[ 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!

The hard truth: If this Council fails to pass Universal Daylighting or passes a watered down version, kids will die, and it will be entirely Adrienne Adams' fault.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it Wow www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Enjoy another honest government ad from @thejuicemedia.com 🎯 youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

My 4th grader at a packed City Council last night asked for a safe bike/ped overpass over a busy road to connect a new development instead of needing to wait up to 2.5 minutes at a light as planned. He then asked everyone to wait with him for the duration of his comment to share how long that is.

“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’

Some great & important news out of the Netherlands: “Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders [who controlled the last coalition government before it collapsed]. A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls.”

Dropping off kid to a play date - it may rain so whipped out the rain cover for the first time this season.

One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biked a #bikebus to the Davis Varsity Theater to watch a free movie today with 120 Davis elementary school kids from 3 different schools). Such a blast - thankful to mayor @bapuvaitla.bsky.social for biking with us to encouraging kids to bike more and to Bike Davis for sponsoring. So much fun!!!

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Newsom just signed an excellent law that will help fund the widespread transition from natural gas boilers to industrial heat pumps. Now sign SB79, Gavin.

A Newly Recognized Pathway Could Protect Diabetics from Hypoglycemia @huisinglab.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/newly-r...

New work from @huisinglab.bsky.social at UC Davis shows how delta cells in pancreatic islets dampen insulin production and prevent a sudden drop in blood sugar. It could lead to new ways to help people with diabetes. www.ucdavis.edu/news/newly-r...

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022: "When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

Very proud to see the main thesis work of the intrepid Dr. Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh come out in @pnas.org today! In this paper, Mohammad assesses how crosstalk between insulin-secreting beta and somatostatin-secreting delta cells in the islet actually happens, in near real-time. A quick thread 1/10

Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.

Biking to the pasta Feed of the Davis high school XC team to help feed some of the 150 athletes before their race. Great group of kids and fun event, despite slight delay as one of our bike's chain rattled off due to the terrible condition of the pavement of the once great Davis bike trail network.