No plate? Covered plate? I report these half out of obsession and half out of civic duty because I want better for our streets and that ultimately means consequences for drivers flaunting the rules need to be normalized. 311-27564989 311-27565178

Local reporting for people who live their streets. Happy Birthday To 20 more

See how this 9,000-mile freight train of warm water may fuel a super El Niño www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Guys is it bad that the National Science Foundation has been offline since last night?

My stab at today's radiative forcing vs. CMIP5/CMIP6 scenarios. "Observed" (at least as of 2024) doesn't quite exceed the highest scenarios that I've seen in other versions, partly due to anchoring scenarios to "obs" at 2005 (for RCPs) or 2014 (for SSPs). Not sure if that's the most sensible thing.

Red tape is killing NYC outdoor dining by amNewYork www.amny.com/opinion/edit...

Folks in The Bronx want some of that clean air, too.

Why can't we have a bike lane on Chambers Street to connect the Brooklyn Bridge to the Hudson River Greenway? Blame the rampant placard abuse and illegal parking, explains @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/shorts/Yaibn...

"The data on safety are clear: street redesigns like the one proposed for West 72nd Street create safer conditions for all street users, especially pedestrians, with deaths and serious injuries reduced by 24% overall and by 39% for seniors." www.amny.com/news/the-fut...

This isn't one route necessarily, but the LIRR shutdown morning rush has produced a solid wall of cars for about 65 miles around the city. Proof once again... the people that benefit the MOST from bike lanes and transit are DRIVERS.

A new CDOT report finds that while bike lanes improved safety, they didn’t harm businesses, and they may help make corridors more economically resilient. 🚲 🛴 💵 👍 @atalliance.bsky.social @rideillinois.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org @chicritmass.bsky.social

🎉🙌 Honestly, Dorothy is one of the kindest people I know She’s also famous-figured out critical info about earth’s climate sensitivity via knowing how &where it got cold during glacial times When I started, she was humble&kind to me. She’s that way today w everyone. So folks focus on the science

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

If it hits 98, it will break the hottest May peak temp for DC Dulles and Philadelphia. 1-in-100 year + events for both cities in a historical climate. But these records are now a lot more possible - in fact probable - as our #climate heats. #heatwave

Mayor Mamdani has earmarked more than $200 million in new funding in his executive budget for bus lanes, bike lanes and public realm projects over the next four years, continuing to make good on a campaign that centered better and safer ways for New Yorkers to get around the city. buff.ly/KHtXy1x

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

Do bike buses count?

We love a #scicomm awardee collab! ✨ @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new pop-science book which explores cosmology, creativity, and the big questions that made her want to become a physicist in the first place. Read here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

#ExtremeWeather events are becoming more disruptive. A new @nationalacademies.org report and interactive site—with contributions from #NASmember Isabel Montañez—explore how paleoenvironmental records can reveal past extremes & strengthen future resilience: nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292...

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

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The timing of late Friday afternoon is meant to keep this quiet. It’s typically a dead zone for press coverage. On the RIFs, the affected folks had been excluded from the original RIF apparently because they had expressed interest in the incentivized retirement program but never took it.

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will extend the 31st Avenue bike boulevard in his old Astoria neighborhood east into Woodside, the city said.

Bicyclists want a simple, DIRECT route between the Hudson River Greenway and Brooklyn Bridge, and that's why bicyclists have been pushing for Chambers St since the new Brooklyn Bridge bike path went in: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/15/m...

The driver was going 108 miles per hour. On the Upper West Side. Cars should literally not be allowed to go that fast. pix11.com/news/suspect...

Getting around most of NYC Manhattan by car is silly (takes insane amounts of time while being SUPER expensive). Traveling by mass transit -or by foot&bike- is the rational choice. But subways only have north-south routes. Other commutes are SLOW n HARD. Safe bike routes crosstown benefit us all.

Love @mayor.nyc.gov ideas to keep NYC neighbors housed by building quicker &better Can he generalize and create a «Streamline NYC» office? For bike lanes& parks& public space? An interagency collaboration taskforce? A contractors finish on time & on budget workshop? A regulatory streamliner. 🙏

Absolutely ridiculous way to do enforcement. MTA should never delay a bus to do fare enforcement. "The agency’s fare enforcement “EAGLE” teams are ramping up an initiative where they halt buses for about five to 10 minutes while they scan riders’ phones or OMNY cards to check if they paid."

And if a child "darts out from between the cars", at least in the US, that would be an excuse that would likely get the driver off without charges rather than the burden of safety being put on the cars and the motorists, it's viewed as the child's/parent's fault.

New Yorkers, in large numbers, want to dine outside, and restaurants want to serve them, but the permitting process is ridiculously slow. Kudos to @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Mark Levine for digging into the problem and looking to get it unstuck.

🎓 Congratulations to our Columbia Climate School Class of 2026! 💙 #Columbia2026 #ColumbiaClimate2026 "The work ahead is demanding, but you know what? So are we." —Annika Bellot, Class Day Student Speaker, MA Climate & Society 🎥 Watch our Class Day celebration: https://bit.ly/49RbWhb

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

I didn’t realize these nerdy cool folks were on bsky. I may finally be able to quit quit meta.

That so much of the West has little to no snowpack left is mind-boggling. "Snowpack, the western US’s largest non-man made reservoir, is already gone in many places...This year’s peak snowpack will be the new benchmark low for Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; there are no comparable years."

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

BREAKING NEWS: Active mobility modes help improve, not hinder, emergency vehicle response times 👇

Congratulations to Carl Wilson, now officially the City Council Member for Manhattan's 3rd District!

Public art installations improve how we experience public spaces! "The organization ^ its collaborators hope the sculpture inspires people to envision Fourth Avenue as an exciting destination & creative neighborhood, not just a high-volume traffic thoroughfare." www.brooklynpaper.com/hurly-whirly...

DOT officials announced on Wednesday that the 31st Avenue bike boulevard will be extended beyond Steinway Street all the way to Woodside's 51st Street.

I have a couple thoughts about this “X-Labs” announcement from the NSF… www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-ann...

NASA Appropriations final markup table (Jan 2026) versus #NASA Proposed Appropriations for FY2027 (May 2026) Same overall number, but decrease in science funding.

Every crosswalk along Third Avenue looks like this because nothing is stopping them. Ticketing this behavior would balance the NYS budget

Wonder if this will ever make it to the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

[COOKIE CRUNCHING STOPS]

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

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