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Jesse Berman

@jesseberman.bsky.social

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Environmental epidemiologist interested in air pollution, extreme weather, GIS, human health. Professor of Public Health. Transplant from Brooklyn. Go Bills! Go Yankees! Opinions are my own.

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Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 7d

Some random thoughts on the #Bills of ‘Things I did not expect’ (Reply to Thread):

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 21h

These show the economic benefits to the public of fewer air pollutants through improved health. This change now shifts story to only consider economic costs to polluters and not potential benefits. Once again, favoring big industry and making money over the people 1/2

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 21h

For those unfamiliar, regulatory health impact assessments often perform an economic impact estimating the monetary cost of fewer events such as premature mortality, hospital admissions, work days lost, and school absences when considering regulatory shifts under the Clean Air Act 1/1

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22h

"In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 22h

Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Reposted by Jesse D. Berman

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22h

"In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 22h

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 1d

Monday nerdiness. Did you know the parent of the Honeycrisp was destined for destruction? And only by the action of a new hired horticulturist, who decided the mother tree was planted in an unideal spot, was it given a final chance to prove itself. If ever in #MN a trip to the arboretum is worth it.

How a rejected Minnesota apple became the Honeycrisp

A Minnesota horticulturist believed the mother tree was planted in less-than-optimal conditions and decided to give MN 1711 another chance.

www.minnpost.com

Reposted by Adrian Daub, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jesse D. Berman

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 1d

DHS invading Minnesota in winter

Charles Minard's 1869 infographic showing the devastating losses of Napoleon's army in the 1812 Russian campaign. A thick tan band shows the army advancing to Moscow, and a thin black band shows the catastrophic losses during the retreat. A graph below plots the plummeting t: Charles Minard's 1869 data visualization of Napoleon's Russian campaign. The image has two main parts.

The top part is a flow map on a stylized geographical background. A wide, tan-colored band begins on the left at the Niemen River and moves right towards Moscow, representing the advance of Napoleon's army. The width of the band is proportional to the number of soldiers. As the army advances, the band slightly narrows, and numbers along the path indicate the decreasing army size. From Moscow, a thin black band shows the army's retreat, moving from right to left. This black band narrows dramatically, becoming a tiny sliver by the time it reaches the starting point, visually representing the catastrophic loss of human life.
The bottom part is a line graph connected by vertical lines to the retreat path on the map above. This graph plots the temperature against dates during the retreat. The line shows the temperature consistently dropping far below zero, providing a clear visual explanation for th

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 2d

Dropping some stuff at the #Goodwill and I’m always amazed how long it takes people to move items from their car to the donate bin (~4 feet away). Unless these garbage bags of household goods contain unwanted faberge eggs, I’m not convinced this level of care is necessary

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 3d

In sum, all bets on the 2025 WR room failed, except for Shakir and Shavers (arguably Player 53!) unexpectedly improving and taking some of the Hollins blocking role. This poor series of bets made it really hard for that WR room and Allen to succeed 3/3

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 3d

Problem was Beane bet on a 2025 WR room where Shakir remains Shakir (pass), Coleman got better (failed), Palmer replaces Amari Cooper (failed), Samuel 2025 >Samuel 2024 (failed), and Elijah Moore to take the old Trent Sherfield slot (failed). Not sure who would take Mack Hopkins yards. 2/3

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 3d

6) The sad development of Keon Coleman. In 2024, guy showed flashes but also alarms. Basically enough to say there’s a 50/50 chance he will be better or worse…and he got worse. Not what anyone wanted, but a statistical likelihood that was met. 1/3

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 3d

It is only 1-year in to this administration. By Year 4, there will be no one left. Russel Vought will have fully achieved his goal of utterly destroying our nations public health and scientific institutions.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

This is so incredibly heart-breaking. To Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli at NIH--you have betrayed the entire scientific community. Deeply committed staff are leaving in droves--because you are destroying the institution. Shame on you. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

www.statnews.com

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has single handedly done more to improve the social standing of China, than any action China could have done by itself. And most of Chinas ‘moves’ have been to stand stoically and say “Look how sane and stable we are compared to the US.” And it’s a winning strategy!

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Joshua S. Weitz, Jesse D. Berman

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

www.statnews.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Axel Bruns, Cathy N. Davidson , and 2 more Shannon Vallor, Axel Bruns, Cathy N. Davidson, Trevor A. Branch, Jesse D. Berman

Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 3d

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 4d

Only if he wears cropped pants in December

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 5d

Watching the video is painful and people may want to look away. But it’s important to see evidence with your own eyes and draw your own conclusions. And crucially have the people see how obvious the lying is by the President and his administration to America

Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 5d

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Brian A. Nosek, Steve Peers , and 24 more Michael E. Mann, Brian A. Nosek, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Andrew Scott, Michael A. Clemens, Seema Jayachandran, David Rothschild, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Helen King, Adam Bonica, Sanford F. Schram, Michelle Everson, Robert C. Richards, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Daniel Kane, Michael D. McDonald, Anne Norton, Daryl Adair, Mark Robinson, Kate Starbird, Simon Lester, Michael Larkin, Colin Woodard, Jesse D. Berman, Ernesto Castañeda, Dunlap

Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 5d

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Reposted by Jesse D. Berman

BNO News @bnonews.com · 5d

Bluesky is hiding our post which shows what happened in Minneapolis, even though there's no graphic content (the victim is never shown).

Video evidence shows the public what happened and allows people to form an opinion, which is especially important when officials call it an act of terrorism.

Reposted by Jesse D. Berman

Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 5d

Minnesota Public Radio has live updates about ICE shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis:

Frey disputes that ICE killed woman in self-defense www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Live updates: Frey disputes that ICE killed woman in self-defense

ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Frey called the ICE version of what happened “garba...

www.mprnews.org

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 6d

Had a new thermostat installed and it’s slowly dawning on me that the old one must have been reading several degrees too warm. Cause with the old temp settings on the new thermostat and everyone woke up sweating and complaining of the heat (but at least it got them up early for school!)

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 6d

5) Taron Johnson is showing his age. He’s not going anywhere with his contract restructure, so it’ll be interesting to see how he changes his game. Will he be able to pull a Poyer and White and learn to become a more technical guy, who relies on precision rather than athleticism? I think he’ll do it

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 6d

Despite your feelings about Klobuchar, she lets the anti-Walz voters be comfortable staying home rather than holding their nose and voting for an embarrassment like Mike Lindell. That’s why it’ll have down ballot impacts.

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 7d

It is not hyperbole to say that a Klobuchar-led ticket could lead to an absolute disaster scenario for the GOP.

Like, we're talking 10+ Dem flips in the State House and at least 5 in the State Senate. Plus it would probably shut out most chances of GOP flips in Trump/DFL seats.

Reposted by Greg Linden, Jesse D. Berman

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."

@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs

"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

www.pcgamer.com

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 7d

4) Kudos to Ray Davis. Solid rookie year, completely pushed out in Year 2 by a record James Cook season. Instead of pouting, turns himself into a top kick returner. And still showed value as a runner in 2nd half [insert gif of McDermott clappjng]

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 7d

3) I didn’t expect Landon Jackson to be so ineffective. My hope was he’d be an Epenesa replacement, adequate rotational guy, makes an occasional play, low ceiling but solid floor. Not sure if he’ll be that by next season. Forces the Bills to maybe pay for yet another rotational DE while he develops

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 7d

2) Jackson Hawes basically eliminated the 6 OLine formation that was so popular with the Bills. Did not expect his presence to literally change their lineup so much. Plus he proved better than expected in catching. Was an actual weapon (maybe blunt tool) in that department

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 7d

1) Tyrell Shavers was a complete afterthought. He made the team via special teams, but proved unexpected mettle in blocking, plus a catch here and there. Would have NEVER guessed in Aug that he’d be so valuable that he’s basically a Week 17 rest candidate

Reposted by Jesse D. Berman

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 7d

Jesse Berman @jesseberman.bsky.social · 11d

Ever since I was a kid, I always enjoyed the #TwilightZone marathon on New Years. Can’t help but watch for a bit

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan, Andrew Yool , and 10 more Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan, Andrew Yool, Rosemary A. Joyce, Simon Otjes, Christian E. Weller, Andrew Jacobs, Amy W. Ando, Jack Stilgoe, Simon Lester, Aviel Roshwald, Jesse D. Berman, François Guesnet

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11d

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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