Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Anyway this afternoon I caught a typo of “anthropomorphic pollution” instead of “anthropogenic pollution,” and I’ve been reminiscing about the career of the late great Tim Curry ever since. 020
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I’m obviously Not Very Online these days (I just have needed to moderate myself because everything is bad everywhere all at once and I can’t let myself get into a doomscrolling spiral) but this conversation between two absolute climate/science/writing rockstars brought me great joy. 141
Reposted by Kristina PistoneAyana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Would you watch 🦊 news instead of FOX news? Subscribe & listen to the whole delightful conversation with phenom Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass) on What If We Get It Right?, wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧: pod.link/1773809532 1174
Reposted by Kristina PistoneDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Our goal is to hear from as many perspectives among working professional science communicators as possible. Help us spread the word, and please let us know if you have any questions! 58375
Reposted by Kristina PistoneKristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026So… has anyone done a good one of those? Or are there things to avoid if we tried to put together an event like that? Maybe some of the @skypeascientist.bsky.social local projects? Would love to chat with anyone on or offline about ideas :) 111
Reposted by Kristina PistoneKristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Motivation: @ayanaeliza.bsky.social had a couple WIWGIR episodes about how rare good (vs apocalyptic) climate stories are in media, so I’m trying to think how we might address that even if we’re not ourselves in Hollywood. 111
Reposted by Kristina PistoneKristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Question for the former #sciencetwitter and #scicomm folks: does anyone have (hopefully good?) experience with climate storytelling workshops or other facilitation? I’m thinking something like the Alan Alda Scicomm workshop, but for the general public (local) rather than scientists specifically. 121
Reposted by Kristina PistoneCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/02/2026Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close. But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse. 17514151
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Question for the former #sciencetwitter and #scicomm folks: does anyone have (hopefully good?) experience with climate storytelling workshops or other facilitation? I’m thinking something like the Alan Alda Scicomm workshop, but for the general public (local) rather than scientists specifically. 121
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 12/02/2026By my count it’s three distinct generations of scientists that have been lost in barely a year: 1) students like this who can’t get funding to even start study 2) early/mid-career who no longer have funds or support to stay in this career 3) senior scientists who DRP’d or otherwise noped-out early. 171
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I know everything is terrible everywhere right now (thus me mostly quitting the socials), but I hope people will check out this webinar on Wednesday on how to decarbonize apartments etc: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-buzz-o...eventbrite.comThe Buzz on Multifamily ElectrificationJoin our Sustainability Speaker Series event with speaker, Nick Dirr, as he discusses how to make apartment buildings all-electric. 100
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Hey all! How’s everyone’s apocalypse going? (sigh) Just dropping in to share a couple of events coming up that may be of interest: 100
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Happening tonight! Or register for the link to the recording! 010
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Hey y’all. Everything continues to be a mess and I can’t really look at the news. But in the interest of local action making us feel less hopeless, maybe people are interested in our next Sustainability Speaker Series webinar about preventing pollution runoff? www.eventbrite.com/e/cleaner-st... 110
Reposted by Kristina PistoneThe Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Our schedule is almost full 🎉, but we could still use US-based meteorologists and climate scientists to speak in the overnight period on late Friday/early Saturday and late Saturday/early Sunday. If you're a night owl, or living in Alaska or Hawaii, we'd love to have you! wclivestream.com/speakers/wclivestream.comThe Weather & Climate Livestream | SpeakersInformation for potential speakers at the Weather & Climate Livestream 1128
Reposted by Kristina PistoneDr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The presentations & panels at the "100 Hours to Save America's Forecasts" livestream today have been truly incredible. Check it out, it will run continuously until Sunday! I'm speaking about my NSF funded PhD research 2:30 pm ET Friday. @wclivestream.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR...youtube.comLive from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestreamYouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream 088
Reposted by Kristina PistoneJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget. 9541531591
Reposted by Kristina PistoneDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/03/2025People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress. The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back. 9035471037
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Ha ha so the world continues nay increases to be a fascist dumpsterfire, but regardless I am looking forward to our next Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series event this Weds, discussing work to ensure equity in access to our coastal (+other outdoor) spaces www.eventbrite.com/e/waves-of-c...eventbrite.comWaves of Change: Ensuring Equity in Coastal AccessJoin a Sustainability Speaker Series event! Seraph White discusses supporting equitable access to the California coast. 120
Reposted by Kristina PistoneAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2) 181011452233873
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The world is a fascist dumpsterfire right now, but in an effort to minimize my spiraling by focusing more local, please join us at tonight’s Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series event, with @christinatoms.bsky.social, for a discussion about wetland restoration www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-...eventbrite.comRestoring Wetlands for Climate ResilienceJoin a Sustainability Speaker Series event! Christina Toms and Judy Nam discuss how restoring wetlands promotes climate resilience. 1112
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 05/11/2024For some reason thinking of this today, who can say why youtu.be/IFAMpW0hPNY?... Overly-simplified context: in the late 80s, after 15 years of dictatorship, Chile did a referendum vote on the dictator Pinochet; ‘yes’ = ‘you can stay a dictator forever’, ‘no’ = democratic elections again. ‘No’ won.youtu.beChile, la alegría ya vieneYouTube video by La Página de Silvio Rodríguez 120
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024I regret to say that I immediately flashed to some science papers I have read recently, where the authors confusingly use $50 words when $10 words would absolutely suffice, and probably make everything clearer :x 010
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 30/08/2024I guess I should start a new self-quote over here: it continues to be SO WEIRD how I always get review requests in clusters! 000
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 14/08/2024The way I see it, it took us ~20y to even get to where we got with the Paris Accords. Even IF we understood aerosols well enough to robustly say it would help & not harm, it would take ages to set up our human systems to do albedo mod responsibly. Whereas solar/weatherization/etc are *right there*! 000
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 13/08/2024This is actually my nightmare. (Have they also invented AI to read and process those crap papers with their AI definitely-brains? For whomst are they “writing”??) 000
Reposted by Kristina PistoneKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/08/2024It’s super covidy out there folks! If you don’t want to get sick (or get others sick), now is a great time to take precautions (masks, ventilation, outdoor stuff, avoiding crowds, the usual). And for the sake of others, please stay home (or at least mask up) if you feel unwell and/or test positive! 411903907
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 11/08/2024Y’all, I’m legit excited for this (even though they have been promising it at LEAST since I moved here… almost 9y ago). SO excited for faster service and also not having to try to hold my breath when I bike over a train (plume) on that Stevens Creek overpass! www.caltrain.com/news/caltrai...caltrain.comCaltrain Welcomes First Passengers on New Electric Trains | CaltrainCaltrain was joined by federal, state, local officials, transportation, business and labor leaders to celebrate the inaugural electric train ride. 000
Reposted by Kristina PistoneDarcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 05/08/2024My article with The Texas Observer is now online! The title means “return to the land of many houses,” which is our (Lipan Apache) word for home. In this article, I write about the rematriation of an elder (my relative) who lived in KÍŁÁÁHÍÍ about 750 years ago. www.texasobserver.org/lipan-apache... 930385
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 02/08/2024I seriously know about 7 unconnected people who have/had had covid the past month or so (including a couple that tested - on rapids for 2 days before +). The wastewater values are ridiculous. Please stay home if you’re sick. 020
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 17/07/2024PSA for whoever needs to hear it: hepatitis B can be chronic and dramatically increases your risk of liver cancer and Asian Americans are extremely disproportionately affected. So if you can, get tested so you know whether to monitor it. 34 is too damn young. 100
Reposted by Kristina PistoneErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/06/2024Maybe I shouldn't say this out loud but I has been extremely frustrating watching protestors show they are willing to mask up when their own safety is at risk but not when it's for the safety of the disabled and immunocompromised. And now masks are gonna be banned because of it. 236888
Reposted by Kristina PistoneKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/06/2024Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society 332345760
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 23/06/2024YMMV by location, but many places also have boards and commissions e.g. Sustainability, Library, Bicycle and Pedestrians… we love it when people show up so it’s not just us talking to ourselves. Although we appreciate less bullying energy, more Leslie Knope “people [constructively] caring at us” :) 000
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 23/06/2024I guess it might finally be time for me to delete my fb account… 000
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Sooo anyone else going to be in the Austin area in a little over a week for ECLIPSE? (come on no clouds no clouds no clouds 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 eeeeee) 000
Reposted by Kristina PistoneDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 23/01/2024Design for people's needs not to replicate fossil intensive solutions to those needs. The universe of possibilities is so much larger than is usually considered! 1105
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 23/01/2024I posted it on The Other Place but: if you’re interested in drought and atmospheric rivers in CA, come to this talk tomorrow night at 7pm PT! Should be good for the general public, and @catswx.bsky.social is one of the speakers :) I am maybe a little biased because I set up (a lot of) this series :x 132
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 09/01/2024I feel I also need to do a (for once non-covid-related) PSA for attendees of #AGU23: there are online poster sessions happening the week of the 22nd! Go check them out (all listed in confex). Brought to you by someone whose virtual poster in 2021 got only 2 attendees, one because I texted them :x 110
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Come see my #AGU23 poster 2769 tomorrow morning, about water vapor and biomass burning aerosol over the southeast Atlantic. I will be the one in the mask with science cats on it! 100
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 14/12/2023#AGU23 #maskup #[especially since we’re now at the incubation time for people who caught covid on their flight in] 0122
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 13/12/2023As someone who is still masking everywhere indoors (E.Specially at #AGU23) I’m really appreciating the life hack of joining the first morning oral session online from my hotel room while I finish my coffee, and then walking over when I’m done/slightly more awake :) Maybe hybrid isn’t entirely bad?? 150
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 08/12/2023So now that I've sent my poster to the printer 🎉🎉 for AGU next week (A41K-2769, Thurs AM, smoke and clouds over the southeast Atlantic!) ... how does this place work for conference meetups? We don't say #AGU23 here? But, let's meet up (outdoors) at my first in-person AGU since the Beforetimes! 220
Kristina Pistone @kristinapistone.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Hello world! Now, to find all the cool peeps I was following over on Twitter (RIP) 040