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Dr. Ramesh Laungani

@drrambio.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof of Env. Science @Marist, 🌾 & biochar ecology, @ourwarmregards host, #1000STEMWomen founder,#scicomm, fighting #ClimateChange. Messages=mine

https://www.marist.edu/science/faculty/ramesh-laungani

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Science Magazine @science.org · Oct 3

As government websites go dark, educators across the country have been reworking lesson plans and searching for reliable sources of up-to-date scientific information. https://scim.ag/46Vlwxu

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void

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Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Oct 3

@usa-npn.bsky.social When looking at anomaly data, it seems that I should be paying attending to number next to the red box (-9 days). However I do not know how to think about the 'Observed Day of Onset' (Green box). Should I just ignore that number (green box)? Should I focus on the the -9 days?

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Sep 18

Helping my students understand the concept of % cover before we go out to the field

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Biochar could be a viable climate solution, study finds

Farmers scorch weeds, husks and other biomass to create biochar, then tuck it into the soil to boost crop yields and lock that carbon out of the atmosphere.

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Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Sep 14

That’s great! I’ll send you an email and we can plan something!

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thank you for your advocacy work on this! Would love to find a time to chat!

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is an amazing thread and so glad that it was highlighted by @katharinehayhoe.com in her news letter. I am going to share this with my students at Marist…maybe I can have @jeffsseidman.bsky.social pop down the road to talk about his experience?

Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · Sep 4

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

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SHIFT

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Sep 6

👏👏👏 👏👏

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Sep 6

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways)

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Power price stability and the insurance value of renewable technologies - Nature Energy

Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natura...

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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · Sep 4

8) We course-corrected early on, stopped talking about climate at all, and instead talked about LOCAL benefits: lower electricity bills, a more reliable and resilient grid, and lower air pollution (because batteries displace dirty peaker-plants).

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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Jun 30

Now that the data is in and the prelim stats are run…now comes the deep dive!

a man is smiling and holding a pencil with the words that worked better than i thought it would below him

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Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today I’ll be collecting data about how #climatechange & biochar impact decomposition. I used teabags as the “litter bags”. It’s the first time I’ve tried this protocol & so I’m excitedly nervous to see what the data looks like!

a woman says she is excited and terrified

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jun 24

How renewables save Texans enormous amounts of money.

The buildout of solar in TX reduced the wholesale price of energy by 50%.

#energysky

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How renewables are saving Texans billions

A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas

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Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · Jun 21

@anthropocenemag.bsky.social I saw this cool article about paint. Do you have a curated collection of #ClimateSolutions like this?

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 21

No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes

➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes from around the world! showyourstripes.info (Global) and observablehq.com/@climatecent... (U.S.) What's in your area?

Visualization showing vertical colored lines corresponding to temperature anomalies from 1921 to 2024 for the Arctic Ocean. The colors have year-to-year variability, but generally go from blue to red through time, especially in recent years.

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RachelbC 🌎🚀🛰️🔭💫🧪 @rachelbc.bsky.social · Jun 21

Source @drshepherd2013.bsky.social

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · May 21

New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · May 17

Acts of #ClimateCourage can feel like isolated splashes of different sizes. But the ripple effects generate #ClimateHope

Ripples from both big & small acts intersect to create unique 🌊 of action!

An act of #ClimateCourage doesn’t need to be huge to inspire others to make their own ripple

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TeacherGoals @teachergoals.bsky.social · May 10

Truth. 💯
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 10

🧵🧪 It’s like watching your friend who has the most expensive Lego set on the block, after painstakingly building it up brick by brick so that it is the envy of everyone everywhere…start smashing it so that it lacks form or function. Just a pile of bricks… #NSF

LEGO Star Wars box for set 10143, “Death Star II,” recommended for ages 16 and up. The box features a detailed image of the partially constructed Death Star from the Star Wars Original Trilogy, with green laser beams shooting from its superlaser dish. The background shows a view of Earth-like terrain from space with starships and explosions. The set contains 3,449 pieces.

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · May 9

I did get it! Thank you so much

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · May 9

Great! Looking forward to it.

Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · May 9

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social curious when we will find out if our abstracts were accepted & the presentation date.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 7

Who's responsible for the climate crisis?

Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much.

The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair.

An explanatory thread 🧵

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Dr. Ramesh Laungani @drrambio.bsky.social · May 6

“…on a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings…based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information.”

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