Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Most lit reviews were already... Subpar... Before AI came in. This does not bode well... 001
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Classic business hack: they're losing money on every transaction but the high quantity makes up for that!theverge.comAnthropic made $4.6 billion in revenue last year, but lost $42 billion.That’s according to a leaked IPO filing seen by Reuters, with $8.06 billion specifically highlighted in operating losses for 2025, more than double the $2.98 billion it reported in 2024. The AI startu... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Framing the events directly in the context of climate change. What would it take to write an article like this every week with every new event?reuters.comRising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California. Is worse to come?In Malibu, the Pacific Ocean opened a sinkhole near the home of movie star Nicolas Cage and wreaked havoc on beachfront property. Along Beach Road in the city of Dana Point, waves destroyed one home ... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Support your local investigative journalists y'all, they're doing incredible work! 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026> Since Miami is built on limestone, which soaks up water like a sponge, walls are not very useful. In Miami, sea water will just go under a wall, like a salty ghost. Well this hits close to home... Great piece by @sarahlovescali.bsky.social and glad to see Amy Clement featured!popula.comHeaven or High WaterSelling Miami's last 50 years 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Almost like we're messing with a very complex and unpredictable system that we have a very tenuous understanding of... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My take is that this judge has gone his whole life never having to resort to drinking water from the tap. Good for him I suppose but really?thehill.comFederal appeals court says clean drinking water is not a constitutional rightThe ruling followed a lawsuit filed in 2022 by residents in Jackson, Mississippi, over the city’s lead-contaminated water system. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Good news! Trump backs universal basic income!bbc.co.ukTrump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midtermsSpeaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from. 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just realized that the US has been targeting *full* oil tankers. Ignoring for a moment that the whole conflict is a farce, they could have just as well crippled the Iranian economy by targeting *empty* tankers. An avoidable environmental disaster, I suppose none of the decision makers care anyways.stripes.comUS says it destroyed Iranian oil tankers after Navy ship was targetedU.S. forces destroyed five Iranian tankers carrying crude oil in response to two attempts to hit a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles in as many days, U.S. Central Command said. 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Worth reading yourself, but this is a good summary from Heated/What if we get it right.ayanaelizabeth.substack.comI read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society. 000
Reposted by Julian BargBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...billmckibben.substack.comFacts on the groundTwo things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries) 571804568
Reposted by Julian BargAltmetric @altmetric.com · 08/09/2026Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic. 9318136
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026He may clap back, but there is a suspicious absence of ex staffers who say he was a sane person and great to work with... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Don't mislead your date by doing your hair, taking a shower, and wearing clean clothes before your date. That's sexual assault! 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026> Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as unavoidable. www.unep.org/resources/li...unep.orgLimiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards returnLimiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as unavoida... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just realized this is the first time I see the current economic system of the United States accurately described as state capitalism. The Wikipedia article has some interesting international/historical examples.cnbc.comTrump’s state capitalism comes to the oil industry with his unprecedented Venezuela dealThe deal comes eight months after Washington ousted former President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Love this story. There are so many things we can do locally to protect the environment, or even the planet. My go-to example have always been pipelines. They cover vast areas and states just grant companies the permit. They don't have to, but they do it. (Admittedly a simplification but still...)heated.worldOil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weaknessTo keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them. 110
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It's funny because the rule on how to get a job from 10-20 years ago still holds true: just write a hyper-personal cover letter that speaks to our needs at the lab. Instead I see CVs that are so just walls of text, supposedly optimized for some keywords (that even I don't know what they should be). 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My daughter started reading and now I need to get her fresh product every week! Scary how fast kids get hooked! 010
Reposted by Julian BargZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/08/2026Tonight I dug this script out of my visualization archives from four years ago. Sadly, I had to further extend the y-axis scale as rapid warming continues, with a new record this year. No surprise to many experiencing the extreme summer heat... Data from GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/ 921494
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A bar of Lindt chocolate is over $6 at my local supermarket. We don't talk about chocolate anymore 😔 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Imagine nuclear physicists not warning the public about the risks of a nuclear war and a nuclear winter :D 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thanks ma'am, I just spent $18 on four items at the supermarket, the only thing I want to donate now is a Kidney. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have accidentally clicked on a Threads link on Instagram before, maybe by that count I'm a Threads user... 000
Reposted by Julian BargAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I talked to this person years ago about a job writing about the ultra wealthy and he told me I was a bad fit because I was obviously going to make jokes about them. I remember this, to be honest, because the hat was present then too www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...nytimes.comForbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment (Gift Article)Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers. 813242486
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Unfortunately, teachers do have to work though and I do feel for them. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026According to my beliefs, today is a traditional holiday for parents called "first day of school." 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I'm so tired of seeing all those uncritical lifestyle stories about the ultrarich. tf is even going on.nytimes.comShe Makes the Impossible Happen for Her Ultrarich ClientsOlivia Ferney grew up a child of schoolteachers in Ontario. Now she’s an expert in private jets, luxury cabanas and champagne-soaked revels. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This brine-injected chicken is such a pain to cook, rendering all this water. They've made it so preparing tofu is easier than preparing chicken, amazing! 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026cause it's going 📉 for everyone? Fair.thehill.comBessent says K-shaped economy is ‘over’The letter “K” has become a popular way to describe uneven economic outcomes between high- and low-income Americans. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Was surprised that The Hill would have someone write something so timely and candid. Turns out it's a reader-submitted op-ed 🤷thehill.comThe climate crisis is here, it’s accelerating, and it demands actionA California resident and an Illinois congressman are calling for urgent federal action, including a Climate Bill of Rights for Homebuyers and increased financial oversight, to protect Americans fr… 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Frightening how normative social science has become. I disagree though: nobody tries because everyone assumes it won't work != It won't work. And it's difficult. Understanding your data and cutting through the complexity is tedious. But with so many hoops to jump through for quantitative work... 030
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A good descriptive paper lives on forever. Honestly at this point just show me the data, show me enough representative observation for me to understand why I should care, plot it out in ways that cut through the complexity, and that's it. Don't only point to a p-value, if at all. 171
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Just one more airstrike bro! I swear bro just one more, I swear. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Taps the sign: it's climate change, dummy!apnews.comHuman-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculateTwo new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France. 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026> The president told Ms. Prabhakar that he would not want his college-age daughter to read the story, the lawsuit says. You really have to be a graduate student to be old enough to read that story, I suppose...nytimes.comFlorida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When you want to discuss affordability, why write a human interest piece on a conservative think tank though? "Man gets money from conservative donors, corporations" — if that's why we should care, is that really the lead to *this* story?nytimes.comThe Mamdani ResisterReihan Salam loves New York. He loves the free market. And he’s very worried. 142
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Dunno, looks to me like you learned (1) how to convince someone of the merit of your project, (2) how to inflate mozzarella, (3) that you should have spent your efforts on more worthwhile projects than inflating mozzarella. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Good news! > Despite Iranian aggression, the Strait of Hormuz remains open for commercial vessel transit.x.com 000
Reposted by Julian BargOli Frost @olifro.st · 21/07/2026Ad agencies are getting rich selling Oil & Gas in a climate crisis. Why shouldn’t we? Try Petro at seriouspeople.co/meet-petro 12912
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Screw the NYT and movie critics, could you give me a review of The Odyssey? Is it worth seeing in 70mm? 100
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Don't want to be accidentally be moving in the right direction...wsj.comHonda Will Stop Selling Its Lone Electric Vehicle in the U.S.Sales of the Prologue, an electric SUV, will end this year amid a pivot to hybrids. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026In other news the State Dept just decided that my research stay here be limited to four years. 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026What if I did just post all my random thoughts to Bluesky? What's wrong with a little bit of flow of conscious every now and then? 200
