Peter Aldhous
@peteraldhous.com
Science. Data. Journalism. Maps. Teach: @ucscscicomm.bsky.social. Current: Nonprofit newsrooms including @insideclimatenews.org. Ex: BuzzFeed News, berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @newscientist.com, @nature.com, @science.org. https://peteraldhous.com/
A cynic might think these announcements are PR moves intended to awe potential investors www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
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Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story we published with @science.org last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China.
Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reporting
Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story published last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China. The paper, publi…
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"the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools" www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Your move, FIFA www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through
Uefa says "the World Cup is not for sale" after its 55 member associations vote to boycott future tournaments if Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, do not back down on their investment proposal...
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DR Congo’s cobalt exports carry a hidden cargo: uranium. New visual investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how uranium-laced cobalt could enter covert supply chains hidden from regulators — raising proliferation concerns among DRC officials and nuclear experts. as.ft.com/r/7aa59487-e...
DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium
Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs
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🧵This @lighthousereports.com investigation of hidden exports of uranium from the DRC to China in cobalt supply chains, co-published with @data.ft.com, has been almost two years in the making. Very pleased to have helped out! www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio... www.ft.com/content/7781...
DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium
Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs
ft.com
A secretive arbitration system lets companies force big payouts over governments’ climate policies. ExxonMobil is using it to challenge an EU climate solution the company promotes. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...
ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes - Inside Climate News
The oil giant has filed a notice of dispute under an energy treaty about the European Union’s carbon capture and storage requirements.
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One shot of lenacapavir, a new HIV prevention drug, can protect for 6 months—but aid cuts and uncertain demand mean little of the drug has reached the countries that most need it. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44TIW5G
Seems rather similar to what you can experience if you move countries/continents. For years I felt like an observer of my own life each time I returned to California from a trip back to the UK. I think it was the much more intense light here that triggered it ...
kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]
Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
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My automated charts for @insideclimatenews.org are still tracking oil/fuel prices. We're now back above $100 per barrel again for Brent Crude
Feature request: Button to rickroll AI notetakers trying to enter the video call
My friend and former colleague @danvergano.bsky.social has seen it all in science journalism. The latest chapter on Scientific American is a sad one. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...
Scientific American and the Collapse of Science Journalism — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, JULY 13, 2026. I shouldn’t write a eulogy for something that’s not dead. But I fear for the future of Scientific American --and science journalism as a whole. Attention must be paid. On Ju...
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Nice write-up from @grist.org on our @insideclimatenews.org @wbez.org collaboration on lead water service lines in Chicago go.grist.org/webmail/3995...
The pilot of our new Inside Climate podcast is out! Fav moments: The laugh-out-loud thing Stephen Colbert said to @insideclimatenews.org's David Sassoon after a Pulitzer win, & seeing what great hosts @kileyprice.bsky.social & @jakebolster.bsky.social are. insideclimatenews.org/news/0507202...
Climate Reporting Is Changing - Inside Climate News
Welcome to Inside Climate, a new podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News.
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Why archiving is important part 451. web.archive.org/web/*/https:...
Wayback Machine
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Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
“For full disclosure, this property was involved in the Novichok event that took place in 2018.”
Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · last mo.The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
Pleased to provide an analysis/chart of the snowpack in Western States for @insideclimatenews.org newsletter by @kileyprice.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/3006202...
New from @juanpab.bsky.social, @keertigopal.bsky.social, and me: Chicago has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city... and pays wildly more than anyone else to replace them: ~$31,000 per line, more than 6x the EPA's nat'l est. of $4,700. Officials can't fully explain why. grist.org/accountabili... 1/n
Why is it so unusually expensive to replace lead pipes in Chicago?
The city with the most lead pipes in the nation is paying way above average to fix them. Officials can't fully explain why.
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New Open Journalism Update: The Guardian releases the data behind its investigation into rising apartment fees, and @peteraldhous.com uses @dwillis.bsky.social Congressional press release data on a story about climate change. openjournalism.news/2026/06/29/o...
Open Journalism Update: June 14–27, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, pu…
openjournalism.news
This new cheat sheet guides users on how to use OpenStreetMap data and related tools with R for: geocoding, routing, downloading base maps and datasets. You can download the PDF here: https://zenodo.org/records/20842874/files/cheatsheet_osm_r.pdf Many thanks […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
