Vincent Gabrielle
@vincentgabrielle.bsky.social
NY Correspondent for RTO Insider: Formerly; Science Reporter for CT Insider and Hearst Media Connecticut; Formerly at Knoxville News Sentinel; Ex Scientist; SIGNAL: VDG_reporter.46
One aspect of research funding that it took me a while as a prof to appreciate: Someone who directs significant funding can shape the questions researchers investigate, *even researchers they don't directly fund*. Why? Because many researchers chase citations, and better-funded areas get cited more.
"Alsberg and Benjamin Botkin, who led the WPA’s Folklore Division, saw their purpose as making explicit the country’s pluralism. That meant addressing the country’s ugly history, and it also meant engaging Americans’ sense of curiosity about themselves." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-a-ne...
We Need a New Federal Writers Project
Drawing on and improving the model pioneered during the New Deal.
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it’s good for social stability when, while the overall economy is doing OK, a huge number of educated professionals and students who held or wanted jobs they were passionate about have suddenly been pushed into unemployment and precarity by a government that’s openly hostile to them, right
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
The approach is like a Costco for heat pumps, and it’s helping make home installations more accessible as heat waves worsen.
A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk
The approach is like a Costco for heat pumps, and it’s helping make installations more accessible as heat waves worsen.
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Need to talk with someone who knows USA Spending Dot Gov and/or federal contracts well. Totally off the record — just looking for background info. DM me here or reach out on Signal: jeaton.04 Thanks!!!
Midway through the boiling point of the pandemic... We were just hitting delta, I was allowed, as a reporter, into the ICU at the UT Medical Center in Knoxville and literally the first thing I heard off the elevator was a family discussing end of life care options in hushed tones. The floor was full
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Banking on this being the last profit he makes in a while
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3mo ago‘On Friday, after 65 bids, one of Huang’s pre-worn and signed jackets sold at auction at Sotheby’s for $960,000, much higher than the pre-sale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. He wore the jacket in 2023, at an event at Foxconn in Taipei, Taiwan.’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/l...
low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.
McBoo-lie@mcjulie.bsky.social · 3mo ago2004 was when I read an article about how voters liked Kerry’s policy positions **much** more than GWB’s policy positions, but they thought, incorrectly, that GWB had those positions.
I'm thrilled that @carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted for TWO @pressgazette.co.uk Future of Media Awards * Specialist website of the year * Specialist newsletter of the year This is testament to the hard work and excellence of all my CB colleagues awards.futureofmedia.co.uk/2026-shortli...
2026 Shortlist – Future of Media Awards
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Social media rewards identity signaling. It’s easy to grow an audience by telling your followers how “good” they are while attacking the “bad” group. Science communication isn’t immune to this dynamic.
Honestly when I hopped into journalism all I wanted to do was be useful to a community. For me that meant making science cool and not scary. Seems extremely hard to do that for local news though. Even state outfits struggle.
"The period over which a tripling of research publications has occurred ... is also a period of convulsive media change... Simply put, even as there are more scientific papers than ever, there are fewer journalists covering science." 🧪 From @chriscmooney.bsky.social:
How ‘mega-science’ helps explain the plight of science communicators right now
How do we communicate about -- or as journalists, cover -- 3.5 million scientific studies per year?
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Early takeaways from the IPPNY Spring Conference here in Albany. The industry is bullish on "repowering" old fossil fuel plants. Much of the morning focused on the case for repowering (efficiency, lower emissions, thinning reliability margins). Afternoon looks to be more of this as well.
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
Highly, highly recommend this project from a team of us at @ctinsider.bsky.social, led by the incomparable @jrabethomas.bsky.social. Over two days, reporters fanned across CT to tell the story of homelessness here. I promise you will learn something. www.ctinsider.com/projects/new...
48 hours of homelessness in CT: The faces and stories of a growing crisis
With affordable housing hard to find in Connecticut, the number of people who are homeless — young and old, in cities and towns — is rising fast.
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Always very cool for United Health-managed Medicaid to provide inaccurate information as to what's in network and not.
In the Trump era, how did Virginia pull off building America's largest offshore wind farm without a hiccup? Republicans, the military, data centers, a mind-blowing bargain, and a "starter" wind farm made it happen...🧵 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months
Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.
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⚡ News: New York WILL require new buildings to be all-electric starting next year. - A federal court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to the All-Electric Buildings Act - Today the state Building Code Council voted to finalize a new code incorporating the policy
So many cool collaborative conservation programs just dying on the vine right now.
Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
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It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse
The pace of undermining the statutory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to serve as the cornerstone of nuclear safety in the United States and across the world is accelerating. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/6Pvp50Wt0Ui Writer: Stakeholder
A recent report found that many disabled people and people of color don't feel welcome at Massachusetts beaches. This needs to change. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Report: Disabled, POC don't feel welcome at Massachusetts beaches
The Metropolitan Beaches Commission released its report on Massachusetts beaches which included feedback and suggestions for the DCR.
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Sorry, to clarify, the order does not name a specific transmission line but blocks funding for *future* OSW transmission needed to meet climate law targets. There were 28 proposals from four developers in the running. If I understand correctly, the Propel NY project is still moving ahead
Colin Kinniburgh@colinreports.bsky.social · last yr.NY’s Public Service Commission just voted down a major transmission line, years in the making, that was supposed to bring offshore wind power from Long Island into NYC. Commissioners say they cannot justify charging ratepayers for the multibillion-dollar project when feds are stymying OSW
