THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

honestly the fiftieth anniversary of Apple made me realize this: I didn’t really love the Mac until it was Unix

Multi-site DMS probing reveals higher-order structure of RNA-protein complexes in living cells Saleem et al. introduce multi-site DMS-MaP (msDMS-MaP), a chemical probing strategy that permits simultaneous mapping of RNA secondary structures and typically concealed tertiary structures and protei...

Pleased to share our latest paper, out today in Molecular Cell: “Multi-site DMS probing reveals higher-order structure of RNA-protein complexes in living cells”

www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.

I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post

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Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively.

This doesn’t happen by accident.

The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

The U.S. Is Manufacturing a Ton of Grid Batteries Demand for energy storage is surging on the U.S. grid — and the country now has more than enough battery-making factories to meet it.

Big batteries have begun reshaping the U.S. power grid. Now, the country has made surprising strides in making those energy storage systems itself, rather than depending on imports from China.

Good news! No pay wall.

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

Just a reminder that in computational biology and bioinformatics, we should NOT just translate the longest ORF in genomes but the most likely to be translated.

Our paper here details some of the pitfalls of you don’t. Be aware. Be warned.

doi.org/10.3390/gene...

From April 2025 to 2026, CAISO installed

4.656 GW batteries
1.534 GW solar
0.308 GW wind

bringing totals to

16.04 GW/64.16 GWh batt
22.577 GW solar
8.681 GW wind

CAISO queue is

17.1 GW batt
19 GW sol
0.8 GW wind
0 bio, gas, nuc

This is why WWS will ultimately supply 100% of demand 24/7/365

I'm excited to tell you about the most recent preprint in my lab, demonstrating that a conserved spindle matrix protein, NPP-21/TPR, is required for the stronger checkpoint in germline cells during embryogenesis in C. elegans

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Finally published at long last (at least in the pre-view version). Explore the wild and woolly world of archaeal histones! Interactive archaeal histone graph incluced rdcu.be/fdFjv. Congratulations to first author Shawn Laursen

Commentary: New York should put a two-year moratorium on new nuclear power The governor's push for more nuclear goes against the recommendations of the Climate Action Council. It will raise energy prices further. And it's just too risky.

My op-ed in today's Albany Times Union: NY should not embrace nuclear power, as its too expensive and too slow to deploy. Renewable energy is available much faster, and at far less cost, and with less risk.
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

GTDB release 11 based on RefSeq 232 (R11-RS232) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 901,341 genomes (23% increase) and has 199,923 species clusters (39% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r232.

Oh yeah the pharma companies are probably lining up to manufacture more in the country that will kill the clinical trials and funding for their research. This fucking dipshit.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

A very nice review of AI in protein engineering from @jlistgarten.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

C-GEM's work was highlighted by APS!
americanpeptidesociety.org/research/rib...

Congrats to @c-majumdar.bsky.social, @alexandra-kent.bsky.social, @nxhamlish.bsky.social, Cathy, Katie, @jhdcate.bsky.social, and Alanna!

Read the original paper in JACS: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#NSFfunded

🚨 Count US IN v. Morales Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Indiana law banning the use of a student ID for voting. A huge victory my law firm, our clients Count US IN and Women4Change Indiana, and the voters of Indiana.

Another reminder that when we fight we win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/indian...

Today's Headline And then one day, while I read aloud to my husband the news and felt the widening hole in my heart, he raised his hand to quiet me. I followed his gaze out the window to see in the yard a small fluffy thing with black and white eyespots on its head. A northern pygmy owl beside our door, stout body slightly smaller than my fist. It turned its neck a full half circle to look at me with bright yellow eyes. In an instant, I shifted from disgust with the world to awe. Awe for this fierce bespeckled miracle, this wonder of feather and beak and claw, this small being in the grass looking back at me as if to say, Here is also the news. How surprising the world can be. How quickly, when I let it, amazement overwrites my fear and makes of the hole in my heart a home. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department to suspend admission to biophysics major - Daily Bruin The department of physics and astronomy will suspend admission to the biophysics major for continuing students next fall and is seeking to cut the program entirely in fall 2027, an advisor announced i...

What happened here?
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department to suspend admission to biophysics major - Daily Bruin share.google/9nkV5mbEMiIw...

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content