Hey #EnergySky we've created a couple of agent skills for exploring and working with PUDL metadata. If you'd like a more conversational interface to our metadata, give them a try! Links and a place to leave feedback here: github.com/orgs/catalys...

Literally in my backyard. Three very different races: the Wicked Tough 10k packs in 1,600' of gain, the 20k is mostly wide multi-use trail (still not flat), and the 50k hits all 6 major peaks with minimal overlap and 7,600' total. Views like these are what you're here for.

Greg Schivley@gschivley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come to Camden, ME for an awesome trail running race this September! The Megunticook Trail Festival has 10k, 20k, and 50k options. We're offering discounted room rates at our B&B for runners. Pre-race breakfast included and we'll have a post-race happy hour! www.blueharborhouse.com/promotions/m...

Come to Camden, ME for an awesome trail running race this September! The Megunticook Trail Festival has 10k, 20k, and 50k options. We're offering discounted room rates at our B&B for runners. Pre-race breakfast included and we'll have a post-race happy hour! www.blueharborhouse.com/promotions/m...

Megunticook Trail Festival 2026 — Stay & Run Package | Blue Harbor House Inn

Blue Harbor House Inn is an official sponsor of the 2026 Megunticook Trail Festival in Camden, Maine. Skip the tent — book our Stay & Run package for a special rate and pre-race breakfast. September 1...

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A couple months back my wife and I bought a B&B in Camden, Maine (blueharborhouse.com). It's a fantastic area, within walking distance of the ocean and mountains. I'm still working on energy system modeling at Princeton and would love to have people come up to visit!

Bed & Breakfast in Camden, Maine — Voted Top 5 in Maine

Blue Harbor House Inn is a boutique 10-room B&B in Camden with complimentary gourmet breakfast, homemade afternoon treats, and welcoming innkeepers.

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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Heya friends -- I'm looking for a postdoc! This time we're looking at the ethics of technology deployment for climate change mitigation. Full description in the link! Quick details: CVs and cover letters to me by 1 April; $75k/year for up to 21 months; remote within the US is ok.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises

Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

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Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.

Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is crazy www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

70's yesterday, snow today. Checks out.

there it is @roryjohnston.bsky.social on Odd Lots walking through the practical, material effects of even a mildly extended stoppage of traffic through Hormuz as he says, it's so bad it's traditionally been used as a thought experiment for how bad things can get podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Rory Johnston on How Oil Could Surge to Over $200 a Barrel

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · March 10 · 37m

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Join me at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA, April 17-18! We have great keynote speakers: @vickiboykis.com and David Luebke from NVIDIA, and the rest of the lineup will be announced, soon! Scroll down on the reg. page for various ticket options appliedml.us/2026/

Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Hey #EnergySky! This summer we are organizing a 2-day energy data lab for early career researchers from August 11-12 at Georgia Tech. It will be a mix of tutorials, open lab time, and networking. Applications are due April 3 – for more info, see our blog post: bit.ly/catalyst-dat...

This is why Emily, Josh, and so many others like us have been thinking and organizing for the necessary public ownership transitions that we _must_ put in place to succeed. We can both make sure we see the end of fossil fuels and make sure the phase out builds more justice, not more catastrophe.

@commercialsolarguy.com am I right to think that $3500/kW for a share of a ~1MW community solar farm seems steep?

Greg Schivley@gschivley.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What’s a reasonable price per kW for building 1MW commercial (community solar) these days? And how much should a customer expect to pay for buying a fraction of the project? #energysky

What’s a reasonable price per kW for building 1MW commercial (community solar) these days? And how much should a customer expect to pay for buying a fraction of the project? #energysky

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

ReEDS has tx line capacity in both direction. Many cap expansion models use a single value. Better to use the avg or max? Max makes sense if power flows continue in the same direction. Any thoughts? @wilsonar.bsky.social @nworbmot.bsky.social @oetenergy.bsky.social @bistline.bsky.social 🔌💡

🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation. “Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says. Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*

My new favorite bathroom sign

The #USRSE (research software engineering) conference wrapped up today. I was excited about 1) the number of undergrads attending, and 2) that there are already recent college grads working in the field. It's great to see the field expand beyond those of us with PhDs that stumbled into it.

Me, a rock climber: I have calluses on all my fingers. Me, after getting a new set of GravelKing tires on my bike: Oww, my thumbs hurt 🥺

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m... "Levitt was a University of Chicago professor, he has (by academic standards) nearly infinite resources, he could study whatever he wants, and he’s going for . . . clicks?"

NEW TOOL: a one-stop, searchable home for 250+ state energy and climate policies, targets, and incentives. Perfect for planners, policy-makers, and analysts. apps.epri.com/energy-polic...

Just found out that EIA downscales annual generation to monthly at most hydro plants using a sample of surveyed plants. ORNL has a paper where they reconstruct monthly generation from 1980-2019 at plants >10MW using local proxies. #EnergySky @catalyst.coop www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Forty-year hydropower generation reanalysis for Conterminous United States - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Forty-year hydropower generation reanalysis for Conterminous United States

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Living the dream. All 6 of biked to the beach!

Today on SHIFT KEY Summer School: how do electricity markets work? I give @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social a primer on marginal generators, bid curves, and capacity markets. Listen @heatmap.news or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡

#EnergySky I noticed that Idaho Power lists ALL of their existing/proposed storage units as flow batteries (FLB) in EIA860. They also show max discharge rates as 4-10x the charge rate. Duration is 4 hours in all cases. Anyone know if these are just LiB, or actually something different?

With Copilot and Claude 4 it finally feels like I have a tool that can take instructions (or vague ideas) and implement them in my code. I *could* have written a decorator that fills function args using dict values in a class singleton, but I would have taken days. Just did it in an afternoon 🤯