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Jim Smoot, PhD

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Dad, husband, aquatic microbiologist, farm owner at the nexus of climate change and sustainable resource recovery. “This machine kills fascists”—Woody Guthrie

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The agreement on a green transition of the agricultural sector

Are you looking for the original document in Danish or are fact sheets in English sufficient? If it’s the former searching Google for the danish name of the agreement returns pdf of the agreement. If the latter is ok, this site has fact sheets: en.fvm.dk/news-and-con...

10.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lol, the "use it or lose it" FSAs?

09.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Shutdown Offer | Explainer YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

This is Richardson’s take. What is she missing?

www.youtube.com/live/NM8mtDm...

09.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

so good!!
youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...

09.11.2025 08:37 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Post brought to you by the year 2015, and 2005 before that.

09.11.2025 03:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Could an early diet of seaweed produce climate-friendlier beef? A UC Davis study shows promising results.

My former UC Davis colleagues Ermias Kebreab and Paulo de Meo Filho went on Marketplace to talk about using seaweed and CRISPR to mitigate cattle enteric methane emissions!

www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

07.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

Ermias Kebreab, by the way, is one of the Names to Follow in enteric methane

07.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

07.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 18608    🔁 3431    💬 300    📌 282
Three people standing in an agricultural field in front of raised pink-hued solar panels, titled towards the sun

Three people standing in an agricultural field in front of raised pink-hued solar panels, titled towards the sun

people standing in an agricultural field in front of raised solar panels, titled towards the sun

people standing in an agricultural field in front of raised solar panels, titled towards the sun

A researcher gesturing toward vertical rows of solar panels arranged like fences over an agricultural field

A researcher gesturing toward vertical rows of solar panels arranged like fences over an agricultural field

What a beautiful agrivoltaics facility Majdi Abou Najm and @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues have built. Thanks for the fantastic workshop and tour!

07.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Unfortunately, I couldn’t make the tour, but the conference was good too. There’s a fairly long way to go for widespread deployment, although replacing plastic hoop houses with agri-PV infrastructure and behind the meter uses (e.g., cold storage) is a fruitful use case. FYI @waiterich.bsky.social

07.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Longer, assuming the trillion was compounding interest while you were burning each bill.

07.11.2025 03:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Prince Sir Williams 'recreating' a photo of his old lady in front of the Rio statue of Christ the Redeemer. She's so monstrously colossal her head is in his armpit.

Prince Sir Williams 'recreating' a photo of his old lady in front of the Rio statue of Christ the Redeemer. She's so monstrously colossal her head is in his armpit.

His mum was a lot taller than he is

06.11.2025 06:21 — 👍 148    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 1
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

06.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 36260    🔁 7970    💬 1584    📌 732

Fwiw, I think that you can use the 3 years in agency roles as a point of strength and leverage—similar to engineering faculty who use their time in private practice as real world experience that enriches their academic background.

06.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. Now that investment is paying off. 

The Australian government announced this week that electricity customers in three states will get free electricity for up to three hours per day starting in July 2026.

For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. Now that investment is paying off. The Australian government announced this week that electricity customers in three states will get free electricity for up to three hours per day starting in July 2026.

The Solar Sharer plan will be available to everyone in New South Wales, South Australia, and in the southeastern part of Queensland to start; more regions will be added later. Households won’t need to have solar on their rooftops to qualify, though they will need a smart meter installed. The plan will help those who live in apartments or don’t have a suitable rooftop to benefit from their neighbors’ panels, Bowen said.

Although the government hasn’t said which hours in the middle of the day will qualify, the hours between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. are the most likely candidates. Customers will have to opt in to the new plan, which is meant to encourage people to shift their energy use to peak solar-production hours. Smart appliances can help people make the most of this by allowing them to time charging their EVs or running loads of laundry.

The Solar Sharer plan will be available to everyone in New South Wales, South Australia, and in the southeastern part of Queensland to start; more regions will be added later. Households won’t need to have solar on their rooftops to qualify, though they will need a smart meter installed. The plan will help those who live in apartments or don’t have a suitable rooftop to benefit from their neighbors’ panels, Bowen said. Although the government hasn’t said which hours in the middle of the day will qualify, the hours between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. are the most likely candidates. Customers will have to opt in to the new plan, which is meant to encourage people to shift their energy use to peak solar-production hours. Smart appliances can help people make the most of this by allowing them to time charging their EVs or running loads of laundry.

How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!

"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
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06.11.2025 00:46 — 👍 353    🔁 86    💬 8    📌 13

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

04.11.2025 04:10 — 👍 255    🔁 82    💬 7    📌 5
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Join Lee Hood and I for a conversation about Super Agers, tomorrow 10 AM PT isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

03.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 46    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Oh, that should be great! Ask him about the ISB PCR-on-a-strip machine that was designed to do 25,000 reactions per cycle. It was an impressive bit of engineering!

03.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frontiers | Assessing the limitations of commercial sensors and models for supporting marine carbon dioxide removal monitoring: a case study Several unknowns remain surrounding marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) practices and capabilities. Current in...

New mCDR publication out today. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

03.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

“Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws…proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction–existing lots will have to comply as well!”
electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

03.11.2025 04:39 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Côtes-du-Rhône Vineyards to Ban Agrivoltaics by 2026 Amid Quality and Tourism Concerns French wine authorities cite lack of data on grape impact and fear solar panels could harm the region’s iconic landscape

FYI: Côtes-du-Rhône Vineyards to Ban Agrivoltaics by 2026 Amid Quality and Tourism Concerns #CôtesduRhône #FrenchWine #Agrivoltaics #WineQuality #TourismConcerns

02.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
as time explodes
YouTube video by neilyoungchannel as time explodes

youtu.be/bK0erwyQUzA?...

02.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 41    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

31.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 711    🔁 515    💬 11    📌 36
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There was only one respiratory virus that was present year-round. You guessed it, SARS-CoV-2.

It’s still here.
9/

31.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 43    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Wonk alert🚨 Economists taken behind the proverbial woodshed!

30.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only if they vote…

30.10.2025 21:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment Aquaculture has become an established and important part of the global food system. Several critiques of aquaculture continue to resurface, seemingly ignoring past research and improvements of (1) aq....

A recent Science Advances special issue focused on #aquaculture, but seemed to have missed the mark in a multitude of ways. My incredible colleagues and I wrote this sweeping Open Access opinion article (with 80 citations!) in response. Hope it's useful! 🐟 🦐 🎣 doi.org/10.1111/raq....

29.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 2

Mammalian but there might be some insights/strategies to consider.

bsky.app/profile/eric...

29.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has anyone looked at correlating otoliths with molecular clock markers (telomeres?)? At what point do scales become unreliable?

29.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Bumper sticker that says your papaw didn't run shine through these hollers for you to be a bootlicker

Bumper sticker that says your papaw didn't run shine through these hollers for you to be a bootlicker

Not my shot but 👍🏻

27.10.2025 23:47 — 👍 1744    🔁 310    💬 28    📌 15

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