Jon Gertner
@jongertner.bsky.social
Writing about climate, science, and tech at the NYTMagazine; author of The Idea Factory and The Ice at the End of the World. Next book—on NASA’s Voyager mission—out from Random House in 2027.
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Very cool the NYT is covering this work. Good luck to the entire team. Looking forward to reading in the weeks ahead.
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Very cool the NYT is covering this work. Good luck to the entire team. Looking forward to reading in the weeks ahead.
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
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Christmas Eve ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,180,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,730,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,080,000 km² below the 1980s mean
➡️ zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,180,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,730,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,080,000 km² below the 1980s mean
➡️ zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Christmas Eve ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,180,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,730,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,080,000 km² below the 1980s mean
➡️ zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,180,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,730,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,080,000 km² below the 1980s mean
➡️ zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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“Companies welcomed us into intimate spaces without hesitation so everyone who wanted protection could receive it.
At each session, I heard versions of the same small truths:
“My mom told me to make sure I get the shot.”
“Not sure I would’ve had time if you all hadn’t come here.”
At each session, I heard versions of the same small truths:
“My mom told me to make sure I get the shot.”
“Not sure I would’ve had time if you all hadn’t come here.”
What giving flu shots backstage taught me about public health
On or off Broadway, public health lives or dies at the level of ordinary, everyday interactions.
www.statnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“Companies welcomed us into intimate spaces without hesitation so everyone who wanted protection could receive it.
At each session, I heard versions of the same small truths:
“My mom told me to make sure I get the shot.”
“Not sure I would’ve had time if you all hadn’t come here.”
At each session, I heard versions of the same small truths:
“My mom told me to make sure I get the shot.”
“Not sure I would’ve had time if you all hadn’t come here.”
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Every time book folks think the world is ending, it ends up not ending. A thought for our down-in-the-mouth literary moment.
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Every time book folks think the world is ending, it ends up not ending. A thought for our down-in-the-mouth literary moment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
"National Security Risk" -- would love to see those classified documents, if they even exist.
"National Security Risk" -- would love to see those classified documents, if they even exist.
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
"National Security Risk" -- would love to see those classified documents, if they even exist.
"National Security Risk" -- would love to see those classified documents, if they even exist.
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
I didn’t even know until just now that there was a Fomalhaut planetary system, but this is apparently catastrophic.
In a historical milestone, Hubble has witnessed the catastrophic collision of asteroids in the nearby Fomalhaut planetary system 🪨💥
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I didn’t even know until just now that there was a Fomalhaut planetary system, but this is apparently catastrophic.
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this is an exercise in futility as a Mission super burrito is simply too heavy to be carried by a commercial drone
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...
Drone wars: Doordash will need S.F. permit to test flying burritos in the Mission
Law requires extra vetting for some buildings — and research into what’s going on at San Francisco's manufacturing and industrial sites.
missionlocal.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
this is an exercise in futility as a Mission super burrito is simply too heavy to be carried by a commercial drone
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...
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Gangersterism not capitalism.
(Bloomberg) - Tesla Inc.’s sales in California are poised to be suspended for 30 days as a penalty for allegedly misleading consumers about its driver-assistance technology, according to the head of the state’s motor vehicles department.
$TSLA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
$TSLA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Gangersterism not capitalism.
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The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates:
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates:
There are probably a billion things wrong with moving data centers into orbit, as in today's WSJ report ; one is that it would likely be the start of an environmental catastrophe, not a fix. 1/
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
Exclusive | Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing to take the trillion-dollar data-center boom into orbit.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There are probably a billion things wrong with moving data centers into orbit, as in today's WSJ report ; one is that it would likely be the start of an environmental catastrophe, not a fix. 1/
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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Story for Rolling Stone about climate threats to the Jersey Shore - signals what's ahead for the East Coast: rising risks, shortage of public money to adjust, and built-in incentives to keep the status quo in place. Plus: attachment to a place full of memories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Story for Rolling Stone about climate threats to the Jersey Shore - signals what's ahead for the East Coast: rising risks, shortage of public money to adjust, and built-in incentives to keep the status quo in place. Plus: attachment to a place full of memories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Sadly, this story implicitly accepts the notion that a US Senator should place keeping his own job for another term over saving the lives of others.
Bill Cassidy is becoming a profile in cowardice.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Bill Cassidy is becoming a profile in cowardice.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy Put a Doctor-Turned-Senator in a Political Bind
The health secretary is poised to oversee the undoing of a vaccine norm that Sen. Bill Cassidy worked to promote.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Sadly, this story implicitly accepts the notion that a US Senator should place keeping his own job for another term over saving the lives of others.
Bill Cassidy is becoming a profile in cowardice.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Bill Cassidy is becoming a profile in cowardice.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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This is how I learned that Meta has been continuing its bizarre, $70 billion "metaverse" spending *years* after I assumed they'd given up. It's possible that this is, in dollars spent, the biggest waste of money in history.
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is how I learned that Meta has been continuing its bizarre, $70 billion "metaverse" spending *years* after I assumed they'd given up. It's possible that this is, in dollars spent, the biggest waste of money in history.
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Yes, this is worth listening to.
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, this is worth listening to.
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
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You've probably heard about how the rapidly increasing numbers of satellites are affecting #astronomy. A new paper in @nature.com looks at the possible future for space-based telescopes — and finds 96% of some images could be impacted. 🧪🔭🛰️
By @jennaahart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
By @jennaahart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes’ images
Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You've probably heard about how the rapidly increasing numbers of satellites are affecting #astronomy. A new paper in @nature.com looks at the possible future for space-based telescopes — and finds 96% of some images could be impacted. 🧪🔭🛰️
By @jennaahart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
By @jennaahart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
great primer -- theories and updates -- on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise:
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When?
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
great primer -- theories and updates -- on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise:
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
Climate Viz of the Month
October 2025 Hi everyone! Instead of designing a new special feature visualization, this next ‘climate viz of the month’ blog will focus on briefly summarizing the recent extremes in th…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz