Don Gibson
@dongibson.bsky.social
Plant Scientist PhD. Dad to two small boys. Likes to talk about housing and land use. Strong takes on bike lanes and tomatoes. 📌 Natomas, Sacramento, CA
The measure calls for $8.4 billion in state borrowing for immunology research. Half would go to a UC institute.
Proposition 38 is a sleeper on the ballot. California voters should beware | Opinion
The measure calls for $8.4 billion in state borrowing for immunology research. Half would go to a UC institute.
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Victims of traffic collisions compensation varies so widely depending on the culprit. A public employee or local millionaire can lead to millions in compensation but someone on minimum insurance can hardly cover a funeral hospital bill www.kcra.com/article/wido...
Widow awarded $15.8M after businessman Phil Oates sued for wrongful death in deadly crash
A Placer County jury awarded $15.8 million to the widow of a retired California Highway Patrol officer who was killed in a motorcycle crash involving the Sacramento businessman Phil Oates.
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My dog decided to wake up the whole household because of this intruder:
Grim day for traffic violence in the Bay Area - snapshots of today's SF Chronicle headline
Free tomatoes - Road 29 and Highway 113 in Davis CA
California Prop 38: - authorizes $4B spending in a way that only one research center in the whole state qualifies - privately funded research center - founder of the research center has donated $22 million to support the ballot prop This is, like, pure corruption calmatters.org/politics/ele...
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
The wine industry is free fall and wine country politics is killing off new hotels www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Wine Country luxury hotel project is abandoned after years of bitter debate
After years of fights over height, zoning and downtown development, a developer has told the city of Petaluma it is abandoning its approved 56-room hotel project and may sell the downtown property.
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As much as I think California should find science it’s crazy that $4 billion will go to a single non profit and $8B for a single research field. I am a hard No on Prop 38 www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
Looking at traffic fatality data in Sacramento vs homicides in 2025 Homicide: 36 people died Vehicle collisions: 32 people died
I love a big cup of jittery anxiety in the morning. Also known as coffee
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
Got a text poll on most important issue and really surprised housing isn’t listed as one option
We are in a golden age for new fruits with advances in plant breeding. It feel like every week there's a new varietal that tastes much better than the same crop a decade ago. Sweeter and cheaper strawberries, better apples, tomatoes, and stone fruit. slate.com/life/2026/09...
Are We Making Fruit Too Delicious?
This brave new world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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My morning Facebook feed is on point. An apology from a local school board candidate followed up next by the news article of him what he did to lose endorsements.
I do think deporting people to countries they are not citizens of against their will should be a crime against humanity leaving aside that this all is bad and illegal under US law, there should be no version of this allowed ever
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Facebook reminded me I have been doing Ag and Plant research for 15 years now. Thankfully I don’t have to get in a forklift to pollinate corn anymore
My direct to consumer e-bike is “a giant paperclip” according to the repair shop 😭
I volunteered a few times at a high school biology class at a local HS that has concentrations of poverty. Sadly the teacher spent about a 1/3rd of their time controlling the room due to 2 or 3 students who were constantly disruptive.
Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · 2w agoKids certainly benefit from having high achievers in their classroom. But by *far* the biggest delta is how bad the worst kid in your classroom is. An underperformer who can self-regulate is fine. Someone truly disruptive is going to tank his class for years unless he is triaged out ASAP.
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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I’m spending all afternoon trying to get an old bike in my garage fixed. I finally feel like a real cycling advocate.
I need to tell myself. You’re the adult you don’t have to negotiate with your toddler.
Just watched two teenagers riding on one E scooter together. They just wiped out at an intersection. Thankfully they laughed it off.
