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Mike Liebhold

@mikeliebhold.bsky.social
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Earth intelligence, Living with wildlife Systems researcher 1980-2020 retired IFTF. org, Intel, Netscape, Apple, Atari www.iftf.org/people/mike-liebhold

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A 'Rogue AI' is like a dog that bites somebody, so the dog owner gets properly punished" *Well, no. A proper Rogue AI is like a cyberwar computer-virus, where I round up a thousand stray dogs, give them all rabies, and then parachute them into your neighborhood. #plausiblydeniable #GrayWar
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP Wendell Barry
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Essential Reading “.. an open ecosystem of heterogeneous agents discovering, negotiating, exchanging context, invoking tools, and executing workflows. … deployment models, workflow lifecycles, communication protocols, interoperability, trust architectures. ,” arxiv.org/html/2606.12...
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The Internet of Agentic AI: Communication, Coordination, and Collective Intelligence at Scale
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Right before my eyes: a lighting strike hit this pine tree right outside the window 30 ft. Away while we were eating dinner, blasted bark and pitch all over cars, and the driveway. Truckee California.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why?! Is Trumps ending a 50 year old law prohibiting of “modification or degradation” of habitat that kills or injures animals by impairing their ability to eat, shelter or breed? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good morning. Nothing to see here, just the possible end of American scientific research as we know it. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The Trump Administration's Existential Threat to Scientific Research
You want a request for comment?! I got your comment right here.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
slowly learning cognitive immunity to AI toxins
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
From a one-shot prompt for a graphic novel format story about common AI mistakes that I’ve stumbled on and how to detect and work around
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The rule of stupidity: Cancellations include a station in the Irminger Sea monitoring Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, a global conveyor belt of water may weaken or collapse due to climate warming - with severe consequences [nytimes\.com/2026/06/01/climat…](www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...)
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
oh, oh: New evidence of large scale AI pollution of biomedical knowledge “… a reference-integrity audit of 2·5 million biomedical papers in 3 years, showing fabricated references embedded in peer-reviewed literature at scale & rate of fabrication accelerating. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This realtime Iran War fuel cost calculator *only* reports impact. on the US. The global impact is certainly magnitudes higher: iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Another shameless crime against our environmental heritage www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...
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Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It’s difficult to imagine why: www.theverge.com/science/9187...
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Trump fires the entire National Science Board
Federal funding for scientific research was already in turmoil.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just retrieved this pic from our wildlife camera in Truckee, ca. of a Coyote (Canis latrans) with a shaggy winter coat
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Another pic from our wildlife camera in Truckee, ca: a Bobcat (Lynx rufus) also wearing a shaggy winter coat
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Here’s a reminder that aside from the catastrophic daily news, Humanity has bigger challenges: youtu.be/ndPVcg6uSZc?...
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Official Planetary Health Check 2025 with Johan Rockström
YouTube video by Planetary Boundaries Science
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Wade Crowfoot @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Helping people & nature thrive together in California.🌿👧🏽 Thank you Governor Newsom & our Legislature for game changing investments!🙏🏼 www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/27/c...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres "Earth’s biosphere is driven by an interlinked network of biogeochemical cycles that are governed largely by microbes.... the evolutionary interplay between the organisms and their environments." 🧪🌐 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Volume 380 Issue 1931 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Please re-post: presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
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The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch
The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
What could go wrong? dlvr.it/TQmLFD
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DoE oks next-gen nuclear to skip full environmental reviews
: DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
+1 pointless
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
After years of American leadership, the center of Whole Earth, and Earth Systems sciences is now the Baltic states, in Potsdam, Stockholm, and Copenhagen: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/institute...
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Planetary Boundaries Science (PBScience) Lab
The PBScience Lab addresses critical gaps in our understanding and monitoring of the biophysical systems that are essential to life on Earth.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thanks @eos.org and @agu.org for this resource to understand requirements for reconstruction of American scientific programs eos.org/wp-content/u...
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
And, so far, there is no organized planning for reconstruction of American science programs according to a private remark I heard from a former White House scientist
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Trump’s “national security” wind farm freeze? Total sham! Europe’s 30GW offshore giants coexist flawlessly with military radars via software tweaks & curtailments—zero threats. US DoD greenlit 1,000s onshore. Pure political posturing, not necessity!
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“Computational modeling does not merely visualize climate futures; it enables societies to build planetary imaginaries…. If the epistemic category of the planetary collapses under geopolitical pressure, we do not simply lose a tool. We lose a worldview, and with it, a horizon of action.”
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Another insane attack on American science😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
RAND research on ‘astrography’ cartography for outer space www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
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Charting the Cosmos: Four Clear Astrographic Regions
The field of space mapping lacks agreed-upon terms for defining the empty space between celestial bodies. A new astrographic framework is designed to be accessible to policymakers and space planners o...
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A view of the of the pacific marine layer parked on our usually socked-in coastside ridge from California’s sunny side, just down the hill.
A view of the of the pacific marine layer parked on our usually socked-in coast side ridge from California’s  sunny side, just down the hill.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“22 of the planet’s 34 vital signs are at record levels, with many of them continuing to trend sharply in the wrong direction.” www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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“State of the climate” 2025: Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future
29.10.2025 – 22 of the planet’s 34 vital signs are at record levels, with many of them continuing to trend sharply in the wrong direction. This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual “State o...
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Representing California’s commitment to planetary health, demonstrating that not all Americans are environmental dunces. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California steps in as Trump skips global climate summit in Brazil
California aims to build on its reputation as a global climate leader at this year's COP conference in Belém, Brazil.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Listen to Johan Rockstrom, the leading voice for systemic solutions to our planetary crisis.
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Online now: Animal niches in the airspace
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Animal niches in the airspace
For flying animals, including many birds, bats, and insects, the air is a crucial arena for a range of behaviors. Technological advances, such as year-round tracking of flight altitudes and expanded use of radar, increasingly show how flying animals use the aerial habitat. This enables us to answer questions about the environmental patterns and ecological processes that shape aerial niches, including energetics, biotic interactions, and risk due to growing anthropogenic conflicts. In this review, we identify environmental conditions and biological interactions influencing where animals occur in the airspace throughout their life cycles. We outline an ecological framework to advance understanding of how different properties of the airspace shape fundamental aerial habitat niches and how biotic interactions influence the realized niches.
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ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners @esipfed.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📚 What we're reading: "Machine Learning Simulates 1,000 Years of Climate," by Madeline Reinsel, Eos. The Deep Learning Earth System Model creates accurate short-term forecasts and can simulate a millenium of climate in less than 12 computing hours. 🖥️ 🌦️ Find the article: eos.org/research-spo...
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Machine Learning Simulates 1,000 Years of Climate - Eos
The Deep Learning Earth System Model is competitive with CMIP6 models and uses less computational power.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Attn: product and service planners:
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Global Landscapes Forum @globallf.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
“Attribution of climate change is challenged by natural climate variability, data limitations, and model deficiencies.” 🧐That's how the Trump administration downplayed the link between human activity & climate change. 📢 Climate experts pushed back with facts. bit.ly/4833OtY #ThinkLandscape
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85 climate scientists refute Trump administration report downplaying climate change
A group of 85 climate scientists released a review Tuesday refuting a Trump administration report that downplays climate change and its impacts. The review comes as public comment is being mad...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 06/09/2025
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social[ There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the lower slopes of mountains before giving way to the mists of the cloud forests. To stand there is to feel the weight of two great worlds converging.
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Where life has found its richest expression – Amazon Rainforest Day
Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the…
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Sustainability @sustainableplanet.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
What an EPIC Sustainable concept 🍇🫐🥦🥒🫛🥬🌽🍋🥕🍊🍓🍎🍅
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
1/ University of Colorado researchers identified “over 1000 suspect journals, which collectively publish hundreds of thousands of articles, receive millions of citations, acknowledge funding from major agencies, and attract authors from developing countries.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Estimating the predictability of questionable open-access journals
AI screening of journals identifies over a thousand questionable journals, helping experts review where it is needed most.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The evidence all around us. When will the deniers notice and respond?
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Thank you AGU for pushing back against Trump’s attempt to _control_ scientific research (!) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Earth’s future environment will be determined by more than Climate Change across the Planetary Boundaries www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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Breaching planetary boundaries: Over half of global land area suffers critical losses in functional biosphere integrity
Over half of Earth’s land surface has transgressed critical ecological thresholds, signaling a breach of the planetary boundary for functional biosphere integrity. By combining indicators of human pre...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This is so dumb it makes my head hurt
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Not all humans are an invasive species:
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Bravo for Earth citizenship in the face of Trump’s toxic attacks
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Apple continues to forge ahead on ethical corporate environmental citizenship www.computerworld.com/article/4028...
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Apple wants to build a circular manufacturing economy
The big consulting firm, McKinsey, has published an Apple case study explaining work on a circular manufacturing ecosystem.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A whole earth solution framework for our injured planet earthcommission.org/safe-and-jus...
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Safe and Just Boundaries: a future where people and planet thrive
For the past 12,000 years, our Earth has been in a stable state – one that allows human societies and civilizations to develop and thrive. Today that balance is at risk.
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Enjoying a tiny celebration
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025
*Intelligent metamaterials and metamaterials intelligence, for the indescribable effect of your invisiibility cloak. #okeydokey #sure www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-…
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Mike Liebhold @mikeliebhold.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Wake up Americans! These are modern concentration camps for persecuted minorities www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
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‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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