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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 9h

Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…

Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias

The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.

www.wsj.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 12h

Love this place.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 16h

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 18h

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 19h

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 20h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 20h

This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 21h

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 1d

Techmeme front page:

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

A month long trip…

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

Nice!

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

Entry into the carry-s%%t Olympics…

A heavily laden e-cargo bike on a ferry. Island in the distance.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 2d

This is the moment we passed 5555 miles on the @ternbicycles.com GSD. It’s been critical infrastructure for us for just over 3 years.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve done ~10,000 miles on ours over the last 6 years. Absolutely game changing.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d

The 1.5ºC scenarios need ~8 GtCO2e by 2050, and more if there is overshoot. If actual potential is on the low side, there is a huge gap.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d

Still wouldn't have been a prediction that any of these things are viable. It's basically just a residual that they could have called anything.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is backwards. Projections are tasked w/coming up with pathways that meet a temperature target given various constraints. They find a huge amount of BECCS would be required to meet those targets (given imposed constraints). They are not predictions that this amount of BECCS is viable.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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