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So you’re saying I should have also bought a lottery ticket today?! Darn it! 🎰

TIL that my annual leave payout is still being processed. On the plus side, the email reply from talent management came the same day I asked, which is a new and exciting development.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
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Toxic masculinity isn’t just a social issue. It prevents us from fully addressing climate change, too. » Yale Climate Connections Social norms that welcome men into caregiving and cooperation strengthen communities as they face climate shocks.

Toughness won’t stop droughts. Domination won’t prevent floods. But care, cooperation & equality just might help us get through it. We can’t fix the climate crisis without transforming masculinity, writes Ishimwe Félicien:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/toxi...

How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.

I think they were dead for a different (explainable) reason but it made me think hard about what happens if more go away.

I’d have to dig back but they were OCADS related, specifically SOCAT I think.

Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.)

Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year.

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

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.

The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Do we have to take climate risks into our own hands now? Why DIY disaster preparation matters more than ever — even if it’s not perfect.

The systems meant to protect us from climate change are shrinking while each disaster trends more extreme.

If the federal safety net unravels, what’s left is you, your neighbors, and whatever you’ve managed to build before the sky turns.

Heather Hansman for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4189...

Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.

🌊Even if you, like me, don't follow the world of "harass marine wildlife for views," this is worth reading because a) it's a great and entertaining read and b) you'll learn about what responsible *conservation* of [insert anything you care about] should look like. 🦈🦠

Warming Gulf of Maine Buffers Ocean Acidification—For Now - Eos Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were surprised by what they didn’t find: a strong anthropogenic signal.

The Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever.

Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social

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Women may be discouraged from becoming climate scientists if they perceive the field as male-biased, but little is known about gender in climate science. An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success, and connectedness with other scientists, and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers, which leads to cumulatively fewer publications. Scholars have long been concerned about gender representation in scientific research but there has been little work on gender differences in participation and performance in climate science, a field that engages with both male-majority disciplines (e.g., geosciences, engineering) and female-majority disciplines (e.g., life sciences, medical science). This has implications for both gender equity and viewpoint representation. Sampling over 400,000 publications and a similar number of authors, we examine gender differences in several scholarly outcomes including publication count, career survival, coauthor gender, journal status, and mean citation count. We find men and women are similarly productive, successful, and connected, though women have shorter research careers and thus fewer papers. We also find gender homophily effects in collaboration, but no evidence of gender bias in peer review.

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should!

They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.

They're inexpensive and highly effective.

Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.

As someone very on the job market and very online as a result, I feel like this summer is my AI slop era. I’m ready for fall (the fall of AI) already.

Our town is filthy with ‘em. And they’re all a little suspect. And none of them play my ringtone.

True confession: Years ago I made this my cell phone ringtone.

The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and North America, with millions of people sweltering in heat and humidity well above "normal" for days on end.

The Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...

The national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms."

The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.

RZA came up with a new ice cream truck jingle because the old one was used in minstrel shows | CNN As it turns out, the jingle we grew up hearing has a problematic past.

However! RZA did an upgrade/antidote! Because Wu-Tang is for the children. One of my favorite stories: www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/e...

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Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️

A science journal funded by Peter Thiel is running articles dismissing climate change and evolution Yet Inference also has contributions from well-known intellectuals and scientists.

🌊 Science community: Inference journal mixes pseudoscience and real science. Don’t be lured by a paycheck offered for a science article. Quick mnemonic: In(ter)ference. Details ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...