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Bryn Nelson@seattlebryn.bsky.social |
344 followers 681 following 192 posts
Freelance science writer & author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure. Seattle is home. 💩🔬🧪🏳️🌈 He/him
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isaac
@sevier.io
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If Project 2025 becomes policy, at Department of Energy:
❌ energy efficiency work (EERE)
❌ grid planning
❌ battery research
❌ Loan Program Office and loans
❌ carbon capture
❌ ARPA-E
❌ Clean Energy Corps
✅ repeal IIJA & IRA
✅ manipulate EIA
✅ expedite LNG builds
democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
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Early indication of how conservatives intend to respond to the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision? This is objectively scary stuff. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Um, hello media outlets! Seems like this should be, you know, maybe something worth following up on? 👀
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Folks: a reminder -> Google frequently cite this "research" that claims a 5-10% global (global!!!!) decrease in emissions thanks to "AI"
www.greenbiz.com/article/goog...
I clicked through all the references and what lies at the bottom is *very bad* -->>
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-rea...
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Remember how after Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, people said this is going to be really bad, and it was? Well, the Chevron deference ruling is going to be really bad www.scientificamerican.com/article/supr...
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Just to emphasize the bad-faith and wholesale redefinition of DEI to include a sweeping list of services for LGBTQ students and other minorities: “The Utah law labeled services for different communities — racial, ethnic, religious, gender-based or sexuality-based — as “discriminatory.”
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
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Corey Brickley Illustration
@coreybrickley.bsky.social
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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Dave Hutchinson
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.
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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)
@froomkin.bsky.social
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CNN fails the nation presswatchers.org/2024/06/cnn-... NEW from me.
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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"The signal failure of the American media during the Trump era has been the refusal to hold Trump accountable for his behavior—&, in particular, his endless lies," @froomkin.bsky.social says. "That has never been more obvious than it was at Thursday night’s debate." presswatchers.org/2024/06/cnn-...
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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“The CNN moderators who should have corrected Trump’s outrageous and easily disproved assertions – about immigration, abortion, Covid, Jan. 6, NATO, you name it – instead thanked him obsequiously.”
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Carl Zimmer
@carlzimmer.bsky.social
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The last woolly mammoths survived on a remote island till 4000 years ago, wracked for millennia by genetic disorders. Here's my story on what they can tell us about saving endangered species today. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/s...
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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"And as Israel continues its siege on Gaza, preventing aid groups getting enough food into the enclave, parents say they have no choice but to watch their children starve to death."
www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/m...
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Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
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Citation is pedagogical. Citation is political. If you’re citing ChatGPT, I have questions about your pedagogical and political commitments.
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Extreme heat events will become increasingly common here too as the world bakes under global warming. It didn’t have to be this way, and we can still avert even worse scenarios.
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J. D.
@jdetc.bsky.social
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Ignoring that the demand for these products is entirely speculative, the market has a natural solution for a company needing a resource, and I'm not sure why the NYT doesn't see how absurd it is to frame an article like the consumer has some duty towards the speculative for-profit enterprise.
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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Dolly Parton wasn't cancelled, a rando no one ever heard of came for the queen and got their ass handed to them so bad they immediately backed down. This is fear mongering about "cancel culture going too far" using an event that literally demonstrates the opposite.
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Um, this seems bad.
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The Trace
@thetrace.org
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Earlier this week, we published a story about how frequently shootings happen near schools across the United States — based on our analysis of 10 years of data from the Gun Violence Archive as well as records from other sources. Here’s how we did it:
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Overnight low temperatures are heating up twice as fast as daytime high temperatures. And hot nights are dangerous 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... by @andreatweather.bsky.social
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Amy Donofrio put up a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom so her students "know that they're cared about."
Which made her a target for the DeSantis "war on woke."
After years of legal abuse by Florida Republicans, she prevailed. Her story.
www.salon.com/2024/06/19/f...
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Ooh, this is just lovely. Miss the fireflies I used to see in the Midwest.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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I think it's totally insane that more people don't know about PrEP. The fact that we have a prophylactic medication to prevent HIV is one of the greatest medical achievements of my lifetime. It's hard to explain just how hopeless the fight against AIDS felt in the 80s and 90s.
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Jane Cawthorne
@other-jane.bsky.social
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Great article in Scientific American today about denial. www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve....
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Outtamylaine
@outtamylaine.bsky.social
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A great read for the Crow-Befrienders here in the 'Sky. (Calling you, @brooklynmarie.bsky.social)
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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How Sinclair works with the notoriously deceptive RNC Research twitter account to launder cheap right-wing smears into local websites that the imprimatur of mainstream media brands, including NBC, ABC, and CBS popular.info/p/sinclair-f...
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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Google image search for basically any female celebrity returns AI results on the first page, some of them lead directly to nonconsensual porn:
www.404media.co/google-image...
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Danny Satterfield
@wildweatherdan.bsky.social
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#Desantis is (I’m shocked!) wrong.
The oceans are the hottest on record and this means extra water vapour in the air. In this case the physics is the Clausius/Clapeyron equation.
The laws of physics are real. Everything else is politics- N.D. Tyson.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
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This is a fantastic article, and one of the best things it does is explain how folks who have benefited from the manipulation of online platforms have successfully equated any effort to address that manipulation as “censorship.”
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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An essential read from the former research manager of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, on how spreaders of misinformation (people who have been deceived) and disinformation (people who know they’re lying) view even *labelling* a post as misinformation as censorship. More … 🧵
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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@adamserwer.bsky.social Trump approvingly posted video of a deranged supporter accosting Joe Scarborough and raging that if Trump wins he'll "get rid of" liberals, a sentiment Trump plainly endorsed by elevating the vid, and not one MSM civility cop took note of it:
newrepublic.com/article/1819...
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
@rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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This seems … bad. Um, hello? The point isn’t to simulate what a plausible answer *might look like* but to actually, you know, try to get closer to a real-life accurate answer.
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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ME: is the carbon footprint of driving my kids to go camping morally permissible if experiencing nature leads them to act more sustainably throughout their lives GOOGLE: we're draining freshwater lakes to tell people to drink bleach
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Trimmer Siblings
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Whoa. This is a big deal because it starts to quantify health benefits, which are hugely, hugely under-appreciated when it comes to assessing the economic value of renewable energy. Cleaner air *also* contributes to lower cancer and cardiovascular risk. 🧪
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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🤦🏼♂️
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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When it comes to the impact humans are having on our home, the news is rarely better than we thought. And much often, as in this case below, it is much worse. It’s also nearly always true that those causing the problem are not those suffering the brunt of the impacts.
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Bryan Schott
@schotthappens.bsky.social
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Always fun when I get subtweeted by a sitting U.S. Senator. In tonight's U.S. Senate debate, Jason Walton said, "Drug cartels are literally business partners with Joe Biden" (exact quote). I asked him to explain what he meant "because that seems like an outrageous statement" (exact quote)
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Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
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Important info, fellow PNWers
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Cool, cool, just the wife of a Supreme Court justice appearing to say she's going to sue the media for reporting on her.
Perhaps a Justice might want to explain to her how the First Amendment works?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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The richest man in the world with the biggest megaphone in the world is just asking questions about why people don't like neo-Nazis. And he's turned his website into one where thousands of people reply to him that the AfD is totes cool and so is he.
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Bryn Nelson
@seattlebryn.bsky.social
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Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: My parents once accused me of smoking because I loved the video game Elevator Action, and the only one nearby was in the back of a smoky bar where the owner let us play for hours.
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