Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 5hFinally got time to go through the full report and it knocked my socks off. Cohesive argument that housing, insurance, energy, and transportation costs should be thought of as one interconnected issue, and we should tackle as a package by building smarter in low hazard areas at SCALE. 15918
Reposted by Kelly HereidJohn Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The electrification of road freight is emerging as a structural force that could undermine long-term oil demand across the world." China's goals are EVs to be 50% of truck sales and 20% of its truck fleet by 2030. EVs may be 50% of truck sales in 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #energyskybloomberg.comChina Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel PricesAround a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security. 38728
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 16hThe most important final consideration for a geologist looking to flex: DOES IT COUNTERTOP? Cuprite, got some cute little cubes, fine. Quartzite countertops, BOOMSHAKALAKA #quartz #MinCup26 2297
Reposted by Kelly HereidKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Quartz needs you to SAND BY YOUR MAN Or woman. Or mineral. Whatever, QUARTZ! #MinCup26 ⚒️ 25811
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Quartz needs you to SAND BY YOUR MAN Or woman. Or mineral. Whatever, QUARTZ! #MinCup26 ⚒️ 25811
Reposted by Kelly HereidDr. Kristina Hill ☠️ 🏳️🌈 thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s SO MUCH legacy contamination in coastal soils. We found more than 1400 administratively active sites in the SF Bay Area alone. And there are thousands more that could have residual contamination. In Hawaii, they’ve seen petroleum in groundwater produce explosive levels of methane… 34924
Reposted by Kelly HereidJacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 29/09/2026What is the cost of hurricane evacuation? We structurally estimate a travel cost model using data on hurricanes, evac. orders, and billions of obs of cell phone movement. Welfare costs average 55% as a share of mortality costs. (w/ Hennighausen, Watson, Berry.) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 096
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Heading to Arizona for a talk tomorrow - totally normal to give an insurance talk for a bunch of tree ringers right? Get ready for some hurricanes and wildfires and floods, oh my. outreach.ltrr.arizona.edu/tree-ring-ta... Thanks @thirstygecko.bsky.social for the invite! 5293
Reposted by Kelly HereidKim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And I'm on the search committee, so send me your questions. But mostly, send the talented early career scientists in your network our way! Target deadline: Oct 26 01413
Reposted by Kelly HereidDr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator! 210930
Reposted by Kelly HereidDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...abcnews.comShark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easterA dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday. 1229972
Reposted by Kelly HereidCarolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Some personal news! In a few weeks, I'm starting a new job @nytimes.com, joining a science team that I've long admired, followed and envied. It's mylast day @washingtonpost.com - I'm so grateful for the 11 years I got to work with a cast of amazing colleagues. www.nytco.com/press/a-new-...nytco.comA New Reporter For Science | The New York Times Company 4193
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For an accessible and fascinating read on where disaster history crosses engineering history, I loved Robert Muir-Wood's Cure for Catastrophe. Clip in next post... 1/2 1112
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tapio Schneider is one of the scientists I look to most to distinguish AI-useful from AI-hype in climate science world. His thoughtful post on the Navier-Stokes blowup is a great example - AI is useful when experimental verification and data density can substitute for physical understanding... 1/2clima.caltech.eduHeadlines and inside stories: understanding and trust in AI for mathematics, science, and engineering - CliMA[This post was prompted by the recent discussions about the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and is cross-posted from Terry Tao’s blog. It lays out the reasoning behind how we use AI at CliMA.] ... 1315
Reposted by Kelly HereidBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River. 321810277
Reposted by Kelly HereidAaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lake Erie turned toward autumn in a single week. Every hour of its surface currents, 16 to 23 September 2026, colored by water temperature: the surface lost about 6°F in seven days. Data: NOAA Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (model) #LakeErie #GreatLakes #dataviz 14016
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Science is a part of your brain you just don't turn off. In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s... 57614
Reposted by Kelly HereidSteven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Propagation of the Storegga tsunami in the southeastern North Sea" is published in Quaternary Research Advances today. Open access paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.qs...) examining the degree to which the tsunami from the 8150 BP Storegga slide would have been able to reach the coasts of Denmark+Germany. 2219
Reposted by Kelly HereidJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20847501188
Reposted by Kelly HereidChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352249766
Reposted by Kelly HereidBrian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you haven't discovered @pyreweather.bsky.social yet, today's the day! It is brilliant on its own merit, but if you're a PSL Daily Composite refugee like me, you have a new home. It's fast, flexible, and feature-packed... 💯% recommend. 2173
Reposted by Kelly HereidKristian Svennevig @ksvenenvig.bsky.social · 25/09/20263D-print your own landslide! New paper out in @geomorphica.bsky.social "Open access 3D-printable landslide models for outreach and teaching" journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/... 75720
Reposted by Kelly HereidMike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SWOT is revealing a world dominated by 'weird rivers'. By simultaneously measuring water levels & breadths of rivers globally, SWOT exposes the extent of human effected on rivers. (They are dammed, braided, frozen, and/or drained—in ways models struggle to capture.) www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgSatellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humansSWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models 02412
Reposted by Kelly HereidJesse M. Keenan @jessemkeenan.com · 25/09/2026Here is the story on our new JPER paper @bloomberg.com mberg.com via @leslieatlarge.bsky.social Sometimes getting a good deal is not a great deal, if you get my deal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comHomebuyers in Wildfire-Prone Areas Get Better Mortgage Deals OnlineA new study found online lenders were more likely to approve loans in areas at high risk of wildfire and offered better rates than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. 062
Reposted by Kelly HereidDave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026By special request, we have Seven Dead Sins for #FossilFriday... we can debate their theological status, but in the immortal words of Dr. McCoy, they done shuffled off the mortal coil. Or something like. 🧪⚒️☠️ First up ... naah, who are we kidding? Sloth is never first to the party. Just wants hugs. 3134
Reposted by Kelly HereidAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026🇨🇱 💮 Chile's Atacama Desert blossoms with life after El Nino rains A resplendent display of flowers has bloomed across Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, after the El Nino climate phenomenon brought heavy rain to the region 03823
Reposted by Kelly HereidRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why did they call it “banning partially hydrogenated oils” and not “Panic! At The Crisco” 27612
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Really glad to see this feature analytics from @kuanbutts.bsky.social and board advocacy from @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social Would love to see a ridership-weighted version of these horrible reliability figures - it's not just that they're bad, it's that they're bad on big lines like 1T and 51A. 1105
Reposted by Kelly HereidAnya Hess @anya-hess.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Very excited to announce our paper is out in Science Advances @science.org! Our reconstructions show Pacific Walker Circulation was stronger during the Little Ice Age, consistent with projections of weakening with future warming www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @whoi.edu @rutgersupress.bsky.socialscience.orgA strong Pacific Walker Circulation during the Little Ice AgeReconstructions of climate over the past millennium provide context for disentangling anthropogenic forcing from natural multidecadal variability. However, the strength of the east-west tropical Pacif... 1309
Reposted by Kelly HereidTim Jesper Suhrhoff @climatejesper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026What if carbon removal could help clean PFAS-contaminated soils—and help pay for it? Our new paper explores a potential win-win-win: enhanced weathering can boost plant PFAS uptake, while pyrolysis destroys PFAS and stores carbon as biochar. paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 395
Reposted by Kelly HereidTim Jesper Suhrhoff @climatejesper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For a century, we’ve essentially been running an Enhanced Weathering field trial. In our Nature paper out yesterday, we show that agricultural liming in the Mississippi River Basin acted as a net CO₂ sink—while offering a rare century-scale analogue for EW. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 33317
Reposted by Kelly HereidAaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026More than half the buildings standing in Los Angeles today were already up by 1950, before almost any of the freeways existed. The ten years from 1947 to 1956 alone account for nearly a third. Data: LA County Assessor + LARIAC #LosAngeles #California #maps #dataviz 1206
Reposted by Kelly HereidAaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia 815057
Reposted by Kelly HereidPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵: 220055
Reposted by Kelly HereidBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381182824
Reposted by Kelly HereidDr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 23/09/2026✨New Account👇🏽, follow us✨ Last week, we announced establishment of the UC Merced Earth Institute on the storied foundations of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute & merger w/ the Climate Institute I am honored to lead this next great chapter of Earth & Environmental Sci & Eng research on our campus 2204
Reposted by Kelly HereidJeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looking at all cases globally of both Rapid Intensification and Extreme Rapid Intensification (ERI), you can see where #Polo falls on that scale (magenta star). It’s the 5th most intense in the NOAA record since 1980. 1/ 16616
Reposted by Kelly HereidColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - NatureEmerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ... 8553276
Reposted by Kelly HereidDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Pretty great day exploring UNESCO World Heritage Site at Stevns Klint w/ @ksvenenvig.bsky.social where the Cretaceous-Triassic boundary (dinosaurs go bye bye) is particularly well-exposed 🧪⚒️ 4479
Reposted by Kelly HereidProf. Anders Levermann, PhD @alevermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Two recent studies in PNAS show: 1) Fractures (which are not represented in current ice sheet models) can easily double the ice loss of a region 2) The fastest changing outlet in Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier, has lost almost all traction due to fractures ... www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...pnas.orgFracture-driven weakening amplifies projected ice loss from West Antarctica | PNASIce shelves buttress the flow of the Antarctic ice sheet, but this stabilizing effect weakens as fractures form, reducing ice viscosity and acceler... 14323
Reposted by Kelly HereidJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The headline electrification rate undersells electricity. It's 23% of final energy but delivers almost 40% of useful energy: the heat, mobility, cooling and light people actually need. 27917
Reposted by Kelly HereidJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS For the first time ever, @iea.org has published a dedicated Electrification Report. An absolute treasure trove of data. Here are the key takeaways that stood out to me when I peer-reviewed it. 🧵 221395
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And, like basically every climate paper that hits the socials these days, lots of sharing here on bsky and a ghost town on Twitter: 310825
Reposted by Kelly HereidKeishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite nudibranchs, Bornella anguilla, swimming like some sort of psychedelic dragon 422755
Reposted by Kelly HereidZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/09/2026We have a new #OpenAccess commentary piece out in @aguadvances.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1029/2026.... This article introduces a new collection of “Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences” by @agu.org. I was very excited to support the nomination of the NSIDC’s Sea Ice Index.doi.orgImpactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences: Highlighting the Data That Transform ResearchAmerican Geophysical Union announces the new living collection “Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences” Nominators submit datasets impactful to their work along with perso... 06018
Reposted by Kelly HereidBrian Matilla @bxmatilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hurricane Polo's rapid intensification is seriously impressive... A special 19Z update was issued by the NHC stating that reconnaissance aircraft found that Polo's central pressure is sitting at 892 mb, the 2nd strongest EPAC hurricane by pressure only behind Hurricane Patricia (2015; 872 mb). 13814
Reposted by Kelly HereidBrian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NOAA reconnaissance data coming out of Hurricane Polo are nothing short of spectacular and indicative of a very intense, compact, and tall hurricane. 26213