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Meade Krosby

@meadekrosby.bsky.social
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Climate adaptation for nature and people @ Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington. Surfer/paddler. Settler on Coast Salish land. She/her. Personal account - views mine.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14h
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big Bend right now. Imagine wanting to build a wall across this place.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mushrooms in fine form today.
Glossy caramel-colored mushrooms on a log.Cream-colored mushrooms growing on the mossy side of a tree stump with ferns above.Yellow mushrooms with orange spots growing on the side of a mossy log.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Moment of calm: Cascade Range living up to its name. Bridal Veil Falls flowing 1,328 ft from Lake Serene to the South Fork Skykomish, Washington.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some excellent news to end the week.
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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news! Emergency court order halts border wall destruction of Big Bend National Park. “No administration has the right to destroy a crown-jewel national park for political theatre says Laiken Jordahl @biologicaldiversity.org "This fight is far from over." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got a little more than I bargained for when I stopped to watch this coyote trot down the street this morning. It’s not unusual to see them in Seattle but the poor thing got spooked by a truck and almost ran into me. Look at that glossy coat and bushy tail - another reason I keep my cats indoors.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I haven't read the permitting reform bill yet (seems like there's some good stuff), but I want to once again suggest to fellow clean energy advocates that saying or implying that biodiversity, endangered species, & other non-climate environmental issues do not matter is both detrimental & incorrect
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve been reminiscing with friends about Take Back the Night rallies we did at Cornell in the late 90s, and how now it’s our high school daughters planning rallies and signing petitions and it’s just incredibly demoralizing how little has changed.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PRELIM Earthquake: Magnitude 4.3, 18.9 km SSW from Bremerton, WA at 2026/09/29 14:05 PDT Learn more: pnsn.org/event/714111952 Did You Feel It? Submit a report: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3
Map with a star marker for the magnitude 4.267 earthquake located 18.9 km SSW from Bremerton, WA
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For alums or others who want to support student journalism, you can donate to the Cornell Daily Sun here:
cdsaa-2660.wp.greekly.io
Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 28/09/2026
The largest wildlife overpass in North America was completed in 2025 spanning I-25 in CO. According to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the crossing, and nearby crossing infrastructure, has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions on the stretch of I-25 by 91%. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...
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Massive wildlife overpass has helped reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% in Colorado
In December 2025, it was announced that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had completed the construction of the I-25 wildlife overpass in the area of Greenland, between Denver and Color...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey fellow alumni — Cornell Board of Trustees: trustees@cornell.edu Alumni Affairs: alumniaffairs@cornell.edu And if you’d like to support the Cornell Daily Sun:
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Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this NPR story about a program that teaches women to use chainsaws in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Yes, we need transformational, systems-level adaptation. We also need to help communities build practical skills for responding to storms, wildfires, and other extreme events.
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After Hurricane Helene, this community was inspired to learn how to use power tools
People in western North Carolina are learning to use power tools two years after Hurricane Helene. They want to be prepared for future disasters.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 26/09/2026
The literature about changes in nor’easters due to climate change is clear about two things: 1) more intense precipitation due to a warmer atmosphere, and 2) more extensive coastal flooding due to higher sea levels
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My teen came home from AP Computer Science yesterday and sat me down to lecture at length on the environmental injustice of data centers (I did not interrupt). If this is what they’re teaching the kids alongside Java maybe we’ll be alright.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seattle topping off our first fall soaking with a proper rainbow.
A vibrant rainbow stretches above the trees, rooftops, and power lines of north Seattle. The skies are otherwise a stormy gray.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seeing replies here and elsewhere saying the sea turtles in California are a bad sign, and it is and it isn’t. Yes, it’s a sign that climate change is affecting species and ecosystems (bad). But it’s also a sign that species are shifting their ranges to track areas of climatic suitability (good).
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mayor Katie Wilson in conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor at a packed Town Hall Seattle. “We need to prepare and we need to have a vision of the future where everyone thrives.”
Three women - Mayor Katie Wilson, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor - sit in chairs on stage at Town Hall Seattle.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In which I am introduced to the poet Craig Santos Perez in the public school library at my teen’s curriculum night.
Love in a Time of Climate Change
BY CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ

recycling Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

I don't love you as if you were rare earth metals,
conflict diamonds, or reserves of crude oil that cause
war. I love you as one loves the most vulnerable
species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss.

I love you as one loves the last seed saved
within a vault, gestating the heritage of our roots,
and thanks to your body, the taste that ripens
from its fruit still lives sweetly on my tongue.

I love you without knowing how or when this world
will end. I love you organically, without pesticides.
I love you like this because we'll only survive

in the nitrogen rich compost of our embrace,
so close that your emissions of carbon are mine,
so close that your sea rises with my heat.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some of the most harrowing stories of climate suffering and injustice I've heard have come from prisons. This is long overdue, and needed well beyond Texas.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/09/2026
Communities can't wait for the next National Climate Assessment to understand their climate risk. With leadership by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net & I were lucky to work with 175 climate researchers to outline assessment priorities that folks can work on now: headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/09/22/f...
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First Paper Published in the U.S. Climate Collection
The U.S. Climate Collection has published its first paper, with 175 authors outlining research priorities for future U.S.-focused climate assessments.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honored to be part of this work, with huge thanks to @bobkopp.net, @costasamaras.com and Melissa Kenney for their leadership. One day, there will again be a rigorous, collaborative National Climate Assessment - this effort could help inform it, and in the meantime serve assessments at other scales.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not to sound like a car commercial, but it’s by far the best vehicle I’ve owned. We’ve taken it on many 1,000+ mile roadtrips and it’s a delight to drive. It also really seems to be taking over from Tesla as the most prominent EV around Seattle, which I enjoy very much.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Happy Brothers-henge to all who celebrate.
The sun sets in the crook between The Brothers, a pair of peaks in the Olympic Mountains. The view is framed by a Seattle street lined with parked cars, trees and power lines, and over the nearby hill of the Magnolia neighborhood.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some good news to end the week.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mount Rainier’s subalpine meadows ablaze in fall colors.
Subalpine meadows ablaze in crimson and gold beneath a line of conifers and, above them, a looming Mount Rainier and clear blue sky.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agreed. I increasingly see this kind of argument invoked to argue against interventions like air conditioning in places where extreme heat events are increasingly leading to mass mortality. We no longer get to choose between adaptation & mitigation--we have to do both at an accelerating pace.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington folks, don’t sleep on WSDOT’s e-bike rebate program. My husband recently had his e-bike stolen outside the UW gym. He applied to the rebate program and was selected. It’s a lottery but almost 20% of those who apply get it. Rebate amount varies by income, from $300 to $1,200.
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E-bike rebate program | WSDOT
Learn about the WE-bike program and upcoming ways to try e-bikes.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come join our team! The UW Climate Impacts Group is searching for a research scientist to support applied climate resilience projects in our water management portfolio. This is a fabulous opportunity for a scientist who enjoys collaborative work with real-world impact. Please share widely!
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We’re hiring a research scientist specializing in water management – apply by 9/27 | Climate Impacts Group
The UW Climate Impacts Group has an outstanding opportunity for a mid-career research scientist who specializes in water management systems to join our team and play a critical role in advancing clima...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great job opening for Habitat Connectivity Biologist at WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife. The position will "identify priority areas for connectivity conservation and translate that science into practical tools...to help protect and restore wildlife movement and build climate-resilient habitat networks."
governmentjobs.com
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/09/2026
A study using thousands of tree-ring sites around the world suggests that as the climate warms, more trees will experience growth constraints from dryness by 2100, limiting carbon sequestration. In PNAS: ow.ly/oI6k50ZMEbn
Douglas-fir, one of the studied tree species, shows growth suppression at both very high and very low vapor pressure deficits.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Beautiful evening on the Salish Sea. Just before I took the photo, I paddled past an enormous sea lion out beyond the pilings gulping down one salmon after another. He was having a good night.
The tips of a long row of wooden pilings - several topped by resting gulls and a Great Blue Heron - peek out from above the Puget Sound at high tide. The golden light of a hazy sunset is reflected on the glassy water.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I will never forget the overwhelming grief of that day and those that followed, or the horror of watching it be weaponized against our Muslim neighbors and used to justify wars and abuses of power.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good.
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