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this loos amazing! can't wait to read it.

NYS mandates climate change education. What will students learn? YouTube video by WXXINews

This is great! Couldn't find it on Apple podcasts but youtube was easy www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFEI...

have been roasting my own for ~10 years, so can control for fair trade, geography, etc. And (ignoring time cost) it is cheaper.

Yes. Took off the apps from my phone so limiting to when I'm in front of a laptop.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

When countries slide towards authoritarianism/ autocracy, what helps reverse the trend? What are the ingredients of democratic resilience and recovery?

This report, "Towards a Democratic Playbook," from @perryworldhouse.bsky.social is very good. perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/app/uploads/...

Same!

Pope Leo ally Cardinal Tobin of New Jersey urged Catholics to lobby to defund ICE/DHS as "lawless organization" on a Zoom call with hundreds on Sunday night. Explicitly compares the moral necessity of resistance now to resistance against fascism.🧵1/

This weekend: Register for a Binoculars to Binomials cohort and I'll send you a 16x16" print showing a 🪶 for every bird on earth, colored from Wikipedia descriptions (a $55.00 value).

Learn to create expressive data viz & cultivate a mindful birding practice this spring!

www.jerthorp.me/learning

New Course: ‘Masterclass in Data Visualisation’ (Virtual, Apr 2026) - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere I'm happy to announce details of a new virtual public training course, the 3-day/4-hours per day 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' will take place live online over 14-16 April 2026.

NEW! Happy to share news of a scheduled virtual 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' public training course taking place live/online over 14-16 April, 9am-1pm (UK, BST) each day. Registration open to anyone and everyone now!

visualisingdata.com/2026/01/new-...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Work to build the world we deserve is happening and that is reason not to simply despair but to figure out how to join in and contribute.

Career opportunity: Senior research coordinator for the @mannresearch.bsky.social climate research group at @upenn.edu:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Not in a birdbath, but yes sometimes in ice trays in my freezer

Anyways. So you get some well meaning “hey try it out for a bit” and that means a 3 year large initiative… but everyone wants to do well and succeed! So how do you help?

Constructs and measures! If you can’t change the narrative directly, build the sensors the organisation uses to understand itself

This is a total stab in the dark for my #phillies fan friends out there.

Ages ago (15+ years) the Phils sold this Phanatic ornament. My brother and his family had one they loved, but lost along with everything else in the CA fires last year. I can't find one anywhere online.

Anyone have any leads?

I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing.

I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.

@theradr.bsky.social

Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.

2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.

2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.

Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Lyft black is more $ but picks you up right outside of baggage claim

Human brains produce new ideas every second of every day. Sit down with a tiny child and ask them to explain something they're doing and you will hear half a dozen of them. Ideas are what humans *do*. The idea is by far the easiest part of any creative process.

Graphic with a link to the new special collection.

The “U.S. Climate Collection” will synthesize critical elements of recent and emerging climate change knowledge to support future national & sub-national assessments of climate risks and solutions.🌎

🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/NmA5iBQ

#AGUPubs #COP30 #ClimateAction #ClimateChange @ametsoc.org

AI use makes us overestimate our cognitive performance A study led by Aalto University reveals that when it comes to AI, specifically, LLMs, the Dunning-Kruger Effect doesn’t hold. All users show a significant inability to assess their performance a...

"‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence...We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems – but this was not the case.’"

Of A Feather: Wrapping Paper! | jerthorp Wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with this one-of-a-kind wrapping paper!This paper features 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. The colors for ...

If you're looking for a fun gift for a bird friend or a data friend or a design friend, I just shipped out the first rolls of this wrapping paper:

www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!

Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing. The only way to save them is to put people first.

🚨Just launched: @vox.com's most ambitious biodviersity reporting project of the year.

@benjij.bsky.social went to Madagascar to find out what it takes to save one of the world’s most unique ecosystems — and learned that the answer begins with putting people first.

www.vox.com/climate/4649...

Small bird on a branch with its tail fanned out

This is a thread for excellent bird names.

Supertramp Fantail

ebird.org/species/araf...

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Thank goodness. Not first out of the gate, but I hope they hold on to the "leges sine moribus vanae."