Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
Geologist at the geohazard•climate•policy nexus. Hazard + risk. GIS, lidar, landslides, debris flows, floods. Kentucky Colonel in New Mexico. He/him.
More: www.linkedin.com/in/billhaneberg & https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0mCybjIAAAAJ&hl=en
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Nota bene: Bsky is filled with great images but I don't "love" or repost any that don't include alt-text.
It's easy to add alt-text—just click on ALT in the corner before you post—and it takes less time than adding a copyright notice or details about the camera body, lens, and exposure!
It's easy to add alt-text—just click on ALT in the corner before you post—and it takes less time than adding a copyright notice or details about the camera body, lens, and exposure!
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what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
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They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
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MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
Because, sure, just drink raw milk and do some push-ups and you'll be fine! OK, maybe an herbal supplement, too.
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions. n.pr/49F5HOn
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Because, sure, just drink raw milk and do some push-ups and you'll be fine! OK, maybe an herbal supplement, too.
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“The committee reviewed all three reasons Texas A&M gave for firing McCoul…and unanimously rejected each one. It also found the university failed to investigate, did not follow its own policies and never proved the allegations used to justify her dismissal.”
This is meaningful to get on the record.
This is meaningful to get on the record.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“The committee reviewed all three reasons Texas A&M gave for firing McCoul…and unanimously rejected each one. It also found the university failed to investigate, did not follow its own policies and never proved the allegations used to justify her dismissal.”
This is meaningful to get on the record.
This is meaningful to get on the record.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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I just found out that one can get rid of ai slop summary in Google search by appending -ai at the end of the search string.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I just found out that one can get rid of ai slop summary in Google search by appending -ai at the end of the search string.
“We were only carrying out orders” historically has not gone down well.
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“We were only carrying out orders” historically has not gone down well.
Glad to see New Mexico’s @heinrich.senate.gov on that list! @lujan.senate.gov why aren’t you also pushing for change?
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Glad to see New Mexico’s @heinrich.senate.gov on that list! @lujan.senate.gov why aren’t you also pushing for change?
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Folks in New England are waking up to temps below freezing. It's a reminder that winter brings times of greatest stress to the power grid.
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Feel the cold? Offshore wind alleviates grid woes in winter, study…
A sector despised by President Trump can boost grid reliability on the East Coast when people crank up the heat and gas plants are tested by extreme…
www.canarymedia.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Folks in New England are waking up to temps below freezing. It's a reminder that winter brings times of greatest stress to the power grid.
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
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Behold what happens when you fix Roger Pielke Jr's serial errors:
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Behold what happens when you fix Roger Pielke Jr's serial errors:
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Even the usually apolitical National Academy of Sciences has stepped up to call out the dangerous distortion of reality by RFK Jr.'s CDC on vaccines and autism.
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Even the usually apolitical National Academy of Sciences has stepped up to call out the dangerous distortion of reality by RFK Jr.'s CDC on vaccines and autism.
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
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Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors.
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
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A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.
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Come to the philosophy department, we can explain why probabilities of word sequences in text corpuses isn’t a guide to truth.
Spoke to a colleague about their recent attendance at an annual digital tech + [the field] conference. Most panels were about AI applications — and nearly all took the form of: here's what we tried, a cpl things worked, most was terrible. What's next? We're just gonna keep trying to make AI work 🙄
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Come to the philosophy department, we can explain why probabilities of word sequences in text corpuses isn’t a guide to truth.
Sure, let's ignore everything happening here on Earth to build rockets and follow him to Mars. Amazing leadership potential!
The height of comedy, two middle-aged men laughing at the abstract notion of how mean a robot could be to a person
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sure, let's ignore everything happening here on Earth to build rockets and follow him to Mars. Amazing leadership potential!
George Box famously said all models are wrong, but some are useful.
I take that a step further: It is their wrongness that makes models most useful, because that shows us where to look and what questions to ask to arrive at better answers.
This could be an interesting session.
I take that a step further: It is their wrongness that makes models most useful, because that shows us where to look and what questions to ask to arrive at better answers.
This could be an interesting session.
💧 📢Calling all river flow modellers heading to #EGU26
The UK Hydro-MIP team are inviting submissions for their session on Learning from model differences: model intercomparison, benchmarking and multi-model approaches in hydrology (HS2.2.8)
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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The UK Hydro-MIP team are inviting submissions for their session on Learning from model differences: model intercomparison, benchmarking and multi-model approaches in hydrology (HS2.2.8)
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
George Box famously said all models are wrong, but some are useful.
I take that a step further: It is their wrongness that makes models most useful, because that shows us where to look and what questions to ask to arrive at better answers.
This could be an interesting session.
I take that a step further: It is their wrongness that makes models most useful, because that shows us where to look and what questions to ask to arrive at better answers.
This could be an interesting session.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Paul Cleverley will deliver a webinar titled "Large Language Models & Their Role in Geoscience Education: Opportunities & Challenges". More & registration link: geoethics.org/post/webinar...
27 November 2025 - 14:00 GMT+1
#aiinthegeosciences #geoethics #geoetica #education #geosciences
27 November 2025 - 14:00 GMT+1
#aiinthegeosciences #geoethics #geoetica #education #geosciences
Webinar on Artificial Intelligence in Geoscience Education
Paul Cleverley will deliver a webinar titled "Large Language Models and Their Role in Geoscience Education: Opportunities and Challenges".
geoethics.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Paul Cleverley will deliver a webinar titled "Large Language Models & Their Role in Geoscience Education: Opportunities & Challenges". More & registration link: geoethics.org/post/webinar...
27 November 2025 - 14:00 GMT+1
#aiinthegeosciences #geoethics #geoetica #education #geosciences
27 November 2025 - 14:00 GMT+1
#aiinthegeosciences #geoethics #geoetica #education #geosciences
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Yes, 100%! As a kid who went to UNLV on scholarship with zero hope of going to any fancy school, but who was admitted to Stanford, Princeton, and Berkeley for grad school: cheap, excellent public university made my career possible.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yes, 100%! As a kid who went to UNLV on scholarship with zero hope of going to any fancy school, but who was admitted to Stanford, Princeton, and Berkeley for grad school: cheap, excellent public university made my career possible.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Late afternoon, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Late afternoon, Santa Fe, New Mexico.