Nature polled ~1,200 scientists and found 46% had a second income during their PhD. 59% said economic anxiety would push them toward a side hustle. Stipends in the US, UK, and Canada are at or below the poverty line in expensive cities www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICML requires authors to serve as reviewers. Reviewers aren't supposed to use LLMs (with caveats 🧵). ICML used prompt injection to catch reviewers using LLMs. And now they have desk rejected the papers submitted by those reviewers. What a mess...

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

I am running a Climate Dynamics reading group for UCI graduate students this Spring and would like to propose a list of accessible papers on "big ideas" in climate dynamics from the 21st Century, prioritizing primary sources over review papers. Any suggestions of papers? (Self-promotion welcome!)

THIS THURSDAY: hear Noah Brenowitz (NVIDIA) at our next Spring'26 LEAP Lecture in #Climate #Data Science! 📅 3/5/26 🕛 12p EST 📍 via Zoom 💻 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/1979676050... #LEAPEducation #AI #physics #openscience #scienceforgood #climatemodel #ESM #atmosphere @columbiaseas.bsky.social

RFK Jr. never directed a public health department, run a medical center, or held any public office related to health administration, and never managed a health crisis. But he worked out and drank whole milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock. We need someone better as head of the HHS.

Calling the SAVE Act voter ID is a trick. This bill would force Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person to an election official. ❌ 146 million Americans don’t have a passport ❌ As many as 69 million women don’t have a birth certificate that matches their married name

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

In January, @anishathalye.bsky.social, @josejg.bsky.social, and I returned to @csail.mit.edu to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we miss from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!

This one hits hard.

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED. And everyone else saw it coming except you.

You deserve an AI plan that will protect you, your kids, your work, and our democracy. That's what my plan would do and that's why the AI billionaires seeking unchecked power at your expense want to stop it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

The AI industry is deeply dependent on exponential growth to justify the colossal investments being made into it. To say AI is small now so it’s not a huge part of the story has about the wisdom of ignoring the family of mice that just moved into your grain cellar because there’s only a few of them.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The leaders of seven states failed to negotiate a deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River by a Trump administration deadline, leaving the Southwest in a quagmire while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

"The Trump administration and its well-funded allies in the fossil fuel industry are blocking our ability to put the cheapest, most reliable energy onto the grid." heatmap.news/ideas/trump-...

How on earth does science function in the US if they're throttling the funds?

Merz at MSC: Europe will not adopt MAGA vision of free speech. It does not support tariffs and protectionism. It believes in climate change and the need for the WHO. "The US will run up against its own limits if it tries to go it alone"

🔥 Wildfire risk isn’t just about weather – local conditions like vegetation, land management and human activity all play a role. The Probability of Fire (PoF)-Toolbox helps you build your own machine-learning fire-danger models using local data. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up! We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good. drawdown.org/news/project...

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

This is such a fascinating blog post and project!

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is more desperate than ever — and now he’s saying the quiet part out loud about taking over elections ahead of the 2026 midterms. I break down Trump’s plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

Let’s be clear: when the Trump administration kills or stalls energy generation projects, that’s the White House choosing to make your electricity more expensive. Americans deserve better.

Not just talking heads. A lot of the population

Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵 (1/19)

The FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots and records in Fulton County, Georgia has election experts raising red flags for 2026. One expert warns the raid was a possible test run for future midterm interference in swing districts.

The Chinese Renewable Energy Revolution Affects The Whole World cleantechnica.com/2026/01/30/t...

I am absolutely sickened by the many rich, powerful & famous men whose names are being outed in these files as having gone to Epstein's island. Rep. Thomas Massie & I always said this would be a moral reckoning for our nation. Looks like that reckoning begins today.

Khanna: "There has to be accountability. Do I think impeaching Kristi Noem is going to solve the issue of ICE? No. But it's gonna send a signal that you can't wield power without a check in this country. And that's what we have with ICE agents smashing windows, following people to churches."

America is facing a looming economic crisis that few people are talking about: a housing market collapse driven by increasingly devastating natural disasters. Senator Sheehy and I agree that preparedness should be bipartisan.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

This is one way I’ve been thinking about the market outlook this year (some narrative tailwinds early that shift to headwinds around spring), and Claude did a pretty decent job of turning it into a visual:

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.

Want to work with the AGU SciPolicy Team? Voices for Science participants conduct regular outcomes-focused outreach to make a tangible impact at the local, federal, or global level. Applications for the U.S. cohort are open Dec 15 – Feb 15 buff.ly/BHStsrh

Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Data center energy and water use have gotten a lot of (rightful) attention. But there's another issue that's getting less attention than it should: The immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them 🎁🔗

As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:

Bridging Physics & AI in Climate Modeling 🌍🤖 Introducing JCM v1.0: A fully differentiable, intermediate-complexity atmospheric model built in Python/JAX. Training hybrid models is hard because legacy code lacks gradients. JCM solves this.

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...

Complaining about people “getting political” is like complaining about a fire alarm. Only people who feel safe from the fire could possibly care more about the alarm.

I was complaining about the lack of a plan from bluesky. Well, here’s a plan, and it’s pretty good!

Your regular reminder that when folks say "its cold outside where I live, what happened to global warming?" that the world is big, and weather still exists.

The EU finally used an economic threat against Trump. But the markets forced his climbdown | Rosa Balfour