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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here we go, AI changing power distribution in the USA...

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

"To understand how the far right has taken root here, it helps to consider changing features of Brazilian capitalism over the past two decades. Since turn of century, China’s reordering of global capitalism has pushed S America to become one of the world’s main sources for ag & mineral commodities"

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.

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To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way." My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...

science.org

Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it

Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 24/09/2026

While we are now certain that Sep 2026, will not be the hottest September ever recorded - that was Sep 2023 at 1.75ºC above pre-industrial (ERA5) - it will be the second hottest at ~1.61)C But things are about to get interesting in Oct-Nov-Dec. Graphic source: dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#global

Recent years against era envelopes (5–95th percentile per era). Dashed: EC46 46-day forecast. Shaded column: the current month.

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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Droughts across the US & 🇪🇺 have been shriveling harvests, ; weather forecasts for a “super” El Niño this year means “there are some alarming signals” about the impact of weather on wheat crops, said Lampreia, a market strategist at the Lisbon-based Freedom24.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos

Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds.

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tensions in the middle East keep escalating..

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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our lab is hiring a long-term Postdoc in marine animal physiology (5 years). Great chance to work with us phenotyping mussels & to develop your own research program on questions of choice. Excellent lab and aquaristics facilities and easy access to European seas: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

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Postdoc marine evolutionary physiology (University Assistant)

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good article, but there’s one understated piece: higher land use of organic ag means that if we shift toward organic at current consumption patterns, more natural ecosystems need to be cleared for farming, causing carbon losses, making total GHG emissions of organic usually higher vs. conventional.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...

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Counting up the costs of coal

Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026

Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes, the way the world works is weird, and the true tale sounds like invented stories.. You can't make this up. www.popsci.com/science/lewi...

popsci.com

Lewis and Clark’s mercury-laced poop helped archaeologists trace their expedition

Welcome to a poisonous trail of number two.

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now the news starts to be packed full of El Nino prognostics and impact predictions. The best overall view of the phenomena is provided by this Carbon Brief article.. interactive.carbonbrief.org/el-nino-expl...

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Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather

The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many.

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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Job alert: full professorship in meteorology in the University of Helsinki! New position in dynamic meteorology, synoptic-scale meteorology and numerical weather prediction. The vacancy has been opened due to the passing of Dr. Victoria Sinclair. Details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

jobs.helsinki.fi

Professor/Associate or Assistant Professor, Meteorology

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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Melko voimakas lintujen aamumuutto käynnissä selkeällä taivaalla. Lähinnä hyönteissyöjiä kuten kuten västäräkkejä ja rautiaisia poistuu Suomesta.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ocean anomalies up to +14°F! While El Niño drives global weather patterns, its biggest impacts are arguably local in #Peru, #Ecuador and the #Galápagos Islands. The extreme warmth along the coast is disrupting one of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. 1/

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

reuters.com

Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports

The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is this a case where imaginary science fiction world is actually influencing real world (ping @helmiraisanen.bsky.social @ninamjanasik.bsky.social)

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is quite something. Just absolutely mind-blowing temperature anomaly caused by El Nino in the eastern Pacific. (note that the scale is Fahrenheit, not Celsius, but still!).

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

El Nino is strengthening, it will rocky ride through the winter in many parts of the world...

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Heli @helisip.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

”Norjalaiset ovat tyttöjä, jotka rakastavat tyttöjä, poikia, jotka rakastavat poikia, sekä tyttöjä ja poikia, jotka rakastavat toisiaan. Norjalaiset uskovat Jumalaan, Allahiin, johonkin muuhun, tai eivät mihinkään" Kuningas Harald Saisiko lisää tällaista avarakatseisuutta ja lempeyttä, kiitos.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“If we don’t change course, risk will continue to escalate until fuel-filled landscapes eventually reset catastrophically. Much of the West will burn. Today’s children will see forests converted to grass or shrublands in their lifetimes. Biodiversity will be irreversibly destroyed”.

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Extremely interesting! Always thought (and was teached when I was student) that large brains and upright walking was the reason... but it seems that it is much more complicated.. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Why are human births so difficult? Male babies—not just upright walking—may be to blame

Analysis of 140 species suggests the risks of sons are offset by evolutionary advantages

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(it wasn't but a couple of years ago when all of Europe was begging Germany to ramp up military spending, when germans themselves were hesistant, because of history...). Wild.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Countries Where More People Died Than Were Born In 2024 Numbers for each country: brilliantmaps.com/countries...

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Record hot summer in Italy this year...

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excellent thread about AI, USA, the dilemma's of more intelligent models, model jailbreaks, China, and USA economy. Multiple possible outcomes. Some of which are scary.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From someone who knows @casmudde.bsky.social

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Climate change is threatening artisanal cheese production... similar warnings have been published about wine, beer, coffee, avocados, bananas, many other vegetables and fruits. Overall it will be diminished variety of things to eat and drink...

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Of course we don't get to live through a fascist era that has the aesthetic sensibility of Leni Riefenstahl and Hugo Boss. We just get the posters off the bedroom wall of a 14 year old boy who has played far too much Warhammer 40k

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