LegraLeGra

Missouri bill would require drunk drivers to pay child support after killing a parent A Missouri bill would require drunk drivers to pay child support after killing a parent.

Losing their parents to something as easily prevented as drunk driving is already a life changing traumatic event. To suffer the sudden financial losses that impact health, education, & access to recovery only compounds that tragedy.
Bentley and Mason’s Law stands in 6 states. It should be federal.

#Polycrisis: when life hands you a tightrope instead of a map, and expects you to juggle everything while keeping all your plates spinning.

Save the date to speak up for NYC’s parks and open space on March 23! @ny4p.bsky.social and the 450+ org strong #PlayFair coalition will ofc be at the prelim budget hearing. Stay tuned for rally details but reach out with Qs: ny4p@bmny4p.org legistar.council.nyc.gov/View.ashx?M=...

Protect Academic Freedom: Submit Faculty Feedback to CPHE Accreditation Standards A new accrediting body — the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) — is seeking public feedback on proposed evidentiary guidance for accreditation standards that would govern public university...

Want to protest the Commission for Public Higher Education & its threat to the institutional autonomy of our universities?

Share your concerns with CPHE by writing to them before March 4. Submit feedback here: actionnetwork.org/letters/subm...

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student.

"It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

Yup.

There it is

I tried to use a llm to help me code. I needed to degrade the resolution of a gridded dataset for a past climate sim

The LLM Fortran code presumed that there are 360 degrees not only of longitude, but also latitude

By the time I got the promoted code corrected, I couldve written it properly myself

How Russia’s War Has Devastated Civilian Life in Ukraine - bellingcat Russia's full-invasion of Ukraine began four years ago today. While Ukraine has resisted, the impact on civilian life continues to be severe.

Exactly four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bellingcat’s Volunteer Community looks back at the data we have collected on civilian harm during this time - documenting attacks on cities and the near-total destruction of rural villages. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

I’d like to extend the ?
@mayor.nyc.gov

Air Quality

During those blade runner like days when smoke obscured our skies like a scene from dystopian fiction & the AQI danced up & over 200–we should have had bans on ICE (fossil fuel n otherwise) and industry.

Cites like LA do

Please-- the last snowfall left *impassible* bus stops and unshoveled sidewalks all over The Bronx. For weeks.

School is on-- great. Now get the sanitation drivers smaller vehicles to clear the sidewalks and bus stops where the VAST MAJORITY of school kids get to school.

25 days

Still no bike lane on 52nd St

It took a while to realize where the 1258 eruption even was located.
Samalas was about 10x the size of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption

Still can't get over how there's a whole civilization with a capital city at least as big as Pompeii buried deep under miles of volcanic rock from the biggest eruption in like 10,000 years on Lombok in Indonesia and all we know about them is that they existed till they were destroyed

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Geosciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Geosciences

5/11

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11

Headline: US union membership soared to 16-year high in 2025 despite Trump assault. Union coverage slightly increased last year even as White House tried to eliminate contracts for thousands of workers.

Bosses and union-busting politicians have tried to stop workers and their unions—slashing jobs and rigging rules to scare us out of organizing—but they’re failing.

The number of workers covered by union contracts is the highest it has been in 16 years! https://bit.ly/4qCMsK1

Ramadan Mubarak

The fight continues at NewYork-Presbyterian but nurses are celebrating an arbitration win! Yesterday, an arbitrator just ordered NYP to pay nearly $400K to nurses in the pediatric cardiac ICU at CHONY after finding the hospital violated safe staffing rules 614 times.

A Fire Horse stands on its hind legs. 2026 can be seen on the right side with the NYC CLC logo underneath. It says "Happy Lunar New Year." at the bottom.

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating the
Year of the Horse!

Central Park always seems so very crowded when I cycle there. I find it hard to hit 15mph on a traditional bike.

I wish there were an outer, two-way square “loop” on the exterior of the park (and maybe a couple of crosstown kid-on-bike safe pass throughs). #bikeNYC #NYC

#savencar

Oxygen Isotopes in Tree Rings Track Neotropical Climate Dynamics Tree-ring δ18O from Abies guatemalensis in Central America captures interannual variations in boreal summer rainfall Lighter δ18O years are associated with a weakening of the Caribbean Low-Level ...

Excited to have this paper out showing a strong coupling between Central American tree-ring oxygen isotopes and ocean–atmosphere dynamics (interbasin SST gradients, ITCZ, CLLJ... ). Many thanks to all co-authors!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.

🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!

Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.

We found: it’s not one — it’s many.

📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Tread below 🧵👇

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

COVID Wastewater concentration in NYC Feb 18 [2025]: 437,083 Wastewater facility: Bowery Bay Most recent count (1/27/2026): 16032 Most recent two-week average: 12318 Source New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (data)

Now the NYC Department of Environmental Protection seems to be reliably updating the city's Open Data portal with the most recent data, I am once again displaying #Covid wastewater on my #NYC Respiratory Illness dashboard!

Let's hope it's a while before the next wave!

contagion.grieve-smith.com

On the left is a pedestrian sidewalk extension, in the center under the snow is a bike lane. On the right is 5 lanes for cars.

(And no, I have no idea why there is a double yellow line here when all other one way streets use white lines. )

#savencar

We now have a CDC grant tracker and are collecting information on CDC terminations. If your CDC grant was terminated, we need your help to gather data and documents! Please report!

grant-witness.us/submit-cdc.h...

👀

Connecting communities across The Bronx — at a pace faster than walking — would be amazing.

Let’s go Bx12
🚌 Inwood to Pelham ❤️