Bluebird bathing will continue as well. #birds

Did the Newfoundland try to climb into your lap looking like that? 😱

A variable checker spot butterfly on a sage flower, showing off his fuzzy gray back. Las Trampas park Danville CA

Mohawk butterfly for the win! 🦋

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Holy smokes! An incredible start to the 'Wildfire Season' in the US this year - owing to an abnormally hot and snowless winter in some parts of the country.

The global suicide rate has fallen Our World in Data since the 1990s Estimated annual number of suicides per 100,000 people. This data is based on modeling of global suicide patterns, and includes adjustments that aim to account for missing data and underreporting. In 1995, there were 15 suicide deaths per 100,000 people in the world Rates have fallen by 40% to 9 deaths per 100,000 That still means a total of 770,000 suicide deaths every year Note: To allow for comparisons over time, this metric is age-standardized. Data source: |HME, Global Burden of Disease (2025)

One of those slow news stories in a fast news world. Suicide rates around the world have been dropping since the mid 1990s
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

Bringing Clean Energy Opportunities to Women and Youth in Nigerian Agriculture - RMI How Nigerian clean energy enterprises can stabilize livelihoods, empower women and youth, and reshape agricultural value chains.

Bringing Clean Energy Opportunities to Women and Youth in Nigerian Agriculture #energysky -- via RMI

Assessing the Effect of a Deep‐Rooted Grass on Belowground Carbon Storage in Cultivated Land: Insights From a Multi‐Site US Study Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum, L.) stored significantly more carbon in root biomass than shallow-rooted crops at 12 sites across the USA Switchgrass had no detectable effect on soil organic carbo...

You wanna know if deeply rooted grasses put more carbon in the ground? "Sometimes you've gotta rent a van and drive around the country..." So said @ericslessarev.bsky.social & team in this wonderful study. 12 sites in central/eastern USA...
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Big ideas for a Department of Energy of the Future 10 proposals for restructuring DOE for the next generation of energy challenges

Planning for a future we want, instead of just the detritus of today, is a task that begins now. Noah Deich has some great thoughts on what a new US Department of Energy could look like. It could be transformative and effective. Good job Noah.

#energysky

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Las Trampas park near Danville CA

Las Trampas park near Danville CA

Las Trampas park near Danville CA

Las Trampas park near Danville CA

The butterflies in Las Trampas park are amazing today. The relatively rare pinevine swallowtail is everywhere (blue tail). 🦋

This is true in science also. Good ideas are ten-a-penny - but what is impressive is actually getting it done. It’s the doing that makes the work worthwhile, not the initial spark (99 times out of hundred).

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

Why carbon removal needs a new story Listen now | A conversation with Robert Hoglund on reframing CDR as a real mitigation solution, the aviation and shipping blind spot, and what success looks like in the prove and learn era

Robert Hoglund @roberthoglund.bsky.social is the voice of rationality for carbon dioxide removal. He makes the case for CDR needing a narrative shift away from speed and scale, toward prove and learn. Today the vital need is to trust and understand CDR.

carboncurve.substack.com/p/why-carbon...

A brown hummingbird hovers hear the pink/red flowers of a New Zealand tea tree. Livermore, CA.

A brown hummingbird hovers hear the pink/red flowers of a New Zealand tea tree. Livermore, CA.

The Anna's chase the migrant hummingbirds off the citrus trees - this Rufous (I think) is trying out the New Zealand tea tree.🪶

A female Anna's hummingbird hovers at an Orange flower, getting yellen pollen on her bill. Livermore, California.

A female Anna's hummingbird hovers at an Orange flower, getting yellen pollen on her bill. Livermore, California.

When the Orange trees bloom, the hummingbirds feast. I think this is a female Anna's hummingbird. They stay here all year. 🪶

Landscape Features

This is the best map of the United States I've ever seen. xkcd.com/3221/

A cartoon of a man walking in the woods, saying "Hey, dude!" to a squirrel, bird, and raccoon. The caption reads, "At one with nature."

TURN ON (the Merlin Bird app)
TUNE IN (to nature around you)
DROP OUT (til Monday) 🌱

Apply for innovation funds Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $1B+ of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030.

We just launched Frontier’s 2026 Innovation program! We will provide R&D grants and pre-purchases to address critical field research gaps and get emerging technologies out of the lab and into the field: frontierclimate.com/...

We are specifically looking for:

Let me jump on this wagon and take a little of Zeke's heat. For me AI works like a research assistant. How else would I get notes from a Copenhagen city council meeting? But like any junior researcher, I always insist on citations. Which I check. But the acceleration is huge, and I do the writing.

The AI-Augmented Scientist The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

The seeds of different carbon removal future are taking root in India today Reflections from the 2nd annual CO2 Forward Conference in New Delhi

When I was a child I poured through National Geographic, amazed by the world’s diversity. Too often we lose track of diversity in energy planning - and lose the opportunities diversity creates. We need everything, hopefully in the places they work best.
#energysky

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When I first started investigating CO2 I assumed this factor would be well known. It wasn't. Thanks for measuring it in a key location.

Two red tailed hawks apparently having sex in a tree. The male is on top. One of them was squawking pretty loud!

Two red tailed hawks apparently having sex in a tree. The male is on top. One of them was squawking pretty loud!

Two red tailed hawks apparently having sex in a tree. The male is on top. One of them was squawking pretty loud!

The male red tail stayed around while the female flew off. This is the male in a tree, facing us.

I caught these two red tails making little red tails. The girl flew away but the boy stayed to strut a little...🪶

Four orange California poppy flowers. One has a bumblebee grabbing some pollen from it.

Always one of my favorite days of the year - first poppies!

two northern flicker woodpeckers facing each other and pointing their beaks toward the sky.

I believe this is the mating ritual of the Northern Flicker. They are 'skypointing' as I have seen larger birds do. There was a group of 6 or 8 in this tree – this pair seems to have hit it off. 🪶

Sound advice from David.

And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention.

Both of these show respect to the audience.

Thanks Brian!

What is ATB? Citation?

The Carbon removal sector needs a new story From speed and scale to prove and learn

Bravo Robert. CDR investors and hypesters have pushed rapid growth, but as you say, “the story is not rapid scale, but proving, learning and earning trust”. Many companies have a toe in the water. They need to know CDR works and is acceptable.

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