Good questions! Let me add one more. How would employers react to a school where all testing is in class and closed-note? To me, it would offer some assurance that your graduates might thrive in my world: sometimes-hostile public meetings, grillings by elected officials, high-stakes negotiations...

Sorry, forgot to connect to the Inside Higher Ed piece directly. Underlying article is here. It is shocking. But also totally unsurprising for anybody involved in secondary or college education. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

It’s fascinating that much of this article is devoted to due process - which is problematic - rather than to the substantive crisis that higher ed actually faces due to AI. The iceberg has hit the ship, the sealed compartments failed, the academy is rearranging deck chairs. x.com/paulg/status...

It’s fascinating that much of this article is devoted to due process - which is problematic - rather than to the substantive crisis that higher ed actually faces due to AI. The iceberg has hit the ship, the sealed compartments failed, the academy is rearranging deck chairs. x.com/paulg/status...

‘I’m so frustrated I could cry’: Federal firefighters describe burnout, staff cuts www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein.” JD Vance, 2016. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Great piece on anchovy, El Niño, and how aquaculture has fundamentally changed fish production since the last super-el nino in 1997-98. Blas ties is all together. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Fireworks can quickly turn celebration into wildfire. Illegal fireworks are never safe. If you are going to use fireworks, only use Safe and Sane fireworks where they are legally permitted. youtube.com/shorts/09G4z...

The Simpsons knew.

Hot indeed. Get a load of those LMPs.

Note where the CIMT is coming from. Things are getting kinda busy when IMTs from Alaska are sent to Colorado. On July 1. Also what an image. Stay safe firefighters. From the other site where Hotshot Wakeup plies his trade.

So much wisdom in @jimwhittington.bsky.social response to my post. Recommend reading the whole thread. I agree 100% with everything he said here.

This is a great paper on wildfire resilience on loss reduction. A must read. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Spent the weekend doing family stuff in between thinking about the three we lost on Saturday & hoping that the two who are injured come out of it in good shape. The wildland fire community is small & every fatality is like a boulder dropped in a little pond. It ripples everywhere & affects all. 1/

#Wildfires are making CA home ownership even harder to afford. New research shows premiums are up 84% since 2020. "More than one in 17 new home loans is now being written with the most limited, most expensive coverage as the only available choice." - @michaelwara.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4pevRgR

Just so sad. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/u...

Woah. Forecast isn’t gonna help much either.

Iron Fire is apparently into Eureka Utah tonight. Really hope that everyone and their animals are out of there. Fire season has really arrived in a hurry the last few days.

Situational awareness for 6/20: air quality took a dive overnight and it smells VERY strongly of smoke at my house this morning. Take precautions if you're outside today. ⚽ Downey fan zone opens today (one day only) 🚲 Southeast LA Open Streets 🎉 LACMA parade with Wilshire street closures

There are so few great kids books about dads and kids. Owl Moon is one of them. I have so many fond memories of reading this book to our boys and of wandering off in the night with them to reenact its mystery. I will always be grateful to Yolen for the moments of joy it brought to our family.

What a difference 48 hours makes. Seems like fire season is really here. National Preparedness Level 3.

People are still underestimating how much the prospects of LNG growth in Asia are totally busted. Even setting aside the Hormuz factor, the economics are just brutal: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Great discussion from Meredith Fowlie. I want to have/attend a conference where we put Australian, Californian, and Texan policymakers, academics, and market participants in a room to compare notes.

Not too late to register and attend our webinar on this work. Come learn about the current status of the California homeowners insurance market as it adjusts to growing wildfire risk. Hope to see you later today. events.stanford.edu/event/webina...

Our work, led by Nam Nguyen, on insurance issues in California was covered today in the @sfchronicle.com by @meganmunce.bsky.social! www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

From 2020 & 2025, the metro areas that added the most housing supply were: 1—Dallas 2—Houston 3—NYC 4—Austin 5—Phoenix 6—Atlanta 7—DC 8—LA 9—Nashville 10—Miami Big 4 Texas metro areas added 13% of all US housing supply. I use Census address records to explore this: www.urban.org/urban-wire/c...

Up on Mt Tam to drop my family’s stuff for the Mountain Play and feeling so much gratitude for all the hard work making *and actually burning* burn piles up here. Great work State Parks, Marin Fire, MWPA, MMWD! You should have a booth up here to tell everybody all about your work!

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Nebraska just cannot catch a break this year. Assume the north flank of this is a firing operation but a lot of expansion eastward toward Crawford in the last day or so. Here’s hoping they have a good day today and that the winds cooperate.

This is the kind of thing that I hope the next governor (as has Newsom) will focus on. It is not the kind of thing that will create MOUs at international meetings. It is the kind of thing that will ultimately end our dependence on fossil fuels and reduce our vulnerability to their price swings. .

California is now home to the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can supply electricity for eight hours rather than four — a big step toward 24/7 clean energy: www.canarymedia.com/articles/lon... via @canarymedia.com

To me, this looks like a setup for the kind of fire season Australia experienced in 2019-2020. But there’s plenty of time for nature to give us an off-ramp from that future. And I’ll certainly welcome that luck.

Sitting at Asilomar listening to Tim Profeta talk about climate litigation with a bunch of judges. Lovely and depressing I take solace in that Asilomar is such a timeless place to think about hard problems for society.

If you change “may” to “will” I agree with this headline. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/06/c...

May 2026 had the second-worst May drought conditions in contiguous U.S. history, with a Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) of -6.93. The only worse May: the Dust Bowl year of 1934 (a PDSI of -7.03). Three of the top-10 months for worst U.S. drought since 1895 have been in 2026:

Few roads out, higher wildfire risk: New study maps Bay Area evacuation danger— @michaelwara.bsky.social senior research scholar at Stanford University’s @woods.stanford.edu Woods Institute for the Environment, said… www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/08/i... @ethan-baron.bsky.social @mercurynews.com

Fire season is pretty much here. If you haven’t already, do the yard work. Clear flammable material away from your house. Make sure the roof is clear. Do it for you and your family. Do it so your house isn’t the one that burns your neighborhood down.

I love that, “so relaxed because I just ate a house pet” vibes here.

Living in the foothills is fun. Lots of wildlife. This kitty was found well into an urban area in Pasadena. If not friend why friend shaped?

Bree Evans wrote a short post explaining our Look book and dashboard. open.substack.com/pub/cepp/p/d...

Today we launched the California Wildland Interface Structural Look Book Dashboard. The Dashboard visually conveys information about wildfire hazard zone classification information for structures throughout California. Link: wuistructurallookbook.stanford.edu

🧨 NEW ARTICLE 🧨 If gas distribution utilities compete with co-located electric distribution utilities, how can both be natural monopolies? This is no idle, academic question. Josh Lappen (@jlappen1.bsky.social) and I think it spells trouble. Here's the link: www.eba-net.org/wp-content/u...

Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱

New from @justingundlach.bsky.social and I in the Energy Law Journal! It's time to confront the blind spot at the heart of state public utility regulation: The regulatory framework intends to prevent competition, but electricity and gas nonetheless compete. 🧵 🔌💡 www.eba-net.org/wp-content/u...

Why is the cost of electricity going up in U.S. western states? Stanford experts explain how wildfires, AI data centers, extreme weather, and deferred grid maintenance are affecting utility bills, along with strategies that could help lower costs. @michaelwara.bsky.social @woods.stanford.edu

Do you think it’s a concern for most buyers when there is an accessory structure on a home for sale called a “fire bunker?”

Excited to be participating with the PNNL utility wildfire folks on a solutions oriented webinar. They are a great team that CEPP really enjoys interacting with.

What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

Driving behind an F250 superduty this evening and wondering whether super duty’s are a Landman vehicle while Ram’s are a Yellowstone vehicle?

More on our retreat from apolitical science in the United States. The opposite of the Sputnik Moment. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...