Reckoning Science
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@naomioreskes.bsky.social
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How did an arbitrary factor of 100 get engraved into chemical safety law worldwide? Our new essay digs into the origins. Of Mice and Men and Round Numbers đź’Ż
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With
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Cherry blossom dates, wine harvests, lake freezes, river breakups — records kept for harvests, gods, festivals, and trade, never meant as climate science. Together, they now show how much the climate has shifted within a single lifetime. ➡️
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We emailed a journal editor asking to retract a ghostwritten Monsanto paper on glyphosate safety. He told us we were the first to ask — eight years after the fraud was exposed. By
@kaurov.org
, Jason MacLean &
@naomioreskes.bsky.social
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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”
The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.
https://reckoningscience.org/everybodys-business-is-nobodys-business-and-nobodys-business-is-my-business/
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SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Reflect Orbital wants 50,000 giant mirrors. Neither properly consulted scientists. Public comment closes this week: March 6 (SpaceX) and March 9 (Reflect Orbital). Your voice matters.
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#DarkSkies
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Let's stop doing irreversible things. Do we need a million satellites?
The FCC public comment period for two major satellite proposals is closing fast.
https://reckoningscience.org/lets-stop-doing-irreversible-things-do-we-need-a-million-satellites/
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Reckoning Science
Sasha Kaurov
4 months ago
Calling for opinions from astronomers, astrophysicists, and scientists in related fields: How is AI reshaping what it means to do astronomy? Read more about our call on
@reckoningscience.org
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Observing AI Entering Astrophysics:A Series Introduction and Request for Perspectives
Astronomy may be the natural science which AI rewires first. Its infrastructure is unusually open. Most data is public. The scientific record is mostly open through online preprint servers. Core softw...
https://reckoningscience.org/observing-ai-entering-astrophysics-a-series-introduction-and-request-for-perspectives/
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Reckoning Science
Naomi Oreskes
4 months ago
My latest:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of
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Private money cannot replace public funding of science
Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef2849
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Reckoning Science
Sasha Kaurov
4 months ago
We analyzed 700,000 U.S. Catholic services to ask a simple question: how often do congregations hear about climate change? The answer: almost never. Read more:
reckoningscience.org/unspoken-cri...
With
@naomioreskes.bsky.social
at
@reckoningscience.org
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Unspoken Crisis: What Our Analysis of 700,000 U.S. Catholic Services Did Not Find
Climate change is no longer a distant “global issue.” It is local emergencies that carry the names of friends and neighbors. Heat waves, wildfires, flash floods, and other extreme weather events are b...
https://reckoningscience.org/unspoken-crisis-what-our-analysis-of-700-000-u-s-catholic-services-did-not-find/
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Reckoning Science
Sasha Kaurov
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Is Mars just a red herring in climate conversations? With
@naomioreskes.bsky.social
for
@reckoningscience.org
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Mars as a Red Herring in Climate Conversations
Mars has been a place for dreams for a long time. A god of war, a planet, the home of invaders in science fiction, more recently the scientific and space exploration frontier. The details change, but ...
https://reckoningscience.org/mars-as-a-red-herring-in-climate-conversations/?ref=reckoning-science-newsletter
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When corporate science eclipses public data and models, it shapes who knows climate risk and how decisions get made. Read more: "Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge?" by
@kaurov.org
and
@naomioreskes.bsky.social
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Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge?
Science is often spoken of as if it were a single institution: what science says, what science has shown. In practice, it is a tangle of labs, companies, contracts, grants, and norms that fall, broadl...
https://reckoningscience.org/lineages-of-science-in-a-warming-world-who-owns-climate-knowledge/
5 months ago
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reposted by
Reckoning Science
Naomi Oreskes
5 months ago
Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
reckoningscience.org/launching-re...
Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.
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Launching Reckoning Science
We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.
https://reckoningscience.org/launching-reckoning-science/
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