Emily Gardner
emfurd.bsky.social
Emily Gardner
@emfurd.bsky.social
Associate editor @eos.org. Usually worrying. Often baking cookies.
I think often of my favorite philosophy professor from college, who was named (most unfortunately) Jeffrey Epstein. I hope he's doing okay out there teaching 19-year-olds about normative ethics.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Check out the timely and outrageous story.

Listen on Apple 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake
Podcast Episode · Question Everything · 11/13/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Déjà vu: Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman to run NASA….again. 🧪🔭

For a space drama, this saga is pretty wild. Here’s what’s happened:
🧵👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
Trump Again Names Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA After Pulling His Nomination
The nomination of the billionaire entrepreneur, private astronaut and Elon Musk ally was before the floor of the Senate when the president abruptly withdrew it in June.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Repeating the Curtis Rule of Media Reporting:

When they call your outlet "storied," that means something really bad is happening. www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New audio story in Eos today! Ditches and moats are subbing in for witches and ghosts this Halloween. 🧙‍♀️👻
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Winners of the @rmets.org Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition are out! Running around announcing this like Paul Revere because they are so beautiful!📣📣📣

PCs:
Alex Cruz
Geshuang Chen, Shuchang Dong
Jonah Lange
Kyaw Zay Yar Lin

Learn more: www.rmets.org/standard-cha...
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."

This is, to put it mildly, not normal.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff
The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A 2025 “State of the Climate” report shows Earth’s vital signs are crashing, requiring humanity to “rethink the way we live,” says @williamripple.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...
2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos
A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...
eos.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I did not understand how big the ballroom is gonna be.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House
Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Continents

xkcd.com/3159/
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The subject line for today's @tanglenews.bsky.social newsletter 🫠
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is bad news for people who are afraid of anteaters (e.g. me).
As one paleontologist, Thomas Vida, succinctly put it:

“Things keep evolving into anteaters.”
October 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Really great explanation from @gvd.bsky.social of the funding deal Trump is offering to universities (and why, so far, none have accepted but several have refused).

eos.org/research-and...
Universities Reject Trump Funding Deal - Eos
The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” developed by the Trump administration and sent to nine universities, proposes that the institutions agree to a series of criteria in exchange...
eos.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
One Redditor raved, "The bar is on the floor but I guess he's fine."
eos.org Eos @eos.org · Oct 8
Neil Jacobs, who first joined @noaa.gov during Trump’s first presidency, made waves for his ties to an incident in which the president shared a hurricane map altered with a marker. The meteorologist and atmospheric scientist is now the top official at the agency. 🧪

eos.org/research-and...
Sharpiegate Scientist Takes the Helm at NOAA - Eos
Meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Neil Jacobs was confirmed as the new leader of NOAA on Tuesday evening.
eos.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Happy 25th to one of my favorite novels!

michaelchabon.substack.com/p/silver-and...
Silver and Gold
On the 25th anniversary of *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay*
michaelchabon.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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We’re on Capitol Hill with 225 Earth & space scientists — including @aas.org and @planetarysociety.bsky.social — urging Congress to reopen the government and protect NASA science. 🚀🌍

Join us: buff.ly/a3YuGgY

#ScienceIsEssential #AGU
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A really nice ed note from @highcountrynews.org EIC Jennifer Sahn:

"If something you love is under attack, you do not bury your head in the sand. In whatever way you can, using whatever skills you have, join the chorus of people saying No, we won’t let this happen."

www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...
Give yourself a break - High Country News
On the necessity of recharging the spirit in order to keep fighting.
www.hcn.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W

i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Climate change will likely cause widespread income losses, with low-income and hotter countries faring the worst, according to new @plosclimate.org research.

eos.org/research-and...
Climate Change Could Slash Global GDP 24% By 2100 - Eos
Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could cause the world’s income to fall by nearly a quarter within the century, projects a new study published in PLOS Climate.
eos.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Ooh, the Ig Nobel Prizes for unusual & imaginative research are out.

The peace prize went to a team who showed "that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language."

100% true, in my experience.

improbable.com/2025/09/18/h...
Here are the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners.
Ten Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded tonight, September 18, 2025, at the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Each winner has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. News reports and …
improbable.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If nothing else, we have made it through to decorative gourd season.
The world may be terrifying, but some things you can rely on. It’s officially decorative gourd season, and we have a new mug. Blammo.

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September 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM