Many congratulations to @hollywhited.bsky.social for successfully defending her master's thesis yesterday! Holly led a study on lesser long-nosed bat foraging ecology and tracked their movements using the Motus wildlife tracking system. Stay tuned for more on our research in these upcoming months

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

We are hiring a postdoc to research Earth's Energy Imbalance using Earth system model simulations and satellite observations. I appreciate anyone spreading the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Earth’s Energy Imbalance

Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Earth’s Energy Imbalance Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The Department of Climate, Mete...

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I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

I'd say erased but anyway a reminder that Memorial Day started because African American Charlestonians took it upon themselves to give a proper burial to the union soldiers

The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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finish them

Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas." More evidence: low cost wins in power generation. Gas is expensive and getting more expensive.

The recent NY Times article on Oath (a soil inoculant company) warrants a mini-thread, so here we go: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b... (1/9)

After Prison, a Financial Titan Plots an Unlikely Comeback

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Rubio: "You've got friends who have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to him to see these people are abused in this way and have no measures to take against their own government as a result of it. This is a vicious regime."

Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.

Dear Colleagues, It is with immense sadness and shock that I share the passing of Dr. Adriana Romero Olivares, a brand-new Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at UC Riverside. www.mealtrain.com/trains/l3kg64

Meal Train for Jovani Catalan (Spouse of Adriana Romero Olivares)

Hi all, Please help out the family of Adriana Romero Olivares. Her husband, Jovani, and kids can be helped with meals over the next weeks as Adriana recovers.

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As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science.

Jeff Foust@jfoust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Isaacman: very much in the camp of making Pluto a planet again. Working on some papers right now to escalate through the scientific community to revisit this. And that's it.

Regardless of the US government’s position, US scientists continue contributing in full force to the @ipcc.bsky.social Seventh Assessment Report. Working Group 1 Lead Author Meeting, Santiago de Chile

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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Electrify homes! Reduce exposure to NO2! 🙂 More programs like this one, please, to make induction stoves and heat pumps accessible to rural households, regardless of income!

@berkeleyair.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📰 Hot off the press‼️In our study in CA's San Joaquin Valley that characterized #IAQ associated with an electrification program, median #NO2 was 63% lower in electric stove homes vs gas! Thanks to our wonderful partners #CalAsthma and our funders for making this possible! 🙌https://bit.ly/47Dp9t9

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

15 days left! Submit abstracts and travel scholarship requests by April 15 for the EFI2026 Conference. Join EFI in Toronto on August 4-7 to share cutting-edge research in ecological forecasting, to network, and to build capacity through working groups and workshops. Find details at bit.ly/efi2026.

🎉 Release v3.3 of our open-source Python package for scenario analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment & energy-systems models... Highlights: - A new method to compute shares from timeseries data - Better integration with the #ixmp4 database ecosysystem - Support for Python 3.14

GitHub - IAMconsortium/pyam: Analysis & visualization of energy & climate scenarios

Analysis & visualization of energy & climate scenarios - IAMconsortium/pyam

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A massive No Kings crowd turns out in Minneapolis, Minnesota

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

#NoKings in Las Cruces NM

New paper in @annalsapplbio.bsky.social – "Overcoming environmental constraints to high-yielding eastern cottonwood productivity in the southeastern United States" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Overcoming environmental constraints to high‐yielding eastern cottonwood productivity in the southeastern United States

The rising demand for biomass highlights Populus deltoides as a productive woody species. A 6-year study in Sumter County, SC, assessed the effects of irrigation, fertilization, and clonal variation ....

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I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Joint ESA-AGU special collection: Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Props to @rqthomas.bsky.social @careylab.bsky.social @sokole.bsky.social and colleagues for their leadership on this!

Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System: Wiley Online Library Virtual Issues

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Harmonizing Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Observations Over CONUS NEON Sites: Assessing the Information Contributions of Multiple Data Constraints 🔗 buff.ly/MrRU0SY

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 7mo ago

Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.

Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9