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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports

Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember exactly where I was on 9/11. What class I was in, what we were learning at the time, where I was sitting and who was next to me. But my memories are impossible. My transcript clearly shows that I took that class in 2002, not 2001. This is apparently a common phenomenon 🧪

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How Accurate Are Memories of 9/11?

Recollections of the circumstances of how we first heard of the 2001 terrorist attacks may feel extraordinarily vivid and true, but they are flawed

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

During grad school, we’d say that climate change is happening, but we can’t definitively say it’s due to humans (even though we were pretty sure it was). It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

They could have made this map any color.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Not just Europe, everyone’s productivity everywhere! I have air con at home and I work from home, but still, the Indian summer has been most unproductive for me.

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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

why is everyone hating on aircon? like it's not the best film ever made but it's an underrated fun romp and Nicolas Cage is at his most Nicolas Cage-y

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23/06/2026

NEW – Prof Detlef van Vuuren is the climate scientist most cited by the IPCC, according to an analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database. Read his full interview with Carbon Brief’s @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4uRxguM

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 22/06/2026

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

Average summer temperature anomaly in 1976

Average summer temperature anomaly in 2025

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Glaciologists, which would be the lowest altitude glacier in the world? (Outside of Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica)

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

'Like the Guardian list, we hope this Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 will spark both discovery and dissent. Let’s all read more books, from more places, from more writers.' www.anzliterature.com/feature/the-...

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The Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 – Academy of New Zealand Literature

The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Glaciologists, which would be the lowest altitude glacier in the world? (Outside of Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica)

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Four years ago today. @geocron.bsky.social, Jeff Bond, Jackson Bodtker, and Holly Basiuk had the most incredible scientific experience any of us will ever have. Thread below. 🧪⚒️ #Solstice #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #NunChoGa

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/06/2026

Happy #JuneSolstice! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! 🙂 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming sunlight during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Graphic can be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Shaming people for having air conditioning is stupid.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Latest essay from @70sbachchan.bsky.social and me on one of the things that really affects everything else: CHINESE MANUFACTURING phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

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Dawn of the Electric World Order | The Polycrisis

Global shockwaves from the war on Iran

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I was today years old when I learned there's CORN that makes SNOT so bacteria in the snot can fix nitrogen And it's just like, these big snotty things hanging off the corn. Thanks @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social I am a better person for knowing this www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus

This rare variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen, which could revolutionize farming

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This line from the WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 report baffles me: "During 1991–2025, Asia warmed more rapidly than the global land-and-ocean average" Isn't this true for any landmass? Land will be warmer than the global average, so why is it significant? wmo.int/news/media-c...

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Extreme heat and rainfall, glacier loss and record ocean heat impact Asia in 2025

Paro, Bhutan (WMO) – Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll, according to a new...

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

if this is how it is going to go, it'll be game over for us in India.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is not “very strange” but a very shouty WTF! 🧵 Temps should below freezing -mean air temp Esperanza for June about -11°C, not +15°C 😱 Conditions should be frigid!!!! 🥶 It’s approaching midwinter ffs! Days are very short this far north in the Antarctic Peninsula ( ~5 hrs) 1/

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Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n... City of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves.

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How one Oregon city has raised a billion dollars for climate change

The Portland Clean Energy Fund has raised a billion dollars for climate change action via a retail tax on large corporations in the city. Other cities are starting to shape similar funds.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Iran war has made Laos cut EV registration fee by 30% and increase ICE registration fee by 30%. Goal: cut petrol/diesel use. Govt agencies has stopped purchase of all ICE vehicles. www.eco-business.com/news/laos-sl...

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Laos slashes EV fees, hikes petrol car charges to curb fuel use

Emergency measures include 30 per cent fee cut for EVs, fleet targets for transport firms and remote work for civil servants.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

A team of academics looked into the environmental & climate claims of the meat & dairy industry from 2021-2024, to try to determine what percentage of those claims qualified as "greenwashing." The good news: it wasn't 100%! The bad news: it was, uh, 98%.

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Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies

Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

AI summaries for Google search are particularly insidious because pre-AI snippets came with the website details, and I could do a quick scan to find the most trustworthy website to pick an answer from. Now not only are the search results tanked, but also impossible to reliably do a "quick" search.

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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF

Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm not an academic researcher, so I had no clue this happened, but it is so funny to me that since I published an article(journalistic) in Nature, I've been receiving nonstop emails from all sorts of predatory journals inviting me to publish "my excellent research" with them.

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