Erik English
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The @thebulletin.org asked three experts to peer into the future and say what they think the public health picture will look like in 10 years. Here's the tape:
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Will the world ever be healthy again?
YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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January 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The @thebulletin.org asked three experts to peer into the future and say what they think the public health picture will look like in 10 years. Here's the tape:
@erik-english.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrU...
@erik-english.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrU...
The latest issue of the @thebulletin.org digital magazine is a collection of winners from the Write Before Midnight fiction contest. The winners were selected by Kim Stanley Robinson, who declared a “seven-story tie” for first place. Highly recommended reading!
January 2026 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The latest issue of the @thebulletin.org digital magazine is a collection of winners from the Write Before Midnight fiction contest. The winners were selected by Kim Stanley Robinson, who declared a “seven-story tie” for first place. Highly recommended reading!
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new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
Looks like another great time to revisit this interview with Daniel Immerwahr, the author of How to Hide an Empire.
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Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take
How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab may...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Looks like another great time to revisit this interview with Daniel Immerwahr, the author of How to Hide an Empire.
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It’s been a real tough day for CBS News overall, but I’ll still give them credit for this sequence of paragraphs. www.cbsnews.com/news/bear-un...
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It’s been a real tough day for CBS News overall, but I’ll still give them credit for this sequence of paragraphs. www.cbsnews.com/news/bear-un...
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While home for Christmas, I learned our neighbor John Hertlein, the soybean farmer I interviewed in 2018 when Trump was making things hard for farmers the first time, recently passed. Grateful he was willing to sit down with the neighbors' curious journalist kid from NYC and tell me about his work
The explosive dominance of soy over a century went unnoticed by most Americans—except for those growing it.
Soybeans were a fixture of the landscape as I was growing up in Kansas, but I never stopped to wonder why that might be, or whether that might ever change.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
While home for Christmas, I learned our neighbor John Hertlein, the soybean farmer I interviewed in 2018 when Trump was making things hard for farmers the first time, recently passed. Grateful he was willing to sit down with the neighbors' curious journalist kid from NYC and tell me about his work
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🚨 JUST IN: Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, @astein.bsky.social and PJ Seel argue in @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearenergy #safety #nukesky
#nuclearenergy #safety #nukesky
No, the United States does not need a costly national cancer study near nuclear reactors
Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear engineer argue.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
🚨 JUST IN: Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, @astein.bsky.social and PJ Seel argue in @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearenergy #safety #nukesky
#nuclearenergy #safety #nukesky
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The headline should read:
Federal Prosecutors Lied to Judge, According to Emails in Abrego Garcia Case
Federal Prosecutors Lied to Judge, According to Emails in Abrego Garcia Case
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
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December 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The headline should read:
Federal Prosecutors Lied to Judge, According to Emails in Abrego Garcia Case
Federal Prosecutors Lied to Judge, According to Emails in Abrego Garcia Case
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🚨 JUST IN: In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing, writes Sharon Squassoni in @thebulletin.org.
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
How nuclear submarines could pave the way for nuclear weapons in South Korea
In a region that is already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 JUST IN: In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing, writes Sharon Squassoni in @thebulletin.org.
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
Don’t like that
A brief history of the cinematic future. www.pbump.net/o/the-cinema...
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Don’t like that
“Overall, the trouble with the National Security Strategy document just released—and, really, all assertions that the administration has a strategy—is that they cannot account for President Trump’s mercurial nature and erratic behavior.”
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A National Security Strategy with no strategy for managing existential risks
Even though it took over 10 months to produce, the Trump administration's 29-page National Security Strategy document does little to outline how the United States will manage any of the existential th...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Overall, the trouble with the National Security Strategy document just released—and, really, all assertions that the administration has a strategy—is that they cannot account for President Trump’s mercurial nature and erratic behavior.”
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Sometimes rethinking the way you've been doing things for a long time is good. Other times, when the thing you're rethinking is 3+ decades of advice that has decreased incidence of a deadly liver-rotting disease by 99 percent, it's not so good. @thebulletin.org
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A CDC committee led by RFK Jr. allies votes to stop recommending newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s vaccine advisory committee has taken its most dramatic action on vaccines yet under the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kenne...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sometimes rethinking the way you've been doing things for a long time is good. Other times, when the thing you're rethinking is 3+ decades of advice that has decreased incidence of a deadly liver-rotting disease by 99 percent, it's not so good. @thebulletin.org
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🚨 JUST IN: The last agreement constraining US and Russian nuclear weapons expires in two months, and Putin has proposed to extend it. But it takes two to tango, Steven Pifer writes.
#nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky
New START's death is around the corner. Please, someone, tell the President
The last agreement constraining US and Russian nuclear weapons expires in two months, and Putin has proposed to extend it. But it takes two to tango.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 JUST IN: The last agreement constraining US and Russian nuclear weapons expires in two months, and Putin has proposed to extend it. But it takes two to tango, Steven Pifer writes.
#nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
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This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power
The firm's history of overpromising and underdelivery raises a question: Is this who we should trust with the future of nuclear energy?
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November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
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This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power
The firm's history of overpromising and underdelivery raises a question: Is this who we should trust with the future of nuclear energy?
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
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🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it
Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
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November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
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Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
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The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
Assuming that the missile in 'A House of Dynamite' carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago's Loop, what would follow?
@patriciajaworek.bsky.social and Isabelle Williams of @nti.org explain. ⬇️
@patriciajaworek.bsky.social and Isabelle Williams of @nti.org explain. ⬇️
The “House of Dynamite” sequel you didn’t know you needed
Assuming that the missile in "A House of Dynamite" carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago’s Loop, what would ensue in the seconds, minutes, days, and…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.