Three stickers from Allegheny College on a white background. One is of a turkey vulture, one of a black bear sleeping in a tree, amd one of a graduation hat with solar panels on it
Please enjoy the winners of this year's sticker contest in our dept! I especially love the vulture
Map of local temperature trends from GISTEMP from 1970-2025. It's warming faster over land than the ocean, more in the North than in the South, and most of all in the Arctic. Red covers the regions that have warmed more than 2ºC - which is basically all NH extratropical land areas. Sorry.
Happy Earth Day!
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Imagine making AI bird slop when Jacanas exist
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
an average of just under 35 percent approval. oof.
What's your favorite book on earth's climate?
Im likely to assign a pop sci book for my Earth System Science class in the fall, but most of the ones that come to mind are either a) more geology/deep time focused b) 5+ years old or c) too dense for a sophomore/nonmajors class
Oh, I hadn't considered novels! I was thinking something like Field Notes from a Catastrophe, only less than 20 years old!
What's your favorite book on earth's climate?
Im likely to assign a pop sci book for my Earth System Science class in the fall, but most of the ones that come to mind are either a) more geology/deep time focused b) 5+ years old or c) too dense for a sophomore/nonmajors class
"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend
their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."
www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...
Paper by Kurlansky is also excellent! Im not sure i fully agree with the central thesis (that technology doesnt drive cultural change, but "Society develops technology to address the changes that are taking place within it.") Tend to think its both, but still very good!
The Senate has narrowly overturned the mining ban that blocked mining in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. This means Twin Metals can reapply for leases and permits to mine copper, cobalt, and nickel there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
The Senate just voted to allow mining upstream from a pristine wilderness area in Minnesota, the Boundary Waters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
"The authors have gone to great lengths to address the concerns of the reviewers multiple times. If the reviewers would like to write a different paper, they are free to do so in future work."
WELL SAID, Dr. journal editor, well said! 🙌
We have less than 2! Classes end April 27. I am not ready
I thought it was pretty nice of Semafor to run an advertisement for Rusty and todayintabs.com. if you want an aggregator of media gossip bullshit as assembled by a bitchy and yet human team, subscribe to todayintabs.com www.semafor.com/article/04/1...
Canada’s first national peatland data portal is here.
Led by Dr. Maria Strack, PI of @can-peat.bsky.social, this new platform brings together critical peatland data to support water research, watershed management, collaboration and Indigenous data sovereignty.
uwaterloo.ca/news/canadia...
ICE detaining doctors is absurd. Let me explain something: foreign-trained doctors get trained and practice in places where American medical graduates often do not want to go. They are not taking jobs from anybody. They go to undesirable locations and take undesirable jobs.
New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
NSF GRFP results are out!
Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
(Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.)
#NSF #GRFP
Accountability!
Lord, I see what you’ve done for others
Péter Magyar victory speech:
"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."
He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
based based based based
Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.
Map showing which month has the largest warming trend over the last 75 years. For a large majority of the U.S., that month is March.
What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art
Developers get the reputation landlords deserve, sort of like how 2 year olds get the bad rap when 3 year olds are the real problem
A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.
A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.
A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.
Im not sure they have any egrets/herons, but @pigeonpost.shop has lots of fun bird art!