Daniel Siegel
@dcgull.bsky.social
Data scientist and water policy nerd.
Phrenology is back, baby! Outsource your racist redlining to an AI.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Phrenology is back, baby! Outsource your racist redlining to an AI.
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The Bay Area is more than halfway toward its goal of restoring 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands, which are a natural buffer to floodwaters from future sea level rise.
The region now boasts 57,800 acres of restored tidal marsh
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www.kqed.org/science/1998...
The region now boasts 57,800 acres of restored tidal marsh
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www.kqed.org/science/1998...
Rising Tides Drive a Bay Area Push to Bring Back Vanished Marshlands | KQED
The region has restored nearly 58,000 acres of tidal wetlands, bringing new life to the Bay’s edge and fresh hope for flood protection.
www.kqed.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Bay Area is more than halfway toward its goal of restoring 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands, which are a natural buffer to floodwaters from future sea level rise.
The region now boasts 57,800 acres of restored tidal marsh
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
The region now boasts 57,800 acres of restored tidal marsh
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
Melissa is officially the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded at time of landfall. Pray for Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Melissa is officially the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded at time of landfall. Pray for Jamaica.
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Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
Called the sheriff on someone taking a photo on a public road. “This was sabotage. This was a hit.”
mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/14/s...
mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/14/s...
SJV WATER: Subsidence photo op stirs bad feelings in already bitter groundwater clash
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Already heated tensions flared Friday when a southern Tulare County dairy farmer noticed what appeared to be signs illustrating subsidence levels being affixed to a telephone...
mavensnotebook.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Called the sheriff on someone taking a photo on a public road. “This was sabotage. This was a hit.”
mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/14/s...
mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/14/s...
So funny how the Republican Party pretends to be anti-establishment when all their takes are lifted from Mr. Burns.
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
So funny how the Republican Party pretends to be anti-establishment when all their takes are lifted from Mr. Burns.
The water board's Statewide Restoration General Order is major progress on cutting green tape!
www.ppic.org/blog/environ...
www.ppic.org/blog/environ...
Environmental Restoration Gets a Boost in California
Permitting has long slowed ecosystem restoration projects across California. Is that shifting? We spoke with the State Water Board’s Paul Hann and Sustainable Conservation’s Erika Lovejoy about a new ...
www.ppic.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The water board's Statewide Restoration General Order is major progress on cutting green tape!
www.ppic.org/blog/environ...
www.ppic.org/blog/environ...
Modern China reminds me of Victorian England - an aristocratic hierarchy trying to manage a capitalist economy while keeping democracy at bay. Was wondering if anyone else sees it that way and found this gem.
www.ft.com/content/f160...
www.ft.com/content/f160...
Why modern China needs a House of Lords for its aristocrats
A peerage system would formalise the current reality
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Modern China reminds me of Victorian England - an aristocratic hierarchy trying to manage a capitalist economy while keeping democracy at bay. Was wondering if anyone else sees it that way and found this gem.
www.ft.com/content/f160...
www.ft.com/content/f160...
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Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage
this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time
excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
August 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage
Very excited that California's Department of Water Resources is using out product (GRAT) for watershed planning.
💧California’s Merced River Watershed is turning flood risk into water resilience. Using tools like GRAT + strategies like Flood-MAR, a new study shows how smart planning can boost groundwater, reduce flood risk & support farms + ecosystems.
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@susconca.bsky.social
🔗http://bit.ly/41HPz9U
August 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Very excited that California's Department of Water Resources is using out product (GRAT) for watershed planning.
Explains why everybody thought we live on a turtle
Ever take a step back from scientific theories you know well and understand and go "oh actually this is mind-boggling and ridiculous sounding"?
Last night it was plate tectonics.
Oh so big slabs of stone are constantly slowly moving, with everything we know and love atop them? C'mon.
Last night it was plate tectonics.
Oh so big slabs of stone are constantly slowly moving, with everything we know and love atop them? C'mon.
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Explains why everybody thought we live on a turtle
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Usually I prefer Star Trek, but there is one thing Star Wars does better. Aliens aren’t just humans with eyebrow ridges. Aliens are puppets. Or at least humans in cloaks/fur suits. And you gotta have strange little robots running around everywhere. Star Wars has better aliens and better robots.
July 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Usually I prefer Star Trek, but there is one thing Star Wars does better. Aliens aren’t just humans with eyebrow ridges. Aliens are puppets. Or at least humans in cloaks/fur suits. And you gotta have strange little robots running around everywhere. Star Wars has better aliens and better robots.
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You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.
July 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.
"Pakistan wasn’t expecting to do this for at least 10 or 20 years. But Global South countries can be leaders of the energy transition."
e360.yale.edu/features/pak...
e360.yale.edu/features/pak...
Pakistan's Solar Revolution Is Bringing Power to the People
Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have snapped up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of Islamabad-based Renewables First, says his country ca...
e360.yale.edu
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Pakistan wasn’t expecting to do this for at least 10 or 20 years. But Global South countries can be leaders of the energy transition."
e360.yale.edu/features/pak...
e360.yale.edu/features/pak...
I spoke with three high school classmates of Zohran Mamdani who told me on the record that they witnessed him jumping the turnstiles to get on the subway.
Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment
July 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I spoke with three high school classmates of Zohran Mamdani who told me on the record that they witnessed him jumping the turnstiles to get on the subway.
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If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
Chicago-based Asian carp dog treat helping save Great Lakes from invasive fish
Dogs are taking the bait! A Chicago-based pet food company is offering up an Asian Carp dog treat.
abc7chicago.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
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USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.
I guess we will see how it goes this summer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.
I guess we will see how it goes this summer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’
Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.
I guess we will see how it goes this summer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.
I guess we will see how it goes this summer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They've stopped giving even flimsy justification for the wholesale destruction of our critical infrastructure
thinc.blog/2025/06/26/p...
thinc.blog/2025/06/26/p...
Pentagon Blocks Satellite Hurricane Data
As climate impacts and weather extremes become more destructive, military resources globally have become more involved in responding to and mitigating impacts of stronger storms, flooding and droug…
thinc.blog
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
They've stopped giving even flimsy justification for the wholesale destruction of our critical infrastructure
thinc.blog/2025/06/26/p...
thinc.blog/2025/06/26/p...
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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”
Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”