Ken Rice

I don't know how to do this But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

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Virtually all their work relied on ChatGPT and they didn't bother backing anything up, and then thought it would be a good idea to tell everyone in a Nature article.

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

I would be so angry if the professor of a course I needed for my future career was doing all his teaching and grant writing and shit with chatgpt. so embarrassing. Jesus Christ. How did you get a phd if you need help writing an email? You're having 'conversations' with a chatbox?

Yes, that's how I started.

Setting up all the equipment in the labs. Mostly VLF radio wave recording and auroral imaging.

Picture of the SANAE IV Antarctic base taken in early 1997.

Picture I took in early 1997. Can't remember if I was there on 19 Jan, though.

SANAEIV – 19 January 1997 – A Landmark in South Africa’s Antarctic Legacy On 19 January 1997, South Africa reached a defining moment in its Antarctic history with the official opening of SANAE IV, the country’s fourth Antarctic research station. This milestone marked not…

blogs.sun.ac.za/antarcticleg...

Okay, there needs to be a Grammy category for this. And this needs to be the winner.

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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

GIFT article

Trump's Letter To Norway Should Be The Last Straw

Will Republicans in Congress Ever Step In?

by Anne Applebaum

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

JD Vance: ‘despicable toady for Trump’ – and 2028 candidate in all but name Vice-president has emerged as key defender of Maga flame – and is backed by big tech billions. Is this the heir apparent?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Astronomers aim to take ‘revolutionary’ moving image of black hole Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Time to dump Trump? Europeans whisper last-resort options to save Greenland The alliance is already broken, officials say, so why not threaten to cut ties with America on military collaboration?

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Important and timely wide-ranging interview with one of the world's most influential climate scientists.

Some of what he tells @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org is, frankly, breathtaking.

A call to action for all scientists, not just those focused on climate change.

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

I really hope this de-escalates very quickly. If not, I don't see how you can have a US military presence in Europe while threatening to take over an autonomous territory that is part of a European nation.

‘Unacceptable’ for Greenland not to be in US hands, says Trump US president’s comments come hours before high-stakes talks between Denmark, Greenland and US

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

They are strongly related. The linear relationship between warming and cumulative emissions underpins the carbon budget framing.

Multi-dataset comparison of global temperatures from 1850-2025, with 2025 values highlighted in a separate panel for each individual dataset. Baseline is a combination of 1850-1900 means.

Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline)

1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I

NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.

Lex Fridman & Jonathan Haidt: The Techno Monk & The Social Scientist - Decoding the Gurus First, we apologise sincerely for the delayed-release. Matt and Chris have been busy beavers splicing together this decoding which proved particular gr...

For those interested, it might be worth listening to this guruspod episode about Jonathan Haidt (& Lex Fridman). Can't quite remember the general conclusion, but my rough memory is that Haidt isn't as nuanced a social scientist as one might hope. decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/lex-...

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting 🧵about communicating complex scientific/social issues. "If only the communication had been more effective" generally misunderstands the complexity of these issues.

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As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answers

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think the norm is to capitalise, so you have "hot-Jupiters", "super-Earths", "super-Jupiters", etc. Maybe because in this context we're - for example - labelling a super version of Jupiter.

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets Observatories could identify gases potentially associated with life in the atmospheres of other worlds.

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
theconversation.com/how-astronom...