Brian Hubbell
@hubbell.bsky.social
Ex-legislature, current Maine state policy advisor: appropriations, energy, climate, science, R&D, and the built environment. Born at 314 ppm.
Biff Brewster revival
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Biff Brewster revival
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MIT retains integrity.
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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October 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
MIT retains integrity.
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
This administration has had some real success responding to Maine's urgent need for much more affordable housing - and there's important continuing work to be done in this area. Glad to see Hannah highlighting this in her gubernatorial campaign. #MEpolitics
Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/10/h...
Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ • Maine Morning Star
Democratic candidate Hannah Pingree said making affordable housing accessible to more Mainers needs to be a top issue for whoever becomes the state’s next governor.
mainemorningstar.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This administration has had some real success responding to Maine's urgent need for much more affordable housing - and there's important continuing work to be done in this area. Glad to see Hannah highlighting this in her gubernatorial campaign. #MEpolitics
Maysles Brothers' Little Women
Nora Ephron's Un Chien Andalou
Disney/Pixar's The Exorcist
September 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Maysles Brothers' Little Women
Offshore wind projects, now blocked by the current federal government, could have reduced New England's wholesale electric costs by 11%, saving consumers $400M per year.
Who benefits from the status quo?
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Who benefits from the status quo?
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renew-ne.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Offshore wind projects, now blocked by the current federal government, could have reduced New England's wholesale electric costs by 11%, saving consumers $400M per year.
Who benefits from the status quo?
renew-ne.org/wp-content/u...
Who benefits from the status quo?
renew-ne.org/wp-content/u...
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
August 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
Reposted by Brian Hubbell
This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands
The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.
heatmap.news
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (lured onto an island by their singing and having my shipmates transformed into swine)
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (marrying an annoying clergyman because the alternative is financial instability)
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (traipsing around in a wet field near somebody else's home until I get pneumonia or at least a very heavy cold)
July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (lured onto an island by their singing and having my shipmates transformed into swine)
Knowledge vandalism damages national security.
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Knowledge vandalism damages national security.
Stupifyingly bad - both as an economic vision and as an energy plan. The forces driving this don't care about the future of this country or the prosperity of its people.
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
Economic Impacts of U.S. Senate “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Energy Provisions • Energy Innovation
The Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
energyinnovation.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stupifyingly bad - both as an economic vision and as an energy plan. The forces driving this don't care about the future of this country or the prosperity of its people.
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
Reposted by Brian Hubbell
The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
June 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
'No Kings' rally State Capitol, Augusta Maine
June 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
'No Kings' rally State Capitol, Augusta Maine
As plain an example as any of how brute ignorance is bulldozing American science
in a malevolent effort to remaster reality.
in a malevolent effort to remaster reality.
This is bonkers. The two LIGO sites are not two instruments, they are two parts of the same single instrument.
NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy.
"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
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"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
bsky.app/profile/hast...
May 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As plain an example as any of how brute ignorance is bulldozing American science
in a malevolent effort to remaster reality.
in a malevolent effort to remaster reality.
Proud to see MIT signed on. to this impressive list.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Proud to see MIT signed on. to this impressive list.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Good piece of work here to increase Maine's resilience.
Governor Mills Signs LD 1, Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen Community Preparedness and Resiliency for Future Storms | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills
Governor's legislation, sponsored by House and Senate Democratic and Republican leaders, will protect communities and infrastructure across Maine from effects of severe storms
www.maine.gov
April 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Good piece of work here to increase Maine's resilience.
Reposted by Brian Hubbell
The post- World War II US investment in R&D is one of the greatest economic and national security engines in history. As I said to @revkin.bsky.social a decade ago, “the budget is policy”. We should expand R&D, not shrink it. Broaden participation not restrict it. archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blo...
Panel's Latest Warming Warning Misses Global Slumber Party on Energy Research
The latest global warming report from the U.N. climate panel helpfully clarifies risks but largely misses a key factor in driving an energy transformation — research.
archive.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The post- World War II US investment in R&D is one of the greatest economic and national security engines in history. As I said to @revkin.bsky.social a decade ago, “the budget is policy”. We should expand R&D, not shrink it. Broaden participation not restrict it. archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blo...
Reposted by Brian Hubbell
I've learned when a female colleague looks up at the ceiling and says "Can we say something about..." you type out what she says next word for word because it's going to be gold.
Why are women's 'I thinks', 'maybes', and other hedging language often interpreted differently in STEM or other male-dominated fields? My latest post examines how bias affects the reception of women's ideas.
🧪🥽🍎👩🔬🧬⚛️ #scicomm
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🧪🥽🍎👩🔬🧬⚛️ #scicomm
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Anecdote and Analysis: A Discussion on Societal Expectations That Shape How Women Communicate Personally and Professionally
...and worksheets
drmarissacivic.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I've learned when a female colleague looks up at the ceiling and says "Can we say something about..." you type out what she says next word for word because it's going to be gold.