A little moment of calm for everyone dealing with holiday stress this week 💛 Watercolor and gouache with a few digital edits (this was a warm up 😁) #kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #gouache #cozyart

Did some art based off a LANDSAT image of a glacier in Banff. This is acrylic gouache on a 6"x6" wooden panel. #sciart

A couple of years ago, as part of a @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project, I interviewed some sci comm folk about storytelling strategies we know cause humans to pay attention to some stories more than others. Illustration by @jordancollver.bsky.social

🍽️ My esteemed friend @allisoncho.bsky.social interviewed ten families across the US for CNN on what it is like right now to go grocery shopping. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

A related piece from @ianjames.bsky.social today that gets at some of the limits and hard trade-offs that will have to be made bsky.app/profile/ianj...

As the one year anniversary of the LA fires approaches, the wildfire and water supply/infrastructure beat continues with a new peer-reviewed, open source paper our team wrote. It's a solutions oriented look at what is both feasible and relatively affordable iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.

Hi, hello, regarding latest #COP30 text you cannot talk about "information integrity" on climate out one side of your mouth while the other is busy removing "fossil fuel phaseout" & adding "overshoot". anyone who gives a shit about information integrity should be saying so, loudly and clearly.

I wrote this week's Screenland column about the houses collapsing in the Outer Banks, an unusually visible example of a problem--the potentially rapid collapse of assets in a quickly changing world--that's much bigger www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/m...

🌳Some Brazilian social media accounts claim Lula's administration is hiding deforestation stats by using new terminology. This is inaccurate but it doesn't mean the Amazon is in the clear. u.afp.com/deforestation

Kansas City Chiefs fan Denton Loudermill Jr. died in April after misinformation falsely accusing him of a shooting at the 2024 Super Bowl champions' parade sent him into a year-long spiral of paranoia. His family is still trying to pick up the pieces. www.barrons.com/news/grievin...

The idea that the universalist ideals of decency, respect, or kindness could be *genuinely felt* by anyone is alien to them. They can only interpret that kind of behavior as "virtue signaling," some kind of clever second-order selfishness. Everyone is bad if you dig enough. That's bedrock belief.

I was just sent this image of the aftermath.

What does it look like when a neighborhood waits 13 years for flood protection? Floodlight’s new video follows Queens residents living with rising tides, stalled projects, and the weight of Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath:

There SO MUCH going on in this lovely story. But the stickler in me wants to know if these sheep are truly, exclusively gay. After all, they might be baaa-sexual. www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...

Hallo @gijskaper.bsky.social, ik ben een journalist met AFP. Mogen we in DMs praten voor een artikel on koeien/Bovaer waar ik aan heb gewerkt?

Tree trunk art: beech

If this isn't rather too on the nose: the pavilion at COP 30 has caught fire.

Some powerful images on LinkedIn.

"For much of the late 2000s and early 2010s, younger U.S. women were less likely than their peers abroad to want to move. That changed around 2016."

55 years ago today was an infamous attempt to blow up a beached whale. Please enjoy this piece about it by Andrew Thaler, which remains one of my favorite pieces of writing about science communication. www.vice.com/en/article/t... @drandrewthaler.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎 #SciComm

Canadian officials ordered more than 300 ostriches killed amid an avian flu outbreak. The farmers refused, sparking a legal and political fight involving a NYC grocery magnate and Dr. Oz. How a flock of Canadian ostriches became a favorite MAHA cause 👇

A clip said to show massive floods in the Amazonian city of Belem ahead of COP30 got hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok... There's only one problem: it's not real. u.afp.com/Se9r

It's amusing to read Joe patiently answering a set of generic pre-scripted questions, and then later unilaterally decides to skip the Q&A format and just launch into an extended manifesto about design philosophy. attractionsmagazine.com/joe-rohde-di...

🌀 Some meteorologists described Hurricane Melissa’s strength and slow crawl as "unreal" before it slammed into Jamaica on Oct 28, 2025, fueling baseless conspiracy theories about a geo-engineered storm. u.afp.com/HurricaneMel...

NEW: US President Donald Trump said he "just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax" following Bill Gates's latest memo on warming and emission reductions.

🌀The formation and intensity of Hurricane Melissa was "unreal" in more ways than one, as pointed out by meteorologists worldwide... just not in the way conspiracy theorists think.

@stevebowen.bsky.social Hi, I am a journalist with AFP. Could you send me a DM so we can talk for a story I am working on? Thank you!

@petagna.bsky.social Hi! I am a journalist with AFP. Could we DM for a story I am working on?

🇺🇸 Nearly a dozen houses have collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks since September -- but why? Experts say both reckless shoreline construction and sea level rise are to blame. Read more: u.afp.com/OuterBanksNC

#Melissa is slowly continuing its journey across the Caribbean Sea and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by tomorrow and reach major hurricane strength by Sunday, posing a significant threat to Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. For the latest, check out www.hurricanes.gov.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

New video @afp.com: I explained how we caught US President Donald Trump's White House using outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video that it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos." youtube.com/shorts/sKRcv...

Myths about climate change proliferate online. Journalists can strengthen their reporting by learning about the history of climate disinformation, by practicing strong accountability journalism, and by using solutions journalism to critically evaluate claims of “going green.” buff.ly/Dd7egGb

Financial Times story regarding effects of recent US government science funding affecting @Scripps_Ocean: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

🇧🇷🌳 Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, climate skeptics have been twisting new research on the Amazon forest to downplay the impact of more CO2 in the atmopshere. But scientists, including the study’s authors, say the claims are misconstrued. #COP30 tinyurl.com/yw4t2rwy

🇺🇸 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and CNN cited AFP Fact Check's investigation of a video the White House claimed showed "chaos" in Chicago. But Bill McCarthy in Washington, found that the clip is littered with outdated footage from other American cities. Read more: u.afp.com/SsSU

✅ My very talented colleague and friend @billmccarthy.bsky.social just got featured on Colbert, incredible... So proud! bsky.app/profile/bill...

Thank you @colbertlateshow.bsky.social for highlighting my @afp.com fact-check investigation into the deceptive White House "Chicago is in chaos" video that misused footage from other US cities. From now on our team will be known as "the internet folks" and "the people online."

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection. It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled. The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

these people know how extreme they are

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing: www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

My hearts are with the people of Western Alaska in communiites like Kwigillingkok, where the remnants of a Typhoon has swept entire homes, and people, into the Bering Sea. apnews.com/article/alas...

🎶Nothin' but blue skies to see here! Conspiracy theorists have found their silver lining amid the government shutdown: no more chemtrails... unless 🤔: tinyurl.com/59z53ex5

Coral Triangle: The giant hidden 'Amazon' beneath the sea that appears somewhat resilient to climate change - @saschapare.bsky.social @livescience.com www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...