I have allowed the internet to damage my ability to concentrate on prose that does not constantly send dopamine into my brain.
I need to rebuild my attachment to long form prose.
Ken Caldeira
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Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs. Conceptual Investigations Unit, housed at Stanford. Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures. climate / energy / etc ciunit.org Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer.
![Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (born October 31, 1984) is an American politician and epidemiologist who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.[1] From 2023 to 2025, he was the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services of Wayne County.
El-Sayed is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Oriel College, Oxford, attending them on a full-tuition scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship, respectively. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University. El-Sayed was an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University from 2014 to 2015. He was the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit from 2015 to 2017. His publications in public health include three books and several academic journal articles.
A progressive Democrat, El-Sayed supports regulated capitalism, Medicare for All, enforcing an arms embargo on Israel, and abolishing ICE. He ran for governor in 2018, placing second to Gretchen Whitmer in the Democratic primary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_El-Sayed](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hfunbop47sm2azdbajfvnf4g/bafkreide6ru3spctnkxt4feed3doiacy5v3tszqhpdv453xauujdo4r4pq)
![§374-A. General election candidates; vacancy
1. Vacancy and replacement of nominees. The Secretary of State shall declare the vacancy as provided in section 362‑A and a political committee may make a replacement nomination for the general election only if a person nominated for an office at a primary election or by a political committee:
A. Withdraws on or before 5 p.m. of the 2nd Monday in July preceding the general election in accordance with section 367; [PL 2011, c. 342, §12 (AMD).]
2. Deadline for replacement of nominee. A political committee may make a replacement nomination for the general election:
A. No later than 5 p.m. of the 4th Monday in July preceding the general election for a candidate who has withdrawn in accordance with subsection 1, paragraph A; or [PL 1993, c. 447, §5 (AMD).]
B. As soon as practicable for a candidate who withdraws or is withdrawn in accordance with subsection 1, paragraph B or C. [PL 1989, c. 341, §2 (NEW).]
[PL 2019, c. 636, §9 (AMD).]
2-A. Ballot procedure for replacement candidates. If a political party makes a replacement nomination for the general election by the deadline established in subsection 2, the Secretary of State shall produce new general election ballots or amend or supplement general election ballots already printed in accordance with section 376 or 604.
[PL 2019, c. 636, §9 (NEW).]
3. Deadline for removal of candidate's name from general election ballot. Removal of a candidate's name from the general election ballot is determined in accordance with this subsection.
A. The name of a candidate for an office on the general election ballot who withdraws for any reason 70 days or more before the general election must be removed from the ballot. [PL 2025, c. 363, §4 (NEW).]
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-a/title21-Asec374-A.html](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hfunbop47sm2azdbajfvnf4g/bafkreigoeowngwhnrqaaxksb4u4o3jxqdrk24fzzzwpn2iu3o55jws3vo4)
![Fig. 2 Sea-level commitment from Antarctic ice loss.
Given is the total sea-level change after 1000 years (yellow), 3000 years (orange), and 10,000 years (red) after year 2000 for each of the scenarios depicted in Fig. 1. The maximum temperature anomaly and the temperature anomaly after 10,000 years are given on the upper x axis. If all of the currently attainable carbon resources [estimated to be between 8500 and 13.600 GtC (4)] were burned, the Antarctic Ice Sheet would lose most of its mass, raising global sea level by more than 50 m. For the 125 GtC as well as the 500, 800, 2500, and 5000 GtC scenarios, the ice-covered area is depicted in white (ice-free bedrock in brown). For more details, see fig. S5.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500589](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hfunbop47sm2azdbajfvnf4g/bafkreic2ai2tmjn5l7gekog4lbuapx3e6m63rrjqoaxry3oh24x4spyrqy)
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