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Bill Haneberg

@haneberg.bsky.social

Geologist at the geohazard•climate•policy nexus. Hazard + risk. GIS, lidar, landslides, debris flows, floods. Kentucky Colonel in New Mexico. He/him. More: www.linkedin.com/in/billhaneberg & https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0mCybjIAAAAJ&hl=en

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HydrologyNL@hydrology.nl · 5h ago

Unprecedented drying of 43% of small French streams, as reported by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), indicates a critical ecological tipping point following the 2022 drought. Increased climate-driven drought frequency is causing permanent biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse in waterways.

Dr. Serge Zaka@sergezaka.bsky.social · 12h ago

Cette carte est gravissime. Mais elle n'a pas fait la une de l'actualité. Pour moi, l'été 2026 marque un tournant. Après celui de 2022, il devient difficile de ne plus parler de "rupture écologique" ou de "point de non retour" pour une partie des milieux aquatiques français. 1/18

John Vaillant@johnvaillant.bsky.social · 3d ago

Senator Whitehouse said it better than anyone: "Climate risk makes things un-insurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” #wildfire #Spokane #insurance

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov · 3d ago

The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d ago

*Bonus*: always remind yourself that thinking is part of writing. Actual typing of text is just a sliver of writing. So, shower thoughts, walking thoughts, random thoughts in the day about your project *is* writing. Text yourself those thoughts (or get a dictation app)

Carissa Véliz@carissaveliz.bsky.social · 5d ago

“There is no pleasure or pain for an AI, no skin in the game,” the philosopher Carissa Véliz writes in her recent #book Prophecy. As a result, an AI “cannot care, and therefore cannot value”. #authors www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

theguardian.com

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just before covid hit, there was a huge wave of concern about the growing rate of attrition in grad school due to physical and mental illness. It has gotten much worse, but student and faculty well-being are no longer priorities in many institutions.

Addressing the decline in graduate students' mental well-being - PubMed

At the American Physiology Summit 2023 session entitled, "Mental Health for Graduate Students," numerous students expressed struggling with poor mental well-being primarily because of negative experie...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6d ago

The thing about AI bros that I find so unsettling is that you only really have to connect with one great piece of art - stand breathless in front of a painting, lock eyes with a singer in a concert, sob at the end of a film - to understand the value of the humanity of it. And they just…never have?

Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yes! My wife and I recently completed a 3800 mile (6100 km) EV road trip to Seattle and back. We’d have gone out of our way to stop at a charger next to an indie coffee shop or restaurant. But, we often (but not always) found ourselves in Walmart or other corporate parking lots out of necessity.

Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 7d ago

We regularly stop at Walmart on EV roadtrips out of necessity but I can’t be the only one who’d wildly prefer to charge at indie businesses or small downtowns. Imagine an EV-charging buildout that helped revitalize small towns and businesses instead of funneling yet more shoppers to megastores.

Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · last wk.

20 years ago, almost all of New Mexico's electricity generation came from coal and gas. In April of this year, that share dropped to 31%. This was the lowest share ever recorded, as wind and solar surged to 69%. April 2006: 94% April 2016: 78% April 2026: 31%

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Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · last wk.

So glad to see this! During the first Trump administration, the National Academies abruptly killed an ongoing study of potential health effects of Appalachian mountaintop removal coal mining on nearby residents.

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · last wk.

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · last wk.

Obviously a very bad situation. In addition to injection wells, Ohio has for decades allowed oilfield brine (aka produced water) to be used on roads for a winter de-icing and summer dust control.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.

Ohio has more than 240 injection wells for oil and gas waste, and the radioactive fracking wastewater that was supposed to remain forever underground in them is bubbling to the surface. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...

Not only was brine "regularly migrating to the surface," officials said, but seismic activity in Washington County had increased almost 20 times over since 2023, a "clear indication" that underground rock formations holding billions of gallons of waste were "moving and likely fracturing"
Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · last wk.

In my neighborhood, we have about a dozen friends in our 60s and 70s who meet on Friday mornings for a 20-30 mile (30-50 km) casual bicycle ride along the Rio Grande valley with lunch or late breakfast (depending on the season) at a great place along the route called Bike-In Coffee.

Le Cagle@lecagle.bsky.social · last wk.

My core group of friends and I have started a last Friday of the month happy hour. The only thing that changes is location so it's more convenient for a variety of people. We have a standing invite list of all of our friends who we don't get to see enough or would like to introduce to each other.

Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · last wk.

Not the road to damnation, just the road to a dam. Costilla Dam, at 9400 ft (2900 m) in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. The right abutment of the dam, originally built 1916-20, is in a now-stabilized large landslide reactivated during dam reconstruction in the late ‘80s.

B&W landscape photo of a gravel road snaking through the previously glaciated high mountain valley of the Rio Costilla, home to native Rio Grande cutthroat trout. The hills are tilted fault blocks of intercalated Cenozoic volcaniclastic sedimentary strata and basalt flows associated with the opening of the Rio Grande rift.
Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social · last wk.

You know what this ISN'T? An LLM. Once more for the folks in the back: nearly all of the actually useful, genuinely promising things that AI can do for us have nothing to do with LLMs & planet-devouring data centers. Hope, not hype. Serving us, not serving us up to Big Tech. @sciam.bsky.social

AI finds hidden ECG signal that predicts sudden cardiac death risk

A new model uses a routine ECG to flag people at high risk of sudden cardiac death—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activity

scientificamerican.com

EDF Energy Transition@edfenergyex.bsky.social · last wk.

Utah and New Mexico are setting the bar for preventing orphan wells from becoming a taxpayer burden. Will other states follow their example? https://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2026/07/13/states-are-taking-action-to-stop-future-orphaned-wells/

States are taking action to stop future orphaned wells  - Energy Exchange

Utah and New Mexico are showing how oil and gas-producing states can prevent future orphaned wells before taxpayers are left with the cleanup bill.

blogs.edf.org