recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Trump turns National Parks into "piggy bank" Funding shifts from parks to White House vanity projects macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/trump-turn...

“By absorbing water and then transpiring it into the atmosphere, a single hectare of tropical rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon can generate approximately 2.4 million liters of rain per year, enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/rain...

Rainforests are rain-making machines worth tens of billions of dollars to farmers.

A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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The people that railed against the JCPOA & pretended for a decade that there was a magical 🦄 “better deal” out there were wildly unserious & should not have been allowed to dominate the National Conversation™️ on the issue.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 6d ago

The lede of this story says Trump might be willing to walk away from Iran without a nuclear deal if it reopens Hormuz, which to me sounds like trading an Iranian nuclear weapon for recognizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait.

This is torture.

Connect with Jacob Soboroff@connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 6d ago

Officials are force-feeding hunger strikers in ICE detention, José Olivares of @theguardian.com reports in a new investigation. One detainee told Jose that after being shackled & forced to take a gastronasal tube down his nose and throat, he would lay in his cell at night & “swallow his own blood.”

Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.

Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI

The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.

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Amazon building a nearly 8 GW off-grid powerplant??? 😯 Would be largest single CO2 source in the country at full size.

Michael Thomas@michael-thomas.bsky.social · last wk.

This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US. I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it. Full story here: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amaz...

The Trump Admin is harassing Fauci to scare scientists from speaking up against the administration's war on science, sowing public distrust in scientists and public health experts. We are standing up for Fauci. JOIN US by signing our petition at the link: zurl.co/RCYN8

This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US. I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it. Full story here: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amaz...

Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US

The company confirmed to Cleanview that it acquired the GW Ranch site in West Texas, where a 7.65 GW gas plant will power its first off-grid AI data center

newsletter.cleanview.co

OK FOLKS! We all know the Fauci hearing was meant to intimidate scientists…holding him in contempt of court was a HUGE BAD PRECEDENT. So, we are yelling. @standupforscience.net SIGN OUT PETITION TO SENATE TO REVERSE HOLDING DR FAUCI IN CONTEMPT: zurl.co/SLjT8

Highly usable post from last year

MS NOW@ms.now · last wk.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...

I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at Carnegie Science, now based at Caltech in Pasadena. If you're interested in land-atmosphere interactions and how they're influenced on small scales by microclimates, please take a look at the ad! apply.interfolio.com/190703

America's health leaders shouldn't be spewing lies about science. Help embolden a Congress that will remove RFK Jr: zurl.co/L16Hh BSKY

The strongest available evidence supports a zoonotic origin for COVID-19. - The virus is genetically diverse in ways typical of natural viruses and atypical of gain-of-function (GoF) viruses. 🧵

🐦‍⬛Try Dawn Chorus Quest at bird-times.lovable.app One player said "My favourite thing was the way it beautifully depicted British bird species and their habitats." Listen to 12,000 years of birdsong, guess who's singing, and watch the chorus change. #Birds #Birdsong #GuessingGame #Bioacoustics

Can't *really* say this shocks me. But it is shocking. 🧪 ourworldindata.org/grapher/acad...

I see articles like this and know it likely also applies to post-doctoral, research, and journalism fellowships too: www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

An ounce of infectious disease prevention is vastly cheaper—and more effective—than a pound of cure. An important perspective by @celinegounder.com.

How Much Did the New Mexico Measles Outbreak Cost? $53,522 a Case.

The state bought immunity at emergency prices in August that it could have bought at $26.35 a dose long before.

open.substack.com

His ignorance is staggering.

Infectious Diseases Expert Bluntly Factchecks RFK Jr. After He Claims Lyme Disease Was Developed In A Lab

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The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?

Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Hard agree.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

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USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w ago

Opinion: America's approach to wildlife conservation has become increasingly vulnerable to, and dependent upon, election cycles. Our wildlife deserves better.

Study: Every stage of the plastic lifecycle contributes to human health threats including global warming, air pollution, cancer, and disease, with primary plastic production and plastic burning causing the greatest harm. 🧪🌎 www.ehn.org/plastics-hum...

Every stage of plastic use — from production to disposal — harms human health

In a recent study published by The Lancet Planetary Health, researchers examined the health costs of pollutants released by plastics across their full lifecycle and emphasized the need for internation...

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Who needs some good news today? These pups are the future of red wolves - one of the most endangered species in the U.S. They've been hunted to near extinction with bad wildlife policies. Now the main threat is cars but wildlife recovery programs are aiming to fix that. abc11.com/post/red-wol...

Endangered Red Wolves rebound in NC with four new litters

Four litters of endangered red wolf pups born in eastern North Carolina this year are boosting hopes for the recovery of the species, which has only about 22 adults remaining in the wild.

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Center for Biological Diversity@biologicaldiversity.org · 2w ago

Meet Hunter, the #RedWolf. He and his partner Spring (2361F) are raising their second litter together. His family is part of an encouraging new chapter for red #wolves: Four litters were born in the wild this year, with 16 pups surviving their first few months. 🎥: James Ford