This looks like an incredible place to visit. Their trip is very similar to exploratory trips I took in my 20s with my friends in central Nevada, but this place is more spectacular than anything we'd found. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9x...

The Goldfish https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-goldfish-1925

Also - I would love to have some wonderful LGBTQIA+ folx join the lab - I have ensured that I celebrate our fam throughout my career, and this is such a neat opportunity for me to work with one or more or you! So do contact me! ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Red alert remains in place for Wanli barrier lake, now at 75% of total capacity. A second, consecutive typhoon day has been declared: national parks and dept stores closed, one hospital open per district, above-the-ground metro services suspended, certain bridges cordoned off, food delivery halted.

An important thread.

Yeah, look how quickly they put on a terrible report on the endangerment finding. When facts aren't important, speed as possible.

There have been 5 US National Climate Assessments, each advancing the science of #climate threats, prepared by the nation's top scientists.The 6th will be prepared by climate deniers & MAGA political hacks & will be a scientific embarrassment, forever to be ignored. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Sooooo many house finches in the park today. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

building code is the unappreciated team player of climate action

Lissa is 1000% right. you must go to the boring meeting if you are lucky, you get to be the de-boringifier go to meetings! cause problems on purpose! drag your local government (and the world) closer to a state of perfection in tiny steps!

in my experience, you have to do about nine (9) boring scut work for every one (1) policy win they let you have just go with it man that shit’s gotta get done and boring work is the price of progress

people.com/the-last-us-... This is why we have #vaccines

Bad news for Mojave wildlife The Sierra Club, local tribes, and even Wall Street despise this company. www.sierraclub.org/angeles/blog... "Also in early April 2026, the well-known Zacks Investment Research firm changed its rating of Cadiz stock to a "strong sell" — the worst rating it gives."

Learning to make high-quality video content for maximum viral reach

the mechanism behind this appears to be execs experiencing a heatwave at the moment when they could still change the contract and then adding some degrees for a guess at 2060 temps

Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

Andrea LaFlamme bsky.app/profile/andr...

Hillsides covered with Leichtlin's Mariposa Lilies (Calochortus leichtlinii). Some years I barely find any. #BloomScrolling #WildflowerWednesday 🌿

Well, duh. We've only been warning you about this for a full year.

And speaking of rape and politics:

"Mexico is “preparing legal measures” over the killing of Salgado Araujo because “we cannot allow the mistreatment of our brothers and sisters in the United States,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday. In April, Sheinbaum expressed concern about the deaths of ...

Why has Platner not yet resigned? Why has Mitch McConnell not posted a proof-of-life video? Why haven’t our NATO allies locked Donald Trump in a room for safekeeping and given the only key to Jack Smith?

as of June, we have 325,000 barrels, down from March high of 415,000, look I found a chart

Daily sea-surface temperature time series for the Niño 3.4 region during 2026 (red line) compared to all other years from 1981 onward. The last major El Niño event in 2015 is the thick gray line. 😟 Source: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

"The rise in observed temperatures in France has outpaced projections made by climate models, with June maximum temperatures more in line with what was expected for the 2070s."

Its highly problematic for Oyster Boy to be dragging his feet about dropping out of the Maine senate race. Every one of his top supporters have urged him to do so and there are only six days left before the deadline.

**The sun’s heat compounds the heat from the ovens in the ground. “It feels like you are burning but you are still alive,” Paswan said. Brick workers often fall ill with fever, nausea and vomiting in the summer months, cutting into their earnings, he said.**

Rare, and highly praiseworthy, public contrition from an 'elite' pundit.

Maine: the Florida of New England

Emiliano Bellini wrote a nice piece in PV Magazine on my student Aaron Farha's new paper. How connecting solar panels, a battery, and a heat pump (all natively Direct Current devices) through DC wiring could reduce electricity bills. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/06/h...

I finally watched the Platner video. He says "accusations of nonconsensual behavior" are false. The person being accused is him. But nobody thinks HE engaged in nonconsensual behavior. I'm quite sure he consented to raping someone. So when he says that's false, for once he's not lying.

Juvenile spotted towhee #birds I have two pairs of spotted towhees hopping around the garden year round. They nest in the garden so it's always a treat to see their youngsters.

I generally think generational analysis is bullshit right up until we hit should that dead guy still be in the Senate?

We have opened more than 50 schools as additional overnight locations where New Yorkers can stay safe during the dangerous conditions.

Call 311 or visit on.nyc.gov/SafeOvernight to find the site nearest you.

Rentals are so dangerous they burn down, but cities don't make landlords fix them. Judges scold mothers and sentence them to years or decades of jail. The landlords and neglectful fathers are treated as innocents. www.propublica.org/article/milw...

The English are bunkering down and defending so desperately, I'm waiting for the French fleet to show up.

I confess to basically love-reading this entire transcript

Major Marine Heatwave Begins! Serious ocean heat is building in South Florida & The Keys. Florida Bay afternoon temps are now peaking up to 97. Florida Keys water temps are 90-93, already past coral stress thresholds and it’s ahead of the record pace set in the historic 2023 event… 1/

Maslow's hierarchy of needs in action!! If you can keep a child safe, supported and well-fed, it lays the foundation for everything that comes after.

Santa Cruz had a redwood like this. The city prioritized sidewalk over a tree that might live a thousand years. I thought they would at least take the tree to the mill and preserve the stored carbon as lumber. But no. They chipped the entire tree. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...?

So disheartening that we are still here... America, you're 250 years old for heavens sake - evolve! www.reutersconnect.com/item/fourth-...

On day 10 of our PNW journey, we awoke to cold, almost freezing rain. But we were in Yellowstone! On a weekend. Our stops were carefully calibrated to avoid the worst crowds. 1st stop was Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. This is a young feature, less than 1 million yrs old.

I prefer the America where people care for one another.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

What is playing out is exactly what I remember the warnings sounded like in the 90d and early aughts

It's tough love time for most of the fledglings - meanwhile, Black-headed Grosbeak mum is still delivering food to a fledgling that ought to be filling out their college applications by now.😂 #birds #becurious

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

I just had to confirm for myself that someone here used a hyphen instead of an en dash. I'm indifferent to 95% of misspellings and grammatical errors here. But how often do you see someone on social media use an en dash correctly? But then, sadly, use a hyphen. - hyphen – en dash — em dash

I’ve discovered that tiny pieces of dark chocolate and gruyere cheese go very well together.