Wind and solar power generate ~35% of electricity in the UK.

Witty quip... But the UK currently gets 6.6% of it's electricity from solar and growing. Together with wind they are approaching 40% of their electricity generation from those renewable sources alone. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

"’If you're seeing a shift toward more female employment, all else equal, you would see a shift toward lower wages’….

For a long time, there was a big push to get more women into STEM.
But there's been less of an effort to push more men into…jobs in health & education”🧪

@emilypeck.bsky.social

Solar, wind and battery storage (included in other sources) in the EIA plot are the only parts of the US grids that are increasing in capacity. Nuclear, hydro and fossil gas are flat. Coal is decreasing. As a result fossil fuel generation is dropping (slowly) while renewable generation and storage discharge are increasing.

Challenging yes. But, it's not quite every state and the key word there is "attempting". Still the economics are so favorable for renewables that solar, wind and storage are the only parts of the US grids that are increasing in capacity. And that is translating in to higher generation. 🧪🔌💡☀️💧💨🔋

That setup saved us ~50% on install. And we still save ~$500/yr on operating costs & have reduced CO2e emissions ~86% since install. Current rates are cutting into savings but that is a function of misguided state and federal policies not heat pump technology. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Heat pumps have improved dramatically in recent years. We replaced our 30yr old AC with a three-season heat pump that meets our heating needs to 20°F. Our existing gas furnace takes over for temps from <20°F down to -15°F. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Between the house and the stars: the life of Varvara Sokolova who married Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Introduction One day I realised that I had been writing a lot about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , but it had never occurred to me wonder about h...

The role of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the development of spaceflight is celebrated - but what about his wife? I delve into the life of Varvara Yevgrafovna Sokolova. 🧪
#WomenInSTEM

In Alaska, where overdose deaths are rising again, Narcan and community are a lifeline Overdoses have been declining nationally since August 2023, but Alaska is far behind in that progress

My favorite article of the series was the one that got the least attention. I travelled to Alaska, where drug fatalities were still climbing, late last summer. I was amazed how many people I spoke with who had recently used Narcan or received it to reverse an OD. Keeping each other alive each day.

How Chicago succeeded in reducing drug overdose deaths The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis

Of course I was also very happy to cover my own city’s successful approach to tracking and controlling overdose spikes in near real time.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another of those rare clear nights, so a long look at NGC 4438 in the Virgo Cluster, our nearest rich cluster. Close interactions are quite common in such dense environments, resulting in beautiful car wrecks like this one. 🧪🔭

Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events? More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature highlight concerns over adopting AI in meteorology and call on the weather and climate community to set clear standards, starting with agreed data sets, for testing out-of-sample extreme-event predictions objectively. 🧪

UK Mandates Rooftop Solar & Heat Pumps For New Homes Beginning In 2028 - CleanTechnica The UK Future Homes Program will require rooftop solar and heat pumps in new homes beginning in April of 2028.

This is the way... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 cleantechnica.com/2026/03/26/u...

Breaking: 3 out of 4 Indian shipments of military-grade steel destined for genocidal Israel have been detained and are under investigation in Italy.

Let’s keep the pressure on, and stop the genocidal Israel’s supply chains.

Breaking: 3 out of 4 Indian shipments of military-grade steel destined for genocidal Israel have been detained and are under investigation in Italy.

Let’s keep the pressure on, and stop the genocidal Israel’s supply chains.

What if this rash swallow his entire body, and tRump is no more???

Prison that we find ourselves in will be liberated! His network of Evil will be destroyed.

There will be an end to his body! There will be an end to his destruction, and we will rebuild America.

Persistent heat and dangerous wildfire conditions could impact these parts of the US this weekend A large swath of the country is expected to face dangerous heat and fire weather conditions this weekend, forecasts show.

🧪 #ClimateChange is not a hoax!
abcnews.com/US/persisten...

Like we were definitely always doing the war crimes so saying this is WORSE feels complicated.

But I definitely feel like it's not great that they don't even feel the need to lie about it anymore.

Every time he announces another war crime on social media I think about how 15 years ago there would have been an entire season of TV where they slowly peeled back a massive complex conspiracy meant to hide the fact that we did a war crime, and now he just tweets them out as a FYI

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life! Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

My name is Jamal from Gaza.
I survived the gencide but lost our home and stability.
Now I am trying to rebuild my life from zero and continue my education.

Every share and donation helps me take one step forward.

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central HQ Spokesperson: “If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy infrastructure, information technology systems, and desalination facilities belonging to the United States and the regime in the region will be targeted.”

Yeah, man, make Americans across the country have to subject themselves to inspection by the racist goon squad, I'm sure that'll go well.

Once again begging @bsky.app to give us a setting that keeps us off the discover page

Trump is the worse human on earth and a failure to this world 🌎. The scumbag of human life!

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

An important read by Elizabeth Ginexi.

New #NIH funding opportunities exist to solicit proposals for research that need attention.

75 NOFOs forecasted. 14 released. The rest are in limbo. And not due to scientific reasons. One factor that is killing US research.
🧪 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Great science story about how "willpower" isn't a real tool kids can use and that less access to stuff that's bad for you (put the phone in another room; don't buy the package of donuts) is a better solution.

And I bet it works for grownups, too. 🧪

To investigate the lifelong progression of aging, they continuously tracked behavior from adolescence to death in the naturally short-lived African turquoise killifish. Naturalistic behavioral readout, which is noninvasive, revealed individual animal aging trajectories across life. Behavior not only can be used to infer age but also can forecast future lifespan. The continuous nature of behavioral tracking suggests an architecture of aging whereby individuals progress through adulthood in an orderly sequence of stable and stereotyped behavioral stages.

Led by Drs. Claire Bedbrook & Ravi Nath, the researchers "suggest an architecture of vertebrate aging where adulthood progresses through a sequence of ordered behavioral stages."

To read a lay summary of the findings, check out this news report from @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪2/2

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

We're at hit piece #6 in the smear campaign against me, this time calling into question my credibility to speak out against de-extinction 🤣. If Colossal & their supporters had anything valid to rebut my expert commentary with, they wouldn't resort to these tactics www.baltictimes.com/from_lab_to_...

Frozen rain on tree bark.

What a winter! While we’re seeing some milder days (just around freezing point), there are still amazing patterns made of frozen rainwater on trees.

I’ve heard people say, this winter is proof that global warming is bollocks. 🧵

#photography #winter #nature #frost #patterns #trees #OurFuture

This #ValentinesDay and every day, pay attention to the signs.

In love, in life, in how we treat the planet: choose 💚 and leave the 🚩 behind.