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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 1d

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We report on biogeoscience pubs + news on ecosystems, climate, California agriculture/water/energy/food/weather nexus, discus & soccer + defend our constitutional form of govt

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 1d

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Newsom says he’ll pull California from governors group if it won’t condemn Trump deployments

Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the National Governors Association that if the group can’t unite to condemn President Donald Trump’s actions, he will withdraw California’s membership.

www.sfchronicle.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

www.theguardian.com

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 2d

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Judge blocks Trump administration from sending California, Texas National Guard troops to Portland

Trump had ordered California National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., and planned to send in the Texas National Guard as well.

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 2d

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump’s America is effectively abandoning California

OPINION: “The question of whether California’s future belongs inside or outside the United States remains a choice, but it is no longer a difficult one,” Joe Mathews writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 3d

www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

www.sfchronicle.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 3d

But as Truman said 'the buck stops here'. So trmp is responsible for all the malevolent, illegal and unconstitutional stuff they is doing.
Wake up America and stop this doom loop. Get Congress to act. It is a matter of right vs wrong not left vs right
Basta Cos!
Oh release the Epstein files too

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 6d

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

Trump’s bumbling, bizarre National Guard stunt in Portland offers lessons for the Bay Area

The president threatened again this week to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco. Here’s what the Bay Area can learn from Portland’s ordeal.

www.sfchronicle.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 6d

Nice visit to forum wissen with Alex Knohl. Cool movie of flow over a wing by Prandtl's group in the 1930s. Also nice history on Quantum Mechanics and its 100 year anniversary @bioclimatology.bsky.social

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Ecoprairiepainter @ecoprairiepainter.bsky.social · 8d

Trump crashes the US soybean market.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8d

There is no bailout that will solve this problem.

It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans.

NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 10d

californiawaterblog.com/2025/09/28/h...

Happy New Water Year 2026! – following 2025’s Normal and Extreme Hydrology

By Jay Lund October 1 marks the beginning of California’s new Water Year (WY). Water years here run from October 1 until September 30 of the next calendar year and are named for the calendar year o…

californiawaterblog.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 11d

As a salve to digesting what is happening in the stateside news on bluesky, I'd like to share some first rate German design. There is a handy divot for your thumb on this beer glass. Makes consuming local beer all that much better

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 11d

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation by @michaelemann.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation

OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 11d

How the first major Pacific storm of the rainy season will impact California

www.sfchronicle.com/weather-fore...

How the first major Pacific storm of the rainy season will impact California

The first major Pacific storm of the wet season is forecast to wallop the West Coast next week, bringing widespread rain and a chance of thunderstorms to Northern California.

www.sfchronicle.com

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 13d

One of the funniest scenes on old tv was the opening of the 6 feet under episode on the rapture. Check out this video from this search, six feet under the rapture
share.google/cA60Vjit9gK7...

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 15d

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network - Baldocchi - 2025 - Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network

A global network of eddy covariance measurements sites is providing direct measurements of carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy fluxes This network evolved over time through technical advances ...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 16d

Alekna gets second in Mens Discus

www.worldathletics.org/competitions...

Stahl secures world discus treble with his final throw in Tokyo | News | Tokyo 25 | World Athletics Championships

Report of the men's discus at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25

www.worldathletics.org

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 16d

Here is Val Allman's winning discus launch

youtu.be/YKnGbNBklvk?...

Allman secures first world title with 69.48m | World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25

YouTube video by World Athletics

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 16d

Check Camryn Roger's winning hammer throw at World Championship

youtu.be/y04gfB9d3-k?...

Camryn Rogers throws monster 80.51m to win world title #worldathleticschamps #athletics #canada

YouTube video by World Athletics

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 17d

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists win Ig Nobel Prize for cracking the code to perfect cacio e pepe

What started as a frustrating kitchen challenge turned into award-winning science: Fabrizio Olmeda and his colleagues scientifically decoded the secret of creamy cacio e pepe and earned the Ig Nobel P...

www.sciencedaily.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 21d

It saved my brother's life from skin cancer. He was treated at MD Anderson where Allison moved to after Cal

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 23d

As someone who did his dissertation on the C and water fluxes of different soybean isolines in 1980 I am amazed to see the yield changes over 50 years

Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment

Soybean productivity increases from 1975 to 2024 in a rainfed Mollisol experiment in Indiana, USA, were shaped by genetic improvements, crop rotation, tillage, and climate. Despite rising spring temp...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 24d

I found an obituary for Steve

www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 26d

As a former Editor in Chief of this journal, I want to say congratulations and thank all the authors, referees and associate editors who have sustained it

AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 26d

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary AGU’s JGR: Biogeosciences!🎉

For two decades, the journal has published original research, methods, and data articles on the biogeosciences of the Earth system.

🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/RcwG5Ty

#AGUPubs @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 29d

Read on 'Of 4,000 faculty across the southern U.S., including more than 1,100 from Texas. About 1/4 of the Texas profs said they have applied for higher education jobs in other states in the last two years, and more than 25% said they soon intend to start searching for out-of-state positions'