Attention Bluesky - @noupside.bsky.social & @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social say,

"To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts & nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence."

Do you agree? What change is most important? 🧵🧪

"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"

I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.

Bill Bryson comes to mind, especially his travelogues (A Walk in the Woods, In a Sunburned Country, etc.)

I can do it. DM me your email?

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

How guaranteed are the ESA page fee grants if I apply? I want to submit, but don't really have money for publication fees. @esajournals.bsky.social

Vitally important thread.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Oxford commas are important @nature.com

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments.

scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

NASA administrator proposes to eliminate Earth science, climate science, and anything else that's not "exploration"

I did First Lego League for a few years, starting in third grade. The topic that year was climate change in the arctic. I remember emailing a professor at UNH and being amazed that a real life scientist replied to our email. Anyway, I'm a climate scientist now.

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic.

You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

Farthest I've been:

N: Edinburgh (55.9° N)
E: Shanghai (121.4° E)
S: San Juan, PR (18.4° N)
W: Kona, HI (156° W)

My take: Science gives us knowledge but not wisdom. Wisdom = knowledge + values.

So science can tell you what's true, but not what's important. Your values tell you what's important, but those are far more subjective. Your wisdom is your combination of what is true and what you think is important.

Today I learned that Python alphabetizes based on Unicode values, where all capital letters are before all lowercase letters. So "Z" will be sorted before "e".

Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

Only a couple more days to submit to our #AGU25 session on Conservation Ecohydrology! It's a very fun session with lots of interesting applied ecohydrology studies. 🌲💧🚜

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

At some point, I wonder if it makes sense to have newspapers and other longform media outlets supported by endowments in the same way that foundations and universities are.

FYI @aguecohydro.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social

Please consider submitting to our #AGU25 session Conservation Ecohydrology (H053).

There are always interesting presentations on fun and novel applications of ecohydrology methods. Past presentations have covered everything from beavers to gold mines to power plants.

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