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Glenn Jaecks

@glennjaecks.bsky.social
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Geology Professor, Cyclist, Commuter, Beach, 'n' stuff. I think I might be a Le Guinian anarchist, with a tinge of Marx and democratic socialism. I teach climate change.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h
A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry
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A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry
Peru’s anchoveta have made up about a 10th of the entire global commercial fishing catch since 1970, more than any other fish. A combination of warming seas and decades-long overfishing spells disaster
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Pipa💙 @pipapipia.bsky.social · 1h
What a delight to enjoy rivers. A well-maintained and clean river is a treasure. Let's take care of rivers, please.💙🌿
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h
It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.
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North America’s largest wildlife overpass is working. I-25 collisions near Castle Rock are down 91%.
In the 10 months since the wildlife crossing between Larkspur and Monument opened, there’s been just 2 reported collisions
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In case you missed it live earlier, my "big October El Niño update" was recorded and is now available. This was a bit of a marathon session, but I covered a lot of ground and answered quite a few excellent viewer questions submitted via live chat! Check it out.
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The big October El Niño update: Status check on El Niño, still expected to become historic,& impacts
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 10/13/2026 topics: This will be the long-promised "big October El Niño update." I'll offer a comprehensive overview of current conditions, forecasts, and observat
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Update: There is a rapidly emerging fire weather threat in parts of SoCal Thu-Fri in places that have not seen significant recent precip (esp. western LA metro). A warm Santa Ana event will bring strong, gusty winds even to lower elevs, but vegetation moisture highly variable.
Fire weather risk map from NWS Los Angeles depicting high (level 3 of 4) risk specifically across western LA metro on Thursday.
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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 16h
NEW PALEO JOB!! The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) in Johannesburg is hiring a Director. Famous for human origins, dinosaur evolution, and most importantly (😅) Permo-Triassic tetrapods, this is a huge opportunity to lead one of the world’s greatest paleo institutes. Please share!
Job posting information for the new ESI director role, including information about the importance of the ESI collections ESI director responsibilities
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California Geological Survey @cageosurvey.bsky.social · 16h
Across California, thousands of seismic instruments are quietly recording how the ground, buildings, bridges, and other structures shake during earthquakes.
Map of California. Dots of different colors show the locations of seismic sensors in different locations across the state. Pictures along the edges show examples of structures with seismic sensors.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15h
Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. Learn more on #NationalFossilDay: scim.ag/4ztoqGs
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 15h
I think we don't talk enough about how car dependency sucks for everyone, including drivers, who don't actually want to live in constant fear of a $400 repair or to have to buy their kid an SUV the minute they turn 16 so they're not stuck chauffeuring them everywhere. Love when surveys confirm it!
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Study: Americans Already Doubt the Myth that 'Driving is Freedom' — Streetsblog USA
An overwhelming majority of US motorists say they feel they have zero choice in how much they get behind the wheel — and most of them explicitly want to flee a system that forces them to drive almost ...
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Before piloting an aquatic Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me and a Volvo P1800 in The Saint, Roger Moore rode a bicycle in the Sirdar Knitwear catalogue, and wore a magnificent turtleneck sweater while doing so. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Roger Moore! October 14 (1927-2017)
Catalogue photo featuring a man wearing a turtleneck sweater with three bicycles and riders on it. The man is himself standing with a bicycle.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 16h
The words you're looking for are "attempted murder charges" He intentionally drove his SUV into a pedestrian
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h
Elon Musk is despicable. Because he is a crazy white supremacist, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa by having his DOGE teens cut aid for food and medicine. And because he is a crazy authoritarian, he has now killed Ukrainians by hindering their ability to anticipate air strikes.
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Glenn Jaecks @glennjaecks.bsky.social · 15h
Last day is always weird. I once had one of the later slots on the last day, everyone was a bit loopy.
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 15h
"Fast-expanding electric car fleets have saved oil-importing countries $20bn in crude oil costs in the six months since the start of the Iran war, according to new @ember-energy.org analysis published today." www.businessgreen.com/news/4537247... via Amber Rolt 🔌💡
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Study: Electric vehicle boom has saved oil-importing countries $20bn since start of Iran war
New analysis shows electric car fleets in oil-importing countries displaced an estimated 200 million barrels of crude oil demand between March and August
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Grist @grist.org · 15h
America’s AI ambitions threaten Indigenous lands in the Philippines
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America’s AI ambitions threaten Indigenous lands in the Philippines
Indigenous Aeta communities are fighting to protect their lands from a sprawling tech hub that critics warn could strain wate and energy supplies.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 14/10/2026
Fear of overflowing rivers forced Argentina to temporarily block tourist access to the breathtaking Iguazu Falls, attributing rising water levels to the El Nino weather pattern. The national park took the measure when the Iguazu River's flow reached six times its average rate 📸 Christian Rizzi
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 13/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed teaches Fox News host how taxes work:
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Glenn Jaecks @glennjaecks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I remember reading a paleo article back in grad school suggesting the Pliocene had more persistent El Niño-like conditions in the Eastern Pacific (ok well, more recent than grad school- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)
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Permanent El Niño-Like Conditions During the Pliocene Warm Period
During the warm early Pliocene (∼4.5 to 3.0 million years ago), the most recent interval with a climate warmer than today, the eastern Pacific thermocline was deep and the average west-to-east sea sur...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Climate simulations spanning centuries to millennia suggest that an El Niño-like climate state could persist for centuries after emissions cease, bringing lasting rainfall shifts and more frequent extreme El Niño events. Net zero ≠ climate reset. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Ocean thermal inertia sustains a tropical Pacific mean state shift under net zero - Communications Earth & Environment
The tropical Pacific shifts towards El Niño-like conditions under ongoing warming and does not recover for centuries after emissions cease, according to climate model simulations spanning centennial t...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The dystopia of data centre colonialism The Indonesian island of Batam has 1.3 million residents who rely on freshwater collected in reservoirs As severe water shortages impact daily lives & livelihoods, Batam hosts 2 operational DCs, has 8 more approved & 6 under review for approval Insanely...
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The island where locals say data centres are taking their water
"Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months," a local tells the BBC.
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
”Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar panels to wind turbines — is advancing an unexpected green energy transition.” Centralized fossil fuel infrastructure and #DataCentres are easy and obvious targets for drone and deep strikes. e360.yale.edu/features/ukr...
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How Ukraine Is Turning to Renewables to Keep Heat and Lights On
Russia continues to bomb Ukraine’s fossil-fueled power plants, leaving much of the nation shivering during a brutal winter. But Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar pa...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/10/2026
I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Democracy in the US - it would be a good idea. "The enormous sums add to Republicans’ already large financial advantage" www.ft.com/content/3e2a...
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Elon Musk injects $275mn into Republicans’ fight to retain Congress
Trillionaire Tesla chief has become party’s biggest donor ahead of November’s pivotal midterms
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/10/2026
A consulting agency in Nevada has received millions of dollars from one of the biggest pro-AI super PAC networks ahead of November’s midterms. The problem? The company doesn’t seem to exist.
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The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Trump Administration's raid on Congresswoman Omar's home is chilling and a deep abuse of power.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026
Meet Krystal Polk: whose family has been pushed out of Southaven, Mississippi by Elon Musk's ultra-polluting fossil-fuelled data centres. Meanwhile: Anthropic, who rent space in that data centre, is banning people being mean to its chatbot
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026
this is community 🪴
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 12/10/2026
Deadline coming up! The opportunity should be interesting, not the least, to students wishing to pursue a PhD in PPE #philosophyjobs
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Glenn Jaecks @glennjaecks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
any thecideide brachiopods stuck to their sides?
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 12/10/2026
In a new paper in Nature Climate Action, the UCS climate team joined a group of experts to argue for a significant normative shift in climate science, focusing on how humans have altered the Earth’s climate system, regardless of what Big Oil & the Trump admin argue. Read it here: ow.ly/QaUz50ZWwoT
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Glenn Jaecks @glennjaecks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Seems like it was written by someone who doesn't read
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Glenn Jaecks @glennjaecks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'd just be happy with some trains. fast ones of course
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 11/10/2026
FACULTY JOB ALERT: @bloustein.rutgers.edu assistant professor position in climate change + planning law jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/282...
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy seeks to hire a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor for an appointment beginning July 2027. Candidates should have a specialty in climate change and planning law. Strong candidates will have a focus on legal, policy, regulatory, or contractual aspects of adapting to or mitigating climate-change-related problems. Examples include land-use planning, regulation of climate-responsive urban form for neighborhood design, energy facility siting, disrupted insurance and real estate markets, property buyouts, landlord-tenant law governing habitability, hazard mitigation in coastal and riverine locations, and zoning- and density-based solutions. We are particularly interested in scholars with a clear research agenda or practical experience in the following areas: adaptation in urban or coastal contexts; integration of hazard mitigation and municipal planning practices; or public utilities regulation.
 
The faculty member will teach in the Master of City and Regional Planning program and related graduate and undergraduate programs in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Candidates need to be able to teach Survey of Planning Law at the graduate level.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another massive flood caused by a landslide in Nepal - this one in the Budhi Gandaki valley. No decent cloud-free imagery from @planet.com yet but this is from @esa.int Sentinel2.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
post by @ItsAndyRyan


Her: who's your favorite literary vampire?
Me: the one in Sesame Street
Her: he doesn't count
Me: I can assure you that he does
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 12/10/2026
Wow, she’s really changed—I barely recognize her here.
Screenshot of the quoted tweet from the OP’s post, with a title card that shows a dinosaur in the forest.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The side Trump has chosen to support
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When your country can do medical experiments on other countries' babies, you have to ask the question, are you the baddies?
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/10/2026
Global ocean heat content (0-2000 m depth) now updated through June 2026... Do you see where this is heading? 🔥📈🌊 This graph showing anomalies is created by NOAA at www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa....
Line graph time series of global ocean heat content for the 0-2000 m layer for 3 month averages, yearly averages, and five years averages from the late 1950s to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend. The baseline is 1955-2006 for the zero reference to calculate the anomalies.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2026
Oracle is sending 30 TRUCKS OF GAS A DAY to one of its data centres due to delayed gas pipeline 🩻 still waiting for AI to solve climate change🩻 www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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