Penalty maxxing

A lot of the “Trump got Balogun a pardon” reporting seems rather credulous. I’d believe Trump made a call. But organizing a team of lawyers? To do what, exactly? I’d love a lot more sourcing…

Holy mother of God

Brazil doing all it can to lose this game.

I blame Neymar.

Folks, this is just FIFA being FIFA. Staggering incompetence at many levels, but hard to see US-led corruption here. Balogun is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship and everything Trump et al hate. If this was Pulisic, on the other hand…

Er, the Athletic is reporting that Falogun will be available tomorrow! www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Treaty of Tordesillas jokes giving me Intro to Human Geography nostalgia from my University of South Carolina days…

I don't think FIFA refs are biased against specific countries, only against all that is beautiful, good, and pure that flickers briefly into existence in this fallen world.

I just want to make this chart my epitaph, my personality, my avatar, my everything

Out of office

I've long felt we should withdraw a player from each side every five minutes until someone scores. Nothing like a little 5v5 on a full pitch to open things up!

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A lot of acronyms here but this is important #sustainability work and @edwardrcarr.com's work on climate-reslient development (IPCC lead in AR6) makes him perfect for the task. See our IPCC AR6 discussion below with @fisherdanar.bsky.social & @avastmachine.bsky.social.

Following a proposal by UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen at #GEFcouncil71, Council members appointed Edward Carr as an interim Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for one year, retaining the current panel membership for the interim period. #GEFassembly2026

This is shocking, deeply saddening news. I knew Raúl mostly online, but the one time we overlapped at an Association of American Geographers meeting he ran up to me and gave me a hug. Just a lovely guy dedicated to helping people do good work…

A little professional news! I'm excited to be rejoining STAP and working with the GEF family again!

Actively tearing down the US research enterprise is a disaster for the country.

That was great

The team at Reimagining Conservation has released its first issue paper! The first one explores global conservation as an American Value. Have a look and join the conversation informing our efforts to build a reimagined approach to the US role in global conservation.

Lisa was one of the CLA’s for my chapter in AR6, and she is right on here. She speaks from experience because AR6 was affected by COVID and the last authors’ meeting virtual. It did not go well and it was hard to engage in the homestretch of the report. In person is not ideal but it is critical.

I've been at work with @aditimukherji.bsky.social to understand what works in agrarian #adaptation to #climate change-drawing on @cgiar.org research and my work on adaptation benefits with Johanna Nalau, this preprint gives a first look at what works! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Tax breaks for government employees makes no sense, even on the merits – just give them a raise if you want them to make more money.

C’mon now, there were usually landlines around somewhere…maybe even with call waiting!

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

This is one of those “either lying or astonishingly uninformed” moments and both are disqualifying for a cabinet secretary.

I am going to reject the framing of the question - the 90s were a lot of things, but they were not unitary. The start of the 90s was, for American kids, the end of the Cold War, the first Gulf War, a reaction against "greed is good," etc. So sure, Sounds Like Teen Spirit works. But...1/2

There's a really impressive front between Boston and Worcester right now - a 17 degree swing (from 64 in Somerville to 81 in Worcester) on the drive home. It seems quite stationary at the moment...

I have no idea if this family has any recourse against Target (or any recourse besides that which would result in an expensive moral victory), but I imagine @kenwhite.bsky.social might have some thoughts.

My kids turned my profile pic into a sticker and are beating me with it.

An Iranian colleague was a lead author on my chapter of the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment. Finally heard from him yesterday (thank God). The crux of his message: everything is terrible, what the hell? But since we’re here, how can I help move these key pubs forward? Badass.

I’m struck by the smiles from military staff in these pics. They have a hard job I wish wasn’t needed - and which the administration has clearly abused in recent weeks. These are the smiles of people who know they just participated in a good thing…

I generally try to ignore the Trump Show, since he says outrageous things to drive attention to what he wants and forces everyone to react to him, but: Threatening to obliterate a civilization is absolutely threatening to commit genocide. This cannot happen in my name or in anyone's name...

My man, everyone has read Tom Sawyer.

Ref-ing aside, if another Kentucky player picks up their dribble into a double team and turns it over, I will scream.

Seriously, every single possession is ending in a whistle. This game will take hours and will end with the managers from both teams on the floor

The refereeing in this Kentucky-Iowa State game is…poor

Oh, come ON UNC. I hate UNC, so it figures they’d do this to me. Mildly annoyed with St Mary’s but I don’t know enough about them to take it personally

Man, this is already going badly. That Wisconsin L is going to hurt me for a few rounds. Sad Louisville survived. Mildly annoyed with Ohio State.

Cheering like hell for a Kentucky-Virginia "Ed's Alma Maters" matchup in the second weekend. This first requires Kentucky not falling down on the banana peel that is Santa Clara - tomorrow will be stressful. Today: let's go Texas, bounce BYU. And S Florida beat Louisville.

My brackets tend to "sneaky collapse": things seem to be going fine and I relax, only to suddenly realize I've had 2-3 key losses at the end of the first day. I don't melt down totally, nor do I usually crush it. In short, it's a pretty "meh" experience.

Here come the best two days in sports every year - 25 minutes from the start of the NCAA Tournament first round. COMMENCE THE CHAOS (if you hate sports, I suggest muting me until Saturday. I have no idea how much I will post, but it will largely be about basketball and my collapsing bracket)

The budget of USAID was $22 billion per year. It was *saving the lives* of 4.1 million men, women, and children per year, all over the world. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Dear @nytimes.com, you might want to clarify your definitions of “regime change” and “success” before running a headline like this. What exactly about the regime has changed, and how can that be measured against goals that were never really articulated?

Well, that was terrible

Look, Miller is terrible and needs to face consequences. But let’s not elevate him to “architect.” Maybe “toddler placing with racist Lincoln Logs.” Which would still make him the brightest bulb on that very dim tree.

A little hope in Davos

Back from an interesting and exhausting few days in Davos for the WEF meetings. I am still processing my first trip to this event, but in the meantime I did get some good media work in, such as this interview with We Don't Have Time: buff.ly/KYnSTi2 (no, I did not change my name to Eric)