Especially in urban places. We should make them more accessible along with building safe bike infrastructure. Go after the illegal bikes/electric motorcycles and don't forget about those cars that actually kill almost 40,000 Americans a year.

🔴 NEW: Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a... 📝 @ellen-ormesher.bsky.social

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

DELETED After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Made a bucket full of batter to bake Dutch 'Oliebollen', which we enjoyed in style with traditional Dutch weather. Happy New Year, best wishes for 2026!

First big family meal prepared on this battery powered induction stove...

I am quoted in this piece on our efforts of a cross-disciplinary group of faculty to teach Climate Change Literacy to all students at @ucdavis.bsky.social

Hadn’t seen this one before. The good news is that we have many smart solutions to address the surrendering of cities to cars that don’t involve tire spikes. But they DO involve actual political will, strengthened by public understanding of the serious need to act. Via @xkcd.com

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Davis, CA, bike lane in front of Willett Elementary - one of the oldest bike lanes in the US. Par for course at Davis schools.

Last year Davis made the Elite Eight after entering as an unseeded contestant - talk about a Cinderella story ;-) Glad to see we're on track for a ranked seed this year.

Outside of my favorite friendly neighborhood brewery last night in Davis. Only one of these vehicles that likely was driven home after the consumption of alcohol weighs in excess of 6,000 pounds and has poor visibility because the hood is so tall...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Thanksgiving groceries plus awesome shopping assistant. Happy Thanksgiving!