Jay Schuur, MD
@jschuurmd.bsky.social
Emergency physician, cyclist, dad, and climate advocate. Thankful to serve patients. Cycling Ambassador @ridewithgps @CirrusCyclesInc http://bit.ly/49q845s
In 2022, Rotterdam passed a visionary plan with an ambitious goal: create 20 hectares of new green space throughout the city by 2026. From street-side gardens to nature-based playgrounds, thousands of top-down and bottom-up projects of varying sizes have been realised within six organising tracks.🧵
If you've been following my coverage on xAI / SpaceX in Memphis, you know the issues around noise, air pollution, energy & water consumption concerns and more. We went there to see how xAI neighbors are doing and show you how sprawling the facilities are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XP...
Elon Musk’s Memphis Takeover — The Marvels And Messiness Of SpaceX’s AI Buildout
YouTube video by CNBC
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Measuring passing distances on 8,753 occasions in which a motorist overtook a bicyclist, Laura Hamm and Marty Miller found that “painted bicycle lanes were associated with reduced passing distance and higher passing speed.” ...
i talked to several pollution + health experts about the wildfire smoke blanketing much of the northeast right now, and everyone agreed that even able-bodied adults may want to take some precautions today!!
Smoke From Canada’s Wildfires Turns Skies Sickly Orange Across the Eastern US
Roughly 100 fires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming 1,000 miles to the south and east.
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WATCH: Jay Clayton wants to run 18 intelligence agencies. He can't even confirm who won an election five years ago.
'Aramco is a supervillain': How the Saudis weaponized soccer @sammyroth.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
'Aramco is a supervillain': How the Saudis weaponized soccer
Mohammed bin Salman has a master plan to make you love Saudi Arabia. Trump and FIFA are helping.
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worth a listen, re: AI bubble from George Noble, former Peter Lynch assistant at Fidelity and ran Fidelity Overseas Fund, Was #1 mutual fund USA. youtu.be/JfOSTnRgIws?...
AI Bust Fallout Would Be 'More Significant' Than Dot-Com, Says George Noble
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Trump trying to fuck up European climate laws at the behest of US oil companies. I wonder if this will receive as much coverage & scolding as Biden blocking a few oil & gas leases on public land.
E&E News: ‘Can you help us?’: US oil execs turn to Trump to topple Europe's climate rules
Here's an inside look at how a climate regulation became a battleground between the U.S. and Europe.
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, used unpermitted gas turbines to power the data center behind Grok. Thermal drone footage captured by Floodlight shows the turbines running at a custom-built power plant in Southaven, Mississippi: floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson expresses a Calvin-esque sentiment in a cycling self-portrait he drew for his college yearbook Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill! Born July 5, 1958
“He’s trying to take away Americans’ voice in protecting our forests, streams and wildlife ... These rules are another massive giveaway to Trump’s oil and gas cronies at the expense of our health and our public lands" ... www.eenews.net/articles/blm...
BLM to cut public input options on oil and gas leases
Proposed rules for oil and gas leasing would cut two comment periods held during the environmental analysis process and slim down protest periods.
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Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.
Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say
Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.
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NOTE: Storrow Drive will be closed to car traffic all day on July 4th. Happy biking!
most important listen of the week. Amazing disappearing free cash flow of mag 7 "How Big Tech’s Financials Obscure the True Cost of the AI Buildout" www.wsj.com/podcasts/tak...
How Big Tech’s Financials Obscure the True Cost of the AI Buildout - WSJ's Take On the Week - WSJ Podcasts
In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, host Telis Demos and Heard on the Street columnist Jonathan Weil sit down with Kevin Koharki, principal at CAE Consulting and professor at Purdue Univ...
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Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.
Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.
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RFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious Diseases https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-hosts-meet-and-greet-with-infectious-diseases/
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did a thing today. It told PJM, and other regional grid operators, make rules to connect data centers or it would. Many efforts are already underway in Virginia. Team coverage with @lisasorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1806202...
Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers - Inside Climate News
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”
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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included, for the first time, a tax credit to make energy storage cheaper, which also made it cheaper to deploy solar and storage together. The IRA also had credits or loan guarantees for manufacturing and deploying energy storage in America. IRA made line go up.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 5mo agoNew record high for US battery manufacturing volumes in May.
should be getting more attention: "Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn" insideclimatenews.org/news/0206202...
Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn - Inside Climate News
Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs returned to historic lows.
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To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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This afternoon, we are seeing the first wave of federal scientists whose positions are being politicized & stripped of their employment protections. This is “schedule P/C” (previously “schedule F”) and I’ll link other posts about different agencies in this thread (1/x)
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5mo agoHere are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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“…today the White House unveiled major changes to how federal funding is allocated & distributed. For the 1st time, they’re sharing plans to permanently & systematically move American science from a system that values evidence-based evaluations to a political patronage system.”— @chanda.blacksky.app
It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Political control of grants. No funding for open publication. Truly driving a stake through the heart of U.S. scientific exceptionalism. Take 10 minutes and submit a public comment. They can ignore, but you will have spoken up! Comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo agoThe White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Intermountain West will be first U.S. region to have to dramiatically adapt because of human-cause climate change. "A Terrible Winter for Snow Heads Into a Bleak Summer of Drought" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
A Terrible Winter for Snow Heads Into a Bleak Summer of Drought
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Attempting a digital/SoMe detox. No SoMe until Strait of Hormuz is open. See you in awhile!
#mustread Robert Kagan "Defeat in the present confrontation can neither be repaired nor ignored...The roles of China and Russia are strengthened; the role of the U.S. diminished...That is going to set off a chain reaction as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure."
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo agoThe U.S. is effectively checkmated in Iran—and this defeat will carry lasting consequences unlike any America has endured before, Robert Kagan argues.