#risk #psychology #environment

This blog was written with general audiences in mind. For those who want more information into the history of the lab and the study’s theoretical framework etc., to you I say: papers forthcoming.

Thanks to the @uscwrigley.usc.edu for the fellowship that allowed me to carry out this work. 🙏🏼

Three Mile Island wasn’t the worst nuclear disaster in American history.

Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.

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I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.

“Charity can take care of it” is a common refrain I’m hearing in response to US government funding being cut across the board.

No. No, it can’t.

🌳💨 Natural CO₂ Sequestration is Declining

A new study reveals natural CO₂ absorption peaked in 2008 and is now declining by 0.25% per year. This will accelerate climate change unless biodiversity is restored.

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#SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪

I hope that the intent was to embolden and encourage; as music often does in desperate, difficult times. They performed the piece well and really embodied the moment in the musical, like you said. For whatever reason the choir sang, I’m grateful that they did. Thank you for taking the time to msg. 🩵

I agree—singers often do! Pieces are selected by choral directors for their relevance to the audience. I’ve witnessed these selections as modes of engaging people who otherwise wouldn’t see themselves in the “story”—to
me they are neither aimless nor forceful curations.

A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others were hospitalized with serious complications, marks the first major test for US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic reut.rs/41Bw17L

According to the NY Times (and its UN vote), America’s new friends under Trump (instead of under God) are Russia and North Korea.

See Reuters Graphics charts on where US aid was distributed around the world and which countries could lose the most if the aid stops reut.rs/4hTXBCO 8/8

“My plea to my academic colleagues in this time is to trust that science’s leaders are making the best judgments they can about how to proceed, remembering that timing can be everything.”

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Happiness is signing your own book for a Pulitzer-prize winning author (David Yarnold) after he has signed your copy of his!!

Please read our books ("Geography of Hope" in paperback, "Mapping the Deep" in paperback +audio)!

And thanks to all who came to our FedGIS book signings!
#GISchat #Geosky

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change.

This week, the U.S. Army Choir sang “Do you hear the people sing?” at the White House. Whatever the intent, the performance reminded me of all the times choral music has taught me something—about myself, about others, and even about how to change my mind. 📖 🤍

Hurricane, who was a Special Operations Canine for the Secret Service, became the most decorated dog in U.S. history. He died this week at the age of 16.

Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.

Whether they are building or cutting, a leader’s actions should match their stated objectives. If they don’t, there’s a good chance that whatever they are doing is in response to something they (a) haven’t thought enough about, or (b) are hiding from you.
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“Some scientists, I think, are in this sense poets.” - Wendell Berry

Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution – here's how to clean your clothes more sustainably

“Four soldiers” would do.

Some hospitals are bringing in dogs to spend entire shifts with doctors and nurses. The trained canines help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout.