A long day of sadness and protest in Biddeford yesterday. Glad to help @baylisswagner.bsky.social and others with the stories. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

Laura Dern pays tribute to Sam Neill. “Sam was my beloved lifetime friend. He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love, always with the driest wit. He was a true and noble gentleman, wrapped up in my dream leading man. I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.”

Cobscook Bay State Park with the family. Not a bad view from the campsite.

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

This is f**king crazy

Satellite observations of river surface temperature differences up- vs downstream of 287 large US dams, 2013-2024, show downstream temp differences at 71% of sites, typically warmer (60%) downstream, w/sustained or continued increases w/in 20 km downstream. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

And now we have *checks notes* an outbreak of EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA under RFK jr. and the rest. I wish the symbolic failures of this regime were not so damn literal.

Another part of the data centre scam: If data centres connect to the grid, and force an increase in fossil gas fueled electricity production, then the way electricity pricing works it keeps enough fossil gas in the supply that it controls the marginal price of production -- which drives up the...

Dr. Sherrilyn Ifill is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, expert, and scholar. Ifill is the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the founder and director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University School of Law. #WeAreAmerica250

The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded and conducted in the U.S. We encourage our AGU community to submit your comment by 13 July: spklr.io/63322EO076

Torben doesn’t care for the way humans celebrate birthdays of intangible ideals.

@paleobluedot.bsky.social and I made garlic scape pesto tonight… I actually don’t really like pesto, but this was awesome. Scapes, mint, and basil all from the garden.

“…the adoption of the Lee Resolution marked the delegates’ ultimate conviction that a nation should rest not on the arbitrary rule of a single man and his hand-picked advisors, but on the rule of law.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Fascinating piece in The Conversation by @gernon.bsky.social discussing recent work by him and his colleagues investigating how continental breakup and consequent mantle dynamics may have primed the topography of Antarctica for glaciation ~34 million years ago. theconversation.com/why-antarcti...

Last month was the 6th lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of June. This was 1,020,000 km² below the 1981-2010 June average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

When ‘Inception’ and Kakistocracy converge.

🌊 Every day, ~4,000 Argo floats observe the world’s oceans. They provide essential, open and freely available data that improve weather forecasts, early warnings systems, and climate predictions. Behind this network: more than 30 yrs of scientific effort. Thanks to all those who keep Argo alive!

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

Harrison Ford describing the CCC, which put unemployed men to work building some of the iconic trails and infrastructure of our National Parks and other lands. When I lived in New York, I used to run sections of the Long Path that were developed by the CCC. Some of my fondest memories from NY!

oh look it's Harrison Ford talking about the CCC for @hcrichardson.bsky.social 's 250 for 250 🗃️

Climate change -> warmer winters -> more ticks spreading across Canada … and research shows the ones that carry Lyme disease tend to be healthier than the ones that don’t! 🤯

France recorded ~1,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave this past week, with 85% of the deaths being people aged 65 and over. The sharpest increase are people dying at home in the Île-de-France region that includes Paris and its suburbs.

Steve Pacala and Rob Socolow definitely have some questions to address, and the reporting is fantastic and disturbing. But there are substantial complexities that need to be explored as well. revkin.substack.com/p/a-new-look...

The loss of daylight will continue until morale improves.

Wow. Now there is an idea I didn't see coming. The tiny particles that wear off tyres can apparently act as ice nucleation sites. Cloud droplets need a starting nucleation site & this new paper suggests global tire pollution might matter for clouds. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I just came across this beautifully written piece by fellow @batescollege.bsky.social Geology alum @laurapoppick.bsky.social about the oldest rocks in Maine. The article features fellow Maine geologists Doug Reusch, Henry Berry, and Taury Smith. downeast.com/land-wildlif...

Excellent 250 to 250 narrated by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.

This is an excellent and engaging conversation.

Ok you guys. Here’s the deal. The M7.1 in Venezuela was upgraded to a M7.2. AND it was followed shortly by a M7.5. Not good.

Big and very shallow = very, very bad.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Had the Jenny and Forrest scene played out under these circumstances, that story would’ve had a much different ending.

@pbsnews.org focussed on our 42 years of glacier work during the Newshour on June 22, 2026. We have observed in the field the melting and loss of glaciers in the North Cascades. We communicate these changes with art exhibits and science data publication. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... #glaciology

There are only two places in the world free from brown rats: South Georgia Island, in the far S. Atlantic, and... Alberta, Canada. S. Georgia Island is rat-free because it's remote; Alberta, because it's been operating Earth's only successful anti-rat campaign. worksinprogress.co/issue/albert...

Photos from our Carnivorous Garden here in Orono, Maine. Sarracenia (pitcher plant) leaves are starting to open. Sundews are glistening and Venus Flytraps look well-fed. Fun surprise this year: the Rose Pogonia orchids (non-carnivorous) seem to be spreading throughout the bog garden. 1/

“I confess that I did collect Melosira arctica samples from sea ice in the Chukchi Sea during the AWS ‘98 cruise of USCGC Polar Sea. But I have not been in contact with them since.”

What About GEOMIP? One of the themes of our recent Guardian piece on geoengineering www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... is that would-be geoengineers are charging full-speed ahead to develop the technology for deployment, before any of the really serious scientific questions ...

Remember X-Labs? Without transparency, and in defiance of Congress, a new memo to NSF directs “program managers to stop seeking funding for any proposals, even those that received the highest marks from outside reviewers and program staff, “until we are able to provide more details.”

We need more of this thinking. Generating electricity using solar energy that would otherwise evaporate precious water resources… California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/c...

Earthlings. @ziyatong.bsky.social

Had a lovely Father’s Day walk up a nice hill with these wonderful critters today.

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Sometimes you just need to put Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms on the record player, turn up the volume, and sit in the sweet spot between the speakers and feel like the Maxell guy.

“…our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow.” - H.G. Wells, ‘War of the Worlds’ www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/p...

Left: Earth through a spacecraft window (Apollo 12, 1969) Right: Earth through a spacecraft window (Artemis II, 2026)

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great interview with @jtkantor.bsky.social on BBC just now about playing for Scottish fans!

Some good 🌊 news out of the USA www.nsf.gov/news/update-...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c... 🌊