Just so we're absolutely clear - There is a “large consensus” across all published studies that developing new oil and gas fields is “incompatible” with our #Climate targets. These editorials are pushing us to fail on holding to the Paris Accord.

This is the present, the future, the fate, that Mark Carney is embracing for Canada. PM Oil and Gas never ran on this. PM Oil and Gas never gave Canadians a heads-up that he would be gutting climate and environmental protections. PM Oil and Gas didn't get a mandate to help cook the planet. #CdnPoli

"COVID-19 May Follow A Different Seasonal Pattern Than Influenza, RSV" "COVID-19 incidence across the US identified 3 recurring annual increases in cases: a primary peak during the early- to mid-winter months followed by 2 smaller waves occurring in the spring and again during mid- to late summer."

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

A friend sent me this 2025 story… there’s a lot going on here. “Buck’s experimental sips of vaccine beer are unsanctioned by his employer. A research ethics committee at the National Institutes of Health told Buck he couldn’t experiment on himself by drinking the beer.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

French court rules Total is responsible for the emissions from the use of their oil & gas fuels by consumers, a major win for climate. www.asso-sherpa.org/totalenergie...

When I first spotted this butterfly a couple of hours ago, the first thing I had to do was stop my hands shaking. It's one of the rarest butterflies in France, a vanishing species in much of Europe. It's the mountain Apollo (Parnassius Apollo). Just in time for #InsectThursday #lepidoptera

Nothing else to say.

The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Your 'doom quote' for today: As has been said, whenever a window shuts, a sauna opens. (Thanks Sam!) "The degree to which we’ve been storing global warming in the oceans can’t be overstated, and now the door to that sauna is being flung open." billmckibben.substack.com/p/now-where

This is the Ford ad that enrages me the most, why do we have encampments? Because he cut back social services and safe zones, and supportive housing. He made this bed.

Finally this week has opened up with a new era feeling for SC2. It was a lot of time that two days weren't so significant. Lets go with the new highlights: PQ.16.1.1 confirmed its dominance in Hong Kong where 13/16 samples had 420N. (9 PQ.16.1.1 2 RK.1 2 new PQ.2.1.11 branch with 445P and 420N

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

So imagine what is happening in the professional world right now: the world of consultants, report-writers, NGO staffers, political staffers - who are increasing their reliance on this software by leaps and bounds every single day. People who *know* what the answer should be, but *won't check*

prod the program to show its sources and begrudgingly returns links to some actual publications, and (this is new) fabricates a confusion (lifecycle vs direct combustion) to explain the completely wrong result the program fabricated in the first answer

As I mentioned in this piece, I sometimes pop work or questions I've already completed into a chatbot to see what type of results it returns (less now bc I think the Q is answered) check out the emissions intensities Claude returns for coal and gas (~50% of actual) newrepublic.com/article/2076...

“And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids”.

10 gigawatts is roughly the average power demand of NYC (~5.5 GW), LA (~3 GW), and SF (~1 GW) combined

Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...

At last! A coherent plan for dealing with the perversity of fossil gas largely setting electricity prices, even though it supplies only 1/4 of our power. Stepping into the market like this offends the government's deepest instincts. But it needs to happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social Letter: Letter. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Hey, so this sounds minor but is actually super bad. Efforts to eradicate screwworm had actually pushed it all the way down to Central America and were close to eradicating a truly awful parasite. DOGE morons ended the program, and YOU'LL. NEVER. GUESS. WHAT. HAPPENED.

A whole article with not one mention of the C word. www.scientificamerican.com/article/hear...

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55. NSF to begin dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative long-term monitoring network (June 1, 2026)

This is great! Hopefully, equity and access will be a core principle guiding this effort cepi.net/cepi-fast-tr...

NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.

A big month for next generation Covid vaccine trials! — Details of an exciting trial in Tanzania for an intranasal vax for low-resource communities—results may come soon; — An overview of the Covid human challenge studies, as one reaches a milestone .... 1/2 absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/05/31/a...

"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/

One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response: Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials. A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain 🧪 My story in @science.org (🧵 to come)

In May 2024 when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) was updating its IPAC advice to doctors I met with the staff at the CPSO.

So for anyone in Ontario wondering why infection control practice is so backwards here even away from the usual suspects, it turns out there's misinformation embedded directly in the CPSO infection control guidance, which incorrectly directs physicians to wear a medical mask for airborne pathogens.🙄

Battery storage technology has triumphed again over fossil gas generators after scooping the pool in an open tender designed to deliver firm supply at times of system stress in Australia’s most advanced renewable grid. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Even the simple stuff, Google's search "AI" gets wrong. What a world we're creating as we farm off any kind of mental workload to untrustworthy algorithms.

Building Climate Resiliance by Improving Indoor Air Quality Sunday June 7, 1 pm Clean Indoor Air Toronto / Toronto Climate Week luma.com/tocw-r3l9?fb...

1/2 Long COVID Burden Twice as High as Current Estimates "Groundbreaking research emerging from Mass General Brigham has unveiled that the true burden of long COVID may be starkly underestimated by current surveillance methods, potentially doubling previously reported figures." #COVID #LongCOVID

Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

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Excess deaths One of these is not like the others… hint : ‘go hard and go early’