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Peter Jacobs
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climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126
Mastodon: fediscience.org/@peterjacobs
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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 17h
(readers, this is not actually "neat").

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 17h
It's pretty neat that from 2015 on there were numerous, articulate, educated voices warning that this stuff was a real risk, and instead of the Fourth Estate uplifting those voices and acknowledging how much it has contributed to what's happening, prestige media went all in on billionaire propaganda

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 21h
Indications that reductions in Chinese / East Asian aerosols over land rather than ship tracks may be increasing global radiative forcing and regional North Pacific forcing especially (e.g. Chen et al. 2025; Smith et al. ESSOA preprint).

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zacklabe.com Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d
Last year was obviously the warmest on record for the North Pacific Ocean...

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every year from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.
Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each year from 1854 through 2025 for only the midlatitude region of the North Pacific Ocean. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2025 is a record high.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
#ICE is LITERALLY in every corner of the Twin Cities right now. In case you don't know, here are the areas with the confirmed sightings as of 1/9/26 at 11:00pm: - Apple Valley/Burnsville/Eagan - Richfield/Bloomington - Midway/Frogtown - Como/Dale - East side/Maplewood - North Minneapolis - Shoreview Arden Hills - Blaine - Columbia Heights - Shakopee/Prior Lake - Inver Grove Heights - West St. Paul - South Saint Paul - Lakeville - Brooklyn Park/Brooklyn Center PLEASE stay safe! They are detaining and harassing US citizens so if you can help it, STAY HOME! ICE is currently raiding an apartment complex near my home in Savage. Lots of children screaming. This is completely unnecessary. I'm certain these people being terrorized are hard working, law abiding individuals. &S!#% &S!#% My brother's construction site was raided by ICE this morning and 6 people were taken (they came after he left to a new site so he didn't get taken, but some of the crew did). MN companies need to do a better job at protecting their employees. They know ICE is present visibily in the Twin Cities so they need to not send their employees to work until ICE ain't roaming the streets!! &$!#% &S!#% Ice is on 24th right by the resource center just started beating on someone for being under a blanket @highlight And if you question me saying this I witnessed it with my own eyes! They headed Southeast. White Jeep wagoneer grayish blue I think Toyota minivan

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d
Meanwhile, look at this subheader
Tyler Cowen: ‘Buying’ Greenland Is Not an Option Greenlanders will prosper under U.S. rule, but they need to be persuaded, not threatened. By Tyler Cowen

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 1d
This #webinar session, together with Peter Bijl and Heike Zimmermann, will explore the polar #climate history with views from both poles and perspectives from the distant past in the Paleogene to more recent changes during the last glacial cycle and Holocene.
🔗 Register here: egu.eu/2XIDOJ
Image description: laptop, a cup of coffee, and notebooks on a desk. with text reading'': Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary: Polar Climate History. Register Now.''

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

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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

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d
Big anti-government protests, state forces reacting with violence, and the national leader is on social media flailingly claiming the protestors were put up to it by outside agitators.

This post is about Iran.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d
Last year was obviously the warmest on record for the North Pacific Ocean...

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every year from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.
Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each year from 1854 through 2025 for only the midlatitude region of the North Pacific Ocean. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2025 is a record high.

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 1d
The National Weather Service office in Fort Worth, TX is looking for student volunteers this summer. This is a great experience if you are interested in a career with the NWS or more broadly within operational meteorology, research-to-operations, and related fields.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d
ahhh the reader emails i get sometimes on the muskland empire beat are like nothin else....
screenshot of email to cnbc reporter lora kolodny on jan. 9, 2026: "Subject: [EXTERNAL] interesting take old horse face all over Elon again. To bad your such a stupid cunt that you can't find anything more to write about then a couple of senators trying to censor thee internet. God you're such a piece of shit. I hope you have no kids we dont need any more ugly pieces of shit in the world  Sent with Proton Mail secure email."

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
Imagine telling your 2009 self the former pro-wrestler and host of "Conspiracy Theory" would have a better empirical & moral take on the regime murder of a school mom during a mass purge of immigrants than the publisher of Skeptic magazine.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
Many such cases.
Gadsden flag with a snake kissing a looming military boot and the text "PLEASE TREAD ON EVERYONE BUT ME, SIR"

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
The next version planned will smell like Virginia Slims (with a hint of I.W. Harper bourbon).

But this one smells like orchids (specifically a hybrid of Cattleya Bow Bells and Cattleya Barbara Dane 😉).

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d
That's the inherent tension we're living with right.

Journalists are supposed to oppose authority and hold truth to power.

But journalistic institutions are authoritarian and don't reward the above.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 3d
It's a shame there's not a more efficient way to say "a statement that is at odds with video and witness accounts". You'd think in a language with as many words as English someone would have come up with one to cover such a common yet important situation by now?
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d
Getting there.
Video and Witness Accounts at Odds With Noem Statement on ICE Killing Kristi Noem said the woman who was killed, a 37-year-old U.S, citizen, was trying to kill agents with a car. Gov. Tim Walz called that account propaganda.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d
Getting there.
Video and Witness Accounts at Odds With Noem Statement on ICE Killing Kristi Noem said the woman who was killed, a 37-year-old U.S, citizen, was trying to kill agents with a car. Gov. Tim Walz called that account propaganda.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d
im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
The basic sequence of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday is not in dispute: A Honda Pilot reversed, then moved forward; an ICE agent was close to the vehicle; the agent fired shots. A 37-year-old woman was killed. But that sequence has been interpreted in radically different ways. Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him? Was he positioned in front of the vehicle or to the side? Did he have a genuine, reasonable fear for his life in that moment, or did he create the very danger he then used lethal force to escape?

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 3d
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 3d
There are multiple videos clearly contradicting the narrative being pushed by the people ultimately responsible for this. Incredibly low bar for media outlets to clear. And yet.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
The basic sequence of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday is not in dispute: A Honda Pilot reversed, then moved forward; an ICE agent was close to the vehicle; the agent fired shots. A 37-year-old woman was killed. But that sequence has been interpreted in radically different ways. Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him? Was he positioned in front of the vehicle or to the side? Did he have a genuine, reasonable fear for his life in that moment, or did he create the very danger he then used lethal force to escape?

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Peter Jacobs

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 3d
Live coverage: Thousands of people are attending a vigil near the scene of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Vigils are also being held in Duluth and Mankato.

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3MMvefi

📷️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d
With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the
www.eff.org

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
Hell yes.
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pjacobs.bsky.social Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 8
drop an alien not from star trek or star wars

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Nute Year, Nute You @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4d
Yes exactly. It’s just like the Melian Dialogue in Thucydides, when the Athenians point out that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, and then I presume go on to win the war in style (can’t remember what happens immediately after, something about Sicily?)

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The Hag that Rode Ya @mz2euceboss.bsky.social · 4d
Baybeeeee we love to see it. Pay this man

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it