Crap.

Holy fucking shit grocery prices.

Pop quiz electrification friends! What is the greatest thing that has ever been electrified? A) light B) cargo bikes C) toothbrushes D) heating E) cars It is genuinely a difficult choice. So let me know which one you think is the best and why.

Home insurers’ latest trick: stealth increasing your deductible #climaterisk on.ft.com/4pVE4pM

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

@belongielab.org welcomes applications for a PhD position in CV/ML (fine-grained analysis of multimodal data, 2D/3D generative models, misinformation detection, self-supervised learning) / Apply though the ELLIS portal / Deadline 31-Oct-2025

And then there’s the investment consultants showing their clients capital market assumptions with private credit having equity-like returns and bond-like volatility going out 30 years.

Solarisation a la française. Bordeaux, France’s wine capital, has become a national leader in ‘solarisation’ installing photovoltaic panels on public buildings, schools and warehouses. The city now hosts more than 500 projects and is aiming for 1,000 by 2026. https://f.mtr.cool/pllhvchglq

Post a favourite econ paper, I'll go first: "Trade, Merchants and Lost Cities of the Bronze Age" by Barjamovic & co-authors. Turns out you can do some pretty incredible stuff with an (almost) four thousand year old dataset! Link: keremcosar.uvacreate.virginia.edu/publications...

The bankers hill-hillcrest bus lines should run directly to Santa Fe station. The extra walk/transfer is slow as heck

Actually, anyone who comes to my office have as many free books as they want. STS, African hist/anth, world hist, nukes nukes nukes If you're in the Bay Area, shoot me an email if this interests you. I doubt there will be a rush, but if so preference will go to students and early career folks.

Get yourself a city council member who bikes with his whole adorable family on board Thanks for joining the climate week ride with @bikesd.bsky.social, @seanelorivera.bsky.social!

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist. Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall. Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

“Gas explosion causes partial collapse of Bronx NYCHA building” — www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/01/m...

This is from last month but you get the idea...R^2 is essentially zero for predicting the initial NFP release (which we won't get this month anyways) but there's at least some relationship between initial ADP release and revised NFP.

'we assume that if all internal combustion engine vehicles are replaced by EVs, traffic noise in the immediate vicinity of traffic would decline by 7.1 dB on average.' ooh ooh i have questions

Seriously, if someone values high pay per hour with only a few years training, job security for 30+ years, the potential to travel at will, and the feeling you’re contributing to a better world, training as an electrician isn’t a bad strategy.

Denmark is becoming the new Norway! Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve. In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles. Source @leraffl.bsky.social

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

A rare "radar" view of a category 5 hurricane - #Humberto No, it's not traditional land based radar. This is super cool. Keeping reading if you want to learn. This is called Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR) taken from a NOAA satellite of the storm on Saturday night. 1/

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

5 pm EDT Fri, Sep. 26 Key Messages for Potential Tropical Cyclone #Nine. English: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/262040.shtml?key_messages#contents Español: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/262040.shtml... https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1971682854779441333

Join us for the next @iiasa.ac.at AI for Climate Science Seminar with Dim Coumou (VU Amsterdam/Beyond Weather) on AI for (sub)seasonal forecasting-boosting predictability and understanding teleconnections Register: iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2... Past and Future seminars: iiasa.ac.at/projects/ai-...

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

Stunning oblique satellite 🛰️ image of #Paris from BlackSky. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

What I learned from my graduate daughter’s job search is that kids now make hundreds of applications and employers automate the first few rounds of selection in response

uv is now stable enough that I'm switching my course over to using it. No more conda, we will create a generation of uv evangelicals

#agrivoltaics Planned/foreseen: ‘76 MW facility…146,000 bifacial 550 W #solar modules…93 hectares…50.4 MW/109 MWh battery storage system is also planned for 2027…six mobile #chicken coops, each housing up to 2,500 chickens planned…conventional four-#crop rotation is also foreseen for arable land’

EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only. If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.

BREAKING: Poland scrambles jets as Russia launches massive aerial assault on Ukraine, hours after NATO intercepted three Russian jets over Estonia's airspace. https://cnn.it/3W0jhUk

I can confirm there's chaos at Berlin Brandenburg! Everyone has to be checked in by hand (taking 10-15 mins per passenger). Rumours of hand written boarding passes. We need a cyber security expert to comment on the interreliance and vulnerability of these check in systems!

India has broken my graph. 30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024. robbieandrew.github.io/india

Workers broke open the first tunnel connecting Austria to Italy under the Brenner Pass.

Applications for NJDEP grants for fast-charging electric vehicle stations through “It Pay$ to Plug In” will be accepted until October 25. More information is available at: dep.nj.gov/drivegreen/dcfcsolicitation/

One of my favorite simulations, about why thresholding by an observable feature that is correlated, but not well aligned with your property of interest (e.g. using Leetcode hard, when you want to hire a developer), doesn't give you good results: erikbern.com/2020/01/13/h...

This is imprecise, but I think this might be the map of SB79 upzoning for North Park. Based on major transit stops that include frequent routes with at least some dedicated bus lanes. This is 1/2 mile, so everything within these circles would be 55-foot height limit.

Who could have figured out that automatically downloading half the internet and ten thousand always-changing dependencies every time you build could actually be a weakness?

Just updated my regular look at what power sources are driving the US electric sector on a % basis. Nice cause for optimism. Renewables still growing. Coal use slightly increasing recently but all at the expense of natural gas - which is just economic switching.

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819