Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social
Deputy editor @eos.org. Usually worrying. Often baking cookies. Views my own. Signal: emfurd.54
for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!
![Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage.[1]
An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. This makes it the longest running non-computerized piece currently being performed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiabq354dz537iuzii7lwylq56yyr4bcrzkj32by4z7fq3clewmssy)
My first editor's note on @eos.org 😀 Thankful to all who contributed to this year's career issue! eos.org/agu-news/wor...
Work-Life Balance - Eos
These 10 scientists carry their curiosity outside their nine-to-fives.
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AC is a life-saver. In many regions, the poor will have a hard time getting it: "by 2050, about 10 times as many heat-related deaths would occur in poor countries as in richer ones." eos.org/research-and... @emfurd.bsky.social @eos.org
A Changing Climate Will Lead to More AC in Wealthier Countries, and More Deaths in Poor Ones, New Report Suggests - Eos
A new report finds that the regions most affected by extreme heat are also the regions least likely to have increased levels of electricity to power the air conditioning that might provide relief.
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"Tinderbox conditions" created by climate change set the stage for the rapid spread of wildfires across France and Spain this month. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
Climate Change Made Spain Wildfires At Least 20 Times More Likely - Eos
Over the past two weeks, large wildfires in southwestern France and central Spain have burned 255,000 hectares, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and created extremely poor air quality even h...
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wow look at this photo of The Black Forest www.flickr.com/photos/snsf_...
"The Hidden Forest" by Adrian Meyer, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland - FHNW
DISTINCTION FOR CATEGORY 1 Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND: Adrian Meyer Description of the author: This composite false-colour map was generated with a drone-mounted multispectral sensor flying over the S...
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A really good story about penguin poop from @gvd.bsky.social. And there are more penguin poop stories available on eos.org!
Eos@eos.org · last wk.Adélie penguins produce enough poop that the Landsat program can spot it from space. Taking a look at these images can tell scientists how penguin diets and populations are changing over time. eos.org/articles/tra...
Hold on now. Let's not blame the factory when deregulation is clearly the problem.
Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
On Saturday my across-the-street neighbor walked by me taking care of the plants and asked me to plant some stuff in his planters, so I immediately did. Sunday he walked outside, and there was a butterfly on his plants and he yelled across the street to tell me. This is what it's all about.
She dismissed Shima’s concerns as “a nonstory in which the ‘HOA as villain’ trope does not apply.” My sense of HOAs is that the trope pretty much always applies www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Colorado residents are ratting out neighbors over water use during drought
It's green lawns versus brown lawns as Denver residents flout strict water restrictions.
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The question of how to live and consume ethically in the 21st century grows ever more complex. Not to be dramatic or simplify the issue here, but if humans were all in cages instead of roaming round freely, we'd probably produce less carbon dioxide, too.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Having read The Odyssey last week to prepare for seeing The Odyssey last night, I can confirm that that's enough of The Odyssey for now
Firefighters in Oregon, Spain, and now France (?!) are battling wildfires big enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These fire storms are treacherous on the ground. But scientists are concerned about the *planetary* consequences of injecting so much smoke into the upper atmosphere...🌍🔥🧵
Every post on LinkedIn lately: "My profile pic is AI. I generated 50,000 options in 30 seconds and only used 500 gallons of water. I bet you couldn't tell." YES WE COULD TELL. are you joking
As temperatures rise, so will electricity use in wealthier countries. Some areas won’t have that option. My latest for Eos.
Eos@eos.org · last wk.As the climate changes, about 377,000 people in low-and lower middle-income countries could die from heat-related causes each year by 2050, a new report suggests. eos.org/research-and...
Love living in the "Golden Age of American Innovation."
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 2w agoThe U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.
📣 Researchers in the Boulder/Denver area: I'm building a photo library of real researchers at work and looking for volunteers! If you're a grad student, postdoc, faculty member, or research scientist, I'll take professional-quality photos of you - for free. Interested? DM me!
A fun one to write about how researchers found a ball of gas orbiting a brown dwarf orbiting a star. But does that make the ball of gas a moon? What is a moon, exactly? Turns out the definition is a little fuzzy.
Eos@eos.org · 2w agoNew moon alert! Well, maybe. eos.org/research-and...
NEW: Fiction written by AI is easy to detect because it struggles with complex story structure, according to a new study. Researchers found that AI fiction has tells that go beyond the overuse of em-dashes and other obvious AI tropes and have more to do with the formulaic nature of the text itself.
AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
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![3-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 behind podium on stage: We all hate springing forward. But we love falling back. (2) [Audience pictured listening] PERSON 1: Therefore, we are abolishing the *spring* time change *only*. We’ll gain an hour every year, but never lose one. (3) PERSON OFF-PANEL: Won’t that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun? PERSON 1 holding up a fist: *Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidl5ovrvqzuhtr6ygqwtdjes2qraloyxtxqrvjwu7xxxersawskde)
I tracked down a member of Papua's Moni Tribe for this story. Alion Belau is the first Moni pilot, and he spoke about how, in the years he's been flying over Puncak Jaya, he's watched these equatorial glaciers shrink, day by day. "It's really sad," he said. eos.org/articles/the...
The “Eternity Glaciers” Are Almost Gone - Eos
The equatorial glaciers atop Puncak Jaya, Oceania’s tallest peak, have shrunk by about 95% since 2002, according to a new photogrammetry mapping effort.
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every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
I told my husband that a story I wrote on clumped isotopes was coming out and he said "that's my clumper."
Eos@eos.org · 3w agoWhat is clumped methane, and what can it teach us about climate? Researchers investigate in what “could end up being a landmark study.” eos.org/articles/the...
losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is
Yesterday, President Trump signed two executive orders that shrank Utah's Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument by about 90%, @sltrib.com reports. www.sltrib.com/news/environ... PC: Jeff Sullivan & Khun Hans Photography, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
Huge shoutout to the @techpolicypress.bsky.social team for building such a great tool for analyzing these public comments. Explore the data more here (including info on the disproportionately high number of form letters supporting the rule): omb-financial-assistance-comments.netlify.app
Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance - Comment Analysis Report
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Eos@eos.org · 3w agoThe public comment period for the proposed OMB rule closed yesterday with more than *340,000* comments. Analysis by @techpolicypress.bsky.social found that 94% of the publicly available comments were in opposition. eos.org/research-and...