This is gonna push some people’s buttons: Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce www.nature.com/articles/d41...

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Not joking this time

This year on Bluesky I wrote 157 posts and 399 replies. I received 1,348 likes, and I must be really smart because apparently I love saying insightful things like "its" and ❤️! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Through the hard work of too many individuals to list here, the remote sensing community built a global monitoring system that we thought would be the stepping stone to even greater capabilities. As rancorous as technical and scientific discussions could become, the community were idealists at heart

Jared Isaacman made nice noises through his mouth parts in his NASA Town Hall last week, but I should know by now not to find hope in their empty words as he shutters the Earth Observer science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

Hosting old friends from out of town was a good excuse to see the Amy Sherald retrospective for a third time @artbma.bsky.social

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

If you’re not following @cdelawalla.bsky.social ask yourself why?

I still wear a good N95 on flights. I’m so much healthier as a result.

WTMD playing Cake’s cover of War Pigs as a topical seasonal song is on point

Speak out to save NCAR! Contact your representatives today agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Bring your passport to #AGU25 @agu.org Due to ICE activity NOLA city council says "If you are a U.S. citizen or have lawful immigration status: Show your passport, legal permanent resident card, work permit, or other documentation of your status.

#NOLA city council has a web portal to report abuse by Trump’s illegal paramilitary forces #ICE could be useful for @agu.org to distribute council.nola.gov/know-your-ri...

One battle after another

TWO THINGS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT Everything good comes to an end. Learn from it. Grow from it. Be grateful for it. Everything bad comes to an end. Learn from it. Grow from it. Be grateful for it. Taken from Mark Manson, who is on Xitter, not on Bluesky, his fault, not mine.

I finally figured out why my back hurts

NASA data seminars are back! Register now to learn how to use satellite data for water resources www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/webina...

I’m sure all of you are as big a fan of the NATO phonetic alphabet as I am, right? You’ll enjoy this history of its origin youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?...

We are all time travelers who can do one small thing that changes the future

I'm sure Dr. Biesiekierski could be entirely right that my gluten sensitivity is due to something else. But it's easy to eat a well-balanced gluten-free diet. And it's more difficult to eat a low FODMAP diet. So I'll continue to avoid wheat theconversation.com/your-gluten-...

If you need someone to talk to, Trans Lifeline is here for you +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

this sad, but a good idea for us to do at AGU in December. I'll be there on my own, not with federal support. But many folks will be missing. @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social

Great work!

Here's how you can help the strong people of Western Alaska left battered in wake of the typhoon alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

I would love to read something by someone smart like @kellyhereid.bsky.social about how prediction markets might be used by insurance companies to hedge specific risks posed by climate change wifpr.wharton.upenn.edu/blog/a-prime...

Instant follow

The Bullard Center at Texas Southern University is hiring a GIS Manager to work with Dr. Robert D. Bullard and a cross-disciplinary team on projects connecting environment, climate, housing, health, energy, and civil rights. Lead data-driven research for justice. https://jobs.tsu.edu/postings/9798

There’s no such thing as a “free” boat

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply! careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636

I do science because I have to do science. It helps that I also care about people, so the science I do can sometimes help people, if I'm lucky, and it's not 2025.

Don't miss this! Now coming to the Baltimore Museum of Art @artbma.bsky.social

TYB Week 19: Scraping Away What Doesn’t Belong respectfulresearch.com/tyb-week19-s...

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity? 🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured! 🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM #ImpactfulData #EarthScience

Wood frog disapproves of your bad choices

This is, incidentally, also true in ecology

With the likelihood of a gov’t shutdown increasing by the hour, paired with OMB’s ILLEGAL threats to fire federal employees who aren’t considered “essential”, we are preparing to go on the offensive. Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social for Urgent Response Calls! All hands on deck!

You would need drone footage to even begin to calculate the size of Baltimore bike party

Maybe I'm becoming a polar bear? "For a polar bear, fat is fit": www.arcticfocus.org/stories/pola...

⏳ Last Chance to Nominate an Impactful Dataset! Have a dataset that has made a real difference for people, our planet, or prosperity? AGU wants to hear about it. Submit your nomination by 10 October: buff.ly/XLFfYqM

The "American South" includes my fair city Baltimore, which stayed in the Union through force. One of our contentious mayors (all of 'em are contentious) did us a favor of removing Jim Crow era statues celebrating traitors to their country. One is now an empty plinth celebrating Harriet Tubman.

Good work by @climate.us getting the 5th National Climate Assessment back online nca5.climate.us

Watch and then contact your representatives!

I staffed the hawk watch table for Baltimore Greenspace. No hawks in the air but did get to show the Nighthawks ( women’s professional tackle football) how to use binoculars baltimorenighthawks.com

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in cooperation with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), is launching its IASC Fellowships Program 2026. iasc.info/capacity-bui...

Baltimore at night

I made the mistake of putting on The Highway Women while attempting to read William Carlos Williams; changed the vinyl to Steve Reich

In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, we are hiring an Assistant Professor in Atmosphere and/or Ocean Physics. No deadline stated, but review will begin soon, so please do not delay. apply.interfolio.com/173819