It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

While waiting for climate models to represent ice-sheet dynamics, here are some datasets and methods that can be used to prescribe the evolution of iceberg and ice-shelf meltwater in CMIP-type simulations with no interactive ice sheet. This includes recent data from @oceaniceeu.bsky.social

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

It’s really remarkable how thin the bench of climate change deniers is and how deep the poverty of their arguments. They haven’t come up with anything new in decades and can only fall back on conspiracies to explain their lack of success.

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

Thoughts from Aravind Ravichandran as NASA (again) flirts with moving Earth observation to commercial data buys: “Here is an underappreciated irony: commercial EO companies already depend on NASA's public infrastructure.” newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...

"Many of the features of a zero-budget conference are preferable to more traditional ways of organizing conferences, and... we’d like to encourage other conference organizers to consider adopting them..."

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Math.... what is it good for?

If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing. My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.

"I don't know, Mr Betteridge, what do you think?"

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Come join me and Cory Doctorow for a chat about AI, ENSHITTIFICATION, and how workers can help deshittify the world, happening now on Blood in the Machine: www.bloodinthemachine.com

"I supported the For the People Act when the the Dems put it forward in 2021. Do you remember how many Republicans voted for that bill?" "No on Prop 50" Chair: [silence] "It was zero. Not a single Republican voted for independent redistricting commissions nationwide."

BREAKING President Trump is re-nominating Jared Isaacman to serve as NASA Administrator. Isaacman, a top ally of Elon Musk, had his nomination withdrawn earlier this year due to donations he had made in the past to Democrats. Trump’s withdrawal of the nomination in May reportedly angered Elon.

🎶 I threw the sandwich and it landed on the deputy Yeah, all around in my home town They're trying to track me down, yeah They say they want to bring me in guilty For the onions and the mustardy..

Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it? No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

For no particular reason, but In case it comes in handy, the quote is from Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain. quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/05/d...

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

At least five houses collapsed on Hatteras Island this week. As more homes are lost to the sea, government and homeowners reach a crossroads. www.theassemblync.com/environment/...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

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Happy Halloween

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆 Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

I completely agree with @lastpositivist.bsky.social that this paper is a banger! The narrative Ferry-Danini presents about the history of Spasfon and the current lack of action by French medical institutions is fascinating and horrifying. Well researched too!

It’s a commonplace that the only people that made money in the gold rush were the spade sellers. But if the spade sellers started offering startup funds to speculative claims that were contracted to buy tons more spades, and the spades only had a 3yr lifetime, I’m not sure the analogy still holds…

This is extremely short sighted. Impacts of SLR in naval facilities, strategic implications of a radically different Arctic, costs of fossil fuel supply lines, direct impacts of more intense climate extremes, climate change as a threat multiplier etc etc etc. All have significant implications.

“Trump’s administration arrested Sami Hamdi following a social media campaign from far-right, Islamophobic figures.” New reporting from Zeteo on the latest example of this administration cracking down on speech on behalf of Israel. Against a British Muslim journalist on a valid visa:

With quotes from @stevebowen.bsky.social Kerry Emanuel Jim Kossin @weatherwest.bsky.social

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...