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Eric Roston
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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.

"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · Nov 27
The Mill was a small NYC Korean restaurant two blocks from Columbia University. It closed in August 2021.

For more than 60 years it quietly stood for the best of the United States. If I had to guess, I would say very very very few people know this story.

Thinking about the Mill this week.
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eroston.bsky.social
Neanderthals Continue to Make the News
Photo of a newspaper story, under the headline "Neanderthals Continue to Make the News." Abstract black and white illustration shows a woman hugging a Neanderthal.
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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carbonplan.org
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
eroston.bsky.social
Al-written social-media posts are the new cheap toupée.
February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
eroston.bsky.social
what the left wants you to believe
Screenshot of weather app page. 9° Feels like: -15° H: 26° L: 3° ⚠️ Severe Weather Extreme cold warning. These conditions are expected to last until... [["cold" is crossed out in red and "global" written in. and the "n" in warning is crossed out with an "m" written in]]
February 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
eroston.bsky.social
whoa just open your eyes and look at the f⋂cked up sh!t global warming is doing to icicles.
Photo with background of aone-story Tudor-style strip of stores with snow on sidewalk. In foreground is a wintry tree with large while plastic bead necklaces hanging from its branches.
February 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
eroston.bsky.social
Clearcutting and slash-and-burn tropical deforestation techniques are pretty vivid when you apply them to US civic institutions.
February 4, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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silviakillings.bsky.social
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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jakevig.bsky.social
Little known fact:

Even if you haven't been arrested, you still have the right to remain silent.
February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
eroston.bsky.social
Everyone should wish everyone a happy birthday every day as a morning greeting.
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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zhirji.bsky.social
Absolutely not. Sorry, but no. I just can't, okay????

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Odds Are Rising That Another Winter Storm Will Pummel US East Next Week
The odds that another winter storm will pummel the US East Coast early next week are rising, putting power grids to the test again as the region recovers from a larger system that upended travel and t...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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zhirji.bsky.social
New with @bloomberg.com's Gregory Korte: FEMA Halts Terminations as Massive Storm About to Hit US

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FEMA Halts Terminations as Massive Storm About to Hit US
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted planned terminations of some temporary disaster relief workers just as a major winter storm moves across the country, according to people familiar wi...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:12 PM
eroston.bsky.social
An interesting thing about the future that I never anticipated is the amount of time I'd spend looping people in. The 2020s are an email rodeo.
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
eroston.bsky.social
Hey here's a cool opportunity to read/watch Canadian PM Mark Carney's Davos speech before it's printed in history textbooks forever:
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Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News
Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
www.cbc.ca
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
eroston.bsky.social
What bad could ever come from governments requiring universities to turn over lists of Jewish people
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’
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January 21, 2026 at 12:09 AM
eroston.bsky.social
🤤 mmmm cut pancakes into infinite pancakes
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Infinite Pancakes, Anyone?
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January 20, 2026 at 7:28 PM
eroston.bsky.social
The Climate-Disaster Scores That Could Make or Break Your Home Sale: WSJ
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The Climate-Disaster Scores That Could Make or Break Your Home Sale
Millions of home sellers and buyers are caught in the crossfire over how to rate a home’s exposure.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:34 PM
eroston.bsky.social
They should rename The Monument to the Conquerors of Space The Monument to the Conquerors of Ocean Heat Content
Chart with a blue line snaking from the lower left to upper right. The light-blue uncertainty band around the line slims as it goes up. Left axis is Heat Content (10^22 joules). X-axis is year, beginning around 1950. Title: 0-2000m Global Ocean Heat Content Pentadal average through 2021-2025 Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI Ocean Climate Laboratory Updated from Levitus et al 2012 Soviet Monument to the Conquerors of Space. A silver monument with a broad base sweeps up to the right as it narrows to a tiny point at the tip. Set against a blue sky with wispy clouds.
January 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
eroston.bsky.social
A lot of my day is spent toggling back and forth between two voices in my head, somebody I know who never uses exclamation marks in email and text, and somebody who only punctuates with exclamation marks
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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hausfath.bsky.social Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 28d
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
January 14, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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eroston.bsky.social
Reproducing here one of the most important and damning works of media criticism I've ever come across, as I, in another window, demonstrate that it's true it's all true your honor
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Tweet from Robinson Meyer: How to count to 100 like a journalist: A, both, several, five, half a dozen, more than half a dozen, nearly 10, nearly a dozen, a dozen, more than a dozen, nearly two dozen, a score, nearly two dozen (again), dozens, scores, 50, more than 50, more than 75, nearly a hundred, 100. 9:56 PM • Apr 29, 2020
December 10, 2023 at 7:54 PM
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deenashanker.bsky.social
My take on the new Dietary Guidelines: Who can afford them? with steak prices up 18% YoY, it’s quite a choice for a ribeye to figure so prominently in the pyramid. (USDA, for its part, says it’s all very affordable. HHS was like, no, it’s not affordable yet.)

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Steak Is Expensive, and Now It Rules the Food Pyramid
New dietary guidelines raise affordability concerns, but some US officials say customers have choices.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
eroston.bsky.social
Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers.

🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in.
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A chart back to 1970 showing the global average temperate rise, which matches the warming effects of CO₂, methane and other warming gases, until an anomalous heat spike after 2023.
January 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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zhirji.bsky.social
The EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of saving human lives, among other health impacts, when setting new clean air rules. It quietly debuted this new approach in a version of a new final rule for power plant emissions published online last week.

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EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules
The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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maxinejoselow.bsky.social
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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January 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM