Don't miss the latest addition to the Uproot Resource Library, "Reporting on Atmospheric Rivers," brought to you by the fantastic @smallthoughts.bsky.social and @rachelreports.bsky.social, members of the Uproot Advisory Board! uprootproject.org/initiatives/...

"Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves." Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...

Heartbreaking account of what it's like to lose funding for your PhD because of the Trump administration's attitude towards diversity, from my former colleague @marissa-russo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/n...

Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more intense than has been recorded. In @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...

As we enter the “fuck around and find out” public health era, it’s important to remember, people will be harmed..people will die. All of this is preventable. Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Climate change is expanding the range of a deadly virus and the fruit bats that spread it. Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...

"These efforts will be even more essential as the United States abandons its role as global leader in vaccine research and development—all in service of Kennedy’s personal, endless campaign against proven, effective, life-saving vaccines." thebulletin.org/2025/09/rfk-...

We published a peer-reviewed paper modeling likely shifts in Nipah virus hosts due to climate change in PNAS 2012. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks to @smallthoughts.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for pointing out these underappreciated impacts of climate change

Climate change will cause new contacts between wildlife, livestock, people, leading to increased risk of zoonoses “When you disrupt the environment in any way, there’s a strong chance you’re going to increase contact between hosts,” Daszak said. insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...

Here’s a piece from 2016 about the importance of the NASA earth science missions and what it would mean if the Trump admin managed to shut them down gizmodo.com/gutting-nasa...

The thing about this is, a HUUUUUGE amount of what NASA does is earth science. Most of the reason we are able to see Earth and what’s happening here is because of NASA. This would be like blinding us to our own planet.

"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.

Thrilled to welcome back Chad Small @smallthoughts.bsky.social to present our next Summer'25 Lecture in #Climate #Data Science! 📅 THURS, 7/17/25 🕛 12p EST 📍 @columbiaseas.bsky.social + Zoom 💻 RSVP @ EVENTS link in bio #LEAPEducation #communication #openscience #solutions #research #policy

New story looking at how air quality can have impacts on aging (depending on how you define aging) insideclimatenews.org/news/1407202...

Thank you, Chad! You can read the articles @smallthoughts.bsky.social wrote as the Bulletin's climate change editorial fellow below. ⬇️

This opinion piece feels bittersweet as it's the final piece of my time as the climate fellow at @thebulletin.org and also somewhat of a summation of my reporting there the last two years. Another opportunity to write about why science matters and how the way we (1/x thebulletin.org/2025/07/trum...

"The future of atmospheric science is going to be shaped by the youth who are seeing our country abdicate its role in advancing science and discovery." "Trump cuts pose existential threat to the next generation of scientists," by @smallthoughts.bsky.social.

There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

can’t decide the funnier anti-nepo narrative correction here: Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League Columbia turned away the possible future mayor

Psst... Want science reporting that doesn't grant anonymity to known eugenicists? @thexylom.com got you covered. Sustain independent reporting that grows science with words: fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

Thrilled to co-publish this great @alexip718.com @thexylom.com story @drilledmedia.bsky.social. Companion podcast episode coming soon too! drilled.media/news/xylom-i...

100+ hour live stream. My keynote: Weather and Climate Research: The So What's? Other important non-partisan, science based talks from Wednesday to Sunday.

Everyone noticed how these people went from “Harvard discriminates against Asians” to “Harvard is colluding with the Chinese!!” Right?

The reason the Biden story won't go away is that the "Biden Inner Circle Coverup" story is the "Feinstein on Judiciary" story is the "Connolly instead of AOC on Oversight" story is the "Republicans are about to pass their Medicaid killer bill because 3 Dems have literally died in their seats" story.

my first deep dive from my trip to the west bank is for @atmosmag.bsky.social where I dig into the water crisis unfolding in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem atmos.earth/surviving-is...

Yesterday it was a middle aged woman in my gym doing the same thing. Talking a young man’s ear off about how much chatGPT helps her do her work. Charts and writing — “i’m not good at that and now i don’t need someone in the org flow to do it”.

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Everyone is capable of writing a good essay. I firmly believe this is a skill that can be taught to anyone, and we should be teaching it. And I don’t mean a stupid 500 word AP exam essay. I mean a real one that people might want to read.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Congratulations to our own @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social @amberonradio.bsky.social , as well as Friends of The Xylom Amber Hazzard and @smallthoughts.bsky.social ! This is the 5th consecutive year we've sent a contributor to AAASMMF. This is how we grow science with words. bsky.app/profile/aaas...

This news is hot off the press! We are so excited to present the 2025 #MassMediaFellows! These 17 scientists will spend their summer writing, reporting, and working on their #SciComm skills in news outlets across the country! Learn more about the #MMF50th class here: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

It would be nice if we could stop framing democratic backsliding as an inevitable global phenomenon when plenty of democracies are perfectly fine with enforcing rule of law

Bitcoin bros love to say that bitcoin is green, actually—that it's helping advance renewable energy and making the grid cleaner and more sustainable It's not, and the authors of this thorough @thebulletin.org article brought the receipts thebulletin.org/2025/03/is-b...

inject this STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS !!!

One of the biggest concerns about AI is how much energy it uses. However, Earth scientists say AI tools can supplement traditional climate and weather modeling while using less energy. "Earth scientists to environmentalists: AI isn’t all bad," by Chad Small @smallthoughts.bsky.social.

This is insane. There are lots of scientists in the US who are on “soft money”, which means that without government grants, they’re out of jobs. This is how you destroy the best research and development in the world.

It's depressing to hear about journalists being laid off. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think people should get their news from journalists, not TikTok.

A sign of the times: My colleague @rachelreports.bsky.social, the first ever climate writer hired by CNN, @coveringclimatenow.org Journalist of the Year, and fearless leader at @uprootproject.bsky.social @aajaofficial.bsky.social, is getting laid off this week. Rachel is amazing, please hire her!

i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!

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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result. This story arc is way too common in modern society. deadline.com/2024/12/max-...

Child care remains the most fascinating part of the economy to me

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍 Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...

UKHSA has procured 5 million doses of H5 influenza vax, which they said they will use if H5N1 begins to spread between humans… www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

My current prediction for the second Trump term is that we won’t see lots of big, overt attacks on abortion rights—at least not right away. But behind the scenes, small rule changes and increased enforcement of existing laws will whittle what access we have to a toothpick.