“We can’t eat money” #COP30

"To stay within the 1.5°C maximum threshold of global warming, Oxfam projects that the richest 1% and 0.1% would need to cut their per capita emissions by 97% and 99%, respectively, by 2030." But sure, I'll turn my lights off for Earth Hour.

AI has not made the jump to reasoning, but it has made the jump to business. For all of my life, researchers and philosophers have studied AI, but they are no longer the experts that governments pay attention to. Now it's the people asking for money that are deemed experts

Interesting new read by @elizkolbert.bsky.social in the New Yorker about the ongoing #COP30

I know this is shared often, but this scene from the Simpsons is as relevant today as it was 31 years ago.

It’s baffling that people still believe calling their senators will make any difference whatsoever.

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

TAKEN AT HER COURT HEARING. To all those Americans deceiving themselves that ICE is only going after rapists and murderers, another reminder that’s a lie. They are targeting folks doing the right thing, because it is easier and otherwise they don’t have enough people to arrest. Wake up now.

Just taught/presented this to my Intro to Environmental Sustainability class yesterday. 1,000,000 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) of the approximately 4,500,000 square kilometres (1,700,000 sq mi) that makes up the Clarion–Clipperton zone is claimed for deep sea mining…

No way Colossus didn’t just go get another dog that looks just like Brady’s deceased pet

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Internet is shut down in Tanzania. Haven’t heard from friends in a few days. Hoping for the best.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

I love this thread. It reminds me of how science twitter used to be (and shows BlueSky’s potential) 🧪

Border bill guts the Wilderness Act allowing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝 Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.

Love this from Mass.gov. Rightfully pointing out that SNAP benefits are being cut because of the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Oh Bari Weiss is just Ms Rachel’s Wario

“…it’s important to be aware that the top 10 percent of households own 87 percent of equities, while the bottom half own almost no stock at all and gain nothing from a rising market.” Once the AI bubble pops, the crash is going to be severe.

Anything but divesting from fossil fuels

Never forget the people on Flight 93 who intentionally crashed in PA to save the White House from destruction. #LetsRoll

This tree is just showing off

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿 Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with @archaeopress.bsky.social Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible! @dai-weltweit.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬👃 #PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Perfect example of greenwashing. Despite what Google says, CCS is not making good progress.

Here in RI (and elsewhere) it's already called "Buy Nothing Day." The big event locally is a large coat exchange where anyone who needs a winter coat/hat/gloves/scarf can come and pick up a donated one.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

With the evidence from Nyayanga, Olduvai, and now this, I think it’s safe to say Paranthropus used tools for over a million years. 🏺

Paper alert 🎓🌿 I’m excited to share a new publication from my PhD On-site plant-wax biomarkers + compound-specific isotopes show why relying on bulk δ13C of SOM can mislead in the tropics. Case study: Jwalapuram (S. India). Read: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to all co-authors 🙏

🚨New paper alert, check it out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! Led by @gopesh.bsky.social, we looked at plant wax biomarkers from archaeological contexts with a focus on the Palaeolithic Jwalapuram site. We show that it is important to integrate source-specific proxies with bulk soil proxies. 🏺🧪

Apples to oranges and all that, but this is not going to end up well for those in the Midwest who rely on Minnesota Power.

Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.

The Portland and Oregon reddits are now swarming with posts on where to buy inflatable frog costumes, who has the best prices, and how to donate them to the Resistance. And I just learned 3+ frogs is an "army". I love this state.

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought. “Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)” 🏺🧪

Love that chapter in Demon Haunted World where Carl Sagan writes about using the scientific method to make the proof to confirm hypotheses…

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

I wouldn’t mind giving up my phone and not having to be connected all the time

We need a large and loud response from the scientific community, or publishing at Wiley journals is going to come to a complete standstill. And since Wiley is the main alternative to Elsevier, there really aren't many options. Yet another industry has leaned into AI only to be utterly enshittified.