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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 11h

🚨📈 New preprint! Every ton of CO2 matters. We show that near-term climate impacts are linear in cumulative CO2 emissions. Every ton emitted adds to damages and every ton not emitted avoids damages. w/ @lfreese.bsky.social, Marissa Childs, & @marshallburke.bsky.social eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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Near-term climate impacts are roughly linear in cumulative CO2 emissions

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 9h

rip the old dream of connecting to the UPs via the Cassidy tire factory lot that is now an apartment tower called something like “the Cassidy” :/

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Martin Bertsch @martinbertsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🚧 München–Salzburg: Massive Einschränkungen 2027 Vom 8. Februar bis 9. Juli wird die Strecke saniert. Statt stündlicher Fernzüge verkehren nur drei EC pro Tag und Richtung via Mühldorf. 🔸 Railjets München–Wien–Budapest fahren via Passau. 🔸 München–Graz: nur zwei EC-Zugpaare täglich, via Wörgl.

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And yet 18th St. 1 has higher ridership than some entire urban rail lines in the rest of the country 😅

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So many of you have asked about the archival image on the cover. The full watercolor will also be reproduced in the book. It depicts discussions about the plague between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans on the borders.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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Dan Westervelt @dwesty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New paper in ES&T Letters: the first full-year look at what NYC congestion pricing did to air quality. Led by the brilliant Polina Goldberg, we combined 15 roadside PM2.5 monitors with TROPOMI NO2 to ask if air in the Congestion Relief Zone got cleaner, and did pollution just move next door?

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miriam nielsen @zentouro.info · 12/10/2026

watching the CMIP7 variables get uploaded like

photo of the back of a silver Camry with a vanity Arizona licence plate reading 'MRSOL'

(mrsol is the variable name of root zone soil moisture, which is still missing from many CMIP6 runs)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Also, of all the NYC transit I take, the M60 seems to have the absolute worst ratio of [people who see a pregnant person standing precariously] to [people offering a seat], even - contrary to the stereotype - once you’re in queens)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For years I commuted between what was nominally two M60 stops, never took it except for the worst weather, since it was guaranteed faster to walk on average (ie incl. the wait), and often faster to walk even if a bus was arriving

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For a while I had to regularly do Harlem-Astoria, and by the third time in a single week I waited 20 minutes in the rain for one on what’s basically an off ramp to grand central parkway I was pretty done with it :/

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ironically enough, this is like, aaaaalmost possible in some parts of small town Austria if you work in, like, engineering consulting. Nightlife you‘ll have to compromise (though it’s better than suburbia; many towns around my hometown have decent bars of different genres, and frequent festivals)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Tbh I’d say the stronger argument for a 125th-Astoria and beyond line is how busy the M60 is (for non-LGA traffic) despite how slow/unreliable it is, and really at that point why stop at LGA, keep going to flushing and Jamaica ;) )

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(/ how much faster would it be to LGA via a 125th street rail from the densest residential neighborhoods in Manhattan - say the Q-extension UES parts in particular - than having to detour south)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How much MNR (CT/westchester) demand to LGA would you think could be picked up by that? (Specifically vs. cabs over the Whitestone bridge or the cross-Bronx, since that presumably has a substantial leg up over the often pretty unreliable M60)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There’s a ton of mid- to high-ish rise in Paris itself, too! Especially in the 13th and 19th-20th districts

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have heard anecdotal stories of large-scale farmers in … uh … Namibia I think it was? Who apparently hire local pilots to try and disrupt temperature inversions with helicopters to stop frost damage…

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wird auch spannend weil zumindest gestern noch die physischen und statistischen/AI-Modelle ganz verschiedene Landfalllocations erwartet haben (die physischen hätten auf weiter westlich als die statistischen gezeigt)

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Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interactive, browser-based simulation of ocean waves in the thermocline using @visualpde.com, based on eq beta plane model: visualpde.com/sim?mini=KAN... Add height or current to make Rossby, equatorial Kelvin, & coastal Kelvin waves relevant to El Niño. Compare with & without rotation.

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tbf, built almost entirely on, like, farmland, I think there was only one existing road it even had to cross

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 06/10/2026

I'm trying a new thing: Automatically posting updates when new transit lines open around the world. Follow @thetransportpolitic.com if you want to know when new transit lines open around the world.

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not sure, it’s one of the two quality-of-life things I associate most with US vs. (At least central) European buses. (The other one is the constant rattling) They often have operable windows, but they’re smaller / higher up and so don’t block my view as much on the higher seats 😅

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And put in the classic NA jank windows with the crossbars right at my eye level 😩

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fwiw, this is program that predates him by some years (it's a very good one though!)

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Daphne Tarabiscoté*e ("independent researcher" era) @freihanddenker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Habe nun ach! Promoviert, habilitiert und publiziert und leider auch Gremiensitzungen durchaus besucht mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, unbefristet wie nie zuvor.

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They could run 40 incandescent lightbulbs simultaneously if they for some reason wanted to!

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will hold out hope! CHI-STL was enough for me on the venture seats 😩 (And was unfortunately beyond enough for someone I know with a back injury)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Underreported in the western transit circles, but Dakar, Senegal, just opened an airport rail link. It's an extension of the existing TER (electrified regional rail line that uses legacy ROW in the city). Not cheap ($1-6 ish for fares) but manages 20Mpax/year already www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...

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Sénégal: le prolongement du train express régional vers l'aéroport de Dakar entre en service

Le TER sénégalais franchit une nouvelle étape aujourd'hui. La ligne du train express régional est officiellement prolongée jusqu'à l'aéroport international Blaise Diagne. Un nouveau tronçon de 19 kilo...

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No, I meant my point was about an intercity service

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(Tbf in urban s-bahns in Central Europe they also show you when you’re expected at the next few stops and if there’s a delay…)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is intercity rather than urban, but one of the things that makes me most frustrated with Amtrak is that even on their new trains, the digital displays don’t show delays. They also almost never announce them, so you find out when you’re like “huh, I thought south bend was farther away than this”

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tbf it’s “KI” in German (for künstliche Intelligenz)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can confirm that Colorado intercity public buses (apart from Bustang, I’m also counting the Denver-Boulder and Boulder-DIA ones) are really great. DIA is the one US airport I know with an intercity bus terminal! (Standard in much of Europe eg)

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 24/09/2026

Tonight @ @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, a couple seats still remaining. Dinner included with (free) registration. " I survived climate week" t-shirts optional business.columbia.edu/climate-week

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

southshore.railfan.net/2025/250405_... This is one of the entrances 😅😭 to get back to “real” street level you walk up a rickety rusty small staircase a block away from here (From southshore.railfan.net/ss-91.html )

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

having been to both, I can assure that there’s no station in Europe (incl, apart from Hbf U, the deepest unrenovated tube station or the darkest Passante stop) that quite makes you feel like a dystopic mole person than Millennium Station / Randolph St / South Water (to give its “official“ name) 😅

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While we’re on Chicago (I criticize out of love and out of anger at mismatch between potential and actual experience), millennium station, the Loop terminus of major suburban lines to the south and southeast, has platforms that look like this

An underground platform at Chicago’s millennium station, with a low drop ceiling that’s cracking, around ancient steel pillars that are rusting apart, with large puddles on the floor and occasional fluorescent cave lighting on the blank walls

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also you have to line up standing 1.5 hours early for a long-distance train during heavy travel days if you want to sit next to your traveling companion :(

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NYC Penn is the easy obvious answer but I regret to give an honorable mention to Chicago Union station. It’s like Penn, if half of old Penn were still around to taunt you, but that half isn’t a part of the station you can really use for anything.

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tbf the pods were also pretty nice the one time I took them

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From reviewer experience (earth sciences): 1) very rare (most papers in my field use public data and are very easy to verify) 2) very common (stats recs in grad school when?), but only sometimes changing headline results 3) rare 4) most common as throwaway cites in intro, rare as substantive ones

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Would you share your secrets? I have Austrian family in LA desperate for good bread 😬

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh nice, i think that’s a recent update - the last I checked (last year) chicago wasn’t on the menu anymore

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Aber hey, man kriegt auch belegte Brötchen um $6-14

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Der Diskurs in den Expatkreisen, ganz zu schweigen den auf r/graz und r/austria, ist, sag’ma mal so, etwas aufgeheizt 😅

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(The thing that most lives in my mind on this was the CTA bragging when the yellow line/Skokie Swift (5-mile nonstop through suburbia) opened how much faster it was than the Tokyo Tōzai line, which opened the same year, but, uh, passed by many more places/things, and therefore stopped a lot more)

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Kevin Schwarzwald @kschwarzwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(And since the below, the SB line’s top average speed is back down to 35ish mph for the all stop service) bsky.app/profile/henr...

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