"Humans have largely succeeded in digitally reconstructing the Earth in order to ask what the future holds. Now, not liking the answer, some are reaching to unplug the machine — while others fight to perfect it." @zacksavitsky.bsky.social on climate modeling: www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

A meta-analysis on fear appeals: "(a) fear appeals are effective at positively influencing attitude, intentions & behaviors (b) there are very few circumstances under which they are not effective & (c) there are no identified circumstances under which they backfire & lead to undesirable outcomes."

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Press the red button to generate a WiFi signal through your oral cavity.

Thought-provoking reflection on journalism and 9/11 by @mattizcoop.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/t...

When a wildfire destroys much of your city, how do you know if your house is too contaminated with toxins to move back in? Ask emmarcourt.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Big scoop from @eroston.bsky.social and @lorengrush.bsky.social : NASA has barred Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs. That includes university scientists, grad students and contractors

🚨Exclusive🚨 NASA has revoked facilities-and-systems access for Chinese citizens with US visas who work on its space programs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Hypothesis: For every type of character that comes up on this site, there exists a photo of Gavin Newsom illustrating that character. "Performative reader"

“They’re doing away with science. That, to me, is enormously troubling,” said Bush's EPA head Christine Todd Whitman. “We have basically an EPA that’s totally been defanged of its mission,” said Obama's EPA chief Gina McCarthy. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This brought me just great joy. m.facebook.com/share/r/1E9R...

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The challenge in cleaning one's office is that all the things that are out-of-place have no regular spaces they're supposed to occupy.

Which curve-fitting method are you? (If you're not represented, please draw and post your own.) xkcd.com/2048/

Can I borrow five million dollars www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

A phenomenal meditation on something near and dear: fact-checking - a 20th-century profession that's gone almost entirely the way of vaudeville and bloodletting, and that incorporates much of both. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Killer line in @carbonbrief.org 's invaluable, 36,000-word dissection of the Energy Department's climate-science report comes from Gabriele Hegerl: (interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...)

7 Vintage Books Science-Minded Readers Will Love Paired With A 2025 Book Recommendation www.scientificamerican.com/article/7-vi...

🤯 Looks like John Le Carré emulator Mick Herron, author of the Slow Horses books, got his protagonist's name from a taxi driver in Le Carré's 1979 "Smiley's People."

What Counts as a National Emergency? @karenyourish.bsky.social on her new analysis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

10 emergency declarations ↓ 33 executive orders ↓ Hundreds of actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I hope no fellow local reporter will ever let @katiehonan.bsky.social buy her own beer in NYC ever again

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"Melting permafrost turns fields into lumpy mush." This is Kivalina. By @pollymosendz.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

They're practically giving away EV leases. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Indeed important. And because I must—you can see this same story told with a whole lot (300+ pp) of historical context to amplify its implications on pages 328-329 of my book (published in April), So Very Small www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672378...

Consider the lobster. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@pkrugman.bsky.social Hi, I'm a science journalist with Bloomberg News and hoped to speak with you about "History and Expectations." Grateful if you or an assistant might reach out to talk about a possible interview, [email protected]. Thank you.

Autocorrect the other day turned ChatGPT into Chat GDP and it's not wrong?

A little good news: So far Leo is turning out to be just as much, if not more, of a climate pope as Francis www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Where the Energy Secretary is wrong about climate science, according to the scientists. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Where the Energy Secretary is wrong about climate science, according to the scientists. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Q: Is science "science fiction"? A: ⤵️ 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New Keeling Curve rebranding just dropped (🤡) www.noaa.gov/media-adviso...

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 2023, marine heat waves affected 96% of the surface of the world's oceans and helped push overall ocean temperatures to new records. Chinese researchers who led the new study fear it may herald a climate tipping point. @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🎁🔗 to story posted below by @whitehouse.senate.gov www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What is this chart showing?

Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

TV show awards award most noms ever to TV show about TV show and awards. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Beautiful Spending Bill That Makes Climate Change Worse Protects Chickens From Climate Change 🐔🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

hey, can I introduce you two, @sternbergh.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

Here are three new stories that you may have no interest in: 🧵

People complain about NJ Transit but truly the window view as you explode from the tunnel onto the vast marshy plain is just exquisite.

Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m. on June 28. Some time before 11 p.m., Aguilar dropped dead in her apartment. Free read via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...