Rae
@mantaarae.bsky.social
Marine Science PhD candidate
Paleo climate change & oceans
I like seashells, photography, and talking about the state of the world
Paleo climate change & oceans
I like seashells, photography, and talking about the state of the world
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I’d assumed wildfire fighters all wore respirators. I’m shocked. The Forest Service needs to make this right.
“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”
“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I’d assumed wildfire fighters all wore respirators. I’m shocked. The Forest Service needs to make this right.
“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”
“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”
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June 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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this is one of those incredible pieces of reporting where the headline is already crazy but then the story is full of the wildest fucking details www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
this is one of those incredible pieces of reporting where the headline is already crazy but then the story is full of the wildest fucking details www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect:
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
knowablemagazine.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect:
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live
wclivestream.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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"Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed."
It's not weird if you want to stop the pollution torching all life on Earth. It's weird if you don't! Let's act like it
It's not weird if you want to stop the pollution torching all life on Earth. It's weird if you don't! Let's act like it
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed."
It's not weird if you want to stop the pollution torching all life on Earth. It's weird if you don't! Let's act like it
It's not weird if you want to stop the pollution torching all life on Earth. It's weird if you don't! Let's act like it
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NEW: Incredible scenes in Washington DC now.
Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk.
There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today.
#FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025
(🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)
Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk.
There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today.
#FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025
(🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
NEW: Incredible scenes in Washington DC now.
Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk.
There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today.
#FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025
(🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)
Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk.
There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today.
#FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025
(🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)
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Boston on the rain.
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Boston on the rain.
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This is just the beginning
April 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is just the beginning
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Mediterranean zooplankton from Pula.
March 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Mediterranean zooplankton from Pula.
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🚨Academic scientist friends who are members-ideally leaders- of scientific professional societies, I need your help. 🚨
There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers.
🧪🌎🦑
There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers.
🧪🌎🦑
February 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨Academic scientist friends who are members-ideally leaders- of scientific professional societies, I need your help. 🚨
There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers.
🧪🌎🦑
There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers.
🧪🌎🦑
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Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism
van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated…
van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated…
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism
van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free science is both unattainable and undesirable.
envnewsbits.info
December 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism
van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated…
van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated…
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Grim: Trump’s executive orders will include withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement (again!), eliminating every office in every federal agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities, and allowing more drilling and mining on public lands.
With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of Washington and other drastic changes.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Grim: Trump’s executive orders will include withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement (again!), eliminating every office in every federal agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities, and allowing more drilling and mining on public lands.
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The only protests that anyone remembers and that accomplished anything important took place in designated first amendment areas and had all the proper permits in place, oh wait sorry it's the complete opposite of that
May 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
The only protests that anyone remembers and that accomplished anything important took place in designated first amendment areas and had all the proper permits in place, oh wait sorry it's the complete opposite of that
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Columbia’s page regretting its decisions in 1968 bears a banner reflecting some of the decisions it is making now. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...
May 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Columbia’s page regretting its decisions in 1968 bears a banner reflecting some of the decisions it is making now. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...
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62 years after the publication of Silent Spring we are still relying on “industry backed” tests to determine exactly how much poison to spray over the foods we eat.
April 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM
62 years after the publication of Silent Spring we are still relying on “industry backed” tests to determine exactly how much poison to spray over the foods we eat.
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"The court ruled that Swiss authorities had not acted in time to come up with a good enough strategy to cut emissions."
"The Swiss verdict opens up all 46 members of the Council of Europe to similar cases in national courts that they are likely to lose."
"The Swiss verdict opens up all 46 members of the Council of Europe to similar cases in national courts that they are likely to lose."
Human rights violated by Switzerland inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case
Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2024 at 12:28 PM
"The court ruled that Swiss authorities had not acted in time to come up with a good enough strategy to cut emissions."
"The Swiss verdict opens up all 46 members of the Council of Europe to similar cases in national courts that they are likely to lose."
"The Swiss verdict opens up all 46 members of the Council of Europe to similar cases in national courts that they are likely to lose."
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Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
prospect.org
March 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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World's oceans complete full year of being warmer - often a LOT warmer - than any pervious measurement
Head of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warming would have “rather dramatic impacts on major storms, on ecosystems”
www.ft.com/content/d1b7...
Head of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warming would have “rather dramatic impacts on major storms, on ecosystems”
www.ft.com/content/d1b7...
March 18, 2024 at 7:26 AM
World's oceans complete full year of being warmer - often a LOT warmer - than any pervious measurement
Head of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warming would have “rather dramatic impacts on major storms, on ecosystems”
www.ft.com/content/d1b7...
Head of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warming would have “rather dramatic impacts on major storms, on ecosystems”
www.ft.com/content/d1b7...
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A study has found that US fossil-energy methane emissions are fully triple those assumed by the government.
www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-inte...
www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-inte...
US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds
A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks
www.independent.co.uk
March 14, 2024 at 11:54 AM
A study has found that US fossil-energy methane emissions are fully triple those assumed by the government.
www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-inte...
www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-inte...
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"The most common ranking across all five countries is ‘Grossly Unaligned’, with Norway coming out worst with seven ‘Grossly Unaligned’ ratings out of 11"
Huge new OCI report out today on us North Sea fossil fuel suppliers - and our desires to supply even more
priceofoil.org/2024/03/12/n...
Huge new OCI report out today on us North Sea fossil fuel suppliers - and our desires to supply even more
priceofoil.org/2024/03/12/n...
March 12, 2024 at 10:59 AM
"The most common ranking across all five countries is ‘Grossly Unaligned’, with Norway coming out worst with seven ‘Grossly Unaligned’ ratings out of 11"
Huge new OCI report out today on us North Sea fossil fuel suppliers - and our desires to supply even more
priceofoil.org/2024/03/12/n...
Huge new OCI report out today on us North Sea fossil fuel suppliers - and our desires to supply even more
priceofoil.org/2024/03/12/n...