Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 3h✅exciting sounding finding ✅authors funded by effective altruists ✅Bad study design ✅dumped in an industry funded conference ✅news coverage as tho it’s actual unbiased good science 219151
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13hI’ve seen a few folks comment that “Guinea-Bissau is a low income country and cannot afford the hep B vaccine birth dose, so why is this study unethical?” It’s a good question. Let me have a go at answering it. In a nutshell, researchers cannot ethically exploit poverty & scarcity to do a trial 7376130
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDRuth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026This deep dive on XKCD's famous comic on all modern infrastructure manages to be important, fascinating and more than a little bit scary all at the same time. Worth a scroll. And massive kudos to Germany for their sovereign tech fund, all countries should have one sheets.works/data-viz/hol...sheets.worksThe people holding up the internetFour billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest. 34020
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...." 28548144
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143734732
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAdam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“The harm you have done is incalculable. It’s not me who has been spreading great harm around the world. It’s you, mate.” George Monbiot on being accused by Prof Michael Sharpe of “spreading” #LongCovid by writing about it and why he started writing about the #MECFS scandal. 514256
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's not the hope that gets you, in the end. It's the heat. @bberwyn.bsky.social reporting, so you know it's good. insideclimatenews.org/news/2809202...insideclimatenews.orgRevealing the Invisible Injustice of Extreme Heat - Inside Climate NewsThermal imaging shows how people experience scorching heat varies depending on their circumstance. 041
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"El Nino Digest" Times ("END Times", geddit?) An 8 page round-up of what is happening/about to happen. Front page - from The Climate Brink, a handy impacts map... 1/8 42012
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDWillard @climateball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The answer to "has global warming accelerated?" is "considerably". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 094
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDBarbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on? 410126
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDSam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026#Climate change is not just raising temperatures. It is increasing the likelihood of prolonged periods when heat, water stress and wildfire risk occur simultaneously. Understanding these compound extremes is essential for building resilience across our water, food, energy and health systems. 17828
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.nytimes.comThe Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 7769210
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026Merchants of Doubt are going after extreme event attribution www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comInside the anti-climate campaign against researchersA POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. 12916
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 1037537724
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDLawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“People are cutting back on food or medicine or resorting to payday lenders because you need to get the power back on…Poorer people and older people aren’t turning on the AC because of the cost and when you get back-to-back heatwaves they may die because of that.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summerUtility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows 043
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...expressnews.comTexas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about itTexas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state. 814082
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s cool. Revit makes drawing boxes really easy. 0111
Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've been offered less than the advertised wage at an interview bc I was a woman. They couldn't believe that I was very competent in CAD. I offered to work for reduced wages for 2 weeks to prove myself, if they would reconsider my wage afterwards. They said no. I walked out. 071
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDNBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris. 1135286
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026YESSSSSS This bot exists for you to tag or reference every time someone defends Newsom and says they’re the great white hope of the Dem party and you want to dispel that. 712745
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026exactly this. rfk jr. figures parents won’t put up as much of a fight over covid vaccinestheguardian.comDelays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccinesAdministration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory 13315
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDWBEZ @wbez.org · 17/09/2026Five of Illinois' public universities have spent nearly half a million dollars on AI-powered surveillance services from Flock, records show.wbez.org5 public universities in Illinois use controversial Flock cameras to surveil campus, records show 187
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can any readers of Swedish/Scandi children's adventure novels provide title? Set in Arctic, from 1970s or 1980s, follows the struggle to survive of the crew of a helicopter that has flown off course b/c a powerful magnet had been stored too close to the compass, giving a false reading. 021
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDLawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Known today for traffic jams and motorist misery, it’s hard to imagine that this monument to LA and US oil & car culture was once featured in the triumphant conclusion of “How the West Was Won” as a symbol of Anglo-American triumph over the wilderness. (It appears at 2:45.) youtu.be/8t_qToyqiOU?...youtu.beHow the West Was Won (1962) --- the grand finaleYouTube video by edwc0322 172
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/... 7331164
Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I have been thinking about it a lot. Especially since we left all the options and initiatives that 2020 brought about. 020
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊ 131981675
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDKen Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHow Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reportsGuardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ 082
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is the outcome of the “you do you” approach to public health that so many people favor 726879
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is incredibly well-done reporting from NPR on an issue I have thought a lot about this summer: youtu.be/71qcn0xUtIY?...youtu.beWhy are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?YouTube video by NPR 16217
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDIan @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The blobs are overtaking the globe 👀 1246
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Have just learned a lesson, so for the benefit of others: if you are contacted by a reporter for a media outlet, before you respond to their questions, ask whether they will be writing the piece themselves or whether their AI assistant will be writing it (if that matters to you). 56512
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHere's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content MillsThe little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network. 8265144
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDClare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Here’s the article that won: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe man who broke offshore windHow David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector. 1102
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431633459
Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026static.klipy.comLord Farquaad's Sacrifice Quote MemeALT: Lord Farquaad's Sacrifice Quote Meme 040
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDRuth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026Can only recommend you download F-Droid now to take advantage of the free open source and usually privacy friendly apps before Google/Alphabet shuts it down. It's a scandal that this issue hasn't raised more attention because Android was supposed to be an open platform. keepandroidopen.orgkeepandroidopen.orgKeep Android OpenYour phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them. 163
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well you'll probably have free time to read soon, so:press.princeton.eduEverything Was Forever, Until It Was No More“[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of ... 051
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDThe Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde 197129102227
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDDan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026For decades, the political project has been remarkably consistent: Cut taxes for the wealthy → reduce public revenue → increase deficits → use the resulting debt to justify cutting social programs. This not a non-political fiscal policy choice. It's a mechanism for redistributing wealth upward. 512373
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421282409
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Floors and walls today. 935545
Reposted by Csilla Gal, PhDRaed Mansour @raedmansour.com · 14/09/2026Study finds structural inequality predicts storm deaths & injuries. Disaster preparedness shouldn't begin with forecasts, it begins by investing in communities facing greatest structural disadvantages. Climate vulnerability is socially produced and therefore socially reversible according to authors.nature.comRacialized economic concentration predicts storm-related injuries and deaths in the United States, 2005–2022 - Nature CommunicationsExtreme storms increasingly threaten public health across the United States. This study found that counties with greater racialized economic disadvantage experienced markedly higher rates of storm-rel... 031