New research finds that kids experiencing food insecurity etc are more likely to have Long Covid jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy to share the final and longest piece I worked on during my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social fellowship last summer. And a big thanks to everyone at @insideclimatenews.org for helping with the reporting and editing process for this story (as well my sources).1/x insideclimatenews.org/news/0401202...

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

The U.S. unsealed an indictment against Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, that charges him with narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine. But experts have said that Venezuela is a minor cocaine transit country, with most of the cocaine flowing through it heading to Europe, not the U.S.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

The Homeless Remembrance Project has been holding monthly and yearly vigils for more than two decades. They will be meeting at Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market. Note that the numbers in the flyer aren't updated with November data.

TONIGHT: Coinciding with the winter solstice at 4:21PM, volunteers with SHARE/WHEEL will hold a vigil for the 245 homeless people who died in the Seattle area this year. Since 2022, the group has honored more than 1,100 people who passed away while unhoused or in public due to violence.

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In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…

my editor told us to try to keep our "best of" lists to five or less, but i found a workaround... the climate story of the year, imo, was attacks on science

Behind these top 2025 news photos picked by our staff lie deeper stories and a myriad of emotions — the quiet joy of a child about to eat a snack, the despair of South Texas residents fighting a losing battle against Big Oil, and the resilience of women adapting and switching livelihoods to survive:

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Much like NCAR itself, the motions of the atmosphere that give rise to weather and climate phenomena are indifferent to political boundaries. The loss of this hub of scientific innovation and its computational resources will have immediate and dangerous consequences for all Americans. #SaveNCAR

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

When I moved across the country to my PhD program, I visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and met some wonderful researchers that gave me a tour and talked with me about their work. I’m devastated to hear about the proposed dismantling. #SaveNCAR

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Seen at #AGU2025 in New Orleans

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

Given tonight’s news the admin wants to disband NCAR, resharing my post from earlier today about the successful reduction of flooding on the Skagit R in WA state. NCAR does foundational R&D that enables my community to do the kinds of important work I talk about here. tinyurl.com/bdebat4m

This is the place that made me want to become a meteorologist 💔

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#Seattle area rivers are now nearing/ reaching historic levels, with over a foot of rain falling on higher elevations, cascading down the mountains and running off into rivers like #Snoqualmie which is forecast to crest Friday near a record high… 1/

China is one of the biggest development funders and operators in the world. It’s also silencing environmental reporters who dare to tell the truth about the harms some of those projects have caused across the global south Thank you to @thexylom.com for publishing this story.

The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

yes … yes!!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

The co-founder and executive director of the Transit Riders Union is now on the board of Sound Transit. Elections matter, folks.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

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Seattle is not small or narrow. It’s huge and we can easily double our population if we are being realistic. It would fund transit, schools and services and bring an economic vitality and vibrancy to every part of our city

this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position

This is where we need to do a better job at differentiating between things like AI/ML weather modeling or AI/ML medical, and generative AI and other LLM that every company is trying to shove down our throats. I’m very supportive of the former but very skeptical of the latter.

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Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍 deepmind.google.com/science/weat...

journalists really should stop baring their entire asses like this "I have no idea how this technology actually works but my editor is mostly interested in engagement clicks so we proceeded anyway"

Researchers: “my analysis has policy implications because the p value is 0.049, your analysis doesn’t because the p value is 0.051.” Andre 3000: are you all even listening to yourselves

politics idea: love the city you want to be in charge of

A huge, huge problem

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Bay Area Teen Uses Drones to Map the Wetlands He Grew Up Loving “I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard. I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.” @kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social www.kqed.org/science/1998...

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We've got to stop behaving as if we're not responsible for one other. Eradicate from your mind expressions like, "I don't owe you anything.""They/she/he doesn't owe you anything." That "owe" is thinking of us in terms of transactions as if our value is only important in terms of profit & loss.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest