Kristina Pistone
@kristinapistone.bsky.social
Climate science PhD and aspiring polyglot. I study the atmosphere (aerosols/clouds/air quality) and the Arctic, not always at the same time. Still trying to figure out life, the universe, everything. I’m not as Online as I once was. she/her/ella .. more
Climate science PhD and aspiring polyglot. I study the atmosphere (aerosols/clouds/air quality) and the Arctic, not always at the same time. Still trying to figure out life, the universe, everything. I’m not as Online as I once was. she/her/ella
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I can’t believe it took me so long to find out about Rancho Gordo!
Pretty clear that Trump aims to destroy the basic research capacities of the United States.
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
By my count it’s three distinct generations of scientists that have been lost in barely a year:
1) students like this who can’t get funding to even start study
2) early/mid-career who no longer have funds or support to stay in this career
3) senior scientists who DRP’d or otherwise noped-out early.
1) students like this who can’t get funding to even start study
2) early/mid-career who no longer have funds or support to stay in this career
3) senior scientists who DRP’d or otherwise noped-out early.
Relevant to both points: bsky.app/profile/lind...
As a mid-millennial, I probably cannot overstate how influential TWoP was to my formative early-adult years. Ah, back when the internet was … not this, we could celebrate and critique at the same time, and the mods were good at their jobs…
As a mid-millennial, I probably cannot overstate how influential TWoP was to my formative early-adult years. Ah, back when the internet was … not this, we could celebrate and critique at the same time, and the mods were good at their jobs…
Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Kristina Pistone
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org
Pretty clear that Trump aims to destroy the basic research capacities of the United States.
Popcorn with a lil bit of salt and a lotta bit of olive oil and some granulated garlic.
I also recently treated myself to some fancy pants heirloom beans that I’ve ben making from dried instead of the usual canned ones and they really are delicious.
I also recently treated myself to some fancy pants heirloom beans that I’ve ben making from dried instead of the usual canned ones and they really are delicious.
I was there for the snark on DC in the early aughts (ah, the halcyon days of the TWoP forums) but later really enjoyed him on Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23.
Reposted by Kristina Pistone
Not a done deal- baynature.org/magazine/win... and www.vallejosun.com/poll-shows-o...
Underneath California Forever
Tech billionaires are fighting for their proposed 400,000-person city in Solano County. At least 21 imperiled species depend on the ecosystems where the new city could be built.
baynature.org
credit where it’s due: bsky.app/profile/ms-b... (with another article with a very interesting map about 2/3 down showing how much of the area would *not* be designated as open space; it’s mostly mixed use, with commercial, industrial, and manufacturing). Not much ecosystem left if they do this…
Well, I’m sure these dudes will have very tidy construction sites, definitely won’t roll bulldozers all over everything; the salamanders can just be patient and move into backyards when they’re done.. 🙃🙄
Thanks for confirming what I thought re: the impact to endangered species and the ecosystem!
Thanks for confirming what I thought re: the impact to endangered species and the ecosystem!
And HepB.
We knew someone who died extremely suddenly at 34 and it was because he had neonatal exposure and we didn’t vaccinate newborns for it in the 90s. HepB -> liver cancer is one of the very few bright red causal lines in medicine.
We knew someone who died extremely suddenly at 34 and it was because he had neonatal exposure and we didn’t vaccinate newborns for it in the 90s. HepB -> liver cancer is one of the very few bright red causal lines in medicine.
I’m #notanecologist but yeah isn’t connectivity v important in addition to total area? They’re literally building a giant overpass over a SoCal freeway (similar to the widened freeway they propose to accommodate this project?) because it was so catastrophic to a particular charismatic megafauna?
But also I’m not a builder, so what do I know. Alls I know for sure is that sure sounds like a miserable commute, none of this is passing the sniff test, and quite a few recent examples have demonstrated that the judgment and motivation of billionaires is… let’s say questionable at best.
Is one of them with the original soundtrack and the other one is whatever music they replaced it with on streaming?
I’d be surprised if at least some benefit of scale isn’t countered by being in the middle of nowhere/away from existing supply chains/labor. Surely it would be the same or better to build e.g. some quadplexes here + the same on the other side of town? Apartment buildings already all look alike!
Oh, didn’t Alexis Madrigal also just have a whole book about West Oakland and how there’s *so* much opportunity for investment (when done justly in conjunction with the community) there?
They could *just as easily* use their vast wealth to invest in many smaller areas within existing cities. Or lobby for bike lanes. Or invest in any of our struggling public transit systems. Or, I dunno, get that Dixon train station open! But they want to get the credit for A Whole Thing instead.
I think that kind of goes to my other point: the billionaires want a Big Flashy ***THING*** they can point to to show how cool they are, and definitely care about climate.
Underneath California Forever
Tech billionaires are fighting for their proposed 400,000-person city in Solano County. At least 21 imperiled species depend on the ecosystems where the new city could be built.
baynature.org
Someone else linked to this one: baynature.org/magazine/win... although I’m sure actual ecologists can correct me (@christinatoms.bsky.social ?) if there’s better info out there.
Ah reddit. Of course it’s on reddit.
Oh for sure. And also, fill in an existing rail line, rather than extend it into undeveloped spaces. But I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here.
That’s so sad… Wait, so Union Pacific wouldn’t stop trains there because they didn’t also put in grade separation, on the tracks that UP own and they were already running trains on?
Also, sounds like they started on that about the time we all voted for CAHSR….
Also, sounds like they started on that about the time we all voted for CAHSR….
I’m sure someone has done a podcast about (the multiple?) now-defunct trains that used to be awesome?
It’s maybe kind of a tangent but I wish this country did trains better… and as much as I love new electric caltrain, if I had to commute 1h each way on it each and every day, I wouldn’t last long.
It’s maybe kind of a tangent but I wish this country did trains better… and as much as I love new electric caltrain, if I had to commute 1h each way on it each and every day, I wouldn’t last long.
It sounds great to build a totes sustainable standalone community but if you ignore the reality of the systems we already have (where cities are porous, jobs are dispersed, people need to get around), it won’t be; you have the wrong boundary conditions. Also, destroying endangered species habitat.
I always try to hold in my head the two concepts of “here’s how I really wish the world to be” and “here’s the (awful, messed up, nonsensical) world in which we find ourselves.” Yes you need the principles of the former, but if you ignore the latter you may do more harm than good.
1.5h drive to Berkeley. 2+h drive to downtown SJ. Google Maps “can’t find a way there” via transit, but for context the ACE rail takes >2 hours to get from Stockton to SJ.
This is a terrible place for a terrible plan and won’t be car-free unless, again, they’re planning to reinvent company towns.
This is a terrible place for a terrible plan and won’t be car-free unless, again, they’re planning to reinvent company towns.
I do not see how any standalone city in middle-of-nowhere can be actually sustainable. Part of the challenge of the bay area is the porosity of the cities/jobs/commute interaction. Unless their plan is to reinvent the concept of a company town, in which case I have even more problems with this.
The great lengths billionaires will go to try to invent a “sexy” egotistical climate solution when really what we need is someone doing the quiet, boring work of making denser (and better insulated, electrified, etc) multifamily housing and public transit in the cities we already have…
Reposted by Kristina Pistone
Underneath California Forever
Tech billionaires are fighting for their proposed 400,000-person city in Solano County. At least 21 imperiled species depend on the ecosystems where the new city could be built.
baynature.org
Not a done deal- baynature.org/magazine/win... and www.vallejosun.com/poll-shows-o...
It’s great that there’s so much outreach to get more homeowners to switch to heat pumps and induction, but as someone who will be renting… forever(?), I’m really looking forward to hearing what strategies might work when I am unfortunately not in charge of my apartment’s infrastructure!
The Buzz on Multifamily Electrification
Join our Sustainability Speaker Series event with speaker, Nick Dirr, as he discusses how to make apartment buildings all-electric.
www.eventbrite.com
I know everything is terrible everywhere right now (thus me mostly quitting the socials), but I hope people will check out this webinar on Wednesday on how to decarbonize apartments etc: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-buzz-o...