"I wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but didn't know how to make one. Fortunately, I pay for the highest tier of Gemini. It instantly gave me a recipe and step by step directions. I took a photo of a jar labeled 'jelly' in my fridge and asked Gemini, 'Is this jelly?'"

Last year, we deployed a new GPS station package designed to better survive hurricanes at two Caribbean stations. One of those was in Jamaica, which experienced a category 5 Hurricane Melissa just months later. So how did it fare? Read about it ➡️ https://loom.ly/skXOF9c

I'm once again recruiting interns to join our science communication team next summer. There aren't many opportunities like this out there, and we work really hard to make it a great experience. Share this with anyone you know that might be interested! www.earthscope.org/education/st...

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NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Grammarly gets honest when it's advertising to students instead of education executives.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

This is an interesting essay on methodological weaknesses in computer science and machine learning, exploring the limits of trying to accumulate knowledge mainly by building things. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Threads surged past 100 million users in its first week in 2023, which is why all of us "thread" instead of reading or farming anymore.

Because it's hard, no one is even guessing at what the landscape will look like once all these companies go bankrupt. Will there still be enough free LLMs running for students to have so much access? Or will that just not matter bc a little poison still poisons?

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

As we hear news of the Trump administration looking to dismantle NCAR, the nation’s preeminent climate research center in Boulder #climate

Jesus.

Very different feel here, as expected. Even the NASA booth is very clearly DOGEd.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

McSweeney's living legend, @mikelacher.bsky.social, returns to the site today with his first font-themed satire since "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...

If you look at the support/request forums for any software you can think of, the top upvoted items are absolutely dominated by requests to remove AI. I present Adobe Acrobat (which now takes 3x time to open each PDF even if you "disable" all its AI features): acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/59092...

You hear a lot about the weird ways they make food look perfect to film commercials, but surely there's the same art for making pans that look dirty but wipe perfectly clean.

GPS stations in Yellowstone can clearly show how the ground moves, but this simple measurement requires the data to go on a complex journey. Read more in this week's EarthScope-contributed Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles. ⬇️ https://loom.ly/HOtNLxY

If only there were another way to see it communicated, in words, what was new in the world. A sort of paper copy of the new, if you will. A connected web of such sights.

This Chairry from Pee Wee's Playhouse costume is only $1850.

I've had to think a lot about YouTube's AI invasion from the perspective of hazard communication, where you take great care because of the stakes. So it was interesting to hear Steve @gamersnexus.bsky.social talk about reputation effects and manipulation potential. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJ...

We have a mission! Both HydroGNSS satellites have sent their first signals 📡 HydroGNSS is a Scout mission under FutureEO: compact in size, but built to deliver big science insights into Earth’s water cycle💧 🔗 www.esa.int/Applications...

"Flood the zone with shit", the political project, has been a resounding success that destroyed our information environment. "Flood the zone with shit", the genAI tragedy of the commons, feels real near the threshold of destroying the internet and social media.

Has there *ever* been something with this adoption pattern?

How have daily marketing emails become the default rather than a glitch that gets followed by an apology? Did some marketing conference have a negging pickup artist as a keynote speaker or something?

I whipped up a new post/newsletter extra for the Hayli Gubbi eruption. First time I've had to post an extra edition! #volcano #eruption eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Via Underpants Gnomes?

Welp, the first example I've seen of an "agentic" LLM functioning like at all is... completing an entire course's quizzes for you with a single prompt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4qN...

Daily Mail stories may have made a prominent appearance in a video I recently did on Yellowstone... youtu.be/xPN8h3NEbKU?...

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

Interested in science writing degree programs? Here’s a list of more than 50 in the U.S. that offer specialized undergraduate or graduate degree programs or individual courses in science, health, or environmental writing. 🧪

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously. It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

New Nature paper from recent Rutgers postdoc Yucheng Lin (now at CSIRO in Australia) updates the global sea level curve for the last several millennia and places modern Chinese relative sea level rise in historic context

NEW: 53 participants involved in the Vyvgart trial for Long COVID are calling on the government to fund research for the drug after they saw significant improvements that the study didn’t capture. thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Actually, my peers all seem to be overlooking the fact that the smart move would be to do something incredibly stupid--my column: