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Some classic geology field course photos here too - notice the rock hammers, everyone looking at rocks through hand lenses, think I caught a Brunton? ⚒️

🌀 Ex-Tropical Cyclone #Vaianu will bring very strong winds and heavy rain to the North Island and the upper South Island of New Zealand this weekend. Winds will exceed 100 km/h in some regions:

Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱

You should have seen the ones during the Avignon papacy...

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization futurism.com/artificial-i...

Very impressive presentations today on national scientific assessments on climate change adaptation in India. Extremely well conceptualised. Strong participation of social scientists and women. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction - Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers #redlist #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mexican president (and climate scientist) Claudia Sheinbaum proposes #fracking plan to curb reliance on US gas #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/c89b...

Trump threatens to wipe out entire civlisations; Benjamin Netenyahu is actually trying to do it every single day www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Whoah, this is cool ... youtu.be/JlVvM3VKuEk?...

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges - @mcsuk.bsky.social warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline Story by @isaaqtomkins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I didn’t think there were many other moves that Trump could do to piss Italians off more than increasing the price of their food and gasoline, but then he touched the Pope 🔥

Industrial heat pumps are one of the most underrated technologies in the energy transition. They work. They scale. And they’re finally moving from demonstration to deployment. Here’s a 95-tonne heat pump component just traveled hundreds of kilometres by river to reach BASF’s Ludwigshafen site.

For anyone who needs a Thursday morning mood boost - this is delightful:

A "frustrated diesel car owner" is calling for tractors to block major highways in support of even more generous fossil fuel subsidies, here in Norway www.nrk.no/nordland/rea...

Note how the AI slopsters are still using the same generic "bloke in a beanie"...

Keir Starmer is asking that the ceasefire deal should be changed to include Lebanon, which it already does. Keir Starmer cannot read. He’s one of the dumbest men alive

Pretty weird: Australia's department of industry won't be publishing historical or forecast data for fossil fuel exports or other trade, and importantly this means no data on imported diesel and petrol for the first quarter of 2026. This is pretty bad and there's no explanation at all.

"I anticipated that our work would be questioned, but only because its implications were politically inconvenient. I never expected that science itself would come under attack." Powerful statements from the brilliant scientist and communicator @drkatemarvel.bsky.social grist.org/science/kate...

Still safer than having supersized pick-up trucks and SUVs in our cities.

"China’s long-term focus on electrification is making it more resilient to energy price shocks, according to Lombard Odier." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In farmland that's rewilding back to natural rainforest, even the base of an old dead blackthorn stem is thickly cloaked in filmy ferns and mosses. The levels of diversity developing here are just astonishing.

When you cross on a pedestrian crossing in front of a Tesla, you should do it 20% slower than usual. Not so slow that it's too obvious, but slow enough that they notice and start losing their mind with paranoia. Accelerate to normal in their view field 🚶‍➡️

Nations are now waking up to the fact that electrification = national security. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country.

"Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history."

760 million people still live without electricity. Scaling renewable energy is how that changes, while keeping warming within 1.5°C. Clean power can light homes, run hospitals, cut emissions and more. Here’s why renewables matter for people and planet. tinyurl.com/4k9tejuf

Burn everything down.

Smart take on the (hidden) costs of AI, and what to do about them. The intro alone: 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

When @tephrafan.bsky.social offers to give you a tour of Canada’s largest collection of Coleman coolers, you don’t say no. I don’t make the rules. 🧪⚒️

More proof that the entire American system of government needs to be completely replaced. This can’t just be fixed by replacing the president. If any mobster’s pet monkey can be attorney general, your system is entirely broken.

I listened to a little bit of "All Things Considered" on NPR in the car today & it was basically, "welp, Trump did it, the war's over, we had our little $4 gasoline scare but things are getting back to normal now, the market's recovering, whew, glad that's behind us." Absolutely surreal.

"Did our abysmal approach to this moral panic throw the door open to fascism?" Waiting for that piece.

Lunging for my "this is where 'anti-woke' was always going & the reactionary centrists who played along should feel terrible about their shitty selves" keyboard macro ...

This whole lying-about-your-marathon-time thing is getting completely out-of-hand 😂 #RunSky runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/in...

i genuinely get excited whenever i see @clairewillett.bsky.social talking about the vatican i am not religious and not really even interested in religion i just love nothing more than a subject matter expert getting to put the breadth of their knowledge on display

i genuinely get excited whenever i see @clairewillett.bsky.social talking about the vatican i am not religious and not really even interested in religion i just love nothing more than a subject matter expert getting to out the breadth of their knowledge on display

A thread on the history of some notable Catholic church people that feels like the old twitter...

Meanwhile, another President had this to say: “Right now, there is chaos worldwide due to energy issues. Frankly, the situation is so serious that I cannot sleep. South Korea must swiftly transition to renewable energy.” www.chosun.com/english/nati...

worst part of the bar next door (they are all the worst part): i seriously did not know how many people still listen to drake. so much drake. 5/10 songs, drake.

i wish i could get a hug from an octopus

i think my beautiful silver face marantz 2245 receiver is dying after my 12 years with her and i am so sad. i must find a weird garage stereo repair man in this city.

If they start putting out EVs with 400+ mile range, will people finally STFU about "range anxiety"?

This is amazing. Only property owners could vote, and the climate hawks were wildly outspent

Clean energy candidates didn't win the presidency/VP in the Salt River election, but with two flips, they now control the 14-seat board 8-6 (❌=Turning Point endorsement ✅=clean energy candidate)

My monthly #Arctic temperature graphics are now updated for March 2026. Quite warm (relative to average) across the northernmost areas. See: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData

The last session of my Energy Policy and Governance class is always a quick wrap up and then an AMA. It’s always a great session. Throughout the term I deflect as best I can any questions about what I think regarding various hot button topics but tell them to come to the last class.

Looks on in Canadian at the US military looking forward to “its next Conquest.”

i was watching an interview with this astronomer Michelle Thaller and she said that it’s possible that humans will never understand reality like, truly getting it would take brains that were smarter than us as much as we are smarter than a grasshopper kind of blew my mind

If you don’t have anything written down, who is to say what is the real agreement? Markets, do your thing as that might be the only restraint in this crazy SOB.

The five stages of Gerard Baker. Thread.

The Salt River Project (SRP) election in Arizona may turn out to be one of the most important utility elections in America this year. And almost nobody outside Arizona is paying attention. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Salt River: ❌ Band ✅ Project ❌ Experience ❌ Revival

“My desires trump my wife’s rights.”

Sense memory: near-circular cigarette burns in car upholstery. The hardened irregular black plastic rim and soft padding underneath.

"The Planning Board voted unanimously on April 6 for an ordinance to restrict data centers in Everett’s Docklands Innovation District, a 100-acre redevelopment site near the Mystic River....The City Council must approve the proposal twice before it can take effect." www.boston.com/news/local-n...

"The White House proposal cuts $4.6 billion from the EPA’s budget, ⬇️ 52% compared with enacted FY2026 levels & the lowest level since the Reagan administration. Bearing the brunt of the cuts are programs on R&D, climate change, environmental justice, Superfund cleanup & state funding."

Obviously, the common thread here is that you all are always posting wrong and you should instead post in the style and mood of me, the center of the universe,

Trying (and failing) to get to help my son with his homework: So the midtransition is the period in which fossil and new energy systems… @gruberte.bsky.social With this integrated option dynamic and pricing model we show … He just walked away to work in his room 😭

I realize I am waking up and choosing violence by bringing this to your feed, but the truth must be told about Fushimi Inari’s torii 😊

Things I Know Far Too Much About (that aren’t theater or movies): 1. Pre-Code Hollywood (hey, it’s not A movie) 2. WWI 3. The Forgotten Realms

While I'll be honest, I find Alicia (aka communist Kirby) kind of annoying--she often comes off as kind of edge-lord-y to me sometimes--I don't know why anyone would go out of their way to antagonize her, since she's ultimately pretty harmless. It's like picking a fight with Vermin Supreme

Unironically looks like something out of a science fiction movie

One downside to working in cyberinfrastructure is that you end up hearing a *lot* of breathless shouting about AI and how it will surely Change Everything

I'm telling you the shift away from embarrassment in Iran is Greenland.

Also, it hasn't reopened, and there are no plans for it to reopen.

Split screen between a gaudy aspiring coronation and the American Pope washing the feet of migrants. Eat shit forever, Amen.

Yes everything is horrible and AI is making the world stupider, but this written and hand-illustrated field guide to the intertidal zone of Maine is worth going “cool!” and celebrating. 🙌 🦀🧪

Abortion providers would like to have a word

Denial-palooza! “Redacting the truth about an overheating planet doesn’t make the problem go away,” he said. “We’re reminding people that the Trump administration’s policy of climate denial won’t lower your electricity bills or insurance premiums, reduce pollution or make you healthier.”

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My debut book, Nerve, is six years old this week, and *touches earpiece* I've just been informed that the ebook is on sale across platforms (in North America) for $2.99 U.S. throughout April! That's, what, the price of half a latte?

<stares in direction of Japanese automotive export plans> Welp.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

the bezos washington post says the anti-data center movement is now “unhinged” because of the shooting in indianapolis

the below is a post about politics but it is also true in the food / climate space

This is astonishing. And quite a path to take, for a president who's supposed to be concerned about his whereabouts in the afterlife.

TropicalTidbits (tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/hsa...) page based on newest NMME forecast shows a very inactive Atlantic hurricane season due to a strong El Niño. Activity in analog years (1972, 1982, 1994, 1997, 2015) was reduced across the MDR, Gulf, and Caribbean, but higher for Hawaii.

Huge news. Conservationists are celebrating today because two wolf families have been reintroduced into Durango. Do you know the story of Llave? She is a beautiful wolf. Named by schoolchildren, she holds the "key" to Mexican gray wolf recovery. #rewilding www.westernwatersheds.org/2026/04/que-...

Calgary Chamber of Commerce Just One More Shrill Oil Booster Chamber CEO Deborah Yedlin's FP op-ed relied on one source: Dan Yergin. Smart guy, but he's been criticized recently for shoddy takes on the energy transition #abpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/calgary-ch...

#EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition

"Canadian polling reveals a solid majority are very anxious about climate. The bad news is this solid majority think they're alone in feeling that way, that their neighbours don't share their concerns. If you don't think your neighbours share your concerns, you go a little quiet. We take our cues."

China is the big winner of the Iran ceasefire, @zeitlin.bsky.social writes. Read all about the other winners — and a few losers, too — in his story below: heatmap.news/energy/hormu...

Remarkable interview. To young scientists: "There is no one proper course of action here. It’s chaos. We all have to navigate these turbulencies as well as possible. If you found a lifeboat, take it. If you’re trying to rebuild the ship, great. Let’s all help each other to the extent that we can."

"Climate science is not innately politically charged, whatever the administration says. No one I worked with had (or wanted) the power to make policy. It was our job to study the laws of physics, which remain true no matter who’s in power." @drkatemarvel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

If you don’t know what a Pro Forma is, you shouldn’t be setting unfunded inclusionary housing mandates

fossil fuel exec: *slaps roof of atmosphere* this bad boy can fit so much co2, err, plant food in it

Another impressive setup for heavy rain/ flooding in Hawaii the next 1-2 weeks. Huge block across the N. Pacific will trap the Kona low (twice according to the Euro AI) over the next 15 days. As usual the higher terrain will see the higher totals. 1/

So no one agrees on what the ceasefire plan actually includes. Some brilliant plan.

Is Danielle Smith an Untrustworthy, Bad Faith Actor? Yes. Yes, she is. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/Z05222PAuLQ

DJs For Climate Action + climate solutions + you on the dance floor = the exact vibe we need right now. Save the dates and spread the word! Tickets 🎟️ at getitright.earth/tour.

Want durable climate coalitions? Go where people feel it: affordability. Housing + transportation are the biggest monthly bills. Policies that let more people live near jobs/services/transit cut costs *and* emissions. Volts featuring @spears.bsky.social www.volts.wtf/p/why-climat...

We'll see what happens in two weeks and beyond but i think so far it's fair to say the big winners are: CHINA NUCLEAR COAL SHALE and the big losers are LNG GULF OIL PRODUCERS THE WEST COAST AND HAWAII heatmap.news/energy/hormu...

gas here is now $4 so I assume that it’s $28 in california and $64 in hawaii?

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.

I don't really know who Piker is and I will bet all my money that most people also don't know and, more importantly, don't care. Like we almost annihilated an entire nation. I dgaf about some streamer and any dems that fall for this should be ousted.

Second Avignon papacy reference in a minute of scrolling; it's in the air!