Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. A data-driven view for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/3105202...

NEW for @insideclimatenews.org: Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season insideclimatenews.org/news/3105202...

Pleased to pick up a regional Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting for our @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org series Chicago: Lead City www.rtdna.org/2026-regiona... Series here: insideclimatenews.org/project/chic... www.wbez.org/environment/... grist.org/accountabili...

Feck!

Drawing up plans to inflict wounds on the U.S. economy … thehill.com/homenews/adm...

As someone who went through the process, this seems madness

But better than having to work for a living!

A pleasure and privilege to have @susien.bsky.social visit our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social class yesterday to discuss the reporting behind the Pulitzer-winning SF Chronicle "Burned" series on California wildfire insurance and to provide students with feedback on their own work. Thanks Susie!

Unpresidented corruption, you might say… www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Utterly grim www.science.org/content/arti...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

SSRN, the social-sciences preprint site, has five times higher hallucinated/fake citations than arXiv, bioRxiv etc, according to a new study (not yet peer-reviewed). By @stokel.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ummm …

I use the Google doc, must check this out

That last one was the post of the beast, apparently

BBC slip somehow hits the mark

ICYMI yesterday ...

Stories like this this cast the endlessly affirmative responses of these tools in a horrific light www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Here's @mckennapr.bsky.social and I discussing with Corey Mitchell our reporting on the massive and highly questionable tax credit given to the largest US exporter of LNG on @insideclimatenews.org Sunday Morning insideclimatenews.org/news/1005202...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Despite what the Trump administration says, the president’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025, our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes of U.S.A.I.D. “The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children.”

My first @insideclimatenews.org retreat. Great brainstorming on future coverage!

Rocky Mountain National Park

Huge congrats to former student @susien.bsky.social and SF Chronicle colleagues for their Pulitzer win today! We're very fortunate to have Susie visiting @ucscscicomm.bsky.social later this month! www.pulitzer.org/news/2026-pu...

Pleased to help out with timeline for this ccij.io story: veza.news/article/2026...

A dominant (and polarizing) figure throughout my career in science journalism. I enjoyed our conversations over the years. He had a big ego, but I found him more straightforward and less political than some of his rivals. RIP Craig. www.linkedin.com/posts/j-crai...

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

Here's @kiley.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org on the Trump administration's ouster of the entire National Science Board insideclimatenews.org/news/2804202...

Missed this yesterday when noting ccij.io win for international coverage, but our @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org series on lead water pipes in Chicago got a 3rd place in National Headliner Awards for environmental writing! www.headlinerawards.org/2026/04/27/2...

Pleased that my work with ccij.io colleagues on the impact of Trump's cuts to aid for Africa has won a National Headliner Award for international coverage: www.headlinerawards.org/2026/04/27/2... Series here: veza.news/investigativ...

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Blow it up like the whale.

Vibe math.

👀

"When repeatedly exposed to impoliteness, the model began to mirror the tone of the exchanges, with its responses becoming more hostile as the interaction developed." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This grim story comes from a public records request insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...

Delighted that our @insideclimatenews.org collaboration with @grist.org @wbez.org on Chicago's lead water pipes is a finalist in two categories in 2026 INNY awards! news.inn.org/2026-innys-f...

Episode 1 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com launches in just a few hours! Find us here: pod.link/1890733564 And here: www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com And support the show here! www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingA...

Should there be a database of scientists who fabricate data or harass others? That's what two research policy experts propose to prevent those scientists from evading accountability. Would this this centralized, secret list would solve the problem? Read more about the debate in @nature.com.

Glad to help out with data/graphics for this @mlavelle.bsky.social story for @insideclimatenews.org on lasting energy shocks triggered by the war with Iran insideclimatenews.org/news/0904202...

Pleased to help @georginagustin.bsky.social with staffing analysis for this @insideclimatenews.org story on how USDA has fared under Trump insideclimatenews.org/news/0804202...

Great to see that @mckennapr.bsky.social continues to watch this highly questionable tax credit for the largest U.S. exporter of LNG. insideclimatenews.org/news/0704202...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms. By @mlavelle.bsky.social (with a small assist from me on staffing numbers) insideclimatenews.org/news/0204202...

11,000 times No. FIFA is an absolute disgrace to itself, the game, the fans www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

That one woke me up earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This is not good www.mercurynews.com/2026/04/01/s...

Pleased to get an honorable mention in @sejorg.bsky.social awards for our @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org series Lead City! Especially pleased that our mapping of Chicago's lead water pipes is described as "a model of public-service data journalism." www.sej2026.org/awards#expla...

Oil price latest: A new high in the closing price of Brent crude futures since the first strikes against Iran.

Interesting development ... www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...