Carol Matheny
@cpmatheny.bsky.social
Earth 🌎Science Teacher (Retired)—Medical Laboratory Technologist in a previous life—BS Biology, MS Geosciences—born at 317.50 ppm—
Knitting Helps Us Embrace Life’s Messy Imperfections www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/o...
Opinion | Knitting Helps Us Embrace Life’s Messy Imperfections (Published 2023)
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January 1, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Knitting Helps Us Embrace Life’s Messy Imperfections www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/o...
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Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
A Review discusses the scientific basis of and factors controlling airborne transmission of respiratory viruses including coronavirus.
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December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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If you read the first letter of each of the O Antiphons backwards (O Emmanuel, O Rex Gentium, O Oriens, O Clavis David, O Radix Jesse, O Adoni, O Sapientia), it creates the phrase ERO CRAS, or “Tomorrow, I will come.” What a hidden gift in our tradition! #OAntiphons
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you read the first letter of each of the O Antiphons backwards (O Emmanuel, O Rex Gentium, O Oriens, O Clavis David, O Radix Jesse, O Adoni, O Sapientia), it creates the phrase ERO CRAS, or “Tomorrow, I will come.” What a hidden gift in our tradition! #OAntiphons
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Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
Call &/or write your representatives to stop the dismantling of the roots of basic science which undergirds the prosperity and wealth of our United States 🇺🇸! Attached are two links that make this effort easier. AGU and UCS have set up platforms to help send the message. Choose one or use both.😉
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Call &/or write your representatives to stop the dismantling of the roots of basic science which undergirds the prosperity and wealth of our United States 🇺🇸! Attached are two links that make this effort easier. AGU and UCS have set up platforms to help send the message. Choose one or use both.😉
Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), and Texas Instruments Inc
The lawsuit seeks to hold three major U.S. chipmakers accountable for helping enable Russia’s war against Ukrainian civilians by failing to control where their products end up.
The lawsuit seeks to hold three major U.S. chipmakers accountable for helping enable Russia’s war against Ukrainian civilians by failing to control where their products end up.
Despite years of sanctions and export controls, U.S.-made electronic components — which have unique markings and cannot be copied — continue to appear in Russian cruise missiles and drones.
15 Ukrainians are suing US tech factories over chips in Russia's deadly weapons
It was a regular workday when the air raid alarm sounded at Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital at 11 a.m. on a Monday in Kyiv. Dr. Olga Babicheva and her colleagues moved their young patients to a room wit...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), and Texas Instruments Inc
The lawsuit seeks to hold three major U.S. chipmakers accountable for helping enable Russia’s war against Ukrainian civilians by failing to control where their products end up.
The lawsuit seeks to hold three major U.S. chipmakers accountable for helping enable Russia’s war against Ukrainian civilians by failing to control where their products end up.
Happy Solemnity of The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patronal Feastday of the United States of America!
Send Feastday greetings to your Senator!
Congress must pass a law that protects healthcare for the 24 million people who will lose the credits!
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Send Feastday greetings to your Senator!
Congress must pass a law that protects healthcare for the 24 million people who will lose the credits!
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Tell your Senators: Protect our healthcare NOW and pass a bill to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits for 24 million people
NETWORK and our Spirit-filled advocates demand that elected leaders in Congress protect our health care and pass a bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits before the ...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Happy Solemnity of The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patronal Feastday of the United States of America!
Send Feastday greetings to your Senator!
Congress must pass a law that protects healthcare for the 24 million people who will lose the credits!
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Send Feastday greetings to your Senator!
Congress must pass a law that protects healthcare for the 24 million people who will lose the credits!
networklobby.org
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Virginians are ready to vote — and ready to win. 🇺🇲
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Virginians are ready to vote — and ready to win. 🇺🇲
Gaudium et Spes
Pope Paul VI
12/07/1965
27: “Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind,
Pope Paul VI
12/07/1965
27: “Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind,
The Catholic Church showed up in Chicago on Saturday. And, we need to keep showing up.
"They are afraid of people of faith."
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"They are afraid of people of faith."
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ICE turned away the body of Christ. Catholics must keep showing up anyway.
(RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Gaudium et Spes
Pope Paul VI
12/07/1965
27: “Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind,
Pope Paul VI
12/07/1965
27: “Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind,
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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
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Depraved.
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
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Depraved.
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Checking the garden on a cool morning reveals that I am running a hostel for bumblebees 🐝 🐝🐝🐝.
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Checking the garden on a cool morning reveals that I am running a hostel for bumblebees 🐝 🐝🐝🐝.
A helicopter contrail is not something you see everyday. Concern: this is about the height of fixed wing aircraft lining up for the nearest airport.
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A helicopter contrail is not something you see everyday. Concern: this is about the height of fixed wing aircraft lining up for the nearest airport.
In May 1958 the Carbon Dioxide was measured at 317.5 ppm. This May the average for the month was 430.2 ppm. If you are doing the math, that is an increase of 112.7 ppm.
The % increase from 317.5 to 430.2 is approximately 35.51%.
In 1958, Charles Keeling, began monitoring Carbon dioxide.
The % increase from 317.5 to 430.2 is approximately 35.51%.
In 1958, Charles Keeling, began monitoring Carbon dioxide.
Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Passes Another Milestone
For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripp...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In May 1958 the Carbon Dioxide was measured at 317.5 ppm. This May the average for the month was 430.2 ppm. If you are doing the math, that is an increase of 112.7 ppm.
The % increase from 317.5 to 430.2 is approximately 35.51%.
In 1958, Charles Keeling, began monitoring Carbon dioxide.
The % increase from 317.5 to 430.2 is approximately 35.51%.
In 1958, Charles Keeling, began monitoring Carbon dioxide.
Just early voted 🗳️ in the 2025 elections! 💙💙💙
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Just early voted 🗳️ in the 2025 elections! 💙💙💙
Clouds from 9/11
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Clouds from 9/11
Isn’t this what it means to be in a party? When a party holds a primary, the party supports the voters nominee. Ignore your voters at your own peril.
As someone who’s been a Democrat for only six weeks, I think this is such an important point. We’re either a big tent, or we aren’t. And if we are a big tent, that means progressives unite around a moderate nominee, and moderates unite around a progressive nominee. Period.👇
July 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Isn’t this what it means to be in a party? When a party holds a primary, the party supports the voters nominee. Ignore your voters at your own peril.
❤️ Swallowtails on Hoary Mountain Mint (year two perennial winter sown).
July 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
❤️ Swallowtails on Hoary Mountain Mint (year two perennial winter sown).
“The U.S. is rapidly losing state-of-the-art hurricane forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months.”
July 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“The U.S. is rapidly losing state-of-the-art hurricane forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months.”
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
Observing Flag Day #nokingsday in my living room.
June 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Observing Flag Day #nokingsday in my living room.
We had a bear visit last night at about 10:30 pm. (Video timestamp is incorrect). He played with our Bearicuda Bin but couldn’t access the trash.
May 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We had a bear visit last night at about 10:30 pm. (Video timestamp is incorrect). He played with our Bearicuda Bin but couldn’t access the trash.
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Melting Arctic ice isn’t just bad for polar bears; it’s bad for us, too.
A warmer Arctic and changing circulation patterns affect coastlines, crops, and climate patterns around the world.
A warmer Arctic and changing circulation patterns affect coastlines, crops, and climate patterns around the world.
What happens in the Arctic doesn't really matter, right?
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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May 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Melting Arctic ice isn’t just bad for polar bears; it’s bad for us, too.
A warmer Arctic and changing circulation patterns affect coastlines, crops, and climate patterns around the world.
A warmer Arctic and changing circulation patterns affect coastlines, crops, and climate patterns around the world.