This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

Being protected from the flu and COVID is great, but I did it for the coupons.

New: (gift) www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Anyone even mildly gender conforming. Do they have long hair and a feminine face? Ok, but no makeup and baggy pants. Better stop whatever that is.

"Maa says the injuries were more like what’s seen in motorcycle crashes." That's because e-bikes are motorcycles. I have been saying so for several years because i spent my 20s riding motorbikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...

SoCalGas is using *efficiency funding* collected from ratepayers to push LA wildfire survivors who lost their homes to build back with *gas* rather than all-electric. Truly bleak stuff. This should not be allowed. Where are our regulators at the CPUC? insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...

Karen Bass on the end of coal powering LA: “This is a defining moment for the City of Los Angeles... This milestone will further accelerate our transition to 100% clean energy by 2035.” www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

Low Tide at Varengeville - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9750

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Ok, #AGU25 is fast approaching & I should really be getting the word out about some activities I'm excited about... This year we're launching a new initiative, exhibit hall tours! Join me for a guided tour focused on drone-based sensors. Learn more or sign up: gatherspot.org/events/54252...

Elk River Road and Pine Hill Road, Eureka, during #KingTides

I popped over to my local shoreline for some quick #KingTides views this morning, 12/4/2025. This trail was completely flooded. SW corner of north basin in Berkeley, where Cesar Chavez Park/Marina Blvd meets Virginia St Extension/McLaughlin Eastshore State Park. Rocks on the right are riprap.

The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.

waitwaitwait, I’m so mad I didn’t think of this first…. PANTONEDEAF.

In the olden days, I used to argue online with people who didn't believe life, human or otherwise, evolved. They were very much the same sort of people who dispute anthropogenic climate change. Engineers, chemists and the occasional physicist. But, notably, never field or organismal biologists.

"The U.S. crossed the threshold of 35 gigawatts of battery installations this July and then passed 40 gigawatts in the third quarter . . ." For context, peak demand today for the state of California, with 40 million people and the world's 4th largest economy, will be about 27 GW.

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word! RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇

Israel has destroyed 98% of Gazan orchards.

I was stung by one of these hornets while hiking in the mountains above Kobe while in a high school there.

#ArtAdventCalendar A whale of a time! #Watercolor #Blue #Whale #Whales #Ocean #Mammals After a tutorial by Nianiani.

Omg. Those of you who’ve grown up in situations where families don’t really take photos know what a deep kind of abuse this is. You don’t have a record of your own life.

Key takeaways from the @UCBerkeley study: * Prescribed burns maintain large, fire-resistant trees and remove smaller “fuel ladder” vegetation that can drive high-intensity crown fires. * While each burn releases CO₂ in the short term, treated plots showed higher long-term productivity.

Eman Hassan Lawwa was dressed in traditional Palestinian prints and Hikmat Lawwa wore a suit as they walked hand-in-hand past the crumbled buildings of southern Gaza in a line of other couples dressed in exactly the same way. Mass wedding in Gaza celebrates new life apnews.com/article/gaza...

This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

I've been wondering about this.

We don't hear enough about the coal mines that did NOT go ahead Massive thanks to community climate orgs that mobilised to stop these mines & orgs like @australiainstitute.org.au, @edolawyers.bsky.social & Lock the Gate that supported them (EDO are doing matched donations today—double ur impact!)

Global fossil fuel use slipped this year, while solar and wind kept pace with ever increasing demand.

Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it. Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.

Honestly, I have hit the age where when I see grown people doing bad things I really am, like, "where do they have the energy"? That dad who tried to, allegedly, murder his three kids by hiking up a mountain. Where did he get the energy?

McCoy clearly shows that AI is terrible at clinical reasoning and will persuasively argue that a stubbed toe is relevant to a heart patient's diagnosis. And, yet, he's totally resigned to using AI anyway.

Pulled up a tarp at sunset and look who was under there! An arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). What a sweetheart.

Amber Czech was murdered at work. Tradeswomen say it could have happened to any of them. 19thnews.org/2025/11/ambe... via @19thnews.org

I’ve only just seen this, or would have reposted much sooner. One of the finest palaeoartists (and finest humans) out there is doing something fantastic for an urgent cause. Please support this if you can - all the links are in Natalia’s thread.

Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏

Pulled up a tarp at sunset and look who was under there! An arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). What a sweetheart.

Mindblowing and inspiring that Ukraine has managed to continue its dam removal efforts in spite of everything. freshwaterblog.net/2025/11/04/u...

One of the things about the Wizard of Oz, and the Oz series in general, is that it's arguably the first big fantasy series heavily steeped in Americana.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild. Yellow-legged frog Yellow-eyed penguin Yellowmouth spindle Yellow underwings (in a peregrine's beak) Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Introduce yourself with 5 you’ve seen in the wild: Mountain lion Tule elk Pronghorn Wild boar Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep

lol the capitulation of higher ed just makes clear that the academy is built on vibes.

The glaring! 😂😂😂 #birds #photography

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: -Siegel-Schwall w/ the San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa conducting -The Pink Pickles, Kyoto -Mose Allison, Caspar, CA -The Bee Gees, Oakland Coliseum -The Grateful Dead, Winterland, SF

God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.

Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey. It is at redshift 0.65 (lookback time 6.21 billion years) with coordinates (52.86526, -27.96688). 136 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

One of the fun southern #CostaRica specialties, the Speckled Tanager. In San Vito, Puntarenas. #birds #green #nature

Add more lines of the “A Moray” song in the comments! (Also… any idea on the theme so far??)

RFK Jr. and his deputies are dangers to the public

Scoop: Provisions of the NDAA that would ensure military members’ right to repair their own equipment are set to be removed from the funding act, replaced by language that will require the military to pay subscription fees to defense contractors via “data-as-a-service.” www.wired.com/story/subscr...