Jeffrey pines shouldn’t be found 12,657 feet up a mountain — but that’s where they’ve turned up in California’s Sequoia National Park. How did they get there? And what does their arrival tell us about #climatechange, forest composition & California’s fiery future? therevelator.org/california-t...

A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive Climate Change • The Revelator

Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.

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“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

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A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.

US refunds $100 billion in tariffs struck down by Supreme Court, filing shows reut.rs/4wGw1jD

US refunds $100 billion in tariffs struck down by Supreme Court, filing shows

President Donald Trump's administration has refunded about $100 billion from tariffs that it collected before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down those ​duties, a court filing showed.

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This practice, with people living in squalor forced to grow our food and denied basic healthcare, housing and and nutrition makes cyclospora outbreaks much more likely. Worse are these numbers: it isn’t just Taylor, the prison takes roughly a 70% cut off their labor. futurism.com/science-ener...

This is an excellent primer on the brutal history of post-13th amendment prison labor. As the need for workers to do backbreaking work continues to increase, this is only going to get worse. You better believe this is part of why the administration keeps boasting about new prison construction.

juno Rylee Schultz@junoryleejournalism.com · 14h ago

Taylor Farms is using slave convict labor in Arizona. I’ve written about this practice before. America LOVES slave labor. junoryleejournalism.com/2026/01/15/p...

Stanford University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science 🌎 ✨ Broad search, department may be any within the Doerr School of Sustainability, including Oceans! 🌊 Apply by Nov. 1. Please share! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Climate Science - Stanford University, California, United States

Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science. The home department may be any of the seven departments in the Stanford Doerr School of...

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Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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RFK Jr is fighting against inclusion for disabled people at home with their families or caregivers, and against his own family’s disability rights legacy. Institutionalization costs more and is cruel. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Young people are on the ballot this election, but can we please get young people to the ballot BOX? So far, King County voters 65+ account for 4 times as many ballots as people under 35. You have until 8pm Tuesday to close that gap!

King County Boomers Have Turned In FOUR TIMES As Many Ballots As Voters Under 35 This Election

The 2026 election could be another “change” election with younger challengers aiming to unseat longtime incumbents in several State legislative races around Seattle. But these young, scrappy candidate...

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Climate change is increasing the average annual burned area of Alberta’s forests. As fires burn across Canada this summer, learn more from our archives about the feedback loops that drive such fires 👇 eos.org/articles/fee...

Feedback Loops of Fire Activity and Climate Change in Canada - Eos

New research documents how a warming climate contributes to patterns in wildfire severity and frequency and how the fires contribute to climate change.

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I'm not young (a grandma) and most of them are still my parents' generation. Public office should not be a substitute for a nursing home.

I just replaced the filters in our air purifiers and ordered another set, in what has become a grim annual ritual. Wildfires and smoke are a natural part of life in the Northwest, but the burning of fossil fuels has made these events larger, more frequent and severe.

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 2d ago

Wildfire smoke from a trifecta of catastrophic wildfires will roll in Tuesday and could cause the air quality to be unhealthy and reduce visibility.

One of my favorite things about Bluesky is that I get to see and learn about a new (to me) creature nearly every single single day! 🌎

@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social · 2d ago

I would love to see one of these awesome creatures in the wild. Rio Grande lesser siren. Photo by Nick Stacey.

We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Birthday treat 🍨

The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.

This thread - documenting the rapid growth of a new fire into Spokane, WA today - is terrifying. We’re used to wildfires in the Northwest but what’s happening right now in eastern Washington is not normal.

Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d ago

Holy crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

jentrification@jentrification.com · 3w ago

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, and helping keep them clean while they generate electricity

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, and helping keep them clean while they generate electricity

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, helping keep them clean.

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"as any good metascientist should recognise: there are incentives here. To attract ‘metascience venture capitalist’ money or excite the current federal science leadership, it pays to make bold, sensational claims & discredit past work." Good post on why relying on megadonors won't save US science.

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

this is the exact right messaging. we should attach it to everyone musk is supporting. make his money so toxic that no one wants it.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4d ago

Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children

This has created a situation in which *everyone* - "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" - has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies. 25/

Employees who voiced honest, informed objections to AI in the workplace were passed over for promotions or targeted for layoffs. 24/

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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Oak tree bark as a visual metaphor of the geobiome dynamics modulating multi-level allopatry in 1D space (horizontal) and time (vertical). More details: doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Squirrels reduce post‑fire regeneration potential in a serotinous pine by 66%, despite pine cone defences against squirrels! By Guiote et al @cideinvestiga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aob/... | @annbot.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🐿️ #plantscience #ecoevo #plantsci #predation