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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Packet obtained, hotel room arrived. Tomorrow is the big day 🚲 🗺️ (I will be doing either the metric century or the 40mi, not the imperial century)

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A robot killing us all is tomorrow's bridge to cross if we ever get there. Billionaires poisoning information, education, entertainment, and our environment with slop is the most immediate threat.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Internet moves in predictable ways... After seeing that notification, I went to Wikipedia to check the Kelvin Wave page, and literally the most recent edit (earlier today) was someone flagging that article might be too technical for the average reader (it's a lot of equations)

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...is "Kelvin Wave" going to be the next age-old weather term to break out of the science sphere and into the popular sphere enough that 30% of the population thinks it's a recent invention made to scare people?

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026

Column: The Kennedy Center’s orchestra begins its season in the first of a series of new venues. But the festive first night of the season felt a bit like a rebranding. An eager audience immediately stood to greet the now nomadic ensemble.

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Column | Trump displaced the NSO. On opening night, it offered a stirring response.

The Kennedy Center’s orchestra begins its season in the first of a series of new venues.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s another breakdown of the data

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s time for Earth’s annual checkup, and the prognosis isn’t great. But there are steps we can take to return it to health, experts say.

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9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to

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Guthrie “NCAA Soccer Jon Rothstein” @guthrieedson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NWSL refs Lauren Aldrich and Alex Billeter, as well as former NWSL ref and current MLS and World Cup ref Tori Penso posting photos of themselves on IG and saying “We belong” in response to Federico Higuaín’s behavior and comments to their colleague.

Referee Lauren Aldrich in a blue jersey with the words “We belong” next to her in white text

Referee Alex Billeter in a red jersey with the words “We belong” next to her in white text

Tori Penso in a black jersey with the words “We belong” in white text

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If this could stop happening, that would be great, but *some* people are always just gonna be awful people.... =-(

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every day that major media fail to clearly declare that the president is out of his mind and is building a dictatorship is a day when they are betraying their duty to the American people.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 03/09/2026

The court's ruling overturns unilateral action from Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins declaring unconstitutional a ballot measure with enough signatures to go before voters.

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Missouri high court: Voters can decide whether state can overturn citizen petitions

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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🟥 Blindspot for the Right: Whistleblower warns that new U.S. Postal Service mail-ballot system is “secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed” and risks a “catastrophic failure” that could prevent millions of Americans from receiving ballots in November. ground.news/article/whis...

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

....y'know, today is really not a good day to discover that my bathroom faucet is dripping

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am a strong believer in freedom of religion. However, I also strongly feel that your freedom of religion ends at forcing your religion on other people. This includes parents forcing religion on their children. I beg society to treat children as individual people and not property of their parents.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]

JPEG version of a 1-page Factsheet: El Niño 2026-2027: A Potentially Historic Global Climate Event
By Daniel Swain, PhD | August 2026

There is a banner image depicting projected warming of the Pacific Ocean by early winter.

The content begins:
"What is El Niño?
El Niño is the warm phase of a natural cycle, known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), that occurs roughly every 2-7 years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño events, the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to well above typical levels. El Niño directly affects local climate in the countries closest to the unusually warm ocean waters, but can also indirectly influence the climate of distant regions thousands of miles away. During the strongest events, El Niño can profoundly affect climate even on global scales, causing temporary planetary warming and disrupting large-scale precipitation patterns..."

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Never good to have a blown tire score #allforcity

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 25/08/2026

For the first time, a peer-reviewed study has "drawn a straight line from single corporate emitters like Exxon or Chevron ... to specific heatwaves and areas of extreme rainfall." The new methodological framework could make it much easier to hold Big Oil accountable for its climate lies.

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It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change

For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lastly, also worth noting that there *are* more optimistic climate models out there (I know the model from my PhD group is one) but even those do require humanity to still make a big effort to stay beneath 2C by reducing emissions, which instead have still been growing over the past 5yrs

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

case if "officially cancelled" just yet, especially with a potentially destabilizing world thanks to my home country's antics. Also worth noting that 2.6C is still *not good*! We have a lot of effort to do to stay beneath 2C, even more to aim of 1.5C (which we're already hitting annually).

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

which I'm not sure about. "Worst case scenario", to me, means current policies get abandoned and countries start leaning into fossil fuels harder, and that's clearly worse than current policies. I do think that the past 10yrs of policy have reduced what the worst case could be, but IDK if the worst

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I missed the news months ago but this is making the rounds again so I think worth sharing that the best estimate of warming by 2100 is roughly 2.6C based on current policies alone The Vox article in question (which I can't read, paywall) claims in the headline that the "worst case is cancelled",

A graph showing historical and projected global GHG emissions out to 2100, with each projection labelled on the right with the expected global average temperature (vs preindustrial) associated with each projection. Current GHG policies look to 2.5-2.9C warming, pledges lead to 2.2C, and even an optimistic scenario still has 1.9C warming. The 1.5C-compatible GHG projection requires negative emission by 2080, and drops precipitously from 2020 historical levels, with historical emissions since 2020 rising instead of following the sharp drop.

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Climate.us @climate.us · 13/08/2026

It's ENSO-forecast day at NOAA — the perfect day for an ENSO announcement of our own. Starting next week, we're taking baby steps toward rebooting the ENSO Blog, which ran on Climate(.)gov from 2014–2025. 🌎️🧪 [1/4]

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Not sure I can help at all depending on where you are but I hope you get somewhere safe!

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With Spain beating France, I've jumped from 10th to 3rd in my bracket pool. Thankfully, from my read of the rest of the pool, I think I can no longer drop positions even if Argentina lose their semifinal. I move into second if Argentina make the final, and I win if Argentina wins. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

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Thunder Tiger Gaming @thundertgrgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Official coaster merch hat, sunglasses, coaster enthusiast shirt... Ready for my day at Silver Dollar City

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 14/07/2026

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Thunder Tiger Gaming @thundertgrgames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The individual final of Puzzle Palooza is done! Another tough puzzle... Exactly 75% done in 90min - I would've definitely finished if the final was 2hrs like the heats were (end-of-solve speed up assumed).

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Thunder Tiger Gaming @thundertgrgames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Puzzle Palooza update!

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Thunder Tiger Gaming @thundertgrgames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I landed in the top 20!!! Finals tomorrow! 😁

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

F*** the whole tech industry, this is just so ridiculous

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Goes to one Knicks game and they lose for the literal first time in 2 months. Calls the head of FIFA to make him overturn a red card and then the US loses in one of the worst matches of the tournament. No one does it like him, it’s actually amazing

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/07/2026

El Niño continues to grow, with sea surface temperatures clearly at record high levels for the time of year... 📈 Sign up for our next monthly briefing to learn more, including Q/A: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also have an update on 2026's U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far.

Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Taking a little pause from my writing here to remind all of you (or those of you who need reminding) that athletes who make mistakes are still human beings and should be treated as such. Thank you.

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Their mentality this entire game has just been a shell of what it was for the previous four games. Complete pressure collapse

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026

That Belgium goal was definitely the Trump hex at play

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026

The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And yet they manage an insurance goal off a free kick... Phew

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Dr. Austin Hope @aphope90.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Two goals called offside, a penalty not given, a overly hard red card given... USMNT having a rough go of it tonight

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

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