Reposted by Steve Heatoncara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me: 141851536
Reposted by Steve Heatonevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We are going to use AI to file public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to reply to the public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to write news stories about the public records, which will be read by more AI. No action will be taken. #civictech 617235
Reposted by Steve HeatonBrian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Some important differences between the conventional physics-based models (European and American ensembles are 1st and 2nd panels) and the AI models (Google Deepmind operational and experimental ensembles are 3rd and 4th panels). The differences in both track and intensity are obvious. #Isaias 86822
Reposted by Steve HeatonRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026From NASA 📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close. 5249100
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, well, insurance is gambling and the house never loses. I suspect the insurance company will rewrite the coverage to exclude damages from uncontrolled AI or boost the premium to cover the risk. Interesting times... 031
Reposted by Steve Heatonevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have spent much of this week doing the sort of work that AI is absolutely terrible at, which has helped me to see how many people doing this same work are definitely using AI. 519715
Reposted by Steve HeatonEd Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 29/09/2026They should make a comic where Batman makes a real difference by posting online 513232
Reposted by Steve HeatonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026France is now both ATOMIC BUCOLIC and SOLAR PUNK 26114
Reposted by Steve HeatonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com 119577
Reposted by Steve HeatonCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 882123873
Reposted by Steve HeatonBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381712846
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One could argue that it's only about 10 years too late for GFI adoption. The grid should be bleeding edge, fast to adopt new technologies etc, yeah? Same scenario as the space industry was before EM. Can't afford to fail so they moved very, very slowly... But I still think it could be faster. 121
Reposted by Steve HeatonAndrew Miskelly @anero.id · 23/09/2026The September equinox occurs at 10:05 AEST (00:05 UTC) on Wednesday. The sun rising over this year's unusually strong southern stratospheric polar vortex is triggering marked ozone depletion. 172
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I remember someone explaining to me that the question "But is it art?!" defines it as 'art' - you're discussing it. I strongly suspect architecture falls into the same category (and also arguably, just another form of art). 000
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yup. The more astronomy I learn, star life cycles, particle physics, galaxy dynamics, dark matter, dark energy... it only deepens my wonder at the night sky. Stay curious. 020
Reposted by Steve HeatonRodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been writing about inflammatory AI predictions for years. Message below is that systems are being deployed & given the ability to do real things on the network, without adequate testing or guardrails. The systems have zero intentions. medium.com/@doctorow/ll...medium.comLLMs are real, AI is fakeNo, it didn’t “go rogue.” 19327
Reposted by Steve HeatonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/09/20254/ “It was naive to believe that science and advocacy alone could transform a global energy system forged over centuries by war and empire.” Read @bentleyallan.bsky.social on The Climate Geopolitics Era www.noemamag.com/the-new-geop... 0112
Reposted by Steve HeatonE. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"It starts with remembering." We don't value good historians and good history teachers nearly enough. College history programs should be funded and valued *at least* as well as management programs. Hell, most programs should include a required course in the history of that topic. 2418
Reposted by Steve HeatonZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 09/09/2026For reference, here is the year-to-date vs annual gap projected in 2026 compared to other years. Its comparable to 2023 but well above anything else! 1286
Reposted by Steve HeatonProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/09/2026One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD. 21458219
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026'Forcing' coal fired powerstations to remain open longer. Even when the operator says it's a bad idea. Muja Power Station in WA. Go look it up if you're unfamiliar. Those that don't learn from history... 000
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026'Popularism' in politics is like being told you can have icecream for dinner. 001
Reposted by Steve HeatonKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 08/09/2026Two things: one, no, it won't, because cancer isn't one disease with a single cure that's just waiting to be found, and two, why is the economics editor writing about tech, and indeed health research, when he clearly knows fuck all about either subject? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giantArm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease. 36567126
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Crackin' article, well work a read if you're a weather geek. Esp if you're curious about retrospective application of modern forecasting methods to historical events. As I often point out, to forecast the future you have to be able to successsfully forecast the past! 120
Reposted by Steve HeatonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well. 432246284
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Vale Dolly Parton. One of the good people. Amazing talent, song writing esp. 010
Reposted by Steve HeatonMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’. 1163697706
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Imagine if Australia did the same... But we're obviously a more 'advanced' economy... 🤔 052
Reposted by Steve Heatonr o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity 741186932826
Reposted by Steve HeatonMatthias Deutsch @matthiasdeutsch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Heatwaves are forcing farmers across Europe to modify how and when they work, from harvesting at night to covering fields with shade netting, cooling cattle sheds and abandoning planting schedules refined over decades." 0204
Reposted by Steve HeatonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...fortune.comItaly's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | FortuneExtreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault 821963783
Reposted by Steve HeatonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.mediamatters.orgABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate changeFrom late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ... 541552710
Reposted by Steve HeatonKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Explosive dredging + emergency sunken barge dam to try to buy an extra few cm of water does have a certain flair to it 1104
Reposted by Steve HeatonMicro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 28/07/2026... users can be found giggling, crying, or simply staring into the distance saying "Whoah..." We spoke to one, and asked how they feel about warnings that the practice is addictive: "I could stop, but I don't want to." Some experts say if reading was invented today it would be banned at once. 2382128
Reposted by Steve HeatonAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 27/07/2026On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com and I revisit the warmth of the 1930s. This seems to be one of the most important denier arguments out there. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/raw-data-w...theclimatebrink.comRaw Data, Wrong AnswersWhat happens to the 1930s temperature record after correcting measurement biases and station coverage 810843
Reposted by Steve HeatonMatthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You always discover something when you have a new instrument with higher sensitivity - Mahapatra+ on Planet-wide, Concentric Density Waves in Venus’s Upper Atmosphere Revealed through Polarimetry? in which you can see a bullseye on the day-lit side of our sister planet! #exoplanets #astrodon 27421
Reposted by Steve HeatonMicro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21/07/2026I noticed a neighbour had set up a little library box in their front yard. I checked the books and saw they were all jumbled up. I had only moved a few when a net fell on me. "Gotcha! Oh..." "What's going on?" I asked. "There's a feral librarian around." "Ah. Catch, tag, feed, release?" "Yup." 5438114
Reposted by Steve HeatonEmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 14/07/2026alternatively: if you were born after 1976, you've never experienced a cooler-than-average year 0153
Reposted by Steve HeatonLauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026If countries kept growing the share of clean power at the same rate as in the past 6 years, when would they have 100% non-fossil power? By this simple measure, 13 developed countries are on track to clean power by 2035, and 7 developing countries by 2050. Others need to speed up. 85619
Reposted by Steve HeatonLauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Which countries are actually succeeding in building clean energy? China leads in absolute volumes, no surprises there, but relative to the size of the energy system, five other countries achieved larger increases in the past six years. 217138
Reposted by Steve HeatonKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.climate.usClimate.us Homeindependent, nonprofit, and immune to politics 3925801219
Reposted by Steve HeatonAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026. 236168267552
Reposted by Steve HeatonCharlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Irony is dead. 71116325
Steve Heaton @steveheaton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If you wonder why myself and quite a few others have written LinkedIn off as a platform, the current 'news' feed's top two items are 'Lessons from Jim's mowing' (we all know about 'Jim' and the lesson he's likely to provide) and 'Is Kyle Sandilands' $12m deal a win?'. I mean for crying out loud. 🫠 010
Reposted by Steve HeatonEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This is my recurring reminder that every academic should have their own domain name and hosting for a website that will continue to exist no matter where your professional peregrinations take you. Don’t let your online identity vanish with a job switch or ToS change. 28724
Reposted by Steve HeatonGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Bikes are so fucking awesome. This is the kind of solidarity you see when people are not trapped in their cars. Shoutout to @alexh666.bsky.social for finding this originally! 327741
Reposted by Steve HeatonZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 09/06/2026So we can say that approximately 78% of the avoided increase in atmospheric CO2 was from slower fossil fuel growth, and 22% from falling land use emissions: 2355