Marching toward 200 100% WindWaterSolar days in CA
Oct 16: 198th day in 2025 w/WWS >100% of demand
WWS met 54.5% of demand in '25
Gas down 37% v '23 & 19% v '24
PV up 44% v '23 & 15% v '24
Batteries up 203% v '23 & 57% v '24
Demand down 1.2% v '23 & 2.1% v '24 despite more AI
17.10.2025 20:30 β π 15 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1
Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.
Microbes sustain all ecosystems yet theyβre nearly absent from conservation frameworks.
The @IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group aims to change that.
Honored to co-chair this global effort.
Great @nytimes piece by Carl Zimmer:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...
17.10.2025 17:42 β π 23 π 16 π¬ 2 π 1
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
17.10.2025 15:59 β π 30 π 38 π¬ 0 π 0
Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identifiedβand solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR
12.10.2025 08:27 β π 13 π 8 π¬ 4 π 2
4,000 gone: Inside NASAβs brain drain
In exclusive interviews, ex-NASA scientists speak out on the impact of the agency's mass departures.
"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the USπΊπΈππ
www.planetary.org/articles/400...
h/t @floragraham.bsky.social π§ͺ
16.10.2025 19:28 β π 233 π 114 π¬ 4 π 11
go plasmidsaurus!
15.10.2025 19:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
HiPOD: Colorful Layers in a Crater Wall
A kilometer-wide cutout shows layers sloping from the craterβs rim at right downward toward its floor. A gradient of enhanced colors indicates diverse compositions.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069737_1500
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars
15.10.2025 15:01 β π 22 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble
And the bubble: "In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate... A.I. investment fits that pattern."
15.10.2025 00:09 β π 220 π 44 π¬ 4 π 4
Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. π
13.10.2025 23:58 β π 419 π 138 π¬ 13 π 5
U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country
In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.
βCDC has confirmed 44 measles outbreaks in 41 states this yearβ¦The vast majority of cases were in people who were unvaccinated; 27% percent have been in children under the age of 5. About 1 in 8 measles cases have resulted in hospitalization.β
Vaccination is so important to protect our communities.
13.10.2025 18:23 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Apply - Interfolio
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Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869
07.10.2025 18:38 β π 11 π 16 π¬ 0 π 0
We still canβt predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
07.10.2025 16:11 β π 171 π 67 π¬ 5 π 6
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. Thatβs being passed on to customers.
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 β outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.comπ
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
07.10.2025 16:54 β π 187 π 136 π¬ 13 π 12
with @isotopes.bsky.social and @kopflab.bsky.social
06.10.2025 18:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Researchers are reanimating 40,000-year-old microbes
They're alive!
Thrilled to see coverage of our work in Alaskan permafrost!! Now in @popsci.com by @andrewpaul.bsky.social
www.popsci.com/environment/...
06.10.2025 18:08 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
The rich must eat less meat
ο»ΏScientists say rich countries need to eat a lot less meat. Will the environmental movement finally listen?
βFor the past 2 decades, scientists haveβ¦landed on the same takeawaysβesp. that rich countries must shift their diets to be more plant-based. But that message has, with few exceptions, failed to incite action by governments and food companies, or even the environmental movement itself.β #EatLancet
03.10.2025 20:13 β π 96 π 33 π¬ 6 π 6
#ProtistsOnSky
02.10.2025 19:04 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturnβs moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.
π The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable πͺ
On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.
Read more π www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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01.10.2025 09:09 β π 301 π 95 π¬ 6 π 17
i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem
30.09.2025 16:11 β π 818 π 166 π¬ 33 π 1
wow!! what's going on here
27.09.2025 23:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Slide with text βSupport Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communitiesβ showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath βfor-profit journals do notβ showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.
A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.
Itβs good for science and scientists.
Itβs a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.
It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.
Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.
27.09.2025 22:36 β π 93 π 28 π¬ 3 π 5
The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...
27.09.2025 14:07 β π 955 π 223 π¬ 51 π 15
That's devastating ... there must be so many students in that position. Back when I was in grad school I deferred applying as well. What a nightmare
26.09.2025 18:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
26.09.2025 17:10 β π 171 π 88 π¬ 9 π 9
Translucent, green chrysotile prism with lots of wispy white fibres coming out of it. From Soanesville, Western Australia.
Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
White mass of matted chrysotile fibres. From Ivybridge, Devon, England, UK.
Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
265 of #365Minerals π§ͺβοΈ
Chrysotile:
- A serpentine group mineral
- The most common type of asbestos
- Forms via low temperature metamorphism of peridotite
- Its name comes from the Greek words chrysos (gold) and tilos (fibre) #minerals #MineralMonday
22.09.2025 09:09 β π 63 π 16 π¬ 3 π 0
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
π¨ NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
17.09.2025 11:57 β π 875 π 501 π¬ 20 π 36
Doctoral researcher at the @University of East Anglia| Environmental Extreme Microbiologist π | Geobiology, #Astrobiology βοΈ | lnkd: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/vito-latorre
Hi there, Iβm Chris.
Just a guy who is endlessly fascinated by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (LawilÑtɬa/Loowit). #MSH45
About Me: https://bsky.app/profile/mountsthelens1980.bsky.social/post/3lohgbvt4ab2d
Links: https://linktr.ee/sthelensin1980
A monthly journal aimed at collating top-quality research across the Earth and planetary sciences. Twitter/X: @NatureGeosci
Site notice: http://bit.ly/2oAyLi1 https://www.nature.com/ngeo/
Formerly @wolfiesmiffed
Interests: Mars, space, photography, coding and blender 3D.
Location: Hampshire, UK.
Mars images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134331707@N02/albums/72177720313447009
Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/martian_observer
An open access @natureportfolio.bsky.social journal publishing high quality primary research, reviews, and commentary in Earth, environmental, and planetary science.
nature.com/commsenv/
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes in the power of individuals to advance science through research and science education, making discoveries that benefit humanity.
Assistant Professor in Systems & Synthetic Biology at Wageningen University, Netherlands. How can we better design microbial communities for stable, resilient technologies? In my free time I run, bike, eat, and read.
Professor at Texas A&M Biology. Interested in C. difficile spores and physiology
Digging into the complexity of soil microbial communities
microbial ecology | synbio | microbiome
Postdoc @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social
Images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA). We are based out of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. https://uahirise.org
A peer support group for postdocs on academic trackπ¬ππ‘π»π§¬π±βοΈπ§ͺπ§«ππ©Ί To join us βοΈ future.pi.slack@gmail.com provide Gmail & lab/department profile link.
https://futurepislack.wordpress.com/
Marine paleobiologist & geologist @ UC Berkeley Integrative Biology & UC Museum of Paleontology
Professor for Microbial Communities @dome-vienna.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social University of Vienna @univie.ac.at π¦πΉ, studying the role of microbes π¦ in environmental and human health, sulfur microbes & gut microbiome
Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Astrobiologist and Staff Scientist at JHU Applied Physics Laboratory. Project Scientist on Dragonfly. Rampant foodie. My opinions are my own.
Maine-based science and environmental journalist with stories in the NYT, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. Author of STRATA: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton, July 2025).
www.laurapoppick.com
Asst Prof #Fungi #ClimateChange #Latina #Hermosillense πππ§Άπ©π½βπ¬π²π½ - she/her - guinea pig fan - mom π₯°π₯° P.D. posteo en inglΓ©s ww.fungiloverlab.com
Earth scientist π
CNRS researcher / Chaire de Professeur Junior @ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France;
Geomicrobiology, Biogeoscience, Polar & extreme environments;
ERC StG #ERC_SIESTA;
My views; He/him; π³οΈβπally
www.jbradleylab.com
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