@jorkussmellington.bsky.social On coffee (and really, I would say most other food-related questions OTHER than unchecked consumption of red meat, which the biggest single food-related source of emissions and unsustainable use of land/water resources), this post makes an excellent point!

Love this quote at the end: "No acceptable explanation for the miraculous identity of particles of the same type has ever been put forward. That identity must be regarded, not as a triviality, but as a central mystery of physics." - Physicists Charles W. Misner, John A. Wheeler, and Kip S. Thorne

Taryn O’Neill@tarynoneill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I just love this research post. I keep reading it. Non-locality inherent in all similar particles across the universe. I used to geek out with a Caltech friend when I was working on a scifi proj about entanglement and ask 'what if we really are all connected?'... phys.org/news/2025-11...

Mentions and reminds here that Louise Webster, an Australian scientist, was the co-discoverer of black holes and she shouldn’t have been forgotten about

Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Great to chat with someone who really loved my book on black holes, A Crack in Everything, and appreciated the fact I had gone and talked to the people who had made the discoveries and told their stories. Here’s the podcast newbooksnetwork.com/a-crack-in-e... #blackholes #space #astronomy #universe

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say

"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"

space.com

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?

Rob Larter@polarrobs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA. Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮 www.iea.org/commentaries...

As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give – Analysis - IEA

As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give - A commentary by Toril Bosoni

iea.org

#India recorded its LARGEST ever increase in both #solar and #wind in the first half of 2025 ☀️🌪️🇮🇳 Solar rose 17 TWh (+25%) and wind 11 TWh (+29%) 📈 Solar growth alone was bigger than demand growth, while wind matched it. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

How does one write about China's plans - solar or whatever else - in Tibet without recognising that the people have been marginalised and pushed out? The lack of understanding of land and resource rights issues among (mostly Western) climate reporters is sadly not new www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

China’s High Ambitions for Clean Energy

nytimes.com

Over 20 yrs of flying insect counts at a remote high(3000m)-mountain meadow in Colorado (by a very dedicated observer) shows insect counts fell by an average of 6.6%/yr, overall a 72.4% drop. The main culprit was rising summer temperatures, especially warmer nights. ½ www.earth.com/news/remote-...

Remote mountain meadow confirms global insect crisis

Colorado mountains study shows insect numbers dropped 72% in 20 years, driven mainly by warming summer nights.

earth.com

Someone in Russia filmed how the subway (train) doors close over there and it’s deservingly going viral with the most hilarious comments. Yes, it’s typical. The voice says: “This is (name of the station). Careful, the doors are closing.”

Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. nos.nl/l/2573446

RIVM: bijna iedereen in Nederland heeft te veel PFAS in bloed

De effecten zijn afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid PFAS, de duur van de blootstelling en iemands persoonlijke gezondheidssituatie, zegt het instituut.

nos.nl

Ask me anything! I'll be doing an AMA with EA forum today. You can ask me about anything, whether it's about topics I write about (life expectancy, fertility, mortality, global health, data, etc.), recommendations, writing or podcasting, or anything else. Feel free to reply with questions below.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Norwegian Princess Ingrid Alexandra will be moving to New South Wales for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney.

Germany has ended up in a situation where they're building new fossil fuel power stations (yes, gas is a fossil fuel, folks) Slapping "hydrogen" and "CCS" onto the PDFs procuring 20 freaking gigawatts of new fossil fuel plants doesn't make it any less bad www.cleanenergywire.org/news/new-ger...

I thought it was :: and had been referencing " we eat 1 credit card/5 grams of plastic per year", not per week. If you take the lower bound of the average quoted by @hankgreen.bsky.social here (0.1g to 5g) per week that's roughly 5 grams per year. Unintentional (or was it?) SciComm win on my part.

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

We do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a week. This doesn’t pass even the most basic sniff test but also the paper everyone is quoting doesn’t even say that we ingest that much plastic and I’m sick of hearing it in credible places!!!

Apollo 10 launched from Complex 39-B at Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1969. The Lunar Module separated from the Command and Service Module, and approached within 16 km of the surface before the crew returned to Earth. The next mission would deliver astronauts to the surface. 🧪 🔭 Images: NASA

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

Thank goodness the strike landed on that hill and not the one I was standing on. This shot is tack sharp and you can see the aperture blades in the bends of the bolt. So much detail in the landing point as well, you can see the ocotillo nearby.

Massive snow accumulations in the western Alps!

Manuel Oberhuber@manueloberhuber.bsky.social · last yr.

Während es unten Hochwasser gibt, sind auf den Bergen im Grenzgebiet 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇫🇷 gewaltige Neuschneemengen zusammengekommen. In nur 2 Tagen 1 bis 2 Meter. ❄️ ❄️ 📸 Meteo Valle d'Aosta, Charlotte Bruchez, Sonia Pautas, Yves Lehmann

My first chart showed the revisions of LULUCF over various editions. Here's what the 2025 report shows in some more detail for forests.

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

Sweden has reduced its GHG emissions 38% since 1990 when excluding LULUCF (removals on land). When LULUCF is added, Swedish GHG emissions have risen 11% since 1990! Careful if including LULUCF in your GHG target... Learn more here (I updated the Swedish figure): www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...

My latest article on Our World in Data, looking at foreign aid and the difference we can make with personal donations: ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-...

For many of us, it doesn’t cost much to improve someone’s life, and we can do much more of it

Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference.

ourworldindata.org

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Australian newspapers might as well not bother covering US politics if this is how they present things

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

New sunlight beats old sunlight! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...