at no point in this headline did i know what would happen next

This thread is the best refutation of social-media doomerism that I have seen.

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

🚨 Senator Bennet and I are continuing to hold up the minibus to demand full funding for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

One unexpected side effect of *vaguely gestures at everything* is my appetite has drastically shifted this week. I forget to eat until midday (or remember but am not hungry when I think of it) and no longer want food in the evening. My need for morning coffee hasn't changed at all, at least?

"We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. ... "On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns." —Becca Good

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over. www.eenews.net/articles/tak... Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package: 5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

The article I just reposted helped me feel less guilty about my ongoing exhaustion and flagging motivation. It's hard to describe the sense of relief it provided. Finding language to navigate these times, putting words to thoughts and feelings, understanding the humanity of it all—that matters.

I always appreciate the way Graff puts perspective on our current moment. This particular post is one of the best he’s written. It summarizes so much of what I and millions of others are feeling. Thanks for your continued clear-eyed journalism.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

The price of loving other people is finding joy when they're joyful and hurting when they hurt

oh beloved hometown; my heart can't take much more of this

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

For what it’s worth, Gov. Walz opened his press conference right now recognizing Renee Good “and her wife.”

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

Back in 2018, I started reading about the history of successful movements. Two things really stuck with me: 1) how long real, sustainable change can take (especially given the backlash to early successes, and 2) how you never really know when the watershed moments are when you're living in them.

Friendly reminder to stop using arbitrary thresholds to determine extreme heat / cold. Use percentiles instead. By using a 95F threshold, the usual suspects show up, but when using the 95th percentile, different spots light up. #StateOfClimate

2025 was the third-highest year... and none were due to hurricanes (no hurricanes hit the U.S. last year for the first time since 2015). **Five** events were caused by hail. Yikes.

Reckless federal law enforcement is causing schools in Minnesota — which barely close for snow and cold in the winter — to miss the rest of the week of classes.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

The respectability policing that goes on after cops or federal agents (who are also cops, y'all) kill someone is always unbearable. Dissecting the actions of the victim, putting them on trial when they cannot defend themselves, declaring they should have done this or that. Did they deserve to die?!

When you feel immobilized, remember: there is a world outside these apps. Sometimes, when we feel helpless, the best thing is to look to our own communities. Reach out to a friend going through it. Feed someone. Ask a shelter what they need. Spreading the light somewhere helps it grow everywhere.

My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Always a good idea to turn off auto-play videos; choose what you see and what you don't.

Shasta Lake, the largest reservoir in California, rose more than 30 feet over the past two weeks as a series of winter storms pounded the state, according to state data.

*inhales* AI is a blanket term. It's not the same thing as using generative AI (images/videos from prompts) or large language models (LLMs; text from prompts). It's misleading to say "AI" when genAI or LLMs are the actual tools being used. The IMAGE was generated here, not the FORECAST.

Nullschool weather app for mobile phones...!

I worry the framing of the first phrase is leading people to misattribute the errors described in the second. Yes, there is a push to incorporate ML/AI techniques to augment and/or complement prediction models. But the map was seemingly just a poor attempt by an LLM/whatevs to display existing data.

It's nothing in the grand scheme of current events, but not being able to download a correct version of the updated 2025 daily NOAA OISST file has been a small thorn in my side all day

The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind

One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.

All, The WARR website has been updated with 2026 schedule. www.cee.psu.edu/events/women... The page includes registration link, 2026 schedule in pdf, and all archived talks from 2021 - 2025. @margaretzimmer.bsky.social @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agucatchhydro.bsky.social @lmcp.bsky.social

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

I struggle to complete a new manuscript review in 28 days, let alone 10, especially right after winter break. When a for-profit journal struggles to find reviewers, it might help if they offered a longer time frame as a starting point when requesting free labor.

hello darkness my old friend

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

We had a good run

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