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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

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Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 2d

#Phillies offense in October.

two men are standing next to each other in a park .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a park .

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ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · 5d

Call to Participate in #IODP3 Expedition GLACE-NS: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea now open! iodp3.org/glace-ns-lat...

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Olivier Sulpis @sulpis.bsky.social · 9d

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE!

🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France!

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Tom Chalk @chalkyoceans.bsky.social · 9d

Come work in our lab! All the usual awesome things apply about doing exciting science, plus this one might save the world! @sulpis.bsky.social hiring a 2 year position to observe and model deep ocean processes using high-pressure reactors.

*Goes to gather a bunch of forams to be dissolved* 😅

Olivier Sulpis @sulpis.bsky.social · 9d

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE!

🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France!

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 12d

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 13d

Three tariff announcements tonight, each one is dumber than the last. I don’t even know how to read this except as a way for the White House to exempt US pharma multinationals (who import a lot but are always building *something*) and push out smaller foreign competitors.

Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product, unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America. “IS BUILDING” will be defined as, “breaking ground” and/or “under construction.” There will, therefore, be no Tariff on these Pharmaceutical Products if construction has started. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13d

⚒️ Article: Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the event

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Nature Geoscience

Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the event, according to biomarker records from an Arctic sediment core.

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Vince Clementi @vinceclementi.bsky.social · 13d

A few years in the making (and many months late), but I am thrilled to share that the last paper from my PhD has been published! Feel free to read the open access paper to learn more about links between subduction and methane hydrate offshore Chile 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pore Fluid Origins, Circulation, and Links With Methane Hydrate on the South‐Central Chilean Margin

Sediment cores taken <10 km apart near a seafloor venting structure have different pore water chemistry Regional overpressures from mineral dehydration and crustal alteration reactions at depth f...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13d

We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?

EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 13d

Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social

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Minute witnesses from the primordial sea

Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanati...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 13d

The @BBCWorld, @AFP, @AP & @reuters have released a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.

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NPR @npr.org · 19d

The group was chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid controversy over their credentials. It's changing guidance for vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

CDC advisers vote to change guidance on MMRV vaccines

The group was chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid controversy over their credentials. It's changing guidance for vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

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Lennart Bach @bachlennart.bsky.social · 20d

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This study led by @aaronferderer.bsky.social tested how 5 diatom species respond to broad ranges of seawater carbonate conditions. Goal was to determine carbonate chemistry niches and to inform Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and Ocean Acidification (OA)

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Carbonate chemistry fitness landscapes inform diatom resilience to future perturbations

Diatom growth rates are determined by concentrations of CO2 and H+ across broad carbonate chemistry landscapes.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21d

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.

Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.

(Published May 2024)
By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Out of Context Tracers in the Sea @tracers-in-the-sea.bsky.social · 23d

🌊🧪 DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENTS - As we showed above, the absorption of metals onto particulate matter appears to be reversible. If so, this absorption can be characterized by distribution coefficients. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28d

A popular meme format from the anime The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. It shows a man with glasses (labeled “CARBON OFFSET DEVELOPERS”) looking at a yellow butterfly (labeled “DDT WASTE BARRELS”). The man gestures toward the butterfly with his palm open and asks, “IS THIS OCEAN ALKALINITY ENHANCEMENT?” 🌊

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock sample offers the most concrete proof yet that the red planet once hosted life.

Life on Mars? NASA says a rock sample shows potential signs of ancient life

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock sample offers the most concrete proof yet that the red planet once hosted life.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 29d

"school shooting industry"

NPR @npr.org · 29d

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · Sep 7

Earlier this year, IODP³-NSF Expedition 501 drilled on the New England Shelf to better understand groundwater below the seafloor. youtu.be/a5JU-WSxO_E?...

Why is it important to find more water? | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Vince Clementi @vinceclementi.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 5

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

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Matthew Gidden @gidden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

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