Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Map of watershed basins in the Western United States. Basins are color-coded to show SNOTEL estimates of snow-water equivalency compared to the median from 1991-2020 as of April 8 2026. Nearly all the colors are red (<50%; Covering AZ, NM, CO, NZ, Northern CA, WA, and most of WY)), with some orange (50-69%) and yellow (70-89%). in the Northern regions (Montana, Idaho, and parts of Washington)
It's going to be a wild summer.
Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.
Markets are treating the war in Iran, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, like they treat climate change: not totally ignoring it, but not acknowledging the full scale of the crisis, either newrepublic.com/article/2082...
The raids have changed the lives of immigrants in the area, from how they work to how they acquire food and clothing.
Cumulus clouds over the ocean. Credit: Felipe Sanchez / Alamy Stock Photo.
Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming
✍️ By @pauloceppi.bsky.social
Read this new article here ➡️ buff.ly/oLxKacO
The raids have changed the lives of immigrants in the area, from how they work to how they acquire food and clothing.
I took a momentary break from science writing to write about how ICE raids are affecting my home neighborhood back in Staten Island for @documentedny.bsky.social
documentedny.com/2026/03/23/i...
And for less jargon-heavy context, please take a look at this article I wrote a few years ago that's related to this topic
thebulletin.org/2024/04/how-...
Happy to share the first part of my PhD research "Madden-Julian Oscillation and Atmospheric Rivers: New Insights on Water Source and Transport for Extreme Rainfall Over the Western U.S". Many thanks to my co-authors for guidance with this work
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Last post I'll do on people lecturing me about X/Twitter.
I worked at the Washington Post for 11 years. The amount of racist hate I would get in story comments and emails was astounding.
I don't remember anyone telling me to leave the Washington Post because of racist comments and toxicity.
The US National Academies of Sciences refused to remove a climate change chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite pressure from Republican attorneys general.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
Lawmakers in Washington State have agreed to tax people who earn over $1 million in the state’s first income tax.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight.
“We are doomed," one staffer texted me.
“The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...
Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.
Their stories should be known:
A lot of the NYPD/Mamdani takes on here are pretending that Mamdani didn't learn from what happened under de Blasio when you take on NYPD directly which is they kidnapped and doxxed his daughter
Thinking about how I don't know of a single open Black disabled person who holds a full-time disability reporting role, and how desperately we're losing out because of that.
A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year.
A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure.
www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Finally back from the #AAASmtg, and I had such a wonderful and energizing time meeting other scientists and science advocates across so many disciplines. I also had a great time talking about @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social with @michalruprecht.com @peterha2l.bsky.social @livmonahan.bsky.social
What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.
Uprooter and Advisory Board member @smallthoughts.bsky.social will be speaking along with other AAAS Mass Media Fellows at the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 14th!
