Kohala
@kohala.life
Resident of the illegally occupied Kingdom of Hawai'i. 🌩️👀 Z9BpiCdO_dwn She/her/old
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Baby corals have no ears, yet more settle near the sounds of healthy reefs Scientists played healthy reef sounds underwater in Hawaii and found more baby corals nearby, even though they have no known way to hear. www.earth.com/environment/...
Baby corals have no ears, yet more settle near the sounds of healthy reefs
Scientists played healthy reef sounds underwater in Hawaii and found more baby corals nearby, even though they have no known way to hear.
earth.com
We are hiring! University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Linguistics is looking for a sociolinguist (Assistant Professor rank) specializing in variation and language contact. More info here: go.hawaii.edu/D7R
Assistant Professor (Sociolinguistics)
Title: Assistant Professor (Sociolinguistics)Hiring Unit: Department of Linguistics, College of Arts, Languages & Letters Location: Manoa Date Posted: October 09, 2026Closing Date: Continuous recruitm...
go.hawaii.edu
”Net annual CO₂ emissions increase by 0.47–1.8 gigatonnes (1.2–4.8% of 2024 global energy-related CO₂ emissions).” AI seems to be like SUVs and compounding aviation growth, continuing the high supply and demand of fossil fuels. #AI #Growth #ClimateHeating www.nature.com/articles/s44...
AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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My latest on Substack. "The first truth about climate metaphors is that no metaphor exists that fully encapsulates how fucked everything is. Yes, the doomsday glacier is a ticking time bomb and the oceans are boiling, but what about coral tipping, what about ESAS and Siberian methane?"
All the Canaries are Dead!
Long live the meta-metaphorical canary!
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Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
Just got home! Lying in my own bed in the warmth with all the windows open and fans going. How do people live inside? I’ll go back in 2 weeks for probably another month, but omg, I’m home!!
From millions of dollars in questionable spending for the state's tiny home communities to a corruption probe shaking up the Maui Police Department, there is a lot happening across the state today. Nancy has the curated Hawai’i news.. #Hawaii #News
Nancy Cook Lauer@allhawaiinews.bsky.social · 5d agoAudit reveals $13.7M in questionable spending in homeless tiny house program, Maui police chief on paid leave amid corruption probe, Ocean View suspect killed by police, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands #HInews www.allhawaiinews.com/2026/10/audi...
Octopuses are very clever sensitive animals. Because of their solitary nature and fragile bodies, confining them in tanks to farm them would be cruel and lead to huge animal suffering. It is impossible to farm them whilst protecting their welfare. No humane slaughter methods exist for octopuses.
Stop octopus farming and the expansion of carnivorous aquaculture
I've just signed a petition calling for a ban on octopus farming and to prevent the expansion of carnivorous aquaculture. Farming octopus is both cruel and harmful for the environment. They belong in ...
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Hawaiʻi and Rapa Nui are roughly 7,000 kilometers apart, yet their populations are the closest genetic relatives among the remote Polynesian island populations studied.
Polynesian wayfinding is written in the genomes of island populations
For centuries, Polynesian navigators crossed thousands of miles of open ocean, using their knowledge of stars, currents, birds, clouds and the sea to settle islands across the Pacific.
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The study aims to understand, which early-stage pre-invasive breast cancers may become invasive for some patients and not others.
UH Cancer Center secures $3M grant to study breast cancer disparities in Hawaiʻi
The study aims to understand, which early-stage pre-invasive breast cancers may become invasive for some patients and not others.
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Path results came In finally and they are excellent. Whew! #GetYourMammogram
The University of Hawaiʻi has launched ApplyHawaiʻi, a single undergraduate application for all 10 campuses: the seven community colleges or the three universities. This replaces a patchwork of separate applications and accounts that prospective students previously had to do when applying to ...
Applying to the University of Hawaiʻi just got easier with new application for all 10 campuses | Big Island Now
The University of Hawaiʻi has launched ApplyHawaiʻi, a single undergraduate application for all 10 campuses: the seven community colleges or the three universities. This replaces a patchwork of separa...
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“Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and Iowa each add Medicare Advantage plans for 2027 while California, Kansas, Colorado and Idaho lose them” Source: The Financial Wire share.newsbreak.com/jrrfpfi9?s=i16
Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and Iowa each add Medicare Advantage plans for 2027 while California, Kansas, Colorado and Idaho lose them - NewsBreak
Eight states sit on opposite sides of CMS’s 2027 Medicare Advantage ledger. Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and Iowa each have more plans next year than this
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75 flock-type cameras for Big Island. No. I don’t think so. www.westhawaiitoday.com
West Hawaii Today
Big Island News, Sports, Weather and Entertainment
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My poor daughter and SIL! Hubs flew in to help take care of me after surgery and promptly broke a bone in his foot. Kids traded off with him today in the ER. So now they have 2 patients! (Luckily I’m much better today.) Sheesh.
Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...
HECO to deploy drones for wildfire risk inspections across Maui, Lanai #HNN #HINEWS #HawaiiNews
HECO to deploy drones for wildfire risk inspections across Maui, Lanai
Inspections are scheduled to begin Thursday, Oct. 1, and continue through the end of the month.
hawaiinewsnow.com
Home from the surgery after 2 months of waiting and waiting. Now we wait for the path report. So glad it’s over and I can eat!!
High Surf Advisory issued September 28 at 3:48AM HST until September 28 at 6:00PM HST by NWS Honolulu HI ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES OF ALL HAWAIIAN ISLANDS... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR WEST FACING SHORES OF THE BIG ISLAND... .... #BeachSafety #wx
Hawaii Weather Alerts | Global Weather Pro
Read the full active National Weather Service alerts for Hawaii.
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This is it people. The average ocean temperature in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean is now 29.822C. The previous record was 29.815C in 2015, 2 months later than today's date. That means the heating isn't done yet.
JUST IN: Today El Niño Broke its Record Hottest Temperature Ever! 🥵 Today the El Niño region surpassed 2015 for the highest temp ever measured in the El Niño (3.4) region. It comes 2 months earlier than typical peak (late Nov/ Dec)…
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
Hawaii County Public Works Highways Division worker Budda Castillo has been posted alongside Kulani Road since this morning. He said this lot looks harmless until it starts to fill. Read more: https://www.khon2.com/tracking-nolo/nolo-puna-district-impacts/
