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How snowboarder Bea Kim fights climate change through her words and wardrobe The 19-year-old U.S. snowboarding star is fighting climate change to help protect the planet and the sport she loves.

Bea Kim is an Olympian, @protectourwinters.bsky.social member + climate advocate.

“The world is changing. Glaciers are melting that we’re riding on. Each year we wonder if there will even be enough snow for us to do what we love. I couldn't watch it happen and not say anything about it,” she says.

Happy Birthday to Laura Ingalls Wilder!

February 6, first Friday in February, is National Wear Red Day. Cardiovascular disease is the number 1 killer of women. Wear red for yourself or someone you love. From the American Heart Association Go Red for Women campaign.

I'll wear red on Friday 2/6 for my sweet mom and our Nonny, who lost her 21-year battle with heart disease in October. 💔 @americanheart.bsky.social

A new and better way to keep tabs on El Niño and La Niña » Yale Climate Connections Developed in response to a warming world, NOAA’s revised scale more precisely identifies which episodes are likely to have the biggest impacts.

I love writing about geeky science that has real-world implications. In this case, a new NOAA index does a more solid job of classifying El Niño and La Niña—and that helps explain some recent puzzling events. @climateconnections.bsky.social

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/02/a-ne...

The Cult of Ignorance: How Society Learned to Fear Thinking Isaac Asimov saw it coming. Social media and algorithms finished the job.

Great read for today and <sweeps arms around>. medium.com/change-your-...

NOAA observer identified among victims of missing Gloucester fishing vessel One of the victims who died when a fishing boat out of Gloucester sank over the weekend has been identified as 22-year-old federal fisheries observer Jada Samitt.

Sad news no matter what, but particularly because the sinking took the life of a young NOAA observer. www.bostonherald.com/2026/02/01/n...

They're protecting the perpetrators, not the survivors. 🤬

So many red diamonds.

Tracks with AWSSI to date, too.

Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:

Environmental Catastrophes
Intro to Logic
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Stormwater Hydrology
In-Line Skating

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.

Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?

My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.

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

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Probably more filler in it than there is in all the MAGA faces.

Climate Data Scientist | Climate Central Climate Central is seeking a highly-skilled Climate Data Scientist to join our team. Reporting to the Vice President for Science, the scientist will be part of a new initiative in climate services to ...

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

I am a good mother - even my kid says so. I have a Ph.D. in applied climatology, an award-winning career in federal service as a meteorologist and climatologist, and a book published six months ago that connects weather, climate, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. 🧪

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

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Thank you, Sean! Glad you enjoyed it :).

Appreciate the review, @subletteweather.com! Weather can deeply imprint us, especially the weather we experience in our childhood.

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

After Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

Revisit our full archive, five years later:

Pasties Pop Tarts (U.P. of Michigan style)! (Btw, it is pronounced PASS-tees.)

‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters

Deep budget cuts and massive firing sprees shrank emergency response agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), considered a global crown jewel for climate science.

Just saying that no country has invaded and attacked another one for their solar and wind resources.

Iraq had a “save the Kuwaiti people” hook. No such hook for Venezuela - in fact, this admin has done everything to demonize all Venezuelans and, more broadly, all Latin and South Americans.

Note the timestamp on this thread. Dang. :(

Since he isn't on Bluesky, pass on to DK that I think he is absolutely right. It might "just mean more," but it doesn't mean they just win more. SEC has shown they aren't special. Their "strength of schedule" is a phantom based on the myth that SEC is better. Also, pass on to DK to get an acct here.

OUT in 2025 • Reacting to rage-bait content • Letting unexamined biases drive our beliefs • Living inside an echo chamber • Consuming media without reflection • Doomscrolling and wasting too much time on our screens IN for 2026 • Media literacy as a daily habit • Asking: “Who benefits if I believe or share this?” • Practicing critical ignoring — protecting our attention • Starting new hobbies and expanding who we learn from • Choosing curiosity, humility, and nuance over certainty

Happy New Year!!

I own a bookstore. Yeah, that makes sense!

“American Dirt”

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹

They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.

A new scoop for The Reengineer!

www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...