Reposted by Ken HemmesGavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026About time! www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fixing-one...theclimatebrink.comFixing one of climate’s worst plotsthe 1930s were hot over the U.S. Midwest, but not that hot 48324
Reposted by Ken HemmesMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026He’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist 620157793084
Reposted by Ken HemmesC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Researcher Juan Felipe Torres has developed a method for desalinating water that relies on an old technology called thermodiffusion. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪 02510
Reposted by Ken HemmesDr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I feel this. Anger is a valid emotion right now. The NSF is being hollowed out. “I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad”. -Kate Marvel Former NASA Scientist 🧪 416363
Reposted by Ken HemmesGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Also "existing contracts" is a meaningless thing. Gas export contracts ae updated all the time 27010
Reposted by Ken HemmesMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Great article from @rboyle31.bsky.social on mysterious Little Red Dots and how they might represent a class of objects we've never really seen before: a stellar atmosphere powered by black hole accretion. stay tuned for a spicy alternative take that should appear on the arXiv later this week! 🧪🔭 614926
Reposted by Ken HemmesShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong 3625721011
Reposted by Ken HemmesYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/11/2025In addition to legal experts @envirojustice.bsky.social , I'd add that environmental & conservation science experts also call for real reform, not more rhetoric, slippery words, and confident endorsements or centrist exhortations that are flatly wrong (next post & embedded🧵 if u'd like more info) 43625
Reposted by Ken HemmesKevin McCluney @mcclunatory.bsky.social · 26/10/2025This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧 insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...insideclimatenews.orgOhio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate NewsThe annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices. 23411
Reposted by Ken HemmesDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies. This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD. www.umass.edu/news/article...umass.eduUMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass AmherstThe vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread. 518079
Reposted by Ken HemmesDr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 12/10/2025That little blue dot is a young exoplanet! #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 #Astronomy 🔭 www.space.com/astronomy/ex... 18811
Reposted by Ken HemmesJoseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵 38724
Reposted by Ken HemmesBiodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Australia’s only shrew has been declared extinct. Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and ranks second for loss of biodiversity. We need better funding for conservation action and stronger environmental laws to uphold our international commitments to prevent further extinctions 🧪 36532
Reposted by Ken HemmesAndrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live: www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation... 43626
Reposted by Ken HemmesDana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽 Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE 43737
Reposted by Ken HemmesDavid Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The cost of kicking real reform down the road. For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench. If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comArts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor saysGovernment mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts 1411041
Reposted by Ken HemmesDavid Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 22/08/2025This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...abc.net.au'Revolving door' between politics and lobbying rings transparency alarm bellLobbying has become big business, with around 727 lobbyists registered in the national capital, more than three times the number of elected officials sitting in parliament. 18484204
Reposted by Ken HemmesNick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025LNG demand in Pakistan is disappearing as solar boom continues www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comPakistan to Ask Qatar to Defer LNG for Years on Weak DemandPakistan plans to ask Qatar to delay delivery of liquefied natural gas supply over the next five years as the South Asian country grapples with weak demand and mounting import costs. 616550
Reposted by Ken HemmesErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I highly recommend folks go out and get a covid vaccine ASAP.thedailybeast.comTrump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market. 21553267
Reposted by Ken HemmesAmy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025🚨🧵My latest: As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding. The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...kffhealthnews.orgAs Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health NewsTrump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together... 2449265
Reposted by Ken HemmesScience and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Summary of this ruling from a science perspective: - Three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit: Clinton, Obama, Biden appointees refused to restore terminations during litigation. - Lower court found grant terminations violate the APA (arbitrary and capricious), 1A, and statutory agency missions. 1/ 12114
Reposted by Ken HemmesThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/08/2025For 30 years, vaccine recommendations from the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social have lined up with the CDC’s plan, leading to millions of children saved from serious illness. Pediatrician @drhigginsmd.bsky.social breaks down AAP’s split with RFK Jr.’s CDC. 🩺 🧪 34222
Reposted by Ken HemmesIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025There is no logical justification for this, only an ideological one 67829
Reposted by Ken HemmesNaomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want.. Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...regulations.govRegulations.gov 9225162
Reposted by Ken HemmesDouglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 30/07/2025🧪 So, does this mean that Columbia caved to the tune of $220M and, surprise, still doesn’t get their NIH grants back? This is just absurd. Congress *should* be pissed. 12810
Reposted by Ken HemmesNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 30/07/2025A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪 24814
Reposted by Ken HemmesDr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025This is a must watch. Here is an interview of Francis Collins, former director of the NIH w/ Stephen Colbert. He ran the NIH for 12 years. "Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. "Our investments are in trouble." The brain drain is here. 🧪 youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU?...youtu.beA Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis CollinsYouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 69736
Reposted by Ken HemmesJiawei Da @paleoisocw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com! We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene. 🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh 122
Reposted by Ken HemmesWhimsical Wavelengths @whimsicallambda.bsky.social · 22/07/2025🧪1/2 With the announcement that the research arm of the #EPA is being shutdown...... It seems that organization was expressly put into place to stop things like the rise of leaded gasoline and CFC's. This is 🥜s. Its like history is doomed to rhyme! www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...npr.orgTrump administration shuts down EPA's scientific research armThe agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic chemicals, climate change, smog, wildfires, water pollution and more. 1145
Reposted by Ken HemmesGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The 2022-23 tax stats released today show that $3m is more than 15 times higher than the median amount of super people in their early 60s have 820280
Reposted by Ken HemmesThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/06/2025"We have $8M in a SMSF. How can we avoid the new super tax?" – SMH "You could hardly find a more pointed example of what's wrong w/ Australia’s economic system, "We don’t have dental in Medicare because we subsidise inheritance of the wealthiest" @grogsgamut.bsky.social theaus.in/grogonomics-... 512031
Reposted by Ken HemmesMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Fellow climate scientists: please be better than Dick Lindzen 26211
Reposted by Ken HemmesProf Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 16/06/2025🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected. This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪nature.comRegional emperor penguin population declines exceed modelled projections - Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe number of emperor penguins in the Bellingshausen and Weddell Sea declined by 22% over the period 2009–2023, a reduction of 1.6% per year, exceeding predictions from population models based on high... 04122
Reposted by Ken HemmesPaul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025A must read then call your representatives 🧪 thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...thebulletin.orgTime for Congress to save American science … and the nationWe believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir... 095
Reposted by Ken HemmesNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The way to beat Trump's fake populism is with real economic populism: - genuine solutions like rent control and free fast busses - directing the deep well of public anger up at the oligarchs, not the vulnerable. This is what Trump fears most - and it's why he never wanted to run against Bernie 101019151
Reposted by Ken HemmesBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/06/2025If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president 12538106
Reposted by Ken HemmesWIRED @wired.com · 11/06/2025Days after NOAA released figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in recorded history, the EPA moved to roll back emission standards for power plants. "The EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says one expert. www.wired.com/story/the-ep...wired.comThe EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power PlantsDays after NOAA released figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in recorded history, the EPA moved to roll back emission standards for power plants. "The EPA is trying to get out of... 17240136
Reposted by Ken HemmesMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It seems like Donald Trump is about to go full dictator. 2810921
Reposted by Ken HemmesOliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025US power plants will be able to emit more dangerous toxins such as mercury and unlimited greenhouse gases under major new rollbacks by Trump. Health experts say this will cause "the biggest pollution increases in decades" and many thousands of deaths. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limitsMore than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades 35550
Reposted by Ken HemmesKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/06/2025The boat was in international waters. So I think this is a kidnapping. 6584208
Reposted by Ken HemmesDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/06/2025In case you missed it yesterday: this "double-header" session-- focused on both recent federal developments regarding #weather, #climate, and #disaster response--plus the (alarming) fire season outlook for the Western U.S. and Canada--was recorded as is available at the link below. #CAfire #CAwater 16620
Reposted by Ken HemmesLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 05/06/2025carbon offsets won’t save us & haven’t even come close — www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJy...youtube.comCarbon Offsets Haven’t Delivered. Is It Even Possible to Fix Them?YouTube video by Engineering with Rosie 43810
Reposted by Ken HemmesJeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025🔌💡Did a climate thing last night I’m proud of & hopeful about: organized a meeting to help about 50 town supervisors, fire chiefs & planning officials in my county understand the value and safety of grid-scale batteries… so they’ll stop imposing moratoria on siting them. 🧵 (1/9) 617536
Reposted by Ken HemmesBadRobotLinda @lms2025.bsky.social · 04/06/2025On January 20, 2025 Donald Trump was officially sworn in as President of the United States. The same day he pardoned 1500 rioters who had committed violent acts during his attempted coup on January 6, 2021. #Voices4Victory 711376
Reposted by Ken HemmesCrikey @crikey.com.au · 04/06/2025Labor should be looking at real reform of superannuation. But Anthony Albanese knows the hypocrisy of those who call for "tax reform", writes Bernard Keane.crikey.com.auAlmighty Albo could use his power to fix super. He won'tOur superannuation system is in desperate need of reform, but Anthony Albanese is far too risk-averse to consider substantial action. Instead, we debate tinkering with the tax system. 074
Reposted by Ken HemmesDoctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 02/06/2025#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres. Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...doctorswithoutborders.caPalestine: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at U.S.-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...Dozens of Palestinians killed, hundreds injured while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian assistance distribution sites backed by the U.S. and Israel. MSF teams join the mass casualty response amid repo... 10302188
Reposted by Ken HemmesThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 04/06/2025With Bradfield now called, @skyelark.bsky.social points out that the 2025 election was the first time where the votes for independents and minor parties were *larger* than for one of the ALP or LNP #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-202... 625589
Reposted by Ken HemmesLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 04/06/2025It’s looking a lot like Martial Law to me. Trump doesn’t need to declare it. It’s already in our streets. This is who backed up ICE in Minneapolis today, the ATF, FBI, city cops and sheriff’s dept. They’re not bringing these vehicles or dressing in full combat gear for the undocumented immigrants. 17365176
Reposted by Ken HemmesFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Pretty rich- my @australia.theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhat happens behind the scenes of Australia’s billionaire boom? | Fiona KatauskasThey’re always on the money 23318
