"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs. Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs. Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

🧵New paper out: “Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load” with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426 /1

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

From things I've seen recently, I think many people would benefit from reading this. It's short, and it's free. 👉 rdcu.be/dbFbB

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...

A new post on nature, my ignorance, and a poignant realization. #sciencesky #scicomm #naturesky thoughttrail.substack.com/p/silk-worm-...

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

A new post on nature, my ignorance, and a poignant realization. #sciencesky #scicomm #naturesky thoughttrail.substack.com/p/silk-worm-...

The genius of trees: how forests have shaped humanity, from chocolate cravings to our ability to dream

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

I find it funny when people—and I’ve seen comments like this — say we need to build fusion reactors instead of wasting time on solar. It’s like, honey, there’s a big fusion reactor in the sky that is always sending us power and we just need to collect it.

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

My attempt to explain the hidden climatic costs of food. Please give it a read! #climate #food open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

I’m looking for examples of literary fiction/novels for (or beloved by) adults that have animal narrators or that otherwise make a serious effort to portray the experiences/inner lives of (ideally non-anthropomorphized) animals & other nonhuman beings. Here’s what I have so far. What would you add?

My attempt to explain the hidden climatic costs of food. Please give it a read! #climate #food open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water. I really like the article of my colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social, in which she shows what this concretely means for these people, by relying on the portraits of families in Gapminder's Dollar Street project. ourworldindata.org/what-no-safe...

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨 Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change. Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left. 👇1/n

how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !

Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔 We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵‍♀️ and wrote a paper about it! arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572

Finally some numbers about ChatGPT's energy and water use? ⚡ Even if this is the true amount of energy used for a query (and that's a big if!), multiplied by the billions of queries a day, this adds up massively. And that's not counting image generation, which is much more energy-intensive!

Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture, with most of this used to raise livestock for dairy and meat. How much would our agricultural land use decline if the world adopted a plant-based diet?

You can read the introduction to my book in the wonderful Atmos magazine here: atmos.earth/the-emotiona...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We emit ~40B tons of CO2 annually in recent years, but ~10B are absorbed by forests/land ecosystems & another ~10B are absorbed by oceans. Without those natural carbon sinks, CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere would be twice as high.

Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable

A fascinating read!

🗓️ Our #ISC25 events on Wednesday go.fzj.de/isc25 BoFs, Meet & Greets and Talks on #Exascale supercomputer JUPITER⚡ , #QuantumComputing⚛️ , #Benchmarking📏 , #Diversity & #Inclusion🏳️‍🌈 in HPC and the new Scientific and Innovation Case (SIC) study📚 + ISC Poster Sessions. 🖼️

Our paper on NESTML is finally out! NESTML enables neuroscientists to write their neuron models and synaptic plasticity rules in an intuitive language, along with the code generation for different simulation platforms. #neurosky #compneurosky Link: doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

How do big brains evolve? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to learn more? - check out the NEST virtual conference 2025 (nest-simulator.org/conference) or the CNS meeting (www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025), which will offer workshops on integrating dendritic compartments in large-scale network simulations!

We are thrilled to share Elena Pastorelli and Pier Stanislao Paolucci’s amazing work on modeling dendritic calcium dynamics in large-scale network simulations using NEST'S multi-compartment modeling framework developed by Willem Wybo (tinyurl.com/caldyn) #nestsim

Pint of Science @pintofscience.de, an annual science festival that brings scientific research to the public, is happening in 22 cities in Germany, including Aachen. Join for interesting talks from 19 to 21 May on topics ranging from microbes to spacetime to AI for social good! #pint25 #pint25DE

was looking for old timey marine art for inspirationa nd reference and came across Ernst Haeckel's work and how gorgeous are his lithographs and halftone work? haeckel.tilda.ws/en#sea (someone made a fancy site to showcase work)

One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

What's the nicest thing anyone has done for you? thoughttrail.substack.com/p/a-moment-t...

What can give meaning to life? I remember responding to James Bailey's invitation to write on this about a year ago, & I'm honoured to be included in his collection @guardian (& my mother is still with us 🙏🏽) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

I wrote about a unique feature in South Asian languages. Please give it a read. #indiasky #languages open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

I wrote about a unique feature in South Asian languages. Please give it a read. #indiasky #languages open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

I wrote a brief review of the top 5 books I read in 2024. Give it a read? #booksky open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

I wrote a brief review of the top 5 books I read in 2024. Give it a read? #booksky open.substack.com/pub/thoughtt...

A list of Good Things To Cheer The Heart