Last paddle of the year.

Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding. Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

The longevity of the Mafia in Italy serves as a warning that, once this style of rule embeds itself in the state, it is “very difficult to extract,” @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

Phosphate rock has been added to the USGS critical minerals list. The real consequences are unclear, but the idea is to buttress US supplies of the mineral through streamlined (federal) permitting, trade policy and other measures. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Today the 2025 State of the Cryosphere report was published by over 50 leading cryosphere scientists. An urgent warning about the global consequences of the meltdown of ice, including the risk of shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean current system #AMOC. 🌊 iccinet.org/statecryo25/

King tides and storm surge give us a glimpse of the future with sea level rise.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Sick.

Free film screening of "All Too Clear" which highlights how invasive quagga mussels have transformed Lake Michigan! Panel of local experts for Q&A after! Maybe Dr Bagels will be there! Friday Nov 7 from 530-730 pm in 1101 State Hall, Wayne State University, Detroit

There’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that ICE deported a man in a persistent vegetative state Or the fact that he was perfectly healthy when he was detained, and his family have no idea what was done to him to cause such a severe decline He died shortly after being deported to Cuba

Deep-sea mining waste in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may disrupt the ocean's twilight zone food webs by reducing the nutritional quality of particles vital to zooplankton and micronekton.

This is the future I dreamt of as a kid…

In the U.S., about 1/3 of all food produced is wasted. When we waste food, “in many ways, we are throwing out a lot of water, a lot of land, a lot of fertilizer, natural habitat.” - @paul-west.bsky.social Check out the full article in @sentientmedia.org https://bit.ly/43KZxZa #foodwaste

Last year Brazil saw its biggest drop in emissions in 15 years, new data show. Analysts credit the decline to a crackdown on the illegal clearing of forest.

Related, three hunters fell into the thin ice in Kotzebue earlier this week. One brother is recovering, one body was recovered and people are still searching for the third. Warming weather in our region is deadly. alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Speaking of seizing the means of production... The Export-Import Bank can end up temporarily having equity in some US companies to support them in international trade, but this--partial ownership of US Steel, Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and Trilogy Metals--seems quite different.

“This is astonishing; the rate of retreat is just crazy,” said Ted Scambos, a study author and senior research scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder. www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...

Dr Sergiy Medinets: “There is an urgent need for an integrated nutrient management plan for Ukraine that wastes fewer nutrients and reduces the amount of synthetic fertiliser needed.” This would benefit soil health, food production & the environment. Full study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

NEWS: Ukraine’s soils are losing vital nutrients, threatening long-term food security. UKCEH-led research in the Nature journal @commsearth.nature.com warns of reduced fertiliser use and war impacts on soil health. See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/deplet... #Soils #FoodSecurity 🧪 1/

Pleased to announce that we are looking for a post-doc to join @wesnerlab.bsky.social to study the relationship between body size, temperature and nutrients in stream ecosystems. Position details can be found here: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45969 Happy to answer any questions!

Here. Have some yellow.

“Seizing the means of production,” you say? 🤡 (via @samsteindc.bsky.social)

Insane. Inexcusable. Illegal. And the new normal in Trump’s America.

A greater focus on the nitrogen cycle could improve climate modeling, suggests new research.

The most under-appreciated (and under-funded and under-reported) driver of climate change is our food system. Our food system emits ~1/3 of global emissions. But it only gets 3% of climate funding and 4% of media coverage. Let’s focus more on food. Here’s a start: go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

Do I have this right? U.S. gov't is planning to give Westinghouse, Cameco, & Brookfield Asset Management “at least” $80B to build nukes. Westinghouse builds reactors. Cameco sells uranium and bought half of Westingthouse in '23. BAM is a ~$1 trillion holding company that bought the other half. 1/4

Agents forcibly opened the woman's car door and pulled her out by her legs, dragging her through the street. They did not identify themselves or tell her that she was under arrest. The citizen was held for hours before being released without charge. trib.al/tYMBPec

MEDIA: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and recent insurrectionist Donald Trump got reelected by making Americans believe crime was going up when it was going down. We have no idea how he accomplished this feat of making crime seem like a much, much bigger issue than it actually is. ALSO MEDIA:

In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

Folks who run Detroit airport ain’t havin it …

Our recent report warnst that unregulated and understudied cocktails of chemical pollutants in UK rivers, lakes and coastal environments can have harmful effects on aquatic ecosystems even when their individual components are present at ‘safe’ levels: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊

A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Turns out Oakland University is also the Grizzlies ! Go Griz !

"[Marine laboratories] have long nurtured generations of scientists … and precipitated discoveries that have advanced modern science. Yet they now face an uncertain future" write Susan Fitzpatrick and Jane Maienschein in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4ocWdOC

Looking forward to giving the lecture tomorrow.

Lake Erie’s Toxic #Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp | #Environment and #History #envhist #Ohio #GreatLakes #USA #Toledo #pollution #nutrients #agriculture #limnology #algalbloom #colonialism #eutrophication liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...