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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New blog post: "Co-creation: The Next Rung Not a Different Ladder" Is the use of LLM really programming? And what do we do? An engineering perspective. #AI #Programming chaasblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/c...

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was biking today just south of the Delaware Water Gap on the PA side and amidst the beautiful roads and farms it seemed EVERYONE had anti data center signs on their property.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Academic organizations hadde bettir actuallye be brave and protecte each othir or else the last one ther will have no taske besydes turninge out the lightes and leavinge the key yn the envelope for big businesse.

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 25/07/2026

The cost of launching a kilogram of cargo into orbit fell from $87,023 in 1960 to $3,868 in 2025. For each doubling of cumulative payload, the average cost to launch a kg has decreased by 21.2%, positioning it to reach $300 per kg by 2040. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/n7Kh50ZsqvA

Starship at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, June 30, 2022.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

People have been asking me this question for decades. The answer is in most places, reducing demand by improving efficiency and cutting waste, and recycling and reusing wastewater, are cheaper, easier, and more environmentally beneficial than desalination. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/19/o...

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The world needs more fresh water. Why isn’t desalination the answer? - The Boston Globe

There is obvious demand for the technology. And solar power should be making it more economical. If only it were that simple.

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 22/06/2026

A model of influenza outbreaks reveals a U-shaped relationship with specific humidity. Very humid and very dry conditions can both favor influenza. The model can predict outbreaks in temperate and tropical climates. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/SYuX50ZflN5

Predicted average daily basic reproduction number (R0) based on climate from best fit parameters for each location (vertically scaled).

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 20/06/2026

Considering PNAS Nexus for your next publication? Hear directly from members of the Editorial Board about what makes the journal unique and why interdisciplinary research thrives in PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/oTLL50ZcVEu Submit your manuscript: ow.ly/6YEV50ZcVEv

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Going back to my blog. Posted "Reflections on the Reflecting Pool". They need and #environmentalengineering mindset to solve this. #ReflectingPool chaasblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/r...

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Charles Haas' Blog

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Proposed regulations from Office of the Management of the Budget will be devastating for science. Fight back by getting informed and writing personalized comments in the Federal Register comment period. Excellent resources from @standupforscience.net fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?” ― Carl Sagan

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/05/2026

These folks just published a real study measuring the local temp impacts of data centers: about +1.8°F (max 4°F) in neighborhoods up to a third of a mile nearby. Much smaller than the other draft paper, but in neighborhoods, need to mitigate waste heat. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainableb...

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Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts

Abstract. Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban environments. Despite heat flux densities that exceed peak solar irradiance by a factor of 2–6,...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 09/05/2026

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I fully agree that the quick dismissal of person to person transmission of #hantavirus is ill-founded. Have been reading a number of papers. This one (animal model) is particularly enlightening

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

“We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs.” 🧪 #giftarticle

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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

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Tamar Kohn @viralexplorers.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Want to move to Switzerland? We are looking for a postdoc to study airborne viruses: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne... @linseymarr.bsky.social @lakdawalalab.bsky.social @corsiaq.bsky.social @influenzal.bsky.social @chuckhaas.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/08/2025

Vaccination rates are falling - and RFK Jr.’s CDC doesn’t want you to know. They skipped their flagship vaccine coverage study and quietly posted redacted data. Transparency should not be optional in public health. zurl.co/Qzn1P

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Vaccination rates fell once again as nonmedical exemptions hit a new high.

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 01/06/2025

DOE ASR program manager just sent a colleague an excerpt from the WH DOE budget that was stealthily dropped: “BER activities in environmental system sciences, atmospheric system research, earth system modeling, data management, and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility are terminated."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

AXIOS: “.. AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, [Anthropic CEO] Amodei told us in an interview ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 12/04/2025

Following all of the Bluesky accounts of the Academies is as simple as adding the accounts in our starter pack. And there's a few feeds to boot! go.bsky.app/CeBKkMs

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Science & the innovation economy are under threat. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated." Read & share ... 👇

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Andy Miller @andymiller24.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

People have no understanding of the enormous avoided health costs that EPA has made possible. The Clean Air Act alone has paid for all of EPA's costs by a factor of nearly 100.

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Daniel Cohan @dscohan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The air quality and health models I have used throughout my career have emerged from EPA’s Office of Research and Development. Shuttering it would be a devastating loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Measles vaccine is arguably the second most effective medical intervention ever (after smallpox vaccine). It is cost-saving. It is incredibly safe. Measles has a case fatality of 1/1000 and can cause brain damage. Don't take health advice from someone who looks like he's made of fruit leather.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/03/2025

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970s

Smog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s

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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Measles is caused by the measles, or rubeola, virus. It transmits through the air and is extremely contagious. Its reproduction number is estimated to be 12-18, so each infected person generates 12-18 new cases in a susceptible population. Best way to avoid it: vaccination.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Terminology is important as it can be very confusing to mix up those descriptors and folks think measles was wiped out in human populations. "Eradicated from the US" is not a thing. TYVM for this moment of pedantry.

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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our study found that the transmission risk of measles among unvaccinated students is > 70 times higher than properly immunized ones

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