Dati climatici Copernicus. Anomalie termiche in Europa (temperatura a 2 metri) relative al mese di dicembre 2025. Valori quasi ovunque superiori alle medie, in particolare sulla Scandinavia, sugli stati baltici e sull'arco alpino. Nella seconda immagine le anomalie di pioggia. 1/2

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

I think "heavily fined" and "prosecuted" are the relevant terms here, not "sorry" arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...

🧪A few more hours to go…

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

In altre notizie, identificati 50 boschi dove far nidificare gli unicorni www.corriere.it/economia/ene...

"You mentioned you ensured that your compiler research team was roughly half women in the 1970s and 80s." "It was intentional. I didn’t do it by accident. (...) I did it because I could see brilliant women being excluded or marginalised, and it was a catastrophic waste."

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

The war on renewables is being driven in part by nuclear operators and fossil fuel interests. 🎁🔗 to an absolutely comprehensive look at the backroom alliance shaping opposition

Next will be cursive, that is notoriously used only to curse www.theverge.com/news/841664/...

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids. Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km. We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

Explore more interactive charts and articles on animal welfare on our dedicated topic page: ourworldindata.org/animal-welfare

"We probably wouldn’t have any cars with catalytic converters either unless they were mandatory." insideevs.com/news/780742/...

You’ll Be OK

Meteorological autumn finished milder than average at #London Heathrow with average temp of 12.7C +0.5C above 1991-2020 - not so excessive on recent baseline. But this autumn was warmer than all of them from 1948 until autumn of 1995.

Cold shot after cold shot in much of 🇨🇦🇺🇸 whilst UK/Europe is set to see unusually mild temperatures into next week. Bah humbag.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast www.carbonbrief.org/...

I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations. Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

New research shows that it's extremely uncommon to have to replace a modern electric car's battery. insideevs.com/news/779210/...

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Winter tightens its hold in Lapland. At the moment -28.3 °C in Savukoski Tulppio with > 20 cm of snow. The coldest so far this winter in Finland. However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie. But let’s break down the food produced by the red states: Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?

“People don’t want energy; they want hot showers and cold beer.” This is what Amory Lovins once said and so true. Most primary energy we use is wasted in converting heat to work. We don’t have to replace all primary energy - we only need to deliver the energy services more efficiently.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Ha sempre fatto caldo.

Per chi fosse interessato, ho scritto un articolo sull’impatto dell’intelligenza artificiale in medicina, soprattutto in oncologia. Su Le Scienze di Novembre.

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Early humans were online an hour, maybe two hours, per day

Good prop for a Micheal Bay movie

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

uv makes installing and using Python *so* easy! It works on pretty much any computer and it's lightning fast. 🔭☄️ #astrocode If you're still using conda, pyenv, or... basically any other tool, then I can *highly* recommend switching:

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

"Why is this guying spending the money he saved on rent at a restaurant? SOMETHING STINKS!"

[Exit King.]

A common criticism of global warming is: “It’s only a few degrees”. It may not sound like much but consider this… Compare Earth’s escalating warmth to your body’s fever. Now all of a sudden a few degrees is the difference between life and death! Follow along for more… 1/

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...