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Jacquelyn Gill
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Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. Forever DM. Working to be a good ancestor. She/her. @makeaplanetpod.bsky.social‬
We’re finally upgrading our 1955 (!) stove to a 30” induction cooktop. I research obsessively before making big purchases, and I feel stuck. I love the Thermador Freedom, but it’s $$$ and maybe less reliable? The Bosch 800 Series and GE Profile are cheaper but I don’t like the burner placement.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
No one seems to be asking the real question: what are squashed penny collectors like me supposed to do now?!
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Universities are battlegrounds of fascism and it seems as though Indiana University has ceded the field.
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."

www.wfyi.org/news/article...
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
www.wfyi.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy Exploding Whale Day! Get out there and make it count.
50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.

We sent it to each other in the mail.

The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Yeah, but at least it's an environmental catastrophe with absolutely no regulation, so a handful of dirtbags can have even more money they'll never be able to spend.
ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace
ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.
futurism.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭

www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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New Hampshire! Our 2 senators, Shaheen and Hassan, are both in the Gang of 8. Important to pressure them.

Shaheen at least is retiring and might be willing to dig through her closet in search of a principle or a spine.

#NHpolitics
If you live in New Hampshire, read this piece and then call your senators.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bookmark this for your "what about Chiiiiiiina" reply guys.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪

www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
GESTA’s Summary of Goddard Building Closures Status
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the largest group of scientists, technicians and engineers in the US who develop Earth and space science flight missions.  Below is GESTA's understanding of the...
www.gesta-goddard.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Yesterday I talked with four top climate scientists about Bill Gates' controversial memo. They explained what Gates got wrong — including how he badly underestimated the harm from rising temperatures, in rich and poor countries alike.

Full video here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/live-event...
WATCH: Climate scientists explain what Bill Gates got wrong
An urgent virtual discussion about the billionaire's controversial memo, ahead of this month's global climate summit in Brazil.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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OpenAI released its ChatGPT Atlas browser last month, sparking a fresh wave of research outlining the security problems with AI browsers.

Check out the latest edition of our digital security newsletter to learn more about these security concerns and steps you can take to keep your browsing safe.
AI browsers: the security headache nobody asked for
Despite their growing presence, AI-powered browsers aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to security
freedom.press
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Birds flying above hurricanes? Damaged hospital posing as the actual one? Welcome to the phony world of AI-assisted weather disaster images. @climateconnections.bsky.social

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag...
Imagery faked with AI’s help only added to the awfulness of Hurricane Melissa » Yale Climate Connections
A Category 5 landfall during Halloween week was scary enough on its own.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I’m so grateful for how @beebrookshire.bsky.social tells this story—with dignity, compassion, and evidence.
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
With a handy poster for classrooms and offices! Also, I immediately recognized the specific WWII propaganda poster this riffs on. <3
New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM